The Attitude Of The Knights Of The Ku Klux Klan Toward Immigration

EVANS, DR. H. W. (IMPERIAL WIZARD, KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN)

Publication: Privately printed, nd (ca 1923), Atlanta

First edition. 8vo. Printed wrappers, 8 pp. Dr. Hiram Wesley Evans was the Imperial Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan from 1922 to 1939. Evans writes "But no longer can we open our arms to the world and say, "Come unto us, all ye sick, weary, downtrodden, fortune broken, poor; we have a haven, a sustenance, and a home for you." Conditions have changed." "Civilization is apparently moving her standing place, and if we are to preserve unsullied the ideals, the principles, and the government transmitted to us by our forefathers, American must close the door to the diseased minds and bodies and souls of the peoples of foreign lands. Our first duty is to our country and to our people. Recognizing the supremacy of this duty over all other duties, the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, as an organization devoted to the upbuilding of true Americanism in America, is strongly opposed to the unlimited immigration of aliens to the United States. Far from thinking that the immigration laws should be liberalized, we believe with all our hears that congress should make the existing restrictions against undesirable immigrants even more drastic and draw the lines even more firmly.""It is this danger which the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan has entered the lists to combat, and all thinking Americans should join it in this effort." Fine copy.

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