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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-26
BATTERIES OF HATE

"But why is George turning all the batteries of his hate and vindictiveness on this patriotic organization, whose
 principles you all know. At that little meeting of Georges conscripting party in the private dining room of the Tut
 wiler hotel the so-called T. As were said
 to be for George and that was to be one of the inducements why he was to get
 back in the race. But when George and
 Georges friends discovered that he did
 not, and would not have the support of
 this organization of patriotic citizens, 1t
 was then that he unloosed all the epi-
 thets of which he was capable against
 them.
 T have asked George Ward, and George
 Wards mouthpiece to tell the voters of
 Birmingham one single. solitary accom- plishment of his during the four years
 he has served us of a progressive, con
 structive nature. I have asked them to tell us what George Ward proposes to do for the city during his next term, if he should be elected, and not one of them have told of single thing he has done, or holds any hope for anything he will accomplish in the future"
 ASS AND THE FOX J. B. Aird made one of his character istic speeches in support of the candidacy l of Dr. Barrett. Interspersing his re- marks with apt anecdotes, he had the audience smiling and laughing by turns. T will relate fable of the ass ana the fox.' he said at the conclusion of his speech, "and you may apply 1t to one of the candidates it fits the best. An ass finding the skin of lion, put | 1t on and ranged about the forest All I the beasts fled in terror and the ass was delighted at the success of his dis guise Seeing a fox he rushed on him, and sought as well to initiate the roar | of a lion. .Ah, said the fox, had you held your tongue I would have been ] deceived as the others, but since you bray I know who you are And the moral of this is the great Ward rally at the Jefferson theatre last Tuesday night-a week ago"
 Judge J. M Anderson acted as chair man of the meeting last night and made
 happy introduction of each speaker. | The Central park supporters of Dr. Barrett will hold a rally tomorrow night l in the park in front of the Baptist | church in Central Park. Friday night there will be Barrett meeting at Wood. lawn city hall.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-26
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have as little sound foundation as house
built on shifting sands It will be worth
no more than other scraps Of paper The
history Of the last twenty-five years is full
of examples of wriggling out Of treaties, Of
promises and undertakings, the moment
these conflict with lust of expansion. And
there will be no end of wrggling out Of this
future peace treaty if it is to be based on
the paramountcy of either party.
"If. therefore, the world is to be set really
at rest. and not again handed over to unend-
ing conflict, the entire aspect Of the COM
mercial and industrial world will have to be
revolutionized We shall have to eliminate
the smallest possible chance Of struggles for
places in the SUM- In other words, every
one will have to be welcome everywhere
The doors will have to be thrown open, all
the world over. The worlds exploitation Of
commercial and industrial assets and posi-
bilities will have to be made universal in
stead of a national affair"
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lor picks his cabinet and no quantity Of
sonorous Hohenzollern phrases can quite
drown the disappointed voice Of Germany
when it appears popular rule and the
promise of peace that might come with
real democracy have no place in the sched-
ule of the new ministry.
It is true that Dr. Karl Helfferich, Vice
Chancellor is advertised in Berlin as an
expert negotiator, in himself figure Of
coming peace, an understanding friend Of
Britain and America. But the press is not
so optimistic at home, and the "Tageblatt,"
thinking of internal reforms, remarks pes
simistically: with US the making of his
tory appears to be the sole privilege of the
army"
As for Austria, her condition Of weak
ness is made significant anew by whispers
that the Allies are negotiating separate
peace in that old-fashioned underground
manner which marked those simple days
before 1914. But it is little more than a
whisper, and only Italy listens, fearing a
separate peace that may endanger her
claims of territory.
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Of the Canadians, who have been creeping
on the rich coal town slowly and surely.
The Flanders fight has waXed and waned,
but it is not hard now to believe that Halg
fights on a definite plan, pours steel by the
ton into the enemy line, attacks, and stops
to reform only that he may begin all over
again. 1t appears even more clearly to
be battle Of endurance and resources.
The Russians have paused in the re-
treat and attempt to take the offensive in
Galicia. Mackensen begins a campaign
against the victorious Rumanian line, see
ing there a possible menace to the Rus
sian campaign. Italy prepares again in
the Trentino.
