Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1920-01-10 | Page 4 | Tidal Wave Coming

Tidal Wave ave Corning Coming I I. I EDWARDS governor elect of New Jer- Jer J iA scy cy who vho achieved considerable notoriety by declaring declaring leclar- leclar ing if elected be he would make of New Terse Jersey as wet as the thc Atlantic ocean will not take hi his scat seat until January 20 four days aS a'S after wide nation-wide prohibition goes into effect by constitutional amendment But that fact does not seem to disconcert the Jersey champion of Jo John n Barl Barleycorn in t the tho e least lIe He is not a governor go yet bat is nothing daunted in his determination to make mate good his Ins campaign threat fulfill to-fulfill his prophecy and the people of his state Ho He intends to atack the vali validity ity of national prohibition from a new an angle le He has be been n informed in- in formed that the text of the amendment as ratified by ten of the states prohibited tho the sale manufacture o or r transportation of ot alcoholic alc liquors whilo tho the amen amendment amend amend- ment as adopted by Congress reads intoxicating intoxicating- I liquors JJ But ut listen and ln learn how hc he intends to make New ew Jersey wet et as ns tho the Atlantic ocean There Thero is a wide difference I suppose if Ie one were to total It Il tho the resulting juice would bo tal take e a n. potato squeeze alcoholic It would contain somo trace of ot alcohol If H ten ton tonof of the forty five ratifying stal states s ratified an amendment which differed from that proposed to them by Congress they didn't ratify anything at all all and tho certificates by which the they tho the secretary of state of their action arc are null and void If It tho the report I have received is borne out I will make a a. demand upon Secretary of State Lansing Lansing- that ho he revoke the tho proclamation by which the eighteenth amendment was declared to tc be bo effective January 16 If It he refuses I will at nt apply to the unite States supreme court for a n writ of oC mandamus s to compel him to do tIo so Come all ye C men with parched throats throat who yearn to toI I slake your prohibition thirsts and rally round the great ireat Governor elect Edwards is to mandamus man man- emancipator going gOin damus dainus amus Lansing ng and make not only New Jersey Lut the western hemisphere as wet as the Atlantic oc ocean m. m Possibly the Republican women in making proposals remember it is leap year car