The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-19
IS SUSTAINED BY SAT0LLI
HE UPH0LDs THE RULING MiDE BY
 BISHOP WATTERSON.

rhs Liquor Trafne is . Source of M uch
 Evil and All Engaged In 1t Cannot Be-
 come Msmbers Of Any Catholic Society
 Tt is Far Reaching.
 New York, July 19.-The Tribune says: Monsignor satolli, the apostolic delegate, has given decision condemn ing the liquor traffic, especially as 1t is carried on in the United States and ap- proving the expulsion of liquor dealers from Catholic societies.
 This decision was called forth by un appeal from the ruling of Bishop Wat terson of Columbus, Ohio. During the last lenten season Bishop watterson ad- dressed a letter to the clergy of his dio- cese to be read before their congrega- ton. The letter dealt wholly with the temperance problem and in 1t Bishop Watterson said: "I hereby withdraw my appreciation from any and every Catholic society or branch or division thereof in this diocese that has B liquor dealer or saloonkeeper at It's head or anywhere among its officers and suspend every such society itself from the rank and privilegs as Catholic society until 1t ceases to be SO off, cereS."
 To many people in the diocese of Co., lumbus this attitude of Bishop Wat son seemed unjust, and one of the soci- cities laid the matter before Mgr. Satolli After a time the apostolic delegate re- turned an answer upholding the posi- tion of the bishop. The society was not satisfied, and 1t was said that the del egate did not understand the case. The bishop therefore asked another society to take the matter up and present it once more at Washington, agreeing himself to sign the appeal from Mgr. Satolli's decision, in order that the mat ter might be presented in the strongest light possible.
 To this second appeal the apostolic delegate has just responded. He reaf- firms his first judgment, sustaining the position of Bishop Watterson. and says:
 Bishops have the right and duty to guard faith and morals within the limits of their dioceses. They are the divinely appointed judges in such mat ters, and, hence. no mere society or in dividual layman has the right to set such decision at defiance. The mere fact that such decision may be the cause of temporal loss does not justify opposi- tion, as the temporal must give way to the spiritual good, and the private good must give way to the public good.
 Second, The liquor traffic, and es- pecially as conducted here in the United States, is the source of much evil; hence the bishop was acting within the rights in seeking torsstrietit.s s..3e-.
 Third, Therefore the delegate apos- toiic sustains Bishop Watterson and ap- proves of his circular letter and regula- tion concerning saloons ana the expul- sion of saloon keepers from member ship in Catholic societies" ., ..--
 The Rev. Alexander P. Doyle of the Paulist Fathers, general secretary of the Catholic Abstinence union, said yes- terday that this declaration of the apos- tolic delegate was the most important ever announced by the church in this country, and he thought it's effect would be far-reaching. Never before in the history of the Catholic church in the United States had such an un- qualified principle on the temperance question been laid down,