The Argentine approaches more closely
to a break with Germany. China makes
clear a decision to declare against Ger
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naughty, unyielding tone is gone. Triumph
by submarine warfare is now definitely Civ
en- up The increasing array of the civil
ization and resources of the world against
Germany is biting deep into the German
mind.
when the government goes as far as 1t
does, even though grudgingly We can
imagine what peasants and artisans are say
ing and demanding all over Germany. 1t is
a Germany Of altered psychology and break
ing morale that the world now sees; and II
the Allies are wise enough soon to let all
mankind know that their terms Of peace
will be just and also generous, the mani
fest sentiment of the peoples of the Cen
trail Powers will speedily compel an accept
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fore the American eye. 1t is delayed in
its appeal only by a realization among
contemplative people here and there of the
penalty America might draw in buying a
present peace with a confirmation of Ger
many's right to commit international
crime and escape punishment for it. The
President hesitates to answer any of this,
indicating by his words to Senator Lewis,
of Illinois, that he hears the ground
SWELL" but sees no good in yet taking
further notice of it,
The Socialist conference to be held in
Stockholm September 9 is the rock on
which the British War Cabinet has almost
foundered. French, English and Russian
Socialists decided in Paris, July 80, to send
representatives to the conference. The
attitude of English Socialists is that suf-
ficient of their group in Germany are open
to the Russian idea of freedom to give
value to a conference which might further
the move to cure Germany from within.
Arthur Henderson, Labor member of
the War Council, was one Of the delegates
at the Paris meeting, and the fact so
frightened British conservatives that they
started at once to question the right of the
government in the House of Commons to
allow Mr.. Henderson to go to Paris. There
was a sinister note in the subsequent dis
cussion when James Henry Thomas,
Labor member of the House, warned the
government that labor itself might step in
# it were denied the right to discuss terms
of peace.
Lloyd George somewhat averted the
crisis by appealing for continued ma
tional unity in the face of all that de-
ponds on continued English conference.
Momentarily England appears quiet again,
but critics of the government remain out
spoken and the Ministry sits none too
firmly. And as warning of future events
comes the announcement of Bonar Law
that no member of the government will at
tend the Stockholm meeting.
TN Paris the problem is also yeast for
L ferment in the Ministry. 1t is re-
ported that Albert Thomas, member of the
War Council, will withdraw and French
Socialists will cease their connection with
the government if there is any obstruction
to their attendance at Stockholm. Finally,
the party votes to retain Thomas in the
War Council, preferring not to encourage
German belief in French division or to
bolster Teuton hopes of no annexations.
Meanwhile Rear Admiral Lacaze, Minister
Of Marine in the Cabinet, and Baron
Denys Cochin, Under Secretary of State
for Blockade, resign in answer to criti-
cisms Of the policy against the submarine.
Germany does not hide her desire for
peace, but does hide, as well as she can, the
failing hope of what the Pan-Germans like
to call "a good peace" The new Chancel-
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that the fate Of Germany now lies in the
hands Of the incorrigible militarists headed
by the hare-braned Crown Prince, the sa-
tanic Ludendorff and the bully Hindenburg?
And if this be the fact, as we believe it is,
but one conclusion is possible.
Germany probably would not if she could
and surely could not if she would make
terms of conceivable settlement. She must,
then. be beaten to her knees; must be
fought and starved into submission; must
be treated as an outlaw and permanently dis
armed as an outlaw; must be driven out OF
France and Belgium and Serbia and Ru-
mania and Poland; must give up the stolen
provinces of Alsace and Lorraine; must re-
store Luxembourg; must pay double indem-
nifty to Belgium; must forsake forever her
lost colonies; must destroy her infamous dy-
nasty and Danish the kings and princes who
comprise her no less odous Council; having,
as a nation, wantonly drawn and shamefully
used the sword, as nation she must perish
by the sword.
