"9. Are you in favor of the "9. Will you faithfully obey re-enfranchisement of the our constitution and laws, white men of the South and and conform willingly to all the restitution of the our usages, requirements and Southern people to all their regulations? rights, alike proprietary, civil and political? "10. Do you believe in the "10. Can you be always depended inalienable right of on?" self-preservation of the people against the exercise of arbitrary and unlicensed power?" _From the Prescript of the _From the "Kloran."_ Original Klan._ A careful reading of these requisites for membership in the two organizations fails to show, except as to the matter of "white supremacy," that there is the remotest resemblance between them. Nowhere in the "Prescript" of the original Klan, or in any printed publication relating to it, can there be discovered any restriction whatever against the Jew, the Catholic, or the foreign-born American citizen. On the contrary, old men, who claim to have been members of the original movement, state that Jews, Catholics and foreigners were members. The fact that the modern movement is anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic and is opposed to the admission of foreign-born citizens of the country brands it _ipso facto_ as a historical fraud. Another link in the chain of evidence against the modern organization lies in the provisions governing eligibility for membership. Article VII of the old "Prescript" reads: "No one shall be presented for membership into the Order until he shall have first been recommended by some friend or intimate who is a member, to the Investigating Committee (which shall be composed of the Grand Cyclops, the Grand Magi, and the Grand Monk), and who shall have investigated his antecedents and his past and present standing and connections, and after such investigation, shall have pronounced him competent and worthy to become a member." It is here observed that in the selection of members the old Klan exercised the utmost care and scrutiny, and endeavored to throw around the organization every possible safeguard against the admission of undesirable characters. Even with precautions like those, men who were members of the Klan and left behind them written testimony declare that many men of bad character became connected with the order. How utterly different is the modern system with its indiscriminate solicitation of membership, with its advertising methods, its open and notorious canvassing, and its selling campaigns by means of literature, letters, motion pictures, agents and speakers.