Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-01-26
Byran Opens For Drys
in Wisconsin.

The following report of the Mil
waukee Journal on the speech
made by VIM. j. Byran, at Mad
ison, Monday night, we reprint
for the benefit of such readers as
may not have access to daily
papers, and to whom both the
prominence of the speaker and
his subject may be a matter of.
interest.
Madison, is.4Wisconsin drys op-
ened their referendum campaign
Monday night when W. J. Bryan
spoke for two hours to 5000 people in
the stock pavilion, and ended with
an address before an overflow meet
ing at agricultural hall. Big delega-
tions came from outside the city.
ToWnspeOple took great interest.
and university students attended in
great numbers. A huge crowd was
turned away
Mr.. Bryan mingled argument, an
ecdote, and politics in his speech.
Dr.. r. A. Minahan, of Green Bay, in
PRODUCED him Members of the leg
islature, and leaders in the dry move
ment occupied places on the platform
Mr. Bryan explained his reason, as
a Democrat, tor taking part in the
prohibition campaign He said the
Democratic party is not a booze party
He cited the eXpanse Of dry Demo
cratic territory and states to prove IL
and declared that the Democrats
have more dry area than the RepuD-
licanS
"A Democratic senate has passed
the bill for dry national capitol,
he said, ''and a Democratic house
will pass it. The president who will
sign the bill is a Democrat. The
white flag of prohibition will float for
the first time over the capitol, when
both branches of congress, and the
president, are Democratic.
/ love the Democratic party, he
continued. No Republican can love
his party Taore than / love mine. No
man could owe his party more than |
owe mine The, Democratic party
took me up when / was young man.
What l am it made me. / would be
beneath contempt if did not try to
save it from error on this question.
The saloon is an outlaw On the
moral issue it is doomed. | cannot
afford, as a Democrat, to see my par
lty chained to a corpse, or bound in a
uIunkarG' s grave with criminal.
| want to appeal to every Democrat
Ito help make the Democratic party
dry. want to appeal to every Re
publican to help make the Republi-
can party dry.
You have good many Germans in
| this state, and / want to say word
L Ia hO Off no nj NJ
| the German brewer, who is trying to
hide behind the German nationality,
Mr.. Bryan said. ] met a German who
| lives in New York, who said many of
them are growing tired of being used
for this purpose, and he said that
when the German-American alliance
met, it was going to say so. The Ger
man-American alliance did meet, and
it announced when the German brew
ers went before the Legislature, they
must thenceforth go as brewers, and
not as Germans or representatives OF
the alliance. This man told me that a
group of Germans hal tried to raise
funds TO found paper in an eastern
city to present the German point Of
view They had TO have $500, 900, and
| as only $30O,O 900 was raised. the money
was paid back But they found that
the brewers would only subscribe
ST 900 for any German undertaking
that was apart from the brewery bus
mess. I am glad that the German
people have got to the point where
they will kick out the German brewer
andNno longer permit him to use their
name in that disgraceful way.
WiscOnsin's wet reputation, Mr..
| BRYAN said, need daunU no one. b our
pom county, Kentucky, that gave the
name to Whiskey, is now dry. If you
want to keep pace with the good peo-
Iple of Bourbon county, redeem your
state from disgrace by voting MflWan-
kee dry.
Mr.. Bryan told how New England,
once interested in the slave trade to
such an extent as to prevent the adolf
| ton of slavery afterwards took the
| lead in ending slavery; how the north
once carried on war to emancipate the
south from slavery, and he added thar
| the south is now carrying on contest
| to emancipate the north from the evil
of liquor t ratio.
He urged Madison people to make
their city dry, saying that the same
arguments he had once made against
/ license in Lincoln, Neb., where state
! university is located, are applicable
| here A city ia which the state main
| tainS a university profits in material
and intellectual way through this
u Undertaking of the state and it ought
| to be ashamed to sell to The saloon
| keepers the privilege OF placing temp
tatSon before the youn gDlen who come
here during the critical period OF
student life. ] wish to mention this,
in connection with your election here
next spring.
MI Bryan launched into an argu-
| ment in which he sought TO prove the
uselessness and absurdity of the whole
\ liquor traffic. He said that Daniel and
his companions, when they refused to
drink the kings wine, had demon
strated long ago the futility of claims
that alcohol confers any benefit, and
that from that day to this the test
has been going on and alcohol has
never yet won a single point. In the
industrial field use of liquor is barred
more and more. Not even brewers
| w oI1ld honor a recommendation for