Peace with complete victory! Peace with
unconditional surrender 1t is the only way,
the only way of living, the only way OF
righteousness, the only way of mercy"
An echo of the Russian idea appears in
this excerpt from an article on the kind of
peace the world must have, by L. Simons,
Dutch publicist, writing in the August
Atlantic Monthly:
at is clear, however, that permanency
thus based on outdoing ones competitor viii
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4 Supreme Opportunity
~ for the Allies

Hold out the promise Of peace by ne
gotiation without punishment if Germany
reforms internally, is the recommendation
to the Allies by "The New Republic:
although the statesmen Of the Allies
wholly fail to understand what they have
done, it is they who are responsible for the
defeat of the democratic agitation in Ger
many. 1t is they who are enabling Michaeis
to put off and deceive the German people by
the pretence that the German government is
fighting defensive war It is their political
strategy which constitutes an insurmountable
obstacle TO the emergence of that liberal
Germany upon which, as they admit, their
own future safety depends. According TO Mr..
Ralfour Germany must be powerless or free.
Il was a grave admission, for it condemns
the policy of the government which Mr. Bal
four represents. The political strategy of
the Allies has been calculated to make Ger
many not free but powerless and so 70 justi-
fy the official claim that Germany is fight
ing a defensive war.
"The Allies as body should tactfully say
as Lloyd George has already said in part,
but more forcefully and clearly-that il by
some means the German government could
be made legally responsible 20 a German
parliament or electorate and pledged 70 the
international programme, they would not de-
mand forcible annexations or punitive indem-
mites, but would treat with Germany and
her allies as equals, striving for scientific
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~UNS speak loudly, but the faint
- sound Of words that echo over the
" valleys Of the world is sometimes
;,sistent. Thought, says Carlyle, is
.. ...rer than artillery parks, making and
-..dng acts of Parliament, moving
,,,eins. And however impartial the
.S..ryer, he cannot escape the drama
..icb is being played in hesitating sylla-
~, behind all the noise and anarchy Of
II is as if the nations were nerved
.,ly bv the mechanism Of self-preserva-
-. 70 90 through all the gestures Of the
-, Back of the smoke and dust they
-,,,b each others faces eagerly and visit
s,rv Peace. more than ever before, is
.bs dream of nations, and it is only fear of
sv;,g 70 other ills they know not of that
,rnears to hold their trust to shot and
,0vder. fearful still of sentiments and
talk.
There is not much that is new about
Ais Germany has been using peace as a
hire 10 make secure her seizure of sunlit
,laee. for many months; and for weeks
II. ministries have been sparring for an
advantage in that final parley over terms
,s,t Is bound to come. That the German
oeOule themselves are weary of autocracy
and the wars of kings is already an old
tory. But observers of the world scene
have found another symptom portentous
Of great events in the restlessness of the
PEOPLES themselves in all the belligerent
nations. Russia is too distressed by I'M
Inward circumstances to be justly included
IN such a classification. But in both
France and England the ministries are
said to stand on foundations perilously
weak. and it is only the powerful voice of
LlOyd George that stays the storm and
wins respite for his government.
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Affairs at Home

WY AR continues largely to occupy
w the programme of the United
States at home. Friendly aliens are ac-
cepted for the new conscript army when
they are found willing. The food bill, after
many final touches, energies at last nm
ished product-Senator Reed notwith-
standing. The trading-with- the-enemy
bill, through the House, awaits the Senate.
Suffrage raises an importunate voice
through Senator Cummins, who plans
to have a Constitutional amendment
reported in the Senate. Senator Cham
berlain is busy on his resolution for draft
ing all aliens except Asiatics and enemies
residing within the country. The dry
amendment is, held over finally in the
House by the prohibition leaders them
selves, who discover that the six-year rati-
fcation clause is the brewers idea Of
humor. An attempt will be made to have
it eliminated.
Ships, both wood and steel, will be built
at once, according to an announcement by
Admiral Caps, head of the Emergency
Fleet Corporation. The Netherlands con-
slider an agreement with the United States
whereby Dutch tonnage will be transferred
to American use in exchange for food
stuffs. One hundred Dutch ships lie idle
now in American harbors, many of them
to be turned over to the government if the
conference results in agreement. spec
ial Dutch mission, bent on getting guar
antees for Dutch safety, despite the en-
barge, is expected to arrive early in Sep
TENDER. The Shipping Board prepares to
commander all American tonnage, and
Japan is invited TO turn over many of her
ships to the United States and Britain,
the penalty of refusal being an embargo
on steel products to the Orient.
