Then the Imperial wizard says: KuKlux Klansmen have been underlining it for some years. and now many leading American journals and publicists are sounding a deep and loud alarm. Action can not be too quick. Something has been done. but not enough . the quota law is but a step in the right direction. Illiteracy. disease. insanity. and mental deficiency are still pouting in upon us. Immigrants are streaming into cities to make modern Sodoms and Gomorrahs. Up to 1880. 95 per cent of our Immigration was of the Nordic types--kindred. desirable. easily assimilable people. * * * What Nordic greatness has wrought it this country. If the KuKlux Klan has anything to sayand it is going to have something to sayneither shall be torn down by political madness nor shall be dragged down by disease and inbecility. And inthe Fiery Cross Issue of Friday. March 28. 1924. we find that the energetic gentleman from Ohio put the floor leader of the majority on record and required him to do so in writing. according to the news report in the flaming paper. and I read: Congressman CABLE. one of the sponsors of the immigration bill. was determined that a vote be urged with the least possible delay. so he obtained the following written promise from Mr. LONGWOITUThen the written promise we find was the statement given to the press by Mr. LoNWORTH in outlining the legislative program of the House some 10 days ago and I quote from the socalled written promise as contained in the paper: The immigration bill will be considered Immediately following the passage of these bills. The bills referred to being the regular appropriation bills. Then turning the page of the Fiery Cross to the editorial section. we find this startling pronunciamiento: For those who may not be aware of It.
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Immigrants are portrayed as bringing illiteracy, disease, insanity, and mental deficiency, and turning cities into Sodoms and Gomorrahs.