The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1921-04-28
BEER, WINE BACK,
AIM Of AMERICAN
Pc 0PLE S LEAGUE
Wilson, Pershing and Edison
Regret They Can't Attend
Meeting at Which Miss Mar.
bury Raps Reformers.

New York. April 26.-What prom
ssed to be the mildest Of manifesto
lions In favor Of personal liberty was
galvanized into life here Monday
night by Elizabeth Marbury, famous
woman politician and author, and
ended in uproarous endorsement of a
movement to organize an American
peoples league to bet the blue laws
and bring back beer and wine.
The male element was In charge
when the speaking began, after ban
quet in the Commodore at which
protest against the Lords day alli-
ance, the reform bureau and the anti
tobacco campaign Of the w. CT, &.
Conservatism at First.
An atmosphere of apparently pre-
arranged conservatism reigned. Aft
er imbibing soda water and non -alco-
holic champagne and singing such
rousing songs as "Suwanee River"
and MY Old Kentucky Home" the
personal liberty lovers heard from
former City Comptroller Metz, as
POSTMASTER.
He explained carefully that he
neither drank nor smoked, and that
he went regularly to church on Sun
day with his wife, but that he thought
1t was wrong to tell other people not
to drink and smoke If they wanted
to.
Not rude whisky, he hastily explain
ed, but light wines and beers. He
though it was a fine thing that pro-
hibition had come to stay so far as
saloons were concerned. All he
wanted was a light wine and beer
amendment.
The next speaker Judge Reuben l..
Haskell, Of Brooklyn, went little
further, but not much further.
Here's Miss Marbury's Speech.
In the midst of this gentle advocacy
of diluted personal liberty, arose Miss
Marbury in her might and indigna-
ton.
why mince words" cried she. "a
lot of milk feds have robbed us of
liberty. Take devastated Europe,
devastated France want to tell you
that If we let them go on America
will be worse devastated than Europe
for no self respecting human being
will want to stay here.
They began this business when we
went into war. Was there anything
the matter Of our 100000 men who
went over there? Those men had not
been interfered with by the semi
official conference. They took q
drinll--of anything-when they want
ed it,
I'm proud of our men as they were
then. I'm satisfied with them as they
were, and as they have been making
history for us ever since the reyolu-
ton.
Now comes these reformers and
tell US that our men have been all
wrong.
"U. S. Stands as joke"
For Gods sake don't lets allow
them to put over their antediluvian
prejudices. Let's talk less and do
more. They say the women are with
their movement. They try hard to
pass the buck to us. Some women
have more sense. And for my part I
won't talk it.
LAS the result of the activities of
these reformers America stands to-
day joke in the eyes Of the world.
We must not let them put these new
things over on u.s."
Miss Marbury's remarks were
greeted with shouts Of applause.
From that moment the meeting
took on new life. Gov. Edward I. Ed
wards, of New Jersey, and a number
of other speakers aroused the meeting
to further enthusiasm and resolutions
Were unanimously passed committing
those present to the policy of mo-
bilizing the people into an "Ameri-
can peoples league" whose slogan
should he perSOOal 1ihort,r
Gompers, Wadsworth Endorse II.
A telegram was read from Samuel
Campers endorsing the object of the
meeting and regretting his absence.
Similar messages were read from
United States Senators Wadsworth,
Shortbridge and Frelinghuysen and
from David Belasco.
Noncommittal regrets were sent by
Woodrow Wilson, Thomas A. Edison.
General Pershing and others.