The President declares that Allied coun-
tries who buy for the war in the United
States must be treated fairly. Food to
the neutrals, it is made known, will be re-
duced to necessities, to further complete
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THE whisper of peace is persistent;
no matter how loud the battle, 1t
makes itself heard. It is not a
recsr. development to have the fighting
LsiiOns looking anxiously to the time when
the fight will end. But in the last few
weeks peace talk has grown louder and
nOre daring. And it has attracted va
nous comment. The statesmen themselves
have not been among the least of those who
lave found peace favorite topic.
Listen to Premier Ribot, who puts the
French case clearly before the French
Eser chamber:
We wish peace, but peace sincere and hon
Tsols. What would peace made to-day be !
h' should renounce Alsace-Lorraine and be
Sspelled ourselves 70 restore the destroyed
E''isess. Ruined France, which deserves to
A'sh al the head Of civilization, would be
sAs5sd 70 live, but beside US would be the
Nf-iaable bloc Of the Central Empires,
'sisa would be the true masters. Aims
''sd Be given 20 Belgium. We should be
sacs slaves
Victory must be won. We shall not for
~ hat this will not be by discussions. We
aA''' believe that conferences can give it
sAS
ne sometimes confused aims Of Russia
w Illuminated by this declaration Of the
Nisgn affairs committee Of the Working
.eas and Soldiers Council concerning the
''e'alist peace conference in Stockholm:
me impression is growing that, guided by
~s impsriaists, hands Of sabotage are
nhg secretly 20 destroy the work Of
''Ag together the toiling masses Of all
1lsa IN behalf OF peace. We declare
- Hnost emphasis that the revolutionary
s~'efAey Of Russia, which writes upon It's
10y ths battle for universal peace can
srss with such aabotage.
.. ,sasr no pre;sIt, however plausible, must
i eefaolm conference be delayed in this
Eye " the peace for which all nations
"agirg is 70 be brought 20 victorious
- this conference should be pre-
- Ice whole world shall know the
=. I" the men responsible for its failure
..a'''J shall answer publicly before the
,.t masses Of the whole world for The
disastrous consequences.
IA. We beginning Of the fourth year Of
r.,. ~ a' ws,ehword for peace must rinS
"a ssr man ever before. II lie high time
s...s ns glad news Of peace 20 the
u Ia high time, we think. TO end
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RUSSIA

ID USSIA, politically, has passed through
IN another crisis, to emerge with Ker-
onsky, weary but mistaken, steering firm
course toward safety and freedom. The
crisis has been swift, its effect instant and
medicinal. Kerensky's resignation is a
test of the devotion of factions to Russia.
All parties except that of the extreme
Left-the Administrative voted con-
fidence in the premier and given him an
opportunity to form new cabinet. The
Duma has called on the people to rally.
Brusiloff and Dimitrieff are out, Korniloff
in chief command in an effort to retrieve
the military situation.
Russia renews her pledge 10 her Allies.
Russia" declares Foreign Minister Te-
restchenko, will not suffer herself to be
deferred by any difficulty in carrying out
the irrevocable decision to continue the
war to a final triumph of the principles
proclaimed by the Russian revolution"
There are hints that Russia, in the mass,
prays for peace, but the revolutionists see
in compromise a death of all that the
revolution sought to establish. But Elihu
Root head of the American Mission to
Russia, returns and declares Russia is
quiet and determined, and foresees a great
free government preparing for the Rus
sian people.
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he Thunder Flanders and ac Sounds Still Small Voice Peace

settlement through negotiation. Such an
offer would leave the junkers defenceless,
and hasten the new order in Germany.
