The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-24
ARCHBISHOP FLAYS
FATHERS WHO KEEP
LIQUORS IN HOME
Says They Are Teaching Their
Children to Be Failures and
Closing Avenues of Success
Against Them.

Fathers and mothers who are not
teetotalers, and keep liquor in their
homes, which is used under the guise
Of hospitality, are teaching their chill
dren to be failures in life, to be wrecks
and are closing against them the ave-
nues of success"
This was the declaration made by
Archbishop John Ireland. in an address
before the meeting of the Catholic To-
tai Abstinence society at the state cap
itol last evening, in which he held that
the presence of liquor in the home is
today the evil against which total abb
stinence societies should concentrate
their efforts
There has been great change in the
field for total abstinence work, said
Archbishop Ireland after reviewing the
temperance work in Minnesota since
1872, when he became associated with
1T. Formerly men drank forty-rod and
sWill called beer. There were no wines
with new-fangled and fashionable
names, which were used in the social
intercourse of the home.
Now one must sit quietly in respect
able homes, while i'm the name of fash
ionable hospitality poison is
administered The crying need is an
appeal to all to, change their form of
hospitality.
Drink Is Diseountenanced.
Public opinion today is in support Of
total abstinence. because it is essential
to success in any walk of life.
's" There is no hope of young man
getting ahead unless he is a practical
abstained. The5competition is so. keen
today that only the best can survive.
DR.. Lorenz. the famous Austrian sur
geOn. has said that he has to be to-.
tai abstafner to4 do his surgical work.
1t is seen in everygfwalk of life. Men
who succeed in business do not bedull
their brain with ,wine.s r3,..
"A young man moving out into the
world, who is not. a total abstainer, is
sure to fall" SAID Archbishop Ireland.
The road to success is closed against
him, and here lies the sin of fathers
and mothers who keep and dispense
liquor under the guiSe of hospitality.
They teach their children to be wrecks,
Temperance workers should go forth
and in the name of success preach to-
tai abstinence. The opportunities for
young to achieve success and accumu-.
late material wealth were never so
good as now. Drink is the only thing
that can keep a young man from sue
,ceedfng. Il" 1'-
-nD a- Drinker Must Sink. -
nJIfahe does not refrain from drink he
must sink into poverty and compara-
lti3e social inferiority. The chief rea-i
son for drunkenness is ignorance.
People do not know it's effects, and the
growing intelligence of the people is
today the greatest combatant of the
liqour habit. IG .-f
Il The best. thatlthose interested in the
liquor traffic claim is that it's moder-
ate use does not harm. No one claims
it does good. The only good it can do
man is that if he should be cast
among cannibals he would not be de-
NRured, for the cannibaI would not
tQuch man beSotted with alcoholic I
,1othhe home is the shrine of total alb
stlhence, but not only must liquorsof
every sort be barred from the home,
: but it must be made so attractive that
the sons and husbands prefer to stay
at home. +
Much of the drunkenness of the
past" said Archbishop Ireland. came
from well meaning but torturous
mothers and sisters who did not make
the home attractive"
The most dangerous age for a child,
the archbishop eontended, was from
seventeen years upward into the twen-
l.
this age they are trusted to themselves
or to the streets, to fall victims to the
Wlles of a wicked world. This is the
age when they should be kept at home.
When parents should know where they
are. If they are out and their parents
do not know where they are, they are
probably in the saloon. There is no
other place for shehn to go.
Home ShouIdiBe Attractive.
Not only shoa1d the home be made
SO. attractive that. they would prefer to
stay there, butethere should be more
heatthful sociafI intercourse with
friends and ne4ghbors, hospitality in
winch liquor took1no part. If young
people spent theifl evenings at good
homes of friends in social intercourse
1ntemperance would suffer a severe
blow.
Father J. J. LAWYER, of the Cathedral
parish, made aSfsw remarks Following
Archbishop Ireland.
Rev. ]. P. Harrison made the onen-
ing address of the meeting and in a
careful-and logical address showed the
fallacy of the drink habit; as it in no.
wise contributed to happiness The
social glass is often pleaded and in
Itself might do no wrong, but the per-
son who takes one drink laws himself
open to the awful consequences of in
temperance. He especially decried the
use of liquor in the home
The programme included a piano Sc
lection by Miss Eildegard REM, vocal
solos by Miss Jane c. Holland. Miss
Theresa Miller, and aduet by John
Gehan and Mrs. S. v. Harris. Father
Ambrose ef Cretin high school, and