The Winkest Link

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The Sage Hen
Evangeline S. McAllister
July 2, 1936 (Part 1 of 3)
(from The Minatare Free Press)

The fourth of July came to our street a little early this year in the shape of a nice big fiery cross, which was burned … at least for a little while … until my garden hose got in it’s deadly work … in front of my vine covered cottage … Monday night.
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I interpreted the gesture as being a return compliment on the part of the Ku Klux Klan for an article in last weeks Star-Herald (June 23, in case you are interested) in which I compared the Black Legion, our latest exponent of “take the law in your own hands and regulate your neighbor” type of citizenship, to the Klan, and suggested that the American courts, bad as they are, were still to be preferred to these after-night cow-pasture courts, in which the judge and jury are self-appointed and attend the court with their faces covered.
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If the boys who belong to the Klan – and in this day and age the Klansmen are mostly boys and those who were once boys and never got over it, if these boys only knew all it takes to intimidate me is a large bunch of “Please remits” the first of the month – that and a cold frosty look from the banker. But it was a nice cross, and will be worth all the trouble it took to make it, if only it calls attention to the fact that there is a difference between real Americanism and the “one hundred percent” band which would deny the rights of citizenship to four or five classes of law abiding citizens, whose only fault is that they were born in some other country or were taught by their parents to believe in some other religion than the one to which the noble nightriders subscribe.

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