The morning call., 1894-08-13
How Father Doyle Visits
the City.
NOTED TEMPERANCE WORKER
Just From the Convention at St.
Paul.
HIS VIEWS ON THE MOVEMENT.
The Secretary of the Catholic Total
Abstinence Union Explains Its
Purposes.

The Rev. Father A. P. Doyle is visiting
this city after an absence of seven years.
and preached last evening at ST. Joseph s
upon the Ministry of the Spirit
Father Doyle, who is native OF this
city and graduate of st. Mary's. takes an
active interest in temperance work, and
has just come from the temperance con-
vention at st. Paul. He is the national
secretary Of the Catholic Total Abstinence
Union of America
In speaking of the movement for tenn
perance among the catholic societies.,
Father Doyle said yesterday:
I'VE represent temperance organizations
throughout the whole country. There are
763 temperance societies, with mem ber-
ship of 56, 600 included in the union. They
are of various siz es and are located al
many places.
The position taken by the union is for
total abstinence. Although officially no
direct action is taken in politics, the union
embraces all shades of opinion.
THE action of Mgr. Satolli was COM
mended very strongly at the temperance
convention In 81. Paul. continued Father
Doyle. 1T will have tendency to en-
greatly encourage Catholic workers In the
cause. This is not recent movement, as
many enormously believe. Our meeting
IN ST. Paul was the twenty-fourth annual
convention of the union. The cause has
obtained more prominence Of late, which
VIII greatly aid US in our work. Societies
of all shades are gathered into the union,
but we do not affiliate with the prohibit
tiOnists. Our union is not political or
ganiZatiOn at all. We look at the mo al
side rather than the legal.
THE trouble with prohibition. as a ma
jority of us think, is that it is inefficient.
We prefer to regulate the liquor traffic by
legitimate methods. According to the Su-
preme Court of the United States the
think our efforts should be toward restrict
ing to evils.
II am surprised at the hold which the
saloons have in San Francisco" continued
Father Doyle. You do not seem to have
made much Roadway against them here.
In the East we are far in advance of Cali
fornla in restricting the liquor traffic.
Laws are really carried out there. There
is a law prohibiting the selling of liquor to
drunkards and another prohibiting its
sale to minors. and offensss against these
statutes subject the person so offending to
civil suit for damages. Then too the Sum-
day laws are enforced in the East.
Still great deal mas Deen done IN San
Francisco through the League of the Cross,
organized by Bishop Montgomery. We
strongly approved of that organization at
the st. Paul convention. One OF the reso-
lutions adopted favored the organization OF
cadet societies on the principle that an
ounce of prevention is worth pound of
cure.
1--WE have 600 ladies in our organiza-
tion." said Father Doyle. gathered in the
ladies' sodalities. The Influence OF woman
is a strong one, and wnen exerted against
liquor must do much good"
Father Doyle edits the Catholic World
published in New York, and also has
charge of the temperance work connected
with the Catholic publishing house in that
city. He has national reputation as an
orator, and has labOred in every State in
the Union. For thirteen years he worked
with the Paulsts. Two years ago he was
placed in charge of the Catholic World,
and also in charge of the dissemination of
Catholic literature for mission work. In
addition to this he attends to the temper
ance publicat ton bureau. Last year over
million pamphlets were sent out In connec-
ton with the temperance work.
Father Doyle will remain in San Fran
cisco for about week before returning TO
New York to resume his lab0Ts. he is
visiting his father, who resides at 2S06
Howard street.