The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-23
BRYAN PREDICTS AMENDMENT WILL WIN IN NATION AND
 MAKE AMERICA DRY
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reiterated the results in the various
 states that have adopted the amend ment
 "This amendment was vetoed by
 President of the United States who acted upon the advice of an attorney
 general from the state of New York
 and in order to protect the states
 right they took it to the supreme court
 and hung around the door until the
 supreme court came out and kicked
 them down the stairs and told them
 a saloon had no rights in the consti-
 tuition of the United States"
 Mir. Bryan predicted New Jersey
 would vote liquor out of the state ands
 it would also not surprise him if they
 at the same time, adopted the amend
 ment.
 MT. Bryan recalled his fight in Me-
 braska for prohibition, citing his first
 speech in Omaha, when he spoke to his coat and hat in hall he hired him. self.
 Your people are not so narrow that they will close their doors to people iron, out of the state to argue the case, he said, land they are not so ignorant
 that they will hide behind the states rights question
 "Alcohol is a poison. When it is taken into the body it weakens the mental
 man, the physical man, the moral man. And if that is so. they have no argu- ment left. We have beaten them in the beginning. God never made a normal brain that needed an alcoholic stimu- lant.
 God never made a man who was strong enough to commence the drink ing of alcohol with any certainty of not falling a victim to 1t. Even the brain of wet does not need the stinulant of alcohol, and l
 can prove it by his wife and children. "No human being has moral right to take that into his body which will impair and destroy his efficiency and his disposition for service How can he l justify spending money for intoxicants vixen there are so many causes he can devote such funds to.
 "How can Christian go down on his | knees and pray to his heavenly Father and then spend money for these things? ] "We will have enough to answer fir ! when we stand before the Judgment bar Of God without having some ruined soul rise up and say it had been led astray ] by our example,"
 STORY OF DANIEL l Mr. Bryan told the story of Daniel and the overseer; how Daniel and his companions drank water while other young men drank wine. At the end of
 the time of the test I only wish we could have had motion pictures. If we had 8 picture of that companion now wo could have broken up that meeting at Montgomery tonight.
 "Every time the license on saloon is fixed they make him pay in ad-
 vance and they tell him when he can open and when he must close. l Licensing saloon to sell liquor and I then fining the man who gets drunk l is like licensing a man to spread the itch all over town and then fine them
 for scratching. Why don't the saloon put 1 their finished product in front of the
 saloon? No they want the police to come and get him and lock him up
 until he gets sober and comes back to i be refinished.
 You have not county in the state
 tLat will allow man to spread cholera among hogs-to disease them Now, all
 we ask Is that you bring man to a hog level. Just give them the same chance.
 That personal liberty contention soon I is changed when a man is run down