"By avoiding it up to now the Allies have
immensely weakened its potential efective-
ness. If they continue TO postpone it until
after the Reichstag reconvenes in September
it may come too late. But if it comes soon
II may still be salutary. 1t would be based
on the most creditabe, the most contagious
truth in the Allied cause. It would be re-
jected By Germany so long as the junkers are
in power. Yet when it was accepted It would
mean the end of the war on the most salts
factory possible basis. If, in spite Of it, ths
Allies were forced 10 continue and establish
military supremacy, the junkers would be
finally and irretrieyably discredited. viii
the statesmen of the Allies dare to put aside
such supreme opportunity"
This is how "The New York Times"
views the German attitude:
"ThiJ and nothing else is what Chancellor
Mchaelis means when he says:
We must, by means of understanding
and in a spirit Of give-and-take, guar
antee conditions Of the existence Of the
German Empire upon the Continent and
overseas.
"Ant it is precisely that idea at which
Lloyd George strikes in his refusal 10 hear
q word from Germany until she has pro-
nounced the word restoration What he
means, what all the Allies mean, is that al
though those are the two ways in one OF
which all the wars Of the nineteenth and
early twentieth century have ended, this
war is not going to end in either Of them.
This war is not war between kings, who,
having fought to a good bargaining position,
can sit down at table and swap their SUBJ
jects, and other kings subjects, too. and
rise to plan for the next war"
In a dispatch sent by Arthur Draper to
The Tribune this significant statement ap.
Feared:
Of E~sopSan statesmen with the same care
with which t&ey watch Developments in the
battle zgsea Fhey must remember that Eu.
rope has bad Gree years of war, that millions
of men hfS9 been killed and wounded, that
the muntisns workers, men and women, have
labored as never before, that life has become
infinitely more complex, that few promises
Of 1914 have been fulhlled, even in 1917, and
that no government can long survive unless 10
shows successes"
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tribe Germany of 1917
L and of 1914

Golfers Weekly" sees the German Of
fcrs as a play, in which
Behind all this acting looms the SIMS
ter figure of Ludendorf. We will hear
a plenty about these reforms and how peace
should be made at once and with no changes,
because the Germany of 1917 is vastly diff
ferent from that of 1914, etc, etc. But a
war-wise world ought to see through so plain
a sham, and must carry through an enter
prise which has already cost it dear. The
victory Of our allies means the ultimate vic
tory of democracy in Germany, too"
Colonel George Harvey, in THE North
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THE Senate, persistent if not patient,
L now puts its hand to finances and
prepares for bout with the $4,000, 100000
war tax bill. The bill is already through
the House, where it has been estimated to
raise S1,S67 900 900. The Senate reports
the bill twice, the second time with enough
added to carry it almost 100000 ever
the $4,000, 100000 mark. The bill is
drawn so that it may form the basis of
another increase in taxes later, the pros
pect of war promising the certain need
of more money and more intensive taxa
ton The income tax exemption is low
cred to $4,000 and $1,000 and the rate on
incomes between $4,000 and $500 is
raised from to per cent. A levy Of
1862, 100000 is proposed on war profits
and the tax is applied to individuals in
trade as well as to corporations. Checks,
drafts and certificates of deposit will be
subject TO stamp taxes.
Encouragement to those who look at
the nations resources to gauge its endur-
ance comes in the announcement of Con-
troller Williams that at the last call, June
20, resources of the national banks were
at the highest figures ever recorded
6,15l ,000,0 900, an increase of more than
$4,000, 1000 in a year.
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THE MILITARY SITUATION

~ ZEN from afar, the military situation,
- East and West, shows little beyond
the implication that Germany has lost the
power to fight and win, but is not vet so
far gone that she loses. The Grown
Prince shifts the attack to Verdun, only
to fail. Lens is now almost in the hands
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IN the United States this movement
| bward cessation of the struggle finds
a. easy course through the natural disin-
andcn of the people to engage in war.
Professional pacifsts, Socialists whose
n:srnationalism still survives all the vio-
knss Of German Kultur, and the swaying
tpnons of persons who read the Hearst
sswspapers. even the sober demand of the
'inteIectuals" for a more definite state
rsnt Of American aims and of declara-
hon Of what American idealism means at
he present time in specific terms-all this
las combined to put peace graphically be-