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Title: The clansman : an American drama : from his two famous novels The leopard's spots and The clansman : presented by the Southern Amusement Co.
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Dixon, Thomas, 1864-1946
Subjects: Dixon, Thomas, 1864-1946 Dixon, Thomas, 1864-1946 Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Publisher: New York : American News Co.
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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chemes are compromises andtemporary makeshifts. Mr. Booker T. Washingtons work isone of noble aims. A branch of it should be immediately estab-lished in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia. A gift of ten mil-lions would do this, and establish a colony of half a millionNegroes within two years. They could lay the foundations ofa free black republic, which, within twenty-five years, wouldsolve our race problem on the only rational basis within humanpower—friendly colonization. We owe this to the Negro. At present we are deceiving himand allowing him to deceive himself. He hopes and dreams ofamalgamation, forgetting that self-preservation is the first lawof Nature. Our present attitude of hypocrisy is inhuman andbrutal toward a weaker race, brought to our shores by the sinsof our fathers. We owe him a square deal, and we will nevergive it to him on this Continent—we cannot give it to him tui-less we are willing to surrender our birthright and sacrifice thepurity of the Anglo-Saxon race.
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< 5 UV THK SlORY OF THK KU KLUX KLAN. Il.ANXOT uiukTstaiid llie pig-headed persistence withwhich the South continues bhndly to vote against herown interests! said an intelHgent young Northernerto nie just after the last Presidential election. It does look funny, T replied, for otherwise the thingseems to have been unanimous. But did you ever study theperiod of Reconstruction? I dont know wh.nt tlu wnril means, he answered witha laugh. No man can undcrstanil current politics or the conditionsof the Race Problem unless he knows the history of the awfulyears of 1865 to 1870. Nor can he understand this perioduntil he has mastered the story of the rise, growth, degeneracy,and death of two secret political societies, one of the Northcalled The Union League of America, the other of the South,known officially by its members as The Invisible Empire,and, popularly, as the Ku Klux Klan. The bitterness of the Civil War has passed from the heartsof men, but the legacy of the Black Plague which

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