The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-24

war It is not a system of caressing. Gaughter) War is carried on subject to certain rules of civilized warfare. we people down there for little while thought that Sherman was regular bar barian.
 ''The senator from North Carolina (Mr Overman) will remember that. You people thought for little while that Admiral Semmes was a sea pirate, at least you said so Are they not both angels compared with what we have seen lately in Europe? Sherman did not do anything except to burn down houses of noncombatants and issue orders at Atlanta that noncombatants must get out of Atlanta, when the poor, help less women and children had to trek as best they could. But that is abso- 1utely angelic in comparison with what has been done lately in this European war Who ever dreamed at that time that any civilized power had any right to strew the high seas with mines, not to destroy on purpose, but to destroy accidentally, anything that incidentally struck the mine? Who ever dreamed at that time that any power at war had a right to cast bombs from mid air upon noncombatant women and chill dren sleeping peacefully in villages and cities? Who ever thought at that time that any aSsa ssin of the sea had right, without warning, to shoot and sink men and women and children upon an un- armed merchant ship? A lot of you here have been trying to excite yourselves and trying to excite the American peo- pie lately about 19 American citizens who were killed upon Mexican soil. Killed by whom? By the Mexican gov ernment? No. Killed by anybody pre- tending to represent the Mexican gov ernment? No. Killed by bandits, killed il1.- + Af tIni1 of pr11 of their money when they were killed so as to prove that their murderers were robbers and yet a lot of you l seem to want to shed Mexican blood and have Mexicans shed your blood be- cause of it-oh, 1 beg your pardon, not l your blood, but the blood of some of your fellow American citizens. None of | you want to have your blood shed, not
 a blessed one of you. A lot of you seem to want to shed the blood of Mexicans i and to have MeXicans shed your na- tional blood, we will call tiff there
 is any such thing-because 19 Ameri- can citizens were killed by robbers and
 bandits upon Mexican soil-upon MeNi- | can soil; remember that.
 1 CATCHING JESSE JAMES | "There was a man by the name of | Jesse James who was more or less re-
 motely connected with the Confederate l ! carrying on war not being in accord anoe with the Confederate government
 idea of carrying on war, his connection i with the Confederate government became | rather remote, but he carried on wal
 iii his way. Suppose that in February
 1S65 Jesse James had happened to kill
 two or three British subjects while ht
 was killing other people, and had hap
 penea to take their watches and thcil l money away from them while he was | aling the watches and money away from ! other people, and suppose that the Brit ! ish government had written Ahrahan n
 Lincoln and Secretary of State Seward i. at that time a note to the effect thai l they would be personally liable, and that ] the United States government would b' I held liable unless they caught Jesse
 James and punished him within some pc
 liod, definite or indefinite. what woult
 you have thought? You were powerless 1 even with all your power, to catch or tt 1 punish him.
 You put a paper blockade upon th' ! south; nobody ever pretended that you | blockade was effective all the way dowl 1 the line. The whole Atlantic coast ant l the whole Mexican coast was within tht | scope of your paper blockade, and when 1 ever anybody violated that blockade, ever if the volators got loose and escaped ou upou the high seas, you captured thei ] ships and confiscated their cargoes. ant you had a right to do it. Whether vol | die or not the world submitted to it My forefathers never plead the baby ac ahout it. You whipped Us in fair figh as war goes-war never is altogethe
 fsiT--but you did it. Now. even-hande' justice recommends the poisoned chalic
 to your own lips. including the doctrin of continuous voyage. which this govern II nent either originated or very much em uha sized and stretched -
 Washington, January 23.-tSpecial)-Th negro question-as much alive as Ban quo's ghost--again confronts the Presi dent and the party.
 - A negro preacher. Bishop Alexande
 Walters. in an open letter to the chic