Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-04-16
Extract from a Speech Deliv-
cred by Father Walker, a
Catholic Priest at Delaware,
Ohio.

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suit to God that is in his power to do
Christ being your Savisr has a right to
all our love.-The drunkard destroys
the power of Christ's love, and says, 81
will have none of your mercies, l know
you are my Savior, my Redeemer, thai
you died to save me from ruin, but
despise your mercies and your love,
will have none of them." This plague
this pest destroys all that is in him and
sinks him into darkness not for mil
lion years, but through all eternity
The very demons of the very lewest
abyss will trample upon him!
1t is only those who indulge in these
drinks that are guilty? Woe unto him
that giveth drink to his friend, and pre-
senteth his gall, and maketh him drunk
that he may behold his nakedness.
These words are inspired, and when
God pronounces a woe, let the guilty
tremble. Who arc included? All that
give,and who gives oftner than the sa-
loonist? 'Qui .fdcit per iliam Jecit per se'
is an old maxim in law, the true Eng
lish of which is, "He who does an act
through another does it himself"
The saleonist knows that the drunk
en- man will do acts Of violence, and
having made him drunk he is partaker
of all his sins. The drunkard profanes
the name of God daily in the saloon,
and he who gives him drink is partaker
of the sin, "Thou shalt not take the
name of the Lord thy God in vain.'
Some saloonists say they do not ask
the men to come to their saloons, it is
clearly matter of :heir own choosing.
Not so. You put up sign You dis
play the bottles of wine and you ad-
virtise, you ask every one by so doing
to come and buy your liquor, and you
are participants in the evils resulting
from your sales. l.a
Why are there so many places for the
sale of poisons? I can tell you, and
you cannot deny it. 1t is simply be-
cause the lusts of your heart, cause
yon to abandon honor-It is an easy bust
ness to follOw--money in it. To those
who trafic in beer and ale-a slower
poison than whiskey and rum, though
none the less deadly-I would say it is
the lusts of the avaricious heart that
makes you cling to it, though the ladies
pray in the street until their knees
become as callous as the camels hoof.
But is there no hope? l think there
is. The whole people are aroused, the
ladies are taking noble part whereby
the good work will go on towards the
end. l do sanction this noble move
ment of the women. If they go on, us
ing prayer all through though here and
there they may seem to make no head
way, yet in the end, they shall see tri-
umph. 1t is Gods will that this busi-
ness shall be put down, and l say to
the noble women 60 on.
When Peter the Hermit went abroad
teaching the people, many thought he
had better be in his cell reading his
prayers but he kept at work. Suppose
now that Peter had succumed, what
would be the result? Where would
have been Italy, France, and even Eng
land and America? The time will
come when posterity will say, "Ged
be praised for the noble work in which
our mothers engaged in freeing this
land frem the monster evil of intem-
perance.
1t is said that priest has no right to
meddle with politics. Grant it. But
as citizen / have right to express my
opinion. IL becomes the duty of erery
citizen to put in office only those aoho are
in open hostility to the manufacture and
traffic in Intoxicating drinks, and no man
should seeE office upon any other basis.
And now to you unfortunate creatur-
es that are engaged in the traffic Of this
pest, who have the name of Catholics
and the name is all you have-I say un-
to you, that your money is blood money,
and if you continue i'm this business,
sooner or later you will be welcomed
with curses in the abyss by those whom
you have damned, and their curses will
fall upon your heads, not for day or
year, or thousand years but through
all the ages of etenity.
The speaker then referred to report
circulated, which was, that the priest
did not allow Catholics to sign the total
abstinence pledge; he denounced the
report as not only utterly false, but
that the very reverse was true.
He then read letter from the Pope,
Plus the TX, to the sUnisn" held at
Boston Mass, in 1873, wherein the Ho-
ly Father urges his childen to vigor-
ously urge onward the total abstinence
movement.