Bryan’s Stand for Temperance
At a state function on September 22, Mr. Bryan was toasting some French commissioners. Supposing that unfermented wine had been given him, he raised the glass toward his lips, when he discovered that it contained the usual fermented champagne. He lowered his glass, and the French envoys did likewise. They made no comment, and Mr. Bryan shortly left the dinner table. Some of the papers are making a great deal of sport of our secretary of state because he has backbone enough to stand in the face of the whole world as an advocate of temperance. So far as Mr. Bryan's policies of state are concerned, they are not in the purview of the discussions of this paper; but his stand upon the question of temperance is one of the best examples the young men of this nation, and for that matter of the world, have ever had. Such manliness can well afford to brave the cowardly sneers of those who are making light of it.