The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1919-06-19
BRYANEXPECTSSA-
LOONLESS WORLD
BRYAN SPEAKING AT COLUM.
BIA BELIEVES PROHIBITION
WILL WIN OUT

Slightly husky of voice, showing
very perceptibly the heavy drain
which his program of speeches had
made upon his vitality, but at times
delivering his message with his old
time vigor, William Jennings Bryan
addressed two audiences in Columbia
Saturday night on Work Accom-
plished and Tasks Before U.s." The
address being delivered in the inter-
est of the Anti-Saloon League.
/ Alarge audience heard the distin-
guished speaker at the First Baptist
Church. The audience at the First
Presbyterian church, where he de-
livered his second address was not so
large, the lateness Of the hour per-
haps preventing some from attend
ing who had planned to be present.
although l am SO years old, ex-
pect to live to see saloonless ma
ton; and not only a saloonless nation
but saloonless world, he said in
his first address.
After having been introduced by
w. II. Hand he spoke briefly of the
work of the Anti-Saloon League,
saying that it had been largely in
strumental in driving liquor out of
the United States and that it was
now called upon to drive it out of
Europe.
eve are told that when the SOL
diers come back from Europe they
will not permit the country to re-
main dry. They themselves have
helped to make the United States
dry, and will they now try to undo
their work? They have taken an oath
as soldiers to support the constitu-
tionof the United States. Will they
feelto do so as private citizens? he
asked.
eve have been told that labor will
refuse to work without beer. We
must remember that majority rules
in this country; no one class controls
our government; the majority rules,
and while some labor organizations
may object to prohibition, votes
beak in no uncertain voice.
''The brewer of beer and the dis
ller of whiskey have lived and
pught together. Why should they be
eparated in death? Let US put whis-
ey and beer in the same grave.
Heretofore" hesaid, "when a
tate would go try, the liquor inter-
its would simply move to the near
st wet territory. Now the nation is
/, be dry, and the liquor interests
ill have to move three miles out to
"a where the water is over there
eads and where it is wetter than
set.
"The United States will not 60
sackward. Three great forward NOV
Ag factors are assisting US in this
sght. The first is an awakened con-
:ience; the conscience of the nation
as been gradually aroused and it
ill not sleep again. Second, scientif-
investigation shows US that liquor
ywers efficiency; that it cuts short
fe; that it lessons resistance of
isease, that it leads to disease that
end to destroy the race. Science
pes not move backward. Then there
the patriotic motive. We know
rhiskey was bad in peace; we found
to be worse in war. 1t was no
man thing when the congress of the
Snited States made it criminal Of
anse to sell liquor to man'in the
inform of the country"
He praised the. work of the DEM
Gratis in making the country dry
nd paid his compliments to New
York writer's, who have opposed the
movement for national prohibition.
In his conclusion he spoke Of the
mission of the United States in aid
ing other nations to get. rid Of the
drink evil, saying that a remedy had
been found for alcoholism. Total
abstinence saved many, hesaid, but
by enforcing prohibition, the breed
ing place of the germs of the traffic
Dare wiped out.