East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-08-08
W ]. BRYAN SUPPORTS
HARDING'S PACIFIC
CONFERENCE PLAN
Commoner Sounds Democratic
Toscain for 1924 Election;
Halls Coming Irish Peace.

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ST LOUIS Mo-. Aug. S.-(By Kent
Watson ]. NJ S. Staff cesrespondent)
The world should look hopefully
forward TO president Harding's pro-
posed disarmament conference, ac-
cording TO William Jennings Bryan,
erstwhile secretary Of state in the cab
linet of former President Woodrow
Wilson,
Those who have been hoping and
lpraying for universal peace" declar-
ed Bryan, while here on d tour of the
west, have more reason than ever to
be hopeful today. President Hard
lings proposed peace conference, if
successful, will be the greatest gather
ling in centuries. The peace confer
ence at Paris ended one war. This
conference may end all wars"
Attacks Booze Law Enforcers.
When shown headlines in 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-
bidon went into effect carloads Of H.
quor were shipped into the cities,
hauled byi drays to saloons on promi-
nent corners and displayed alluIingly
on the shelves and in windows.
Now liquor is brought in handbags
at night by bootleggers who sneak
through the alleys. That Is some
change. Where the law is not enforc-
ed it is mainly where the enforcing
officers are not in sympathy with the
law An officer who sits down and
listens to Il debate between his appe-
tite and his oath OF office, before
starting on a raid, is apt TO arrive too
, late. It's something like allowing
hursethieves to elect 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 en-
forcing all laws. Many automobiles
are stolen. but no one suggests that
the law against automobile thefts be
repealed"
The VETS" Bryan declared smil-
J.. mgly, through the beer ruling by
q former Attorney General A. Mitchell
f. Palmer was u ray of sunshine.
r "lt turned out to be a ray of moon
y shine" he scoffed, and the shine
n win soon be taken out OF 1t by an act
= Of congress.
q Il don't see how beer can ever come
back II it cannot come back as a
- medicine, how is it going to have
= chance to come back as beverageY'
The wet" parade in New York on
July 4 didn't have "one-half of one
per cent kick" Bryan said.
"The funeral obsequies of John Bar
Ileycorn are all over" he continued
enthusiastically ut was estimated
that S0O.0OO persons would march~in
1.-THE New York booze coterie, but 1t
| turned out that only $4,000 actually
marched in the parade. Nine hundred
Of those were musicians paid by sore
head brewery agents The funeral
services are sure over"
Supports Excess Profits Tax.
7 The corpuent many-times presi
dental candidate also had few re-
/, marks TO make about taxes. The
! great question is not so much reduc-
tion of taxes. he asserted, as the &C.
8 ilectlon OF things to be taxed
"Fhe only tax repeal which has
81 been veciferously demanded" stated
, Bryan, us the excess profits tax. This
+, should be the last tax repealed. II is
, Il tax collected only on excess profits
that is the tax that ought not to be
r taken from the purchaser. II is the
"a only tax that one can repeal himself,
= without seeking the aid or consent Of
anyone else II he will stop stealing
he will not have to divide with the
government"
The Commoner smiled broadly
when / mentioned the Irish situation.
"a new arrnistice day" was his de-
scriptioh of the day Irish peace is
established. ii is difficult for anyone
not actually affected by the Irish stu
alton, he said, to understand all the
difficulties to be overcome. The en-