The Cordova daily times., 1921-08-20
CBy International News Service

cording to William Jennings Bryan, erstwhile secretary of state in tho cabinet of former President Wood. row Wilson.
 Those who have been hoping and praying for universal peace" de. clared Bryan, while here on a tour of the west, have more reason than ever to be hopeful today. President Harding's proposed peace conference, | If successful, will be the greatest gathering in centuries. The peace conference at Paris ended one war. This conference may end all wars"
 When shown headlines in a local newspaper detailing the capture of two large whiskey stills. Bryan de- clared prohibition has come to stay.
 Prohibition is permanent" he de- clared emphatically. Before prohi- bitiou went into effect carloads of liquor were shipped into the cities. hauled by drays to saloons on prominent corners and displayed al luringly on the shelves and in win. dows.
 Now liquor is brought in hand bags at night by bootleggers who sneak through the alleys. That is some change. Where the law is not enforced it is mainly where the enforcing officers are not in sym pathy with the law. An officer who sits down and listens to a debate be- tween his appetite and his oath of office, before starting on a raid, is apt to arrive too late. It's some thing like allowing horsethieves to elect a sheriff.
 Besides those who aren't willing to cut out their own supply, we have those who are crooked; but we have the same problem to deal with | in enforcing all laws. Many automo- piles are stolen. but no one suggests that the law against automobile thefts be repealed"
 The "wets" Bryan declared smil- ingly thought the beer ruling by former Attorney-GeneraI A. Mitchell Palmer was a ray of sunshine.
 "It turned out to be a ray of l 'hoonshine,' he scoffed, "and the shine will soon be taken out of it by an act of congress.
 q don't see how beer can ever come back. If it cannot come back as medicine. how is it going to have chance to come back as a beverage?"
 The wet" parade in New York on July didn't have "one-half of one per cent kick" Bryan said.
 The funeral obseQuies of John Barleycorn are all over," he contin- ued enthusiastically Tt was esti- mated that 3O0.OOO persons would march in the New York booze CO., terie. but 1t turned out that only 14,900 actually marched in the pa rad Nine hundred of those were musicians, paid by sore-head brew cry agents. The funeral services are sure over"
 The corpulent, many-time presi- dential candidate also had a few re marks to make about taxes. The great question Is not so much reduc- tion of taxes, he asserted as the selection of things to be taxed
 The only tax repeal which has been vociferously demanded" stated Bryan, lis the excess profits tax. This should be the last tax repealed. It is a tax collected only on excess profits-that is the tax that ought not be taken from the purchaser. It is the only tax that one can re- peal himself, without seeking the aid or consent of anyone else. If he will stop stealing he will not have to divide with the government"
 The commoner smiled broadly when the Irish situation was men | tioheu' A hc" diHlistlCe udy' "ds his description of the day Irish peace is established It is difficult for anyone not actually affected by the Irish situation, he said. to understand all the difficulties to be overcome. The entire world will rejoice, he stated. if a basis of permanent peace in Ireland Is reached.
 ! Has the Democratic party chance to come back?" he was asked. Tn deed 1t has a very good chance to again gain control of the administra- tion," he asserted emphatically.
 mThe reaction against the Republi-