Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-03-17
SALOON IS DOOMED
SAYS FATHER LuCEY
Church, Gives His Views on the Temperance
Movement in Strong Sermon at St: Josephs
Church-Would Assist to Upft the Negro, Who,
He Says Has No Self G ontrol-Prohibition as View.
ed by the Catholic and the Protestant

the balmy afternoons many families
OF the best classes OF people, father,
mother and children, are to be seen
| resting along the beautiful boule-
wards, the old folk slipping wine and
eating cake and the children disport
ing themselves on the greensward
nearby. OF the German and his beer
i the same may be said. The tastes
and ideas to these people are entirely
honorable 20 them and it would be
species Of injustice to force the ways
OF American life TOO suddenly upon
them. 1t is likely to happen that after
| the lapse of another fifty years Eu-
| ropean immigration to the United
States will cease and the gradual pro-
cess OF amalganation will transform
the foreign immigrants into per-
lfectly homogeneous element OF Ameri-
can life. Then the Catholic church
may impose the yoke of American civ
lization.
| Another marked difference in the
membership OF the Protestant and
Catholic churches arises from the in
dustrial and commercial condition of
their respective peoples The former
have practically limited their member
ship to the well-to-do and wealthy
class Of people They cannot be said
to have any considerable number OF
the really poor The latter church
has all classes Of people and condi-
'tions OF life to handle, the rich as we'll
as the poor and ignorant. The last
named have always been majority
in the world and probably always will
be. which circumstan has ever Civ
en- to the membership of the Roman
Catholic church peculiar character.
She cannot disOWn these people nor
make their home life unnecessarily
sdsagreeable for the words OF Christ
are continually ringing in her ears.
that he came on earth and establish
ed his church for the special pur-
pose OF preaching the Gospel to the
poor and ignorant and leading them
in gentle ways to the Kingdom OF
Heaven.
another thing about the present
prohibition movement is a riyeting of
a part of the chain of union of church
and state. The leading spirits OF the
Roman Catholic church, her Bishops.
do not generally agree with the man
agement of the protestant churches in
regard to the relations of the church
es to the civil government. In theory
protestant churches are favorable to
the separation of church and state,
but in many of the most practical
: affairs OF every day, as in the matter
OF temperance. they work for a union
LOT church and state. They call in
the constable very frequently when
the Catholic would call in the priest.
Protestant churches have not had but
; a few centuries of experience with
civil governments. When their life is
: half as old as that OF the Roman
Catholic church they will dread to
hold close relations with civil gov
ernments, even bearing gifts. When
such matters of temperance have been
settled other things may be taken up
and the churches may rue the day
that they brought the wolf into the
fold.
'sThe relative position of the Pro
testant and Catholic churches on
questions of this kind is all the more
striking to observant minds from the
fact that Professionalism is supposed
to represent the very acme of indi-
yidual liberty and to be in strong con-
trast to the centralized authority
Of the Catholic church. In the prac-
teal affairs of life, the latter have al
WAYS stood forth as the champion OF
individual liberty. No matter what
may have been her supposed atti-
tude, she has not gone beyond the
| movers that are inherent and neces-
sary to any organization, whether So
ciety or civil government.
"For these and other reasons the
II catholic church prefers to deal with
the temperance of her people as she
deals with any other moral virtue
She appeals to the spiritual powers