"The _World_, according to their own statement, spent over four months, with unlimited resources at their command, in an investigation of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, using trained investigators, newspaper men, and covering every section of the country. In the face of this careful investigation the _World_ has not been able to prove anything detrimental to the Klan except their own colored views of unfounded rumor and expressing the attitude of its Jewish ownership. "The _World_ saw that the Klan was the fastest growing purely Protestant, non-political organization in the United States. The _World_ knew that when you strike at a man's religious and fraternal organizations you are striking at the very fiber of his being and that then all political affiliations and party lines are forgotten. "The _World_ is the stronghold of the Democratic newspapers and the Democratic Party, and it has been said by those in a position to know that if the _World_ could, by shrewd propaganda and untruthful slanders, force a Republican Congress and administration to throttle or destroy a purely local American Protestant fraternal organization, as is the Ku Klux Klan, that its hundreds of thousands of members, friends, and those who think as does the Klan, would at the polls three years from now forget party lines and preference and vote the Democratic ticket. "I wish to notify the chairman of this committee that there are plans on foot at the present time whereby one of the representatives of the _New York World_ is to be tarred and feathered in the name of the Klan, and that this plan has been originated and its details worked out by representatives of the _New York World_ so that it will appear that the Klan did this in a spirit of revenge. Furthermore, through this plan the _World_ hopes to be able to secure additional circulation and advertising for their paper in keeping alive this matter. The congressional investigating committee that I want to investigate the Klan will receive the sworn proof of this plan of the representatives of the _World_ to further try to discredit or harm the Klan." These statements are fairly good examples of the misinformation and erratic statements the "Emperor" gave the committee. He probably did not know that Ralph Pulitzer is a communicant of St. Thomas Episcopal Church, and that the exposure of his political-financial scheme was no more Jewish in origin than Simmons is himself. That the circulation of the _World_ increased 100,000 copies a day is the truth, but it was due to the fact that the American people wanted to find out the facts about Ku Kluxism, and it is significant that, in New York City, from which all this gain in circulation came, Ku Kluxism has been unable to make any progress since the exposure was made.