The Forrest City times., 1908-08-21
BISHOP VIM. BROWN
 AND PROHIBITION
Sets Forth His Views in Answer to Communication From the Anti- Saloon League of Jack
 son County.

county and Newport, Bishop William Brown, Of the Episcopal Diocese Of Arkansas, has written letter setting forth his views on prohibition. The correspondence follows:
 Newport, Ark. March 9, ls0s. Rt. Rev Wm. Brown, Bishop of the
 Episcopal Diocese of Arkansas.
 Little Rock, Ark.
 Our Dear Friend and Brother-This will be presented to you by our Dr Willis, and we beg to extend our sin cere greetings.
 You are aware that Arkansas is now engaged in Statewide effort 10 re- move the sale of spirituous liquors from the hitherto honored position of legal approval, and prohibit such sale in all boundaries of our great state. We feel that it is time for all the forces of righteousness to furnish all the aid possible for the effort that Is now under way. and which We believe will. under the good hand of our God issue in victory for the right.
 We greatly desire 10 have your ex- tensiye influence in Arkansas felt in and for our struggling ranks. A few words from your pen to the effect that you wish your name and influence 10 be counted on the side of those who are seeking to induce our voters to prohibit the sale of spirituous liquors from our entire state, will greatly aid us in our endeayors We know that you love pure government, pure so- cial life, sobriety and godliness. We know 10 our sorrow from a sad past history that saloons are not promotiye of these results, but are the auxiliaries Of the great forces of wrong-doing Kindly let Us have brief expression from your hearts convictions. one that can be printed and spoken in our county of Jackson and throughout the state.
 With assurances of our personal es- teem and good wishes.
 Most sincerely and cordially,
 C. WEST, NJ. D., President of Anti-Saloon League oi
 Jackson County and Newport. By EUGENE SHAVER, Secretary.
 BISHOP BROWNS REPLY.
 Little Rodk, Ark, March 13, 1908 To the President and Secretary of the
 Jackson County and Newport
 Anti-Saloon League, Newport,
 Arkansas:
 Greeting-On Monday evening March g. the Rev. Dr. Willis, of your city favored me with call and pre- sented the highly appreciated com. munication with which you as repre-. sentatiyes of the Anti-Saloon League Of Jackson County and Newport hon. ored me, and am greatly obliged To Dr. Willis and to you for his visit and for the interesting and reassuring things he told me about the objects and methods of the League
 Before my talk with Dr. Willis 1 had been making little or no distinc. tion between such leagues and the Prohibition party. with whose objects and methods 1 have never been able to bring myself into full sympathy. But although he had very little to say about the old-line prohibitionists, I saw that in my failure to differen- tiate the two parties, was doing the representatives of the leagues an n- justice; because, though both may have as the ultimate object in view the application of about the same remedy for the cure of the great evil of drink intemperance, the younger party is much more charitable in it's attitude toward temperate people who cannot see things as it does and there fore is correspondingly less intemper- ate in its condemnation of them.
 Charity is great virtue, especially in temperance party. 1 like the league because Of the charity of its adherentS toward the man who, though not total abstainer from intoxicants is, nevertheless, temperate in the use of them and because of their temper ance in their utterances against. and proposed dealings with, those engag- ed in the liquor traffic.
 am not a prohibitionist. I never have signed and probably never shall sign total abstinence pledge. Radi- cal prohibitionists have therefore al ways held me to be great sinner. and some of them have hurt my feelings by uncharitableness and intemperance in condemnatory criticisms. I under stand that am held in different esti- nation by the leagues and that may expect different treatment from their representatives. therefore naturally warm up to them as l have been un- able to do in the case of the regular prohibition party.
 FROM PERSONAL STANDPOINT Gentlemen, you will see that your