"Klansmen are permitted to wear masks only in ritualistic work and with the consent of the Grand Dragon or Imperial Wizard when on peaceful parades or when doing acts of charity." "Won't the wearing of masks, even in this way, encourage the wearing of masks by either members or non-members when wishing to commit crimes?" "I don't think so. Masks have been worn by men in the commission of crimes ever since there was a law." "I would like to ask the Judge a few questions," said Governor Slydell. "All right, governor. I'll turn the witness over to you," the attorney-general replied. "Judge, you know that the mayor of Freeburg was whipped by masked men, don't you?" "No, I do not. I know that the Journal stated he was whipped. Do you know that he was whipped by masked men, governor?" "Yes," the governor answered. "How do you know it?" "By the evidence of Mayor Krouse himself and such honorable and credible witnesses as Pat McBryan, Springer and McMichael." "Governor, do you know who did it?" "No, or I would prosecute them." "After you had had special detectives in Freeburg for three weeks and they had given up their investigations you made a speech in another state in which you said that the Klan did it." "I believe yet the Klan did it." "Yet you have no evidence on which to make arrests." "No." "Governor, did your detectives report to you that they could not secure any evidence or did they report that the whole affair was a frame-up?" "I'm not on the witness stand," said the governor, coloring. The court room roared with laughter. The attorney again pounded the table and announced, "If there is any more laughter or applause I will have the sheriff clear the room." "What is the necessity for the members of the Klan concealing their identity?" the governor asked, now becoming the questioner again. "In order that they may secure evidence to furnish the officers and thus assist in the enforcement of law. They have the same reason for concealing their identity that the secret service men of the United States have." "Who asked the Klansmen to become secret service men?" "It's the duty of every citizen to help enforce the laws. And he should use the method that will make him most efficient." "Doesn't the Klan arouse race and religious hatred?" "Certainly not, purposely." "Does not the very fact that Catholics, Jews and Negroes cannot become members arouse racial and religious prejudices?" "It should not any more than it ought to arouse religious and racial antipathies for the Knights of Columbus, the B'nai B'rith and the African Brotherhood to refuse to admit white Protestant Gentiles to their organization. I have never heard that those who were excluded from these organizations ever objected." "Judge, isn't religious toleration one of the principles on which this government is based?"