Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-10-29
By L. 7. RUSSELL IN NEWARK LEDGER

GUILTY. of .DIsLOYALTY and QUALIFICATIONS if they do
not use all the power of the state to enforce the Eighteenth Amend
ment as the AntiSaloon League interprets it, providing that any
beverage containing more than onehalf of one per cent. Of alcohol
is Intoxicating, in spite of the fact that it is not intoxicating.
If that dictum from Bugbee and the Anti-Saloon League is
true, then New Jersey is ALREADY DISLOYAL and New Jersey
is already NULLIFICATIONIST
For New Jersey has on its statute books today, and has had
for a generation, scores of laws affecting mems habits and mems
morals and the Sabbath day dissertations and amusements and
sports, and excise laws, all of which have been D uniformly and
SENT.
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there is a committee of distinguished Jerseymen, including lawyers
n nnd judges u tssr. of of high sdlo 5fPdte hi RFeP faHS 6 a lsgsla t5oss program Tags : to n RE-
f0rm It defed and violated aztec every day in the year; nnonu
HAVE NEVER BEEN ENFORCED.
There has never been even a pretense at enforcing those laws
either by Democratic administrative authorities or Republican adj
mnstrative authorities.
The Sunday laws and the whole scheme of Blue Laws are
habtually violated, and have been since they were written into the
aaoD E1 ten if san MI. n Edwards taxs wsrf +h eet PR6Hf asf7aFjsg t that h THS5&
that has heretofore been uniformly adopted toward the EXCISE
LAWS and the BLUE LAWS of this state, he would be doing moth
from the judiciary down to the police, have always Ignored extreme
them himself or Finn impeach "a and dismiss n all IL his al app SipteeHS who failed
to make it their sole duties to run down excise violators.
BUT NIB. EDWARDS TELLS YOU NO SUCH THING.
Mr.. Edwards does not tell you that he will violate the
Eighteenth Amendment or any prohibition law.
Amen %hat M MAK hSyi Nd r fsS7 ts5a zs1 rb is tRt EXCEPT 5as Hi il seas4ai
3sfe5hE'R md a1 RHIsy IS 81 1 5f qq eoSGU # R5ShFRiti0 and and Ho s6st t9f
in the hands of the Federal and STATE Authorities as to the en-
forcement policy.
Mr.. Edwards tells you that with this SPECIFIC RESERVA-
TlON OF STATE RIGHTS in the Amendment, he, as the chief ex-
ecuhve of this state, will exercise those RESERVED RIGHTS I'M
der the Amendment in the interest of the people of New Jersey, and
sfrI ne will If 40 fh all things RFsE Mlthn his R1 1ega7 power to prevent the de,
Amendment, and that he will do all things within his power to pre-
vent the Antisaloon League debating laws to the New Jersey Leg
laature that will do what the Eighteenth Amendment has not pre-
tended to do-to declare that a beverage containing one-half Of one
per cent. OF alcohol is Intoxicating in spite OF the fact that it is not
MIR. Edwards declares that he will resist to the utmost the Anti
Saloon League dictatorship taking possession of the government of
New Jersey during his mcumbency in office, and that he will veto
any. leglSatve measure that is dictated by Shields and wilson
against the liberties of the people of New Jersey.
but MI Edwards doesn't declare that prohibition is the ONLY
ISSUE IN THIS STATE.
MI. Edwards says that state expenditures, state highways, troll
ley fares, gas and electric charges and the Public Service Corpora
ton and the Political Utilities Commission, are the issues and the
problems that he will solve in the interest of the common people if
he is made Governor of New Jersey.
1t ought to be easy for any Jersey voter to decide quickly be-
tween the demagoglsm and charlatanism of Bugbee and the Anti
Saoon League O. the one hand and the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
G zen OCT yII under the Eighteenth Amendment RESERVATION OF
STATE RIGHTS and STATE POWERS on the Other.