I also heard other Kleagles attack Catholicism, most of the attacks appealing to me as being ridiculous, one especially which stated that the Catholic Church was financially backing the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples. It was gravely stated that the Catholics were arming the negroes of the South and that at the "right time" would join in an armed uprising to seize the country. Considerable anti-Catholic propaganda has been and is being published in the columns of the _Searchlight_ the official organ of the Ku Klux Klan. Among the statements I have seen was an intimation that the Catholic Church was responsible for the murder of President Abraham Lincoln. Copies of the _Searchlight_ are sent to each Kleagle for distribution among his Klans, and I received a number of copies in my connection with the organization. In every town there is a Klansman, either paid for his services or who renders same gratuitously, who makes a speciality of getting subscribers for the _Searchlight_ and of placing the publication on the news stands. In the issue of August 6, 1921, the _Searchlight_ printed on its first page an article by Rev. Caleb A. Ridley, a Baptist preacher of Atlanta, part of which stated: "Some people seem to think that the Ku Klux Klan is a body of men who have banded together simply to oppose certain things they do not like--that they are anti-Jew, anti-Catholic, anti-negro, anti-foreign, anti-everything. But real Klansmen have no fight to make on any of these. I can't help being what I am racially. I am not a Jew, nor a negro, nor a foreigner. I am an Anglo-Saxon white man, so ordained by the hand and will of God, and so constituted and trained that I cannot conscientiously take either my politics or religion from some secluded ass on the other side of the world. "Now, if somebody else is a Jew, I can't help it any more than he can. Or, if he happens to be black, I can't help that either. If he were born under some foreign flag, I couldn't help it, and if he wants to go clear back to Italy for his religion and his politics, I cannot hinder him; but there is one thing I can do. I can object to his un-American propaganda being preached in my home or practiced in the solemn assembly of real Americans." The propaganda against the Jew is being carried on as viciously as against the Catholic. In the _Searchlight_ of July 30, 1921, there appeared on the front page a typical anti-Semitic article in the nature of a letter written from New York, and signed "American," of which the following is an extract: