Gift 12-11-26 AUTHOR'S NOTE The author suggests to the five million members of the new Ku Klux Klan that they read this book. He guarantees to each reader the warning of an old proverb that History will repeat itself. If anyone questions the strange facts which I have related, a reference to the ten volumes of a thousand pages each, printed by the U. S. Government in 1873, entitled "The Ku Klux Conspiracy," will convince the most skeptical. In part the events of the story were treated in the third volume of my Trilogy of the Reconstruction written seventeen years ago. The passing of the full half century from 1873 to 1923 has made it possible at last to see these events in their true perspective and record their signifi cance. THOMAS DIXON |