The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-12

'intemperance and, in measure, crime.
1t is likely 1t has been cited in the hope
of creating prejudice or of enlisting
prejudice already created.
SO far as the saloon itself is con-
cerned it's chief prominence in the COM
munity comes from the fact that it is
a very important factor in politics
This is why the Catholic saloon-keeper
have figured SO largely in the cities and
their influence has been sought. Their
financial interests made them hang to-
gether but their religious convictions
made them brotherhood. By the nom
Catholic part of the people, where any
interest whatever was taken in the
matter, it was generally believed that
the Ca-ho bic eu:toh welded a cJn-
siderable influence II. pc,4tical matters
through the salool-Keepsrs. If suca has
been the case Ii the pas, 1t will not be
in the future. The influence of the
Catholic church will be against the
saloons That this influence will be
potent none who know the power of
that church will deny.
The Catholic church has taken for
NAL stand against the saloons and it
was brought about in the following
way: During the Lenten season Bishop
Watterson, of Columbus, Ohio, ad-
dressed letter to the clergy and laity
of his diocese in which he dealt entirely
with the temperance question. The
Bishop withdrew his appreciation from
any and every Catholic society in his
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saloon-keeper at it's head or among its
officers, and suspended every such
society until it ceased to be so Differed.
He also said that mo one who is en-
gagged either as principal or agent in
the manufacture of Intoxicating liquors
should be admitted to membership
The matter was laid before the papal
delegate, Monsignore Satolli, by whom
the position of Bishop Watterson was
sustained. His lordship said:
The liquor traffic, and especially as
conducted here in the United States, is
the source of much evil, hence the
Bishop was acting within his rights in
seeking to restrict it. Therefore the
delegate apostolic sustains Bishop Wat
tersons action and approves of his cir
cular and regulation concerning saloons
and the expulsion of saloon-keepers
from membership in Catholic societies.
This was along about July IS. On
July 22, Archbishop Corrigan wrote the
editor of the Wine and Spirit Gazettee
as follows:
In reply to your expressed wish,
have the honor to say that | loyalty &C
cept the principles laid down by his ex-
cellency, Mgr Satolli both in their spirit
and to the letter. More than this, no
Catholic can refuse to accept them
On August 2 the Catholic Total Alb
stinence convention met at st. Paul
The positions of Bishop Watterson and
Mgr. Satoli were more than heartily
endorsed The resolutions there
adopted declared that the temperance
cause would have more triumphs to
record in the near future. This is
probably true. The convention received
the blessing of the Holy Father and
also of Mgr Satolli, he even declaring
THE Total Abstinence society is the
guardian of the homes of America.
All this must have a deep and far
reaching effect on the saloon business
so far as Catholics are concerned, for
he ceases to be a good Catholic who re-
fuses to obey his ecclesiastical superiors.
1t will also do another thing 1t will
take from those divines who NEEDLE in
politics but object to the priests or
clergy of another denomination doing
the same thing, that ALTERATION that
has been made to do so much service
in campaigns past, Rum, Romanism,
and Rebellion" Their imagination will
have to conjure up something else.