Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-02-05 | Page 9 | Secretary Bryan for Prohibition

SECRETARY BIN IjflBIIl INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 4. Secretary Bryan, speaking here tonight, declared ' that the Democratic party cannot afford 1 to stand with the brewer and saloonkeeper saloon-keeper against woman's suffrage. His speech was made at a banquet of Democratic Demo-cratic editors. The secretary denounced he liquor traffic and also said that woman's wom-an's suffrage was sure to come. "I want to tell you Democratic editors." said Mr. Bryan, "that the Democratic party cannot afford to stand with brewer and saloonkeeper as against woman's suffrage. suf-frage. A man is known by the company com-pany he keeps, aind I want to tell you now that the man who prefers the saloonkeeper's sa-loonkeeper's company to that of his wife will nof be In the Democratic party lone:. "If we are going to favor woman's suffrage, we might as well go the whole hog and drive the saloon out of politics." Mr. Bryan referred to tne majority vote in congress for a national prohibition amendment to the constitution and expressed ex-pressed the hope that Indiana Democrats will be found leading in the movement. He praised President Wilson's administration. admin-istration. Speaking later at German House, Mr. Bryan supported the position or tbe president presi-dent in permitting the United States to sell supplies to the governments of all warring nations, saying that this country coun-try is only doing what other countries have done in the past and will do again. He said the people should go slow in attacking at-tacking the president. "I thought," he said, "that when we heard of the terrible conflict across the sea we would be grateful that our sons were not aHowed to go foito Mexico. Every Ev-ery American who speaks out in bitterness bitter-ness during this war makes the trying "position of the president all the harder. "There is not a single thing about the nresident's conduct In this terrible conflict con-flict that can be criticised from the merlcan citizen's standpoint. And no criticism in Great Britain or Germany will prevent him from doing exactly what he knows ought to be done in order to act on every question according to our neutrality."