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Decade ago the No. 1 business in race prejudice in the U. S. was the Ku Klux Klan which passed its heyday when the huge profits of its rulers were disclosed and some of them were sent to prison. The Klan still functions from its Georgia headquarters and claims to be coming back but the rise of Mussolini's black shirts and Hitler's brown shirts gave a new twist to the racial clothing business. Sheets were changed for shirts. New organizations sprang up in which Klan philosophy, Fascist ideas and economic nostrums were crossbred to appeal...
...some of the bills." Prohibition: "Now on this prohibition question I'm all right. . . . Fuh two reasons. Fus' we needs a little liquor and second, dem what wants it gits it whether they buys it or steals it." Why he left the Senate: "Cause o' de Ku Kluxes. I was staying at a colored hotel when word comes to me that de Ku Kluxes wuz killin' all de nigguhs, some by just plain killin', some by drownin' and some by burnin'. Den that night, I found a note under my door. It said...
...slave trader lashing a black; the Boston Massacre with Crispus Attucks in the centre; Thomas Paine and the "Rights of Man"; the Declaration of Independence; Thomas Jefferson; the Whiskey Rebellion; the Annexation of Texas; gold in California; John Brown arming the slaves; John Brown on the gallows; the Ku Klux Klan; Karl Marx-on through riots, strikes, lynchings, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler (with a pansy in his necktie) to a scene of violence and confusion superimposed by a placard: WORKERS UNITE OR THE BLUE EAGLE WILL WEAR A BROWN SHIRT. NRA PAVES THE WAY FOR FASCISM...
...lynchings are a conviction of the legal system under which they exist. Unless the lawyers of the country shake off their professional squeamishness against change the stage will be set for ku kluxers, vigilantes, and "crazed mobs" to step into the breach...
...liquor. Lately white women have been insulted. Splashed on fences, a slogan has appeared: NEGRO, GET YOUR WHITE WOMAN! WE ARE EQUAL NOW. Immediate result was the organization last week of a new secret society, headed by white Cubans and U. S. residents of Cuba, who took the name Ku Klux Klan Kubano.* ¶ No optimist last week was Cuba's Secretary of the Treasury Colonel Manuel Despaigne. With expenses mounting and no taxes collected, he cried: "Financial assistance from the United States is some-thing utterly impossible! Furthermore I do not know where we are going...