The Penn's Grove record., 1919-01-24
Bryan Spoke Last Sunday

Bryan Spoke Last Sunday
William Jennings Bryan spoke in the
Queen Theatre, Wilmington, last Sun
day afternoon under the auspices of
the Anti-Saloon League. Half an hour
before the meeting began the auditor
ium was filled and 1000 who desired
did not get in to hear him.
Mr.. Bryan surprised the audience
by stating that while the Federal bone
dry amendment was now lover the
top" the Anti-Saloon League is to
continue after the saloons are closed
with the idea of conducting a cam
paign of education, teaching the peo-
pie the need of total abstinence.
He believed the success of prohibi-
ton in this country would lead eventu-
ally to the entire Anglo-SaXon race
blotting out liquor in all its FORMS.
His own hope now, is that America
may blaze the way for all the nations
of the world to adopt measures and
legislation that will make the world
"bone dry" He reverted to this goal
nan times throughout his address
and his audience could see how hope
full he is for such a solution of pres
ent-day conditions.
In referring to the liquor traffic, Mr..
Bryan paid his compliments to both
the Democratic and Republican parties
for their aid in passing the necessary
legislation at Washington. While 1t
was done through a Senate and House
that we're both Democratic and signed
by a Democratic President, yet he dip
lomatically gave the G. o. P. members
credit for cooperation.
Mr.. Bryan produced a number of
arguments why a business man n a
Christian should not fail to be lined
up with the Anti-Saloon League now.
Years ago, he said, it was respectable
for a man to align himself with the
liquor interests. Twenty-six years
ago, he said he sat a table with a
clergyman who drank, while he who
has always been an abstainer turned
his glass down.
Began Fight In Nebraska
Mr.. Bryan referred to the fight he
began nine years ago to make Ne
braska dry. How friends who had al
ways stood staunchly with him in his
three campaigns for President, desert
ed him. The first meeting he held, he
rented the hall himself and was his
own presiding officer. But the effort
started by him, resulted in the State
being the one to put the amendment
cover the top" last week.
Mr.. Bryan told few stories. His
address was not of the usual campaign
variety, but rather one of pleasure
and happiness and congratulation that
the forces for prohibition had accom-
plished what they had.
In closing he appealed for the CO.
operation of the audience to start at
once it's efforts to educate the public
to the need for total abstinence and
world wide prohibition.
In the evening he spoke in st.
PauPs NJ. E. Church and in the Sec
ond Baptist Church.
Speaking in st. Paul's Church, MI.
Bryan said:
81 am a Democrat, and therefore, l
hope the Democratic Congress before
the first of March will vote in favor
of Women's Suffrage, and if they fail
to do the right thing l hope the Re-
publicans will give to the women the
right of franchise"
Mr.. Bryan declared it as his belief,
that the giving of the franchise to the
women would long since have solved
the temperance cause. women vote
from a sense of right, men from poll
teal motives" which he followed by
a declaration of his belief that the
women were entitled to the ballot, and
that as he was a Democrat, he natur-
ally preferred that his party should
see the wisdom of comforting the bal
lot on the women.
Mr.. Bryan briefly spoke of the fight
made by the liquor interests of the
country, to prevent the ratification of
the "bone dry" law, but declared that
the liquor men were unable to buy a
single legislature, W though they
had raised the sum of one million dol
dars for that purpose.
"But there are other questions be-
sides that of temperance" said Nh.
Bryan. "That of religion is equally
as important, and without it the
others count for very little. | shall
take for my subject, "Thou shalt have
no other Gods before me-" and speak
of some of the powers given mankind,
by a belief in the power of God to
cleanse from sin and keep a man from
that which had cursed the world-the
rum traffic"