Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-01-30

The liquor interests defied the peo-
| pie. In Texas the liquor interests dc
tho same.
States Rights.
Mr.. Marbury's third proposition is
that a State must not surrender its
rights 70 deal with tIsis question
/ am a firm believer in States rights.
i agree with Daniel Webster that
this is an indissolubie union of in
| destructable States. I am not will
ing, however, to have States rights
buried IN q drunkard's grave The
first State to ratify the amendment
was Mississippi, which give Jeffer-
son Davis to the Confederacy The
next State was Virginia, which gave
Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jack
son to the Confederacy. The third
State was South Carolina. of which
John c. Calhoun was a native.
Mr.. Bryan took occasion to hit at
the brewing subsidized newspapers. .
If any man wants to vote against
ratification of the amendment let him
give him some other argument than
States rights We had all OF this
Constitutional learning in the Webb
Kenyon law.
The President of the United States
vetoed the bill on the written opinion
Of the Attorney General Of the United
States that il was not constitutional.
If mr. Wickersham had come from a
dry State and not from New York,
perhaps there would have been less
suspicion OF interests. The best COM
plianee with the Constitution is to
vote right and let the Supreme Court
decide the constitutionality Of the
case in point
You can undo this amendments to
the Constitution in the same manner
as it viii be adopted, and adopted ii
viii be have no fear OF a repeal
Of the amendment, for the people
will be so gratified with new condi-
tions 10 follow national prohibition
that they viii never permit the sa-
loon to exist again.
Evils OF Alcohol.
Mr. Bryan then took up what he
said was the main question. He said
Mr. Marbury's arguments only
scratched the surface"
Alcohol said Mr. Bryan, "de-
stroys the body and mind and jeop-
ardizes tie soul No man can object
te an outsiders pleas for prohibition
for il is universal question. God
never made normal human that
needed alcohol
God never made a man who. once
beginning the taking of a stimulant,
was sure OF himself Every drunkard
10 went to a disgraceful grave, be-
lieved that he could stop the habit
whenever he 50 willed All a mis-
take II you win read the opinions
Of paid attorneys you viii see that
they only touch on the fringes Of the
subject
You cannct ind 100 finer sDeci-
mems Of humanity than in your Naval
Academy Uncle Sam viii not permit
them to drink II you can convince
) the government to reverse its rule
and permit its enlisted men to drirl1
ia great success viii have been
achieved, a great victory A colored
man told me once that freedom from
the bondage Of drink would do more
for his race than did Abraham Lin
coin. The great Industrial corpora
tions are drawing lines more closely
between the men who drink and
those VINO do not drink I could
never understand the consistency Of
taxing saloon and then arresting
q man for getting drunk The sa-
loon never advertises its finished
product 1t does not advertise the
red nose. Every other factory adyer-
tises its finished product We have
permitted the saloon to take its toll
Of young men. and their wrecks be-
come charges on the community. The
rich brewer viii not sign a petition
for d saloon near his home. He will
permit saloons to exist and thrive
amid the homes of the poor.
"And yet they ask you to defer ac-
tion for two years. Your state would
not permit hog cholera to spread.
Then why put the hog above the
man?n
Mr.. Bryan continued his pleas
against the saloon, advancing argu-
ments, which. he said. are familiar
to all. He traced the spread Of pro-
hibition to the several States.
I'VE have a meatless day, a bread
less day worlzless day" sair Mr.
Bryan we ought to have a beerIess
day. tApplauses1 The breweries use
100000 ions Of coal annually, while
our families sit cold and dreary. We
need 100 per cent man power at this
time. We are engaged in war we
are lighting the greatest military
forces the world has ever known. Ws
viii not permit our soldiers to drink
because we shall not permit them to
be poisoned BY alcohol Our army
officers in France hung a soldier who
had assaulted and murdered a French
girl. This was his punishment Why
did they rot punish the man who sold
the soldier strong drink?
This IS a happy day for me. For
these long years the Democratic party
has been known as the drinking
mems party Not so now. Ycu Re-
publicans in Maryland will have Il
be good to catch up with Us Demo
crats. Shame on you Marylanders il
] you can't do as well as Kentucky
Come in out OF the wet. Come Il
out Of the cold. For the first tim,
in my life I am on the side of tn.