The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-04-01
Edwards Delivers Address Which Cincinnati
Enquirer Deemed Enough Print Full Therefore,
Be Considered Effective Wet Argument Evangne Booth
Head of Salvation Army, Speaks for the Drys
Anti Prohibition Argument(7) as Senator
Edwards Presents II


lay than Senator Edwards OF New err
ey. He probably represents the best the
vets have to offer As an advocate of their
cause. lie delivered ST Patrick Day
speech IN Cincinnati and the Cincinnati
Enquirer thought so much of the speech
hat it reported it in full under full page
,treamer head. 1t took five columns OF
The Enquirer's space but the Enquirer is
lever stingy with space i'll reporting IL
AIDES against prohibition. The Senator
loes not present one single fat in sup
ort of his declarations against the pro-
ibition policy but inasmuch as Senator
EDWARDS is regarded by the VETS as one
their outstanding leaders and because
he Cincinnati Enquirer. which certainly
must be a good judge OF effective wet ar
sument, gives space so literally. Ameri-
an Issue accepts the Senator's TRADE as
he best argument the vets can advance
md reproduces herewith excerpts from
he speech to parallel statement in sup
port of prohibition by Eyangeline Booth.l
A Cross of Calvary
After paying tribute to St. Patrick, the
lis heart "a subject" he said. "in which
have been deeply interested for nearly
| decade. l refer to that dastardly piece
II legislation, that cross of Calvary that
lenial by Judas, that crime of crimes, the
Iolstead Act.
Friends. | am not INDUCING in idle SUI
erlatives or yellow sensationalsm when
denounce present day hypocrisy with
UGH extreme phraseology. | beg OF you
. give serious thought to every observa-
ion ! make because, my friends, the hour
las struck and America today is facing
| grave and solemn issue, an issue of
greater portent and more sinister omen
han any other since the birth of this ma
ion. And this is not exaggeration or ex-
PRESTON of hyperbole.
He's Foe of the Saloon
Il wish you could accompany me on
ny night in a given week throughout the
treets, hotels and roadhouses in and
bout Washington and see the excellent
'rogresS' which Wayne B. Wheeler and
Roy A. Haynes of the federal prohibition
nit say is being made in the enfc ce-
tent of Volsteadism. The progress you
ill see will make the old saloon days
Gem .Vells of civic virtue. And right here
~ant to say that in spite of my utter
ontempt and disrespect for Volstcadism
5 now administered, | am as stout and
1rdent foe of the saloon as any prohi-
,itionist in America. The saloon has
lassed on and may it never-no it never
hall-return.
"And if anyone can prove to me that
here is an ounce less of liquor sold,
transported and consumed in this coun-
ry now than there was in pre-prohibition
lays, will renounce my anti-prohibition
tand and join the White Ribboners-if
hey will let me in
Drys Funds Spent to Promote Crime
DO you know that thousands and
thousands of gallons of denatured aco-
oil, rank poison, are being consumed
y an army of hapless and unfortunate
americans monthly Do you know that
his practice, aided and allotted by the
Knit Saloon League and branded a heal
by symptom of progress aud prohibit
on by fanatical and misguided drys. is
reeding a generation Of imbecilic idiofic