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KU KLUX KLAN IN CANADA.

ENFORCING WHITE MAN'S LAWS.

policy

Mr. William L. Higgett, who claims to be the organizer of Ku Klux Klan, alaims that the arder has already been established in the Western Provinces of Canada and will be extended over the Dominion.

The urgent questions of foreign before the country, and particularly that of the occupation of the Bahr, formed the subject of speeches by Lord Robert Cecil, M.P., and Mr. J. R. Clyses, M.P., at a meeting of the Council of the League of Nations Union at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on March 15th. Nearly one thousand bran ches of the Union were represented.

Klan to come out into the open, to dispense Ha says that is is the intention of the with boods and cloaks, and to follow the methods of the Italian Fascisti in order to Lord Robert Cecil, who presided, said he bring about the reforms for which they con- regretted very much the invasion of the Ruhr tend. They have come to Canada, accord- for many reasons, but particularly because iting to Mr. Higgott, because they believe that had created a strong nationalist excitement the whole continent must be welded into the in the countries concerned. The matter greatest empire in history, pledged to en- any force the white man's law and his ideals on was no longer being considered with gree of impartiality. In Germany the result the rest of the world. He continued: find been apparently to prevent the Govern

"Our idea is a sort of confederacy at

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ment making any proposals whatever for a | present. That does not necessarily.

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settlement of the question. He did not see how they could reach a solution until all mean your separation from the British Empire, but A AINOVE definite alliance the parties concerned put their cards on the

between the two great English-speak table. In the same way they found rohieing

countries

continent. tance apparently on the part of France to define exactly what she was in the Ruhr for have a definite programms in view that

the

benefit to all. Con- will be of The first thing essential was that in some federacy would

prohibit the dumping of way or another this antional mist should be European emigrants on this continent, would dispersed and the parties to the controversy absolutely forbid a further influx of Orion-{ should come out into the open and state tals, and would establish a mandate over exactly what it was they wanted. Then it Mexico. would be seen how far they were apart, and what proposals could be made in order to bring them together.

With regard to the disposition to attribute more serious motives to France, he was of the very strong opinion, having recently had some opportunity of examining the mat- ter, that the attacks on France, based on the belief that she intended to annex the Rubr, were entirely misconceivel. He did not think there was any responsible opinion He

in Fiance that desired annexation." might be wrong, but he had taken some trouble to ascertain, and that was his deliberato apision.

He believed that in France there was a predominnot, profound aneasiness, in a sense, and if he were to speak, paradoxically, perhaps, but more or less truthfully, he would say that repara tions were a secondary matter, and that what France was really anxious about was security.

many.

THE PROBLEM OF SECURITY.

In his view, if they wore to attack this great international difficulty successfully, they must begin by devising some adequate #curity for France against attack by Ger- Until they gave to the French some feeling of security, when they really could sit down and devote themselves entirely to peaceful pursuits, ho did not believe they would get them into the atato of mind necessary to enable them to deal with the question of reparations from a strictly business point of view.

"VERMINOUS MISSIONARIES. " Mr. Wenige, the Mayor of London (Ontario). issues a public statement in which he says:-

London needs no Ku Klux Klan of other order that seeks to gain unjust ends by a cowardly parade of masks and mystery, Gentlemen of foreign extraction in this muni cipality who may be planning a local organi- zation would first do better to give the matter serious thought Canadians will not tolerate man with bloody hamils walking in their midst. Justice in this Dominion is swift and sure. As mayor of London, I will use ali the p

the city of the the power of my office to verainous missionaries of an order that secks differ from these to terrify citizens who Klux Klan in race, so-called Knights of Ku colour, religion, or ability to succeed. London, like the rest of the British Empire, has been safe for democracy for a long time. Bat London not going to be safe for Ku Klux Kian or any other hooded order. And any non-Canadian who may seek to establish it hero will be deported as an undesirable alien, so far as it lies in the hands of the mayor of this city to bring it about,

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сору The first chapter in the great Ku Klux Klan mystery in Louisiana was brought to a close on March 15th, when a More- house parish grand jury reported that it I was unable to find any indictments in con. nexion with the deaths of T. F. Richard and Watt Daniels.

Discussing what ought to be done, Lotel Robert Cecil anid they must provide for security in the first instance. He did not

Daniels and Richard were kidnapped by a think that a pact of guarantee entered into masked and hooded band Inst August and by France, Germany,

, and England would be accepted in this

never seen again until their bodies, horribly He saw very mutilated and tied round with steel wire, were country. than a three-Power pact was wanted. He miles from the men's homes. grievous objections to it. Something moram recovered from a lonely lake seventeen believed that some sort of proposal as the

pact of gurantee in the League of Nations was the

were only

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In January,

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