Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-09-30
ImpxOR EDWARDS AND SAMUEL
We SON BOTH LIVE IN JER-
SFY CITY, BUT THEIR
VIEWS DIFFER

~sihition is a fiat failure" says
r~or Edwards, in a press state
- which the Anti-Saloon League
pIs through Samuel Wilson, as
state superintendent. "Our
g. governor is fully qualified as an
20 sneak about failures, but in
atotement he betrays his usual
IGNORANCE on the subject of
~ort from it's falsity, it was GER
-il undignified for the Governor to
- co insultingly of u Senators
Members of Congress when he
os the statement that, All but a
Of them carry liquor on the
rr,.o Governor himself has the chief
aorsibility for enforcement of the
y Of New Jersey, and it is humiliat-
10 read his confession that, The
,oinal reason for the failure OF
.,ihition is that those entrusted
h the enforcement of the law are
most persistent violators.' There
a LOT of judges, prosecutors and
~ officials who have respect for
r. oaths of Office, and who have the
n, to demand an explanation of this
ious charge.
Tho Governor must have been in
company to justify his statement,
owe seen more drunkenness in the
two years than ever before Two
nc ago | met a man who was lit
but since then 1 haven't seen a
con who showed the slightest in
btion of ~intoxication, OF even smell
an alcoholic breath; and during
time | have been in all parts of
Jersey-but / haven't mixed with
Governors associates.
I'VE both live in Jersey City, and If
4 n~kenness is on the increase there,
/ If TRANCE that in the City Hos
the cases of acute alcoholism
the last six months of this year
over twenty per cent, as compared
1919? And that in Christ Hos
there was not one such case dur
the first six months of this year, as
inst 81 cases two years before?
Saturday night ambulance calls
Christ Hospital fell from ten or
hve to only one or two, and Super
Nsndent Hyde was so impressed that
wrote to me as follows: AS a hos
executive 1 would have you know
T regard the Prohibition move
as a tremendous humanitarian
sing
drunkenness is on the increase,
it strange that the asylums for
rates and the Kelley Institutes
all gone out of business? And
can we account for the downward
/ Of cases of alcoholism, as shown
De New York City Health Depart
s weekly reports, a s follows:
6S7; 1917, $50; 1918, 252; 1919,
1920, SO?
am pleased to be able to agree
the Governor on one point. He
I am glad the saloon has been
shed, for it was the greatest curse
e Nation What was it that killed
saloon, Prohibition. There was
Ding evil in the saloon itself-the
brass rail, mirrors, spittoons, bot
glasses, etc., were quite inocuous.
etil was in the booze-the whis-
p, rum, brandy, wine, ale, beer;
fief, alcohol; and Prohibition said
amt be sold for beverage pur-
just as Prohibition, a few years
Xe, outlawed the traffic in other
forming drugs.
khe Governor makes a bad break
he tries to talk Theology. He
There can be no character with
}emptation, u Saviour preached
My Bible teaches that the
Pur said to the Tempter, Get thee
ID Me, Satan; and all Christen-
prays, Lead us not into tempta-
put deliver us from evil
zen, again, he assures us that,
e always will be sim This in
eted, means that the mission of
is a failure for of Him we read
He hath appeared to put away
the sacrifice of himself There
no things that Edwards does. not
stand, N is Theology, and the
is Prohibition.
fstly, our Governor mourns for
poor immigrants, who are more
7Ssed here than they were in Eu-
One wonders why they come
they don't have to. The words
forney General Daugherty r an
pirate reply: Those who do not
! IN our government and the en-
Fient of u laws, should go to a
which gives them their pecu-
4berty.'"
y TABLE FOR SEPTEMBER