National Affairs: Know-Nothing

The Anti-Saloon League of New Jersey arranged to have Inventor ThomasAlva Edison, at a future date, answer six questions anentProhibition. Last week Mr. Edison declared: “[Senator Dwight Whitney] Morrow knows nothing of the business and industrial world. Formany years he has been cooped up in an office, away from theworkingman. When he demands Repeal he doesn’t know what he’s talkingabout. . . . Prohibition is eternally correct. And even if the 18thAmendment is lost, the people will battle for it.”

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