He also rushed out a pamphlet—“The Klan: Defender of Americanism”—restating the guiding principles of this far-reaching brotherhood of hate. “We believe that the pioneers who built America bequeathed to their own children a priority right to it, the control of it and its future,” he wrote. “Also, we believe that races of men are as distinct as breeds of animals; that any mixture between races of any great divergence is evil; that the American stock, which was bred under highly selective surroundings, has proved its value and should not be mongrelized.”
