The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-12
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

I think any fair-minded man of in-
 telligence who will read the public ut- terances of George Huddleston as set out in the Congressional Record and
 "franked. by him with pride broadcast in his district, will be compelled to ad-
 init that he has been liability instead of an asset in the vigorous prosecution of the war.
 He has been a hinderer instead of
 helper on every occasion when he could stick an oar in, and he hasn't been
 modest or lost any chances in pulling in the wrong direction. and making it more
 difficult for the willing hearted to row
 the shsp of state safely through the
 troubled and dangerous war waters in
 which helpless American men, women and children were being sent to watery graves
 by the slimy undersea serpents of Ger many.
 l am for taking him away from his
 job where he has the chance to do no
 further harm while the war is going on.
 for it Is unthinkable to me how pa triotic people like those who Inhabit Jer
 ferson county, after discovering from
 his own printed speeches his entire lack
 of sympathy with the administrators
 war programme. and his disagreements
 With President Wilson, will willingly give
 him another term in Congress.
 Pnt if Canrp, IIu1I1oc+o,, z. Snhfl;xVx
 in war times, he will be menace ill
 times of peace. I know that 1t is our
 present business to win the war, and
 thank God we are going to do it. for our
 boys have shed. they are shedding today,
 their blood; giving the best of all they
 had. sacrificing what they prized most.
 without stint and without reserve, tn
 the trenches and on the battlefields, on the sea and under it, and in the ais. which heroiEm will be forever conse- crated as the salvation of our liberties in the nations greatest emergency. It
 makes me indignant in the face of all of their va'or to know that any man in a place of responsibility in order to infiu- ence voters will lean toward shirkers and slackers, and pillory in their eyes the acts of the government which he has taken oath to uphold.
 It's q shame to have any candidate In this tremendous hour array class against class revive disputes which for patriotic reasons have been held in abeyance by employers and employees, and strive to embitter the poor against the rich, or inflame .he discontented by making them jealous of those who are satisfied, The
 hour calls for every right thinking man l to husband and mobilize the sympathies inspired by this time of war, sorrow and heroic death. in which our own flesh and blood are dying to keep us free. This war Is volcano in which all the political. social and economic clements of our life are seething and boiling under the cr1lat, and we must be studying how to prevent or guide the eruption which has power to engulf us in an internec,ne warfare more destructive than the au- 1 tocrAcy which we crushed Now. am not one of the pessimists who look for the deluge. l believe that our native good l sense and love of free and orderly institl,- 1 tions will savc us from the debacle which followed the French revolution, or the l incendiarism of the Commune, or the humiliation of Russia's downfall. | But with this strong belief in Americas 5 | will to so straight in the paths mapped out by our forefathers it is but ordinary l prudence that We set our faces as flint against social visionaries, political ad- venturerA economic bushwhackers and | the vampires who fatten on strife. Some. l times the well meaning but mudd1e head. l ed docttlnaire has more power for mis. chief than the blatant. fed handed agi. tAtor. We carelessly permit the former
 to preach his gospel of unrest. while we ] challeng, the other to dare to make llis I threats good by overt action.
 | am not n much afraid of socialism. as thore are so many brands of 1t. as 1 am of syndtcalism and sabotage. have
 been studsnt of socialism for years.