Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-03-18 | Page 1 | Edwards Declares Volsteadism to be Crime of the Ages

Edwards Declares res V r S 0 Be Crime of of the Ages es C New Jersey Senator Says Dry ry Law Is Dastardly Piece of Legislation CLAIMS PROOF OF RESULTANT CRIME Charges Dry Law Brings Murder and Other Anti Saloon League Virtues' Virtues CINCINNATI NATI 0 O. March 18 AP AP Is Js the crime of the ages Senator E Es EI I. I Edwards Democrat New lew Jersey declared hero here last night In In ina a fiery address In n which he denounced prohibition and the Saloon Anti-Saloon league Speaking before the Irish Fellowship Fellowship Fellowship Fellow Fellow- ship club the senator described the dry law as that dastardly piece of legislation that cross of Calvary Calvary Cal Cal- vary that denial b by Judas that crime of crimes Assuring his audience that he was not engaging In hyperbole he said he had In his office at Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington thousands of letters and telegrams In iii which prohibition stories of crime degeneration sordid sordid sordid sor sor- did Immorality vice ICe wickedness licentiousness murder and a few other Saloon Anti-Saloon league virtues are unfolded Westerville 0 O. the home of the AnU Saloon Anti Saloon league was referred to as the spawning ground for all that Is Js putrid and obnoxious in the crime NEED DEMOCRAT Before he finished Senator Edwards Edwards Ed Ed- wards paid his respects to Senator Willis Republican Ohio one of ot the dry stalwarts in the senate and expressed the opinion that Ohio should send a a. Democratic senator to Washington who will have some little comprehension of or what the nations nation's welfare demands Do vou ou know he said that In Jn Inthe inthe the city of Washington gera In ll Ji if Wu n es r oY the senate and house office e buildings buildings- weekly to take orders orders' for any sort I of ot concoction from rom denatured wood and other poisonous s alcohols to the finest sparkling champagnes champagnes champagnes cham cham- I 9