Evening star., 1921-09-25
BRYAN'S HOPE HIGH.
FOR ARMS PARLEY
Will Be Here During Confer
ence to Discuss
Situation. =

William Jennings Bryan hopes
rather than expects" that great
things will come out of the confer
ence for Limitation Of ornaments. He
is much more positive that next
year will be a great year for the
democratic party" He is amazed"
that any one should regard war
rant as necessary for searching an
automobile In enforcement Of pro-
hibition. and says that the net re-
suit would be ''barrooms on wheels"
Mr.. Bryan. former premier OF the
cabinet, came into Washington yes
terday, had conferences with several
friends, called for friendly visit 1T
the White Houses and left for his
home in Florida in the afternoon.
Mr.. Bryan is taking a great interest
in the armament conference, and Will
be in Washington during the entire
cuss the situation day by day as IT
develops Asked for his present
opinion, he said
II am deeply Interested in the re.
suit and am hoping for great things.
When it was suggested that he used
he explained that Hope is based
upon DESIRE. while expectation Is
based upon information. ] have a
larger fund of desire than OF informa.
tion on the subject Of disarmament,
he commented.
Sees New Democratic Victories.
Pressed for the reasons on which he
bases his conviction that next year is
going to be a great one for the demo-
cratic party Mr.. Bryan cited fve spe-
cific reasons for optimism regarding
daYnn(ra 11ccpSS follows:
"First-The revenue bill, which re-
lieves less than 5000 men OF big In
comes and makes the burden relatively
| larger on all the rest Of the people. 1t
the benefit of few thousand corpora :
tions and relatively adds to the taxes OF
the rest of the people. This Is going to
please a few and displease a very large
number.
fall of nearly one half in the price OF
their products. while they still have to
buy at high prices. There Is a revolt
among the farmers.
"Third-Wages are falling and the
/ wage earnerS will not be IN happy
frame of mind next year.
"Fourth-The former service men are
not pleased with the treatment the,
have received.
''Fifth-The small merchant will be
taking his losses by next year and tha'
i
| when you add all together those
that will have complaint to make o.
conditions will present a formidable
array at the polls"
| Watching Beer Bill Debate.
Mr., Bryan does not believe that the
right to decide questions of constftu'
tionality Of law should be taken from
"wet' group in Congress. When 1t was
suggested that he was probably watch
ing with considerable interest the de-
bate on the anti-beer bill he said:
| Yes, and 1 am amazed thar any
one should regard a warrant al al
automobile. Those who want to pre-.
vent enforcement ought to do II
| directly. To prevent the searching OF
an automobile is simply to nullify
| the law by indirection. If an auto
mobile cannot be searched without
| on wheels. They can carry on theii
| business until the officer arrives and
then leave the county while he Is
getting out warrant.
Tested Every Clause.
1 "The argument that 1t is q violation
q. article of the. Constitution re-
! calls the fact that the vets have
| tested about every clause of the
| Constitution in the Supreme Court
Every liquor law held constitutional
! BY the Supreme Court has been op-
posed in the Senate and House by
| the vets as unconstitutional.
Those who desire law can anord
to vote for it and leave the Supreme
Court to decide upon it's constitu-
tionality. If the vets can defeat
| law in Congress on the ground that
! it is unconstitutional there is no way
to determine whether they were
right or not. because the constitu-
tionality can only be determined by
| the decision of the court"