The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-09
All Creeds Addressed on the Evil
of Liquor Traffic and the Voters
Appealed to to Cast a Ballot
Against License
REV. JAMES P. TUITE
STRONG IN OPPOSITION
Pastors of Protestant Churches
Supplement Sermons Of a Week
Ago With Another Review of
the Benefits Under Prohibition
Swedish Societies Unite


Rev. James P. Tuite. pastor of st.
Anne's Church, gave his views on the
license question from the pulpit yester-
day in a sermon to his parishioners,
and advanced many arguments, all
tending to show that the sanction OF
liquor traffic by the voters of Worces-
ter was menace to good government
morality and every home.
His sermon was forceful, and his ar
guments, all of which were strong
against the liquor traffic, were backed
bv practical illustrations of the EVIL Oh
the traffic. In opening, FIR. Tulte salu
he believed that every man was en-
dowed with reason by God to use 1t TO
the best of his Judgment, and the vote
for license on the part of the indiVld-
nal was not only vote against the
good of the municipality, but IN direct
opposition to the reason of any sane
man. -,
He asked his parishioners TO look
around them, to consider the conditions
ia think well for themselves and then
if on going to the poles, they Voted
according to their consctences they
would cast a vote to suppress the hq-
rlor traffic and remove temptation from
those who were within the grasp OF
the demon iquor and apt to fail ever
time they we're telnptef& Every 5e"Ionh
he cited as a temptation and as the
city grew in population the tenpla-
tions increased and more citizens fell.
Fr. Tuite said in part: You should
vote against the rum traffic because
it is your duty to God. You should
vote no because it is your duty TO your
fellowman and your family and to
yourselves. Licensed liquor traffic
menaces everything that is sacred. Use
your senses. Use the eyes that GCd
gave you and look around you. You
see the Jail. You see the insane dsy-
lum. You see the poor house. 1ou see
your orphan homes and from everyone
Of these comes the cry of those cursed
by liquor and fallen from the plane Of
Fife because of the accursed traffic.
For the voters of a city like Wor-
cester to give their sanction to the
sale of liquor with the right of every
citizen. the ballot, you throw open the
welfare of your homes and yourselves
to the inroads of this terrible curse
and every day that passes you see men
with homes and sOrrowful wives and
unhappy children fall in your midst
and be carried away to Jail to suffer
for their follies. Their homes are
broken up. Their distracted wives I'M
able to fight the battle of the world
against great odds give up the strife
and either go to their graves or lose
their reason. Their children are thrown
on the world and either go to homes
provided for them or sow seed in child
hood that develops in later years and
makes the unsafe citizen. There are
hundreds of sins trailing on after
Iuuor traffic. The licensed sale of
IL. -fr, nd lrnnFau a
With the child lies the future welfare
of the community Bring your children
UP free from temptation. Make them
pure and morally true in childhood and
you need have no fear for the future
generation.
God has endowed you all with good
reason and he wants you all to use it
to the best advantage. He has given
me a reason and mind of my own, and
no one can condemn me if l use it as
I think right. l do not believe in the
licensed sale Of liquor and neither do
you. I will use my judgment and rea-
son to better the conditions of the peO-
pie Of my parish. I will look for their
welfare and morality as long as l am
able. and in this I ask only for your
cooperation What l y, / do for your
good. for my good, fr the good of the
community. and for the welfare of our
god city. If you vote no you will not
regret II. You will please God, you
will make your homes happy, and your
children will grow up free from temp
tations. from sins of vice, and sur
rounded by everything good that Will
be sure to exist with the absence of
rum traffic"
Sermons were preached on the IL
cense question in many churches yes
terday though the appeal for d no
license vote was hardly as general as
it WAS a year ago Some Of the pas
tors had preached their no-license SER
mons the week before and merely add
ed s few words Of advice yesterday.
The subject was, however, discussed
in all its phases and the voters were
given facts and figures to convince
them that the granting Of liquor IL
censes is not only wrong but poor pol
icy from an economic standpoint
Of the Congregational Churches Rev.
DR.. Alexander Lewis at Pilgrim Church
preached last night a very clear and
logical sermon on Counting the Cost,
or Does the Liquor Business Pay?"
He arrayed lines of figures to prove
that it does not pay. Rev. DR.. Willard
Scott at Piedmont Church, While not
preaching on the subject, referred to
It, as did Rev. A. w. Hitchcock at
Central Church.
Rev. J. NJ Van Horn of the Church
Of Christ last night gave a review OF
what had been accomplished by the
temperance workers. He said that even
if the city should not go no license
Tuesday the temperance people ought
not to be discouraged. Victory would
surely come at last He said that he
had been unable to find a man in his
church who was going TO vote for Ii
cense.
Rev A. S. Burrows Of the South Bap-
Continued on Page 81