moore was a "racist." his racist ideas were reinforced by his reading joseph widney's 1907 "race life of the aryan peoples", a book recommended to him by theodore roosevelt, which moore proceeded to review favorably. he was a defender of the ku klux klan and a proponent of lynching. additionally, moore was francophobic for racist reasons, lambasting the french for "intermarrying with the indians and treating them as equals" during the french colonization of the americas.