The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-07
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

So far as we and our allies are con cerned this is pre- eminently people, s war, in spite of George Huddleston' claim that war traffickers, munitlon makers, builders of ships for the navy and contractors for army supplies" and other selfish interests brought it about. ! He is obsessed by the idea that those who coin their profits out of human blood and suffering. who owe their af- | fluence to the great tragedy, men who. masqucrading as patriotic societies, have fomented the fears of the people, have financed moving pictures to terrify the people and carried on a nationwide propaganda for vast increases in the army and navy in order that they may sell their wares"
 | I say that the man who could utter such sentiments publicly and then put 1 them into print, is so out of sympathy with Americas war aims as to be totally unfit to act with the administration; for he has failed either to understand the motives of a great people, or been willfully blind in misinterpreting them 1 in order to create class prejudice and 1 stir the basest passions in the hearts of the workers.
 To say that the United States is at war I for the Sake of the profiteers is to ig- nore not only repeated insults to the | 1Jn less American men, women and children who had done the Kaiser no harm, and were on the high seas, where they had a perfect right to be. It's to falsify the shameful facts of German ruthlessness in order to arraign labor against capi- tai and engender deadly class hatred at time when employers and employees | ought to be, and in fact are, working 1 together to defeat common enemy. | As a friend of labor in this district which has shown itself to be absolutely loyal as I knew it would be, where every man is doing his bit and his best, I know it has meant sacrifices for many of them, who have not only given liberally to the Army Y. M. c. A., the Red Cross, 1 and subscribed their quota of Liberty | Bonds, but have given their sons to fight side by side with the sons of their employers, and thereby know that con- scription is the most democratic way to raise an army.
 | Now, I make my appeal to the sensible,
 sober sane workingmen who read and I think, to see to it that they are not made willing tools to serve the political ambitions of man who does not stand
 whole -heartedly behind the administra
 tion in it's avowed policy, but who on four separate occasions, has put a stumbling block in the way of President Wilson's wish to use every power at his command to win the war. Thank God
 he says nothing will turn us aside from it until it is accomplished" He will le
 it with or without the help of George My sympathies are with the working. man. They were not born out of thi.
 war, and they did not come of office seeking. My views and efforts to bene fit labor have been a part of my If,
 for more than a score ot years I wan
 the workingn.an to get everything com
 ing to him, and 1 joy in rne ract tha he Is rapidly coming into his own, anS
 that is why l want him to think straight
 and vote intelligently, and not be mis
 led by any man who seeks to climl into office on his back, and then ge Is absolutely without influence in Wash off and forget him or be unable to pa, him for his ride. I do not believe tha George Huddleston can do anything fo
 the la5oring man in Congress for n
 ington.
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