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Klansmen: Guardians of Liberty was a 174 page book published in 1926 by Bishop Alma Bridwell White and illustrated by Reverend Branford Clarke. Bishop White authored over 35 books and was the founder of the Pillar of Fire Church. This book primarily espouses Bishop White's deep fear and hatred of the Catholic Church while it also promotes antisemitism, white supremacy and women's equality. Guardians is a compendium of essays and sermons by Bishop White and illustrations by Rev. Clarke that were originally published in the pro-Ku Klux Klan political periodical The Good Citizen, one of the numerous periodicals published by the Pillar of Fire Church at their communal headquarters in Zarephath, New Jersey. The book contains an introduction by Arthur H. Bell, the Grand Dragon of the New Jersey Ku Klux Klan and is the second of three books Bishop White published to promote the KKK. The other two books were The Ku Klux Klan In Prophecy, 1926, and Heroes of the Fiery Cross, 1928. Bishop White republished her Klan books as a three volume set in 1943, three years before her death and 21 years after her initial association with the Klan, under the title Guardians of Liberty.

Contents

• Introduction by Arthur H. Bell, Grand Dragon of the New Jersey KKK
• Notice to the Reader (By the Author)
• Chapter 1. The Hebrew Rock
• Chapter 2. Rome's Claims Without Scriptural Foundation
• Chapter 3. Shall Rome Have the Next President?
• Chapter 4. The Price of Liberty
• Chapter 5. Klansmen of the Revolution
• Chapter 6. A Great Crisis Coming
• Chapter 7. Faith of Our Fathers
• Chapter 8. Shall Church and State Be United?
• Chapter 9. Dangers Threatening the Nation
• Chapter 10. The Little Red Schoolhouse
• Chapter 11. Autocracy vs. Democracy
• Chapter 12. Rome's Idolatrous Shrines
• Chapter 13. Papal Prisons in America
• Chapter 14. Behind the Convent Walls
• Chapter 15. Shall the Pope Rule the World?
• Chapter 16. Patriots, Hold Together!
• The Principles of the Ku Klux Klan

Introduction

From Arthur H. Bell's introduction:

"The Roman Catholic Hierarchy has a great desire to build an empire, an empire to kill liberty and to place in shackles the human race to serve in blind submission and eventually to die under the ambitious plans of an intolerant, liberty-hating creed."

"Bishop White has rightly named the Klansmen, "Guardians of Liberty," and to the readers of this book she will undoubtedly prove the Roman Catholic Hierarchy's right to the name, "Assassins of Liberty."

"...Protestant America must live to save the world."

Notice to the Reader

"As in my former book, The Ku Klux Klan In Prophecy, so in this, the chapters are taken from lectures delivered at different times and places, therefore they have little connection one with another. Each chapter stands alone and is complete within itself. It has been my effort in each to show the ambitions of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, and to make clear the great principles for which the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan are contending. There will be found some repetitions, which could not be avoided in a work of this character, but these repetitions will in no wise detract from the value of the book. May the great principles of freedom for which our forefathers contended be preserved by the patriots of this generation, is my earnest prayer. The Author."

Ch 6. A Great Crisis Coming

Is it not time to ring the alarm bells and prepare for the on-coming conflict so vividly foretold by John in the seventeenth and eighteenth chapters of Revelation? It will be too late for weak and unsophisticated Protestants to make amends when the terrors of God's wrath are sweeping the earth for the crimes of the "Harlot Mother."

Note the following:

The Catholic Church has the right and duty to kill heretics because it is by fire and sword that heresy can be extirpated. Mere excommunication is derided by heretics. If they are imprisoned or exiled they corrupt others. The only recourse is to put them to death. Repentance cannot be allowed to save civil criminals. For the highest good of the Church is the unity of Faith, and this cannot be preserved unless heretics are put to death. --Prof Hugh O'Donnell (Irish Catholic), Author of The Ruin of Education in Ireland.

Komics

From page 134:

Beating Mose To It

A West Virginia Negro, a blacksmith, recently announced a change in his business as follows: "Notice--De copoardnership hereofire resisting between me and Mose Skinner is hereby resolved. Dem what owes de firm will settle with me, and what de firm owes will settle with Mose."

Principles of the Ku Klux Klan

From the Principles, Page 159:

"I believe in white supremacy."

The Klan believes that America is a white man's country and should be governed by white men. Yet the Klan is not anti-negro; it is the negro's friend. The Klan is eternally opposed to the mixing of the white and colored races. Their creed is: Let the white man remain white, the black man black, the yellow man yellow, the brown man brown and the red man red. God drew the color line and man should so let it remain.

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Further reading

• Blee, Kathleen M. (1991). Women of the Klan. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-07876-5. http://books.google.com/books?id=tcEyMwIpgRMC&dq=women+of+the+klan&pg=PP1&ots=uTpDV--z1w&source=bn&sig=VmzF3bNs93yiPfiN2t8HLHxmkP0&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result. 
• Stanley, Susie Cunningham (1993). Feminist Pillar of Fire: The Life of Alma White. The Pilgrim Press. ISBN 0-8298-0950-3. http://books.google.com/books?id=88paAAAACAAJ&dq. 
• Kristin E. Kandt; Historical Essay: In the Name of God; An American Story of Feminism, Racism, and Religious Intolerance: The Story of Alma Bridwell White, 8 Am. U. J. Gender, Soc. Pol. & L 753 (2000)

References

• White, Alma (1925). The Ku Klux Klan In Prophecy. Pillar of Fire. 

• White, Alma (1926). Klansmen: Guardians of Liberty. Pillar of Fire. 

• White, Alma (1928). Heroes of the Fiery Cross. Pillar of Fire.