The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-12-20
Hit Hard BY W. j. Bryan
In Four Hours Talk
Recently.
CAPITAL, LABOR AND VOTES
Necessary to Make Saloons Pos.
sibIe-Better License
highwaymen
THAN OPEN DOORS OF SALOONS

st. Louis, Mo-, Dec. 13.-There
was just one person in st. Louis yes
terday, so far as the federal council
of the Churches of Christ in Ameri-
ca was William Jen-
nings Bryan.
There was just one subject which
stirred the crowds which heard him
prohibition of the liquor traffic.
Mr.. Bryan consumed four hours
in talking. One hour and fifty min
utes was spent in the address in the
Second Baptist church, the rest of
the time in the tabernacle and in the
st. Johns Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, the latter an over
flow church.
For an hour and i half the crowd
stood at the doors waiting to get in,
and hundreds were turned away.
Hits st. Louis Brewers.
Mr.. Bryan followed the line of ar
gument he used in Chicago in his
i-recent visit, bat ws4seA this. ~differ-
ence,, :. ire. singled Gu. for -<leHgRcis-
ton the st. Louis brewers. and" tm c
bankers who supported the brewers
in the last campaign in opposing
prohibition, which carried outside of
the city by $4,000, only to be de-
feated by the st. Louis vote.
1t is a matter of common knowl-
edge that many Of the st. Louis
bankers Joined with the brewers and
with some of the business men in
officially indorsing resolutions in OPP
position to prohibition. Mr.. Bryan
used this knowledge in chastising
them and in defying their influence
for the future.
Uncle Sam Knows Better.
IF the bankers of st. Louis think
that alcohol is good for a boy" Ire
said. "why don't they try to get
Uncle Sam to feed it to the boys
who are in training in our naval
school for the United States navy?
Uncle Sam knows better than to do
this"
'In Austin, Texas, an old man
eighty years of age. who had always
stood for liquor, declared he was
now for prohibition. When asked
why. he said, Drink has robbed me
of all my boys
81 pray God that your bankers
and business men who opposed pro-
hibition in st. Louis may be spared
the results they have earned. If
saloons are good for a town or city
| why not advertise the fact among
your assets? Yet venture to say
your business men or bankers in ad-
vertising st. Louis would not name
the number OF saloons here as one
OF the attractions of this city"
Bryan Lays On lash.
But Mr.. Bryan laid on the lash
with still greater vigor.
"The brewers know how evil ,ae
saloon is as we'll as you do" he
said, yet the brewers held the OK
whip over your bankers. These
brewers dare not live where the sa-
looms which they own are located.
You haven't money enough to get
them to allow the saloons to be OPP
ened in the same block in which they
have their fine residences.
They plant their saloons among
the poor. They are murderers. God
never let any man get big enough to
defy his laws. II takes capital. IL
quor and votes to make the saloons
possible In any community.
There are a few professed anar-
chists who march under the red flag
and speak from the curbstones, but
the real anarchists are the liquor in
terests which say they will defy the
law and sell liquor anyway no mat
ter what the law says: These inter-
ests tell you that you don't dare
close the saloons.
Better License Burglars.
"You had better license highway
men and burglars than the saloon.
The highwaymen and the burglars
would be willing to pay you a good
per cent and would only take up
what is loose. but the saloon is so
much worse there is not a woman
whose virtue II will not sell nor a
man whose valor il will not under
mine.
Mr.. Bryan then promised st.
Louis. as he promised Chicago, to
come again at his own expense and
help them fight for dry st. Louis.
81 can't talk longer now, but
when the brewers try TO bulldoze
your people and business men again
| will come back and finish my ad-
dress"