The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-09-05
An ABLE ADDRESS BY
an GREENSBORO MAN
Member Of "Four.Minute" Club
Entertain Cr0wd-Greeted
With Big Ovation.


the members of the "Four-Minute-
Men" organization, was delivered by
, c. w. Bransford, at the Empress
thcater, says the Owensboro 1nquir-
er. Not only was he greeted By q
large crowd, but the members of the
Senior Service Corps. of which MIR.
Bransford is president, turned out
in a body. Mr. Bransford's address
was a most able one and at the con-
clusion he was given a great ovation.
Mr.. Bransford said:
"Ladies and Gentlemen: In the
matter Of speech-making am strict
ly four-minute man, but when it
comes to fighting German autocracy
/ am enlisted for during the war"
whether it lasts four months, or four
years. And, my friends, do you real
ize that this bloody conflict-this
ruthless carnage of barbarity-may
continue even longer than four
years? If not, it is time you were
awakening to the fact and girding
on your armor. unless you are will
ing that your children and your chill
dren's children shall be subjected to
a worse slavery than that imposed by
the Barons on the Serfs in Feudal
times.
Damnable Scheme.
81 am no alarmist. | do not seek
to arouse animosities, or to stir up
bad feeling between neighbors, but
! there never was a more dam" .able
scheme devised by man to enslave
the word than that con, .octed by the
Kaiser and his v.sr lords. Do you
believe this. ar idle statement which
has 30 Foundation in fact? Do you
think that prejudice prompts me to
make it? Or that it is simply the eff
fusion Of a disordered brain? Let US
see, and at the outset ! want to say
: that my remarks are not intended to
apply to the German people as a
class, except as they are the vic
tins of vile deception. Our fight
is with the Kaiser and his high
brows-the University professors,
who, by a nefarious system of educa.
ton, have deluded the German PEG.
pie into believing that it is their des.
tiny to conquer the world. But you
will say, how have they done this
For answer | commend to your care
full perusal the work of the grea,
German philosopher, Frederick vii
, helm Neitzsche-a text book, mine
you, in the German schools and uni
versities-in which among other hor
rible things this sacrilegious para
5 graph appears:
, "'And We have heard men, say
blessed are the peace-makers; but
say unto you, blessed are the war
| makers, for they should be called,
not the children of Jehovah, the chill
dren of Odin, who is greater thar
Jehovah
Contemplate that language TO
a moment my friends. They Shout,
be called. if not the children of Je
hovah, the children of Odin, who i
greater than Jehovah. Do YOU know
. who Odin was? Do you know VIII,
inspired the Huns and Vandals +,
: swoop down on Rome and destro,
the wonderful civilization that mad
glorious the beginning of the Chris
tan era? 1t was this mythologica
. God Odin of Barbaric Germany. Tha
was nearly two thousand years ago
And yet this book, published at tn,
= close Of the 10th century and mad
text book by authority of the Kai
ser in the German schools, sets VI
this NEUROLOGICAL God of war a
greater than our Christian Lord, Je
hovah. Why ! ask? Because tn,
Kaiser knew if this superstition wer'
instilled into his subjects they woul'
be responsive to his diabolical pur
pose to conquest and enslave the res
Of the world.
81 wish l had the time to animal
, vert in proper language on sucl
: heresy. Suffice it to saw that wher
| this cruel war is over the Christian
nations of the world will re-establisl
the supremacy of Jehovah-not il
, the German empire Of the Kaiser
but in great and free Republic
| founded and controlled by he German
, people.
~Are you willing my friends, as
American citizens to do your part tc
bring about this great desideratum
at the same time save your own coun,
try and fresides, or will you lie SUI
pinely on your backs while others
fight your battles? speak not for
myself, but for YOUR country and
mine when implore YOU to rouse
yourself from your lethargy. 1t is
no time to halt, or hesitate. We are
| already in the midst of war and ev-