East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-07-12
BRYAN STRONGLY
ENDORSES LEAGUE

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: that we would have 1t at once, But
4 just 2l years after II had passed the
house six times, it passed the senate
for the first time. When II once pas
n sed the senate, the states ratified 1t in
e a very short time and today you can
safely say that nine tenths of all the
voters will vote never to return TO the
4 old system of electing the senators un-
, .ler the old PLAN, But IL took more
} than two decades to secure this re-
form and during that time there was
never a speech made against it that
deserved to be reported or quoted and
no convention ever declared against
it. However. 1t took that long to get
1t through.
Income Tax Law.
In 1894 we passed bill and made
it O law providing for an income tax
The supreme Court held it unconsti-
tutional and did so by divided vote
of to and the one man whose vote
decided changed his position on the
subject between two hearings of the
case. i don't know who that man was
and think his descendent will never
let 1t be known who he was. Seven
teen years after that we secured an
amendment to the constitution autho-
rizing an income tax and that amend
ment was secured just in time to en-
able our country to collect an income
tax without which it would have been
difficult TO raise the money for the
war.
meption these things to show you
IN col IN
| My fatehr taught me 1 could af-
ford to be in the minority but not in
the wrong of any question. He said if
1 was in the minority and right
would some day be in the majority
but il / were IN the majority, AMI
wrong. l would some day be in tho
minority. He taught me to believe in
the omniuotence of truth.
He taught me to believe also that It
was the Guty of a citizen to try to find
out what was right and finding it out
stand there without stopping and
counting to see how many stood with
me believe that more today than ]
ever did before.
Among the reforms which have
finally won out is woman's suffrage.
/ will not argue 1t as the time for argu-
ment is past, Suffrage is almost here
and 1 predict that in a year we will
have seen this ratified by the SO states
necessary.
Ihave seen women standing by the
side Of men, sharing their responsible
lities in the government. as she has al
WAYS DONE even when she had no voice
in the making Of the law by which she
must abide.
women's conscience. Joined to mans
x,.:,. \. IN, -r;.r rl,t
eous cause and if women's consciencs
had been listened to, instead of mans
Judgment, the saloon would have been
tanished from the United States long
before it was.
Men kept saloons in towns, counties
and cities or The theory that it wouti
hart business if saloons were driven
out Thev were able tc create senti-
.nent that their towns had to be puri-
ficn of later on.
Now women did not consider whe-
ther the town would be benefited or
not by a saloo. She believed 1t would
destroy the home and the home was
more TO the woman than was the city.
Democratic Symptoms.
remember from the time / was
roy, people told me my party was the
"whiskey party" and even before
| can remember they were saying 1t. Be-
fore the war they told a story of Lin
coin and Douglas AS they were going
along the street of Springfield one lay
and saw a drunken man and Lincoln
said to Douglas, There goes one Of
| your Democrats"
| Douglas. who knew the man said,
"No, he is a Republican. They decid-
ed to leave it to the man and Lincoln
4 . ho nd q
| to his politics and told him how the
matter came about, and the man re-
Piled that Douglas was right. Il am
Republican but | Eave democratic
symptoms"
| / have had Republicans tell me to
my face that my party was the whis-
ky party and it has made me mad for
two reasons. First, that any Repub-
| lican would be mean enough to say
| such a thing to man like me and
second, because could not deny it.
| AS for the soldier proposition, when
/ see that these soldiers have shown
themselves to be the greatest fighting
machines the world ever saw and that
they fought with all the strength that
was in them, and surprised the world.
| in being able TO go into the fighting
with tile or no training. and tine
reason for their being such effective
fighters was because sIchol was entir-
| el, separated from them. and we
found that when we kept the alchohol
way we could reduce to a degree
what was called the preventable disea-
ses.
Most of us believed that to make
soldier required long period of train
ling but we had soldiers on the battle
field in less than four months from
the time they put on the uniform and
we showed that under our process OF
training and surroundings and in en-
viornment that we could put them in
physical condition and wit them to be
the best soldiers on earth in that per-
iod of time.
Now when their work is done over
there and they are back, the first duty |
of the nation is to see that every SOL |
dier has a chance to resume the work
he lett to put on a uniform. IL any OF
them have suffered. so that they can
not work, 1t is only fair and proper
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