Authors: J. C. Lester, D. L. Wilson, Walter L. Fleming
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It is difficult to achieve distinction in the commission of crime. But the Klan has at least achieved peculiarity. It combines nonsense with murder. If one were to meet a mob of Klansmen leading their victim to a whipping party or a tarring and feathering "bee," one might imagine, from their appearance and their antics, that they were a class of sophomores hazing a freshman. Even as they built a fire and heated their irons, to brand their victim with the insignia, K. K. K., one might imagine that they were still joking. The proceedings might be only
an initiation into a college fraternity. When the jokers have frightened the candidate to "within an inch of his life," surely, one might think, they will suddenly laugh at him and let him go. Here and now, so far away from Fiji or Borneo or the Cannibal Islands and so long after Cotton Mather and the human bonfires at Salem, it seems incredible that men could sear the flesh of a fellow human being, or actually burn him alive. Incredible, but it is true. One of the paradoxes of civilization is that in this land of libraries and schools and churches, in the era of the automobile and the aeroplane and the radio, it is still posible for men to put a human being in a steel cage, and roast him, while they dance around the fire, shouting, laughing, merrymaking as if at a barbecue.
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Authentic History, Ku Klux Klan, by Susan Lawrence Davis
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