Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-05-10
CRIIICI1fS BRYAN
and ANII-SALOON
LEAGUE FORCES
Speakers at Liquor Dealers
Convention Declare Agi
tators Un-American.

JdUOIS Ou-AIllCl lColA.
Louisville, KY, May Eight hun
bred distillers, wine pressers, whole
sale liquor dealers and representa-
tives of allied trades from through
out the country are in Louisville to-
day for the twenty-first annual con-
vention of the National Wholesale .
Dealers association of America. |
campaign will be launched at the
meeting, it is stated, against the in i,
temperate use of liquor by the ex-
ceptional drunkard, described in the
call for the meeting as the heaviest
liability" of that body and the big
gest factor in creating an unjust and
unwarranted sentiment in mistaking
the abuse of natural stimulants forl
that proper and moderate use which
has existed since the earliest times.
Louisville, Ky, May 9.-The Anti
Saloon league was attacked and
Former Secretary of State Bryan was
criticized today by Samuel Woolner'
of Peoria, H., president of the Ma
tional Association of Wholesale
Liuor Dealers of America in an ad-
ton of the association NJ. Woolner
said the attacks made on the liquor
trade by the Anti-Saloon league were
| unwarranted and he put forth tho
intimation that MI. Bryan's attitude
toward public questions was animal
ed more by self-interest than by phil
anthropy Or patriotism. His address
was in part as follows:
i ~T II O
is so detrimental, how does Mr.. Bryan
tons in the world? Turkey and
China are abstemious. while the most
progressive nations, those Of Westes n
Europe and America, are all users
of alcohol
i 81 have cited Mr.. Bryan in order to
show how necessary it is for us to
arouse the citizen from his lethargy
We must bring him out of the trance
; in which he seems to have been hyp-
Noticed by the writer's and orators o.
the Anti-saloon league and Bryan
type into an utter paralysis of his
common sense
Levi Cooke. general counsel for as
ISOLATION, in addressing the annua
, convention on "Organic Law ant
Public Policy especially aus ii! i:
related to the liquor traffic. He sait
in part:
"Self-governing people have on
, primary, vital need-popular know
ledge of the system of government
under which they govern themselves
Questions of policy should be ap
d preached by the people in the full
f light of this knowledge. coupled wit
: i the sterling purpose to preserve an
$ foster their scheme of government a
the most valued possession commo
n to all citizens.
d '"Nhe nationwide prohibitionist
:, who still are with us are now com
j. POSED of two classes. first the pre-
d Ifessional agitators who two years ag
It arrogantly hoped and fondly believe
s. that they had SO confused the publ
y mind that congress would report
e constitutional amendment for natlons
d prohibition and secondly minority
persons who either remain
E abysmal ignorance regarding tn
r government under which they llv
IF or on account OF fanatical feeling c
the prohibition question are willln
to advocate nationwide prohibition
the hazard of the whole system III
HI make up of this minority is no
= understood by the majority for e.
actly what it is. and it's activities dl
ne counted on that basis.
as 1.-The prohibition movement has d
Ke stroyed local self-government in ;
lc- important field in number of stat
TO- of the union; but the dangers OF Il
OF body polite have become manifest
those staes. This trade has bent
effort to preaching the sound dc
trine of home rule, and great scht
lerI ars of government, such as the pre-
w. dent of the United States. 3rV A
he sociate> Justice Hughes of the SUPPER
of court, on this and other occasions
wnl thought on the question, have SCUM
ed the warning cry. Justice Hugh
before the New York State Bar
= ISOLATION, said:
~ But one element remains in Il
! fundamental aspect of the liqr
xlnuesticm. That is the light in II
+ republic such as the United Stat
Z lof the individual to possess and I
4lliuuors. In several states which M
4Iapparently done all in their power
Ilcurtail this right. short OF penal
Hing the taking of drink. the cou
Ilhave recently safeguarded the rig
I Icf the citizen.
+ "The fact that these decisions nj
3Ibeeu endorsed by the public opini
and the further fact that the prom
4ltionists have refrained from urg
TIlaws to prohibit the citizen IF
+ actually using liquors suggest t
Tlthe actual liberty of the indivld
x|has been beyond the reach OF TINS
+Itire un-American propaganda
PERSONAL.