The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-06-10

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not a party victory. but non-partisaI
one. despite the fact that the Republi.
! cans are Swelling out their chests and
taking all the credit" The Demo
cratic party. he said. had strayed from
the fold, but has returned He is glad
that the Democratic party has LED the
| light for prohibition. because 1t has
/ been called the whiskey party.
! The voice Of the wet politician or
the North has been stilled forever. he
said: the hand that guided them-that
| OF John Barleycorn--is still In death
He dispelled what he called the
/ hueahoo Of the returned soldiers VINO
| would geek revenge upon the people
hack home who had betrayed" them
! and voted the country dry while they
were fighting the battles of democracy
overseas Are they going to UNDO
/ what they helped TO do?' he wanted
! to know Before we entered the war
! twenty-eiEht. states had ratified the
| prohibition amendment. and the SOL
| diers took an oath to uphold the con-
/ stitution of the United States"
! Nor did he take amy stock in the
/ threat that labor would refuse 70 work
on and after July I If il was deprived
! Of beer He is not afraid of the la t.
| borer. because he helped pass the pro-
| hi bition laws. If ever there IS a no
! beer. no work parade, II VIII he made
! up of men who cannot vote and whose
| language we cannot understand. is
! the way he dismissed what ne catfed
threat Nc .
"You are mistaken If YOU think we
! are going to have trouble enforcing
! the law" he said, The reason, he said.
! is that the lawlesa element Of the
! country the element which, when one
+ city went dry. moved suto the nearest
/ wet city. tho same pertaining To eoun
l..y, - n -
( rack oned with and officers of the law.
! sworn to do their duty. IAN take care
/ Of the individual vioiator.
Rrev, Is Anarchist.
Fer twenty five years he said. the
anarchist Of thu country has not been
1.-THE man who marched under the red
: lag but the brewer and the disttl}er.
4 We won't have To fight corporations
now" he said. we shall eonane our
! selves to the hootleEger. and there Viii
| he no federation of hootlegEers. be-
! cause there Is no amalgamation of
/ rickporkets and eecoud story men
/ when an officer ~ the law gets On the
/ trail of hoot}eEGer he will ne run
riny so fast he won't have time - stop
! and cooperate with a fellow boot
I logger"
/ The time Is fast approaching. he
said when the individual or news
q
+ Nihition laws viii be placed WITH those
( who defend violation OF other laws
/ when we dug the grave of John Bar
! leyCorn." he said we made Il large
/ enough to accommodate thnse who de-
I fend a discredrted institution
/ Brewers and disttllcrs. he aid. are
/ heating it, for other courtries--for
! China as If onium we're not enough
without mixing beer with 1t, and
! Mexico. as II that soreiv beset coun-
try has not already trouble enough
! The prohibition laws. he said. is just
. as much remedy for the alcohol dis
( ease as were remedies which were
I found for typhus and yellow fever
( which decimated the ranks % the
United states In the spanish American
war ami in building the Panama canal
/ Mr Bryan said. in eGnc tEaiou
although 7 am fsftH-1.1s- YEATS old
! expect not only to see sa}oonless
| America, hut whiskeyIess world"
/ Music for the coca sion was furnished
! nv the Richmond Community chorus
under the direction Of Walter e. Mer-