Capital's "love of money," the Klan alleged, had led it to import people of "inferior races" to the United States. A meeting of Grand Dragons denounced opposition to immigration restriction by "the big employers of pauper labor" reliant on this "European 'riff-raff' . . . the very scum of the earth." Employers used this imported "cheap labor," according to the Klan, to lower the living standards of white, Protestant Americans.38
