The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-18
WHY WE SHOULD BE SLOW
 TO ENTER EUROPES TURMOIL

| break friendly relations, but rather sup plying her with money, food and murder tools, while praying to the Father Of all l humanity for peace. In the case of Ger
 many, however, we ignore her necessity l and her sincere wish for peace, which
 she hopes to enforce by starving her most perfdious and cruel enemy-the one, 1 without whose nachinations there would not have been any world war at this 1 time. We insist that we will supply Eng ] land with food etc, though we ourselves may suffer want, and in spite of fair warning, we will go on British ships armed and chartered by the British gov ernment, and we dare Germany not to commit an overt act act against any fool 1 hardy American citizen.
 | I have discussed this state of immi- nent evil portent with my friends. some of the most prominent judges of this city, and all of them say that Germany cannot be blamed for her unrestricted U-boat warfare, but they also say that our President, in order to uphold our national honor, had to break friendly intercourse with Germany, after having avowed in last May that he would do so. Speaking of national honor recalls to me the words of the poet Honor is the finest sense of justice which the human mind can frame" If the crisis should come hope that
 
 the issue of peace or war and 1t might 1 be still better to leave the decision l to vote of the whole people. It is 1 certain that Germany does not wish l war with us. because she cannot af- 1 ford to have us join the ranks of her enemies now; and perhaps later to be a party to the famous economic league of the allies against her when peace comes Counting all the nations, great 1 and small, that are at war with the central powers and not emitting the republic of San Marine and the prin 1 cipality of Monaco, we will find an
 even dozen of various complexions, so that if we join that rapacious bunch we will be number IS. Most of these
 are hungry looking and lacking cash 1 to keep the warfires burning, and are
 now hoping that we. rich as we are, will step into line and supply the de- ficiency. But will we? Have we count | ed the cost? And what will we gain : l Will we gain the freedom of the seas from England if we convoy with our navy ships laden with food and am
 intuition for the allies? And to see 1 our brave soldier boys fighting in tlanders and France with Turcos l Sudanese and Sikhs for civilization. 1 or perhaps in the Balkans with Serbs and Italians, English and French for | the sacredness of treaties and the rights of small nationalities! It would | be sight to make the angels weep. If we enter this war and form all sorts of entangling alliances, we will do our best to win 1t for ourselves and our allies; and with such allies as vic tors. where will civilization, liberty
 and justice be? Let the people rule !! IS our American motto, but that is precisely what the allies do not want
 Tor if the nationality principle should prevail Germany would lose but one province-Posen--and would gain the Baltic provinces and all of German Austria, England, France, Russia and Italy would lose heavily and gain but little. Ireland. Poland. Finland and
 perhaps Egypt and India would form independent states and the Hebrews might re-establish a Jewish state in Palestine. which, the Bible says. shall happen just before the great judg-
 ment day. The Zionist colonizing scheme is very successfully working
 toward this end. All the prophecies concerning events which shall happen 1 before the second coming of Christ are
 being literally fulfilled and this great war may be the Arma geddon presagine the end when justice shall be done and the truth come uppermost Then will all the underhanded work of se- cret diplomacy. which brought on this war; be revealed and we will know who is on the right side.
 | If our country should enter this mill ! of God. whether right or wrong, our citizens of German birth will be true ] to their oath of allegiance, freely taken, and support the country of
 their choice. of their friends and ma
 terial interests in it's hour of need. even against the old fatherland, which ! they never can forget to love.
 HERMANN SCHOEI.
 l Civil Engineer. 1 Birmingham. February 6, 1917.