The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-24
of Birmingham, Ala. Statement November |, 1918

prosecuting attorney, commenting g on the worthlessness of the defend ants testimony in murder trial, said. Gentlemen of the jury, you know the Bible says, All that a man hath will be give for his 1ifep When the de- fendant's lawyer rose to make his ar gument to the jury, he opened a small pocket Bible and read the pas- sage and its connection from the Book of Job, and showed that the passage was the words of the devil, and asked the jury if they were going to con vict his client on the devils testi- mony. That passage is from the Bi- ble, but it was the language of the devil and it was and is a monstrous lie. The great world war has proved it to be a lie, both among men and among God-fearing nations. Belgium and thousands of her brave men and women proved it to be a lie when they flung themselves in the path of the in- yading hords of the Hun, knowing that their armies would be annihilated, her country devastated and her people carried off into slavery; but Belgium by her great sacrifice, saved the day by holding the enemy for full two weeks while France and Great Britain NViC iildhlilS ICduy lOla tllC cat Jiil- pact France proved it to be lie when she cast her lot on the scale of justice and righteousness, and thou sand times proved her determination that the Hun should not pass until every Frenchman was killed and ev- cry French resource exhausted Eng land proved it it to be lie when she had clear chance to avoid the strug- gle. and sufficient time to choose her course; but England's name was signed to that scrap of paper and the honor and integrity of every Briton was pledged to uphold England's sa- cred honor and maintain the rights of the smaller nation she was bound to protect. Italy proved that passage to be a lie when, bound by defens- i've treaty with Austria and Germany, she considered the compact more hon. ored in the breach than in the observ ance thereof (though she was not really bound by any treaty for ag gressive warfare) and Italy probably saved the day, before her entrance on the side of the allies, when she assured France that France might with inl- punity withdraw her troops and guns from the southern frontier without any fear from Italy. And while we are not supposed to laud America at this time, I believe you will agree that America proved that passage to bes a lie when thousands of her sons laid down their lives for a principle. And let us not discount the great part played by Russia. Russias tremend- ous sacrifices and losses will probably never be known. Her losses in men killed. wounded and captured is es- timated to be more than 12,000,000. and in the early days of the war her pressure on the eastern front unques- tionably enabled the French to hold at Verdun and made the victory of the first Marne possible.
 And so with the other nations who stood for justice and right; they have played their part nobly and have proved that there is somthing dearer than individual life and national life. Let none of us ever bubble over the question of who won the war or who contributed the most. When Andrew Carnegie was once asked which he considered the most important in American industrial life, capital. labor or brains, he replied: Which leg do you consider the most important of ree-legged stool?'
 All honor to the peoples of all the allied nations-they have been tried In the fiery furnace, they have found their souls, and millions now unborn will rise up and call them blessed, and will praise the day (Der Tag) when the world was made safe from brute force and when the devils lie was nailed as Job nailed it of old.