The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-20
WAR IS DRAWING ANGLO-SAXON RACE CLOSER TOGETHER |. DECLARES KENYON Iowa Senator Makes Thrill ing Address on The
 World War at Close
 Range" VIVID WORD PICTURE OF BRUTALITIES TOLD AUDIENCE LAST NIGHT No Peace With Present Ger man Military Power, Says
 Speaker, Who Visited the War Front

'Kultur-oh. God. save us from s,ichp' was the prayer offered by Sen ator w. S. Kenyon of Iowa in his ad- dress on "The War at Close Range" at the First Methodist church last night. This prayer was uttered after a graphic, appalling description Of the brutalities and atrocities of the Prus- sians being practiced on the other side of the Atlantic.
 Senator Kenyon recently returned from the trenches, where he went to get first-hand information on the war, as he explained it last night. q went because I voted in favor of the war. I wanted to go and see for myself-to justify my action in my own mind. have never been prouder of an action"
 "America," sung by the " audience. which filled the large church to ca pacity. opened the evening, after which prayer was offered. selection was rendered by the quartet just preceding Di. George Stuart's introduction of Senator Kenyon. Dr. Stuarts address was brief and devoted almost entirely to recalling of the personal interest that the church had in the war.
 ANGLO-SAXON RACE
 "This war is serving one good pur- pose every day." the senator from Iowa began; fit is drawing us, the Anglo Saxon race. closer together We have a greater interest, greater love, brotherly love, for one another. That magic phrase word, comrade-in-arms is doing something for this race that no other thing could do.'
 How the boys of Alabama and Iowa fought side by side In the greatest battles yet fought lover there' was word picture of the gap that has ever been growing more narrow since one memorable day at Appomattox court house. The gallantry of the sons of Lee and Grant fighting side by side in our last war. and of the terrific dent
 made in the Mason-Dixon line by the friendship and respect which grew be-
 tween them. And" continued The speaker. when the grandsons of Lee and Grant meet and fight together in the trenches of France there will be no more Mason and Dixon line!" We kept out of this war as long as we could have-with honor" he stated. Tt was all right to talk for and against war before 1t was declared, but
 there came time when the men in ! the Senate no longer had a right to declare war, for that was the time that the constitution of the United States
 had already declared war-after that | time not man had right to say one word against it." he stated. Roll upon | rcu of applause shook the house after l this statement
 AIter giving an outline of the optimism l in the French trenches. the rre,,tons, i campaign of ruthlessness to terrorize the
 world, their utter disregard of jnterna- tional law and treaties, and of their
 many ''bluffs.' he paid a great compli ment to the individual personality of | America's allies
 ADMIRES GREAT BRIpAIN T admire Great Britain, but love ! France. he said. There is one thing that l do want to say about the Eng fish. too. They love England, not only i the soldiers but the women and the ones
 who stay at home. If England should | be swallowed up by the sea tonieht. with the exception of a few of the high l CT peaks, you would find the Tommies still peched there and still fighting. J l The great devastation of the country I and of the outrages practiced upon the
 people were next told Of Stories of how
 the French and Belgian women were placed in front of German troops ad-
 vancing upon the French of how the women and children have been carried behind the German lines to a fate more horrible than death itself; of how the
 women are now carrying vials of poisor of the most deadly variety with then
 that they may not have to suffer in this
 manner were related by the speaker
 Men of Alabama he implored, w,
 had better a thousand times die for oul l women-our mothers, sisters. wive
 and daughters-than that. they shouls
 suffer fate akin to this. And | know | that many of us will die and suffer | torture unto death before we let sucI a condition be brought upon us.
 We didn't start his inhuman war
 but by the Eternal God we are going tt 1have something to say about when fl 1 stops The time has come when civil lization and war cannot exist upon eartI l at the same time.
 I've wrangle too much in Washington over details when there are principle.
 to be decided, he admitted, "aboui ! whether we should build steel ships O wooden ships. Never mind the kind O ships what we need is ships of any
 kind. The nation that loses command
 l. of the air will lose the war. I be llieve that 10000 airplanes started on thu ! road to Berlin would soon have Old GIory Haunting from the flagstaffs of all Ger , many he declared. S@s&
 INDIVIDUAL WAR BASIS ], "Our nation has declared war on Ger many. but have we individually de clared war on Germany" he queried 1 Have we gotten on the individual wal basis. We have not only got to do ou bit but we have go to do our best to vii this war" he said.
 I .Profteering and patriotism cannot g.