The Sentinel=record., 1916-12-07

give support to the proposal for uni Yersal military service, a system which is not only useless, the adoption of which could not fail to bread that military spirit which has contributed so largely to the encouragement of war in other lands"
 To inform the voters of questions under consideration at an election MT. Bryan proposed the publication of a government bulletin with space div ided among political parties according to voting strength. He also suggested that newspapers in return for their mailing privileges should be required to give certain space for matter the government desires published.
 "The election has shown us the eIumsiness of our electoral college and the dangers which attend this method of election" he continued. while the party electors all are pledg- ed to support their respective candi- dates the votes vary according to pop ularity or unpopularity of the elector himself. Some plans should he devised by which the voters can vote directly for the president.
 Another reform for which it seems to me we are now ready is a change in the constitution making it more easily ameadable. It is now neces- saTy to have two-thirds of both houses and three-fourth of the states to se- cure an amendment That is an un- fair burden upon the governing ele- ment of the country.
 Equal suffrage is the one question upon which all parties were agreed in the last campaign, their difficulties relating only to the method of secur- ing the reform. While the democrat ic and republican parties failed .o commit themselves to the national amendment, we might as well recog- nize the fact that national amend ment will come when the reform is adopted in a sufficient number of states to make its adoption by the nation probable. The democratic party which builds upon a foundation that is essentially ethical, the doc trile of brotherhood, has more reason for welcoming the cooperation of wo- men in the work that lies before the party and it has especial reason for regarding for woman suffrage with favor at this time since the influence of the women in the close states was sufficient to determine the results.
 I have saved for the last the reform which will involve the fiercest contest and which will when accomplished bring the largest benefit. namely abol- uIon of the saloon.
 The democratic party having won without the aid of the wet cities and having received the support of nearly all the prohibition states and the states in which women vote, it re- leased from any obligation to the !i- quor traffic. It is time to take the moral side of this issue and I have no doubt that it will live up to it's opportunities and obligations.
 "The argument that national prohi- bition is an assault upon the rights of the states has little weight in the states which already have adopted prohibition and it's weight in the na- tion will therefore dimish as the mum Der of prohibition states increases. The democratic party is the party of the people and the home is the peo- ples citadel The fight against the saloon is a fight for the home and for humanity. The democratic party therefore cannot hesitate to choose the home against the greatest enemy that has arisen to menace it."