The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-12

!
 everything has been done that we have been asked to do that that damnable l propaganda has been spread here which
 makes men hoot down speaker who is making an appeal in behalf of Woodrow l Wilson. There never was time when 1 your citizenship was more on trial than lit is now
 l T would rather be howled down by 1 a crowd in my home town, though. while ! holding aloft picture of Woodraw Will 1 son, than to be carried in a chair, which was going to prove the executional chair for me.
 "I am a minister and have been- criti-
 cized for getting into these patriotic mat 1 ters, but I would rather be in my posi- ton, upholding the President, than tc
 be the idolized demagogue of misguid- ed and blinded people"
 BOW IN SHAME
 The Rev. Middleton S. Barnwell was the next speaker, and in his usual wig
 orous manner he madeNa decidedly tell ling speech being very forceful in his Ipatriotic utterances.
 l We are here to pledge anew our loyalty to that prince of men, Wood
 row Wilson. If were told that there
 were thousands of people in Jeffer- | son county whose first and last loyalty
 to the President had to be pledged anew I would have to bow my head in shame. for if you are not at first
 loyal to Woodrow Wilson, God being
 my witness you are with the Emperor | of Germany.
 "In regard to a certain phase of cit izenship, President Wilson had to de- l fine himself. and in stating where hs stands he has not branded any man but those who are against him have i branded themselves by their stand. ''They say that the President has been misinformed, but they have said
 that in every step that he has taken but yet I had rather follow Woodrow 1 Wilson, though wrong, than some peo.
 pie I know, though right
 ! "I do not think that it behooves me to put my pnny brain against the mas ter mind of the twentieth century. ihad rather be the meanest rattlesnakf in the hills of Alabama than to .sial
 the President on the face now-in this Icrisis
 Tt takes more than loyalty to friends l--it takes faithfulness in these times l We do not demand that man be g jgreat colossal figure; a great brain lnor a great socialist, but we do de-
 mand that he is faithful, and we arc going to have that kind of man. KELLY INGRAM OSinOnu tAChy AhSi dIi was lditHl u | to his trust-and when that hero braved danger to save the lives of his com Trades and his ship, knowing that he was going to his death. he was faith iful to the last and hero of the most noble type. These Bessemer boys of the old Fighting Fourth went right through the German lines because they were Jefferson county boys and knew nothing but to go forward We have | got to keep that stream of khaki going 1 to France until it becomes great flood that will sweep down the gates of Pots- dam, if it takes the boys from 16 to 55 and to do that We must put only loyal men there to help President Wilson. Tt ought not to be necessary to plead for loyalty-but. oh! let us today high lly resolve that no matter what we may think. that these heroes who ar, today passing to the grave over there that they will know that they are not making the supreme sacrifice in vain. "Let us on next Wednesday morn ling send the news to Washington from Jones valley that we have gone for Woodrow Wilson,
 l In the beginning of the meeting MT Barnwell gave a beautiful prayer, and touched upon the boys over there, pray ling for their safety and home-coming thanking the Maker for the wonderful
 victories that have been given the allies l so far.