The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-22
Humiliation of Present Sit
uation Can No Longer Be
Tolerated by the People
ONLY ONE TEST CAN
NOW BE APPLIED TO
PUBLIC OFFICIALS
Lukewarm Americanism Does Not
Represent the People of Biz
mingham or of Ala
bama

White E. Gibson, well known
Birmingham attorney, VINO IS
now in the service OF the gov
eminent as special prosecutor
in disloyalty cases, spent yes
terday in the city but Will re-
turn to Chicago today.
Mr.. Gibson returned home boiling
over with patriotic fervor and with
no sort Of sympathy with anything
that tends in the slightest TO dlvefs
the nation from its purpose OIL WIN
ming the war.
~There is no halfway line now,
he said. .People are either TOT Ing
country or they are against ~
- nothing in which I take more Joy
than in the prosecution Of these Iei-
u,ho have shown a yellow streak.
"And in this connection enoai'
1ike to say something about setsins
a CONGRESSMAN from JEFFERSON County
Who represents the people ana the pa
+r;otic sentiment of this community.
We are heartily tired OF the pieSs
r;+ra+;on EVERYWHERE I go men ASH
+ha question: What is the mater
with Birmingham and the SCUM Does
that Birmingham congressman Tsp
cent the sentiment where you coile
FROM I heard it in Los Anseies'
xa Il in San Francisco and l am
hearing it in Chicago.
at is aceful-monstrous. Wheh
th;nr If how the people of Je1ter-
ron county really feel and what thes
have really done in helping WIN 'ne
war it makes my blood fairly Don -
think that we have man In
ir1ton who is so completely at cross
nnrnoses with the sentiment and ieei-
ing of the people of my home Guy
MUST NOT TOLERATE IT
ut is something which we hus
tolerate no longer. What we ~an
80 democrat imbued with patriotic
fea1;nrs swept there by wave OF
natriotic fervor which will sho" III.
national administration and the couh-
NV at large how Birmingham Ieeis'
We want a man who Will take no ia,A
nav GROUND. We wait man VINO
viii declare in advance that there are
only two issues in the world tooay4
Z aiserism and Americanism-anu lhae
he will go the extreme limit IN Aine'
icanism. an =
NAV have personal grievances against
some of them, but I am Wiling 70
burv all that and take off my coat
and work and make speeches. LOT any
man who is right on this main issue.
r. ia the overwhelming duty tnat
faces all OF u.s. We should select the
man and then rally round him WIN
tha flag as our emblem ana Dury SO
deep with our ballots the man OF
wishy-washy, lukeWarm patriotisin
that the word will go forth through
the land that birmingham not only
gives her dollars by the millions ana
her men by the thousands to the glor-
ious cause but that she also gives to
the nation a congressman who IS pc
hind Wilson heart and soul and VINO
will fight our battles in the nails OF
Congress with the same spirit with
which our boys are fighting them In
France.
CITIZENS ARE INUNDATED
"It is not often that 1 want to
break into print, but feel so deep
~ on this matter that I want to help
make every citizen see this matter in
the same serious light in which l see
it. I think we have been so humil-
lated so disgraced by lukewarm rep
resentation that we should rise in our
might and sweep away the faint.
"Since I have bean in the govern
ment service / have seen so much of
the I. w. w. and other lowdown dis
loyalists that when I get up to prose-
cut one I feel, figuratively. like grab
bling him by the neck and shaking him
Just like good terrier would shake
rat
"And I know the people of this
county feel the same way My firm
for many years has been counsel for
various labor organizations and want
to say that any labor leader who
countenances lukewarm patriotism is
not in tune with the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor and its executive of
ficers. They will get no sympathy
from me.
"At this critical time all I want to
know is whether a man is heart and
soul with his government and his
country. That is the test we must ar-
ply in selecting our. next congressman.
There is no middle ground. we want
a man who will go the limit and we
want no more of the man who has
been weighed and found woefuliy
In he