The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1910-11-18

ber He sounds and
the liquor fellows belng legislation
In Fall River 700 uniformed men led by their chaplain
and platoon of police accompanied by military bands
turned out to show their devotion of temperance
The Young Mems Irish American Total Abstinence and
Benevolent Societies assisted by other local societies. and
cetes from Newport New Bedford and Pautucket gave
Fall River memorable demonstration.
The procession marched to St. Marys cathedral where
benedction given and Rev Father James Cassidy v
g. preached to congregation that crowded St. Marvs to
the very doors
The following is part of FIR Cassidy's sermon:
1t is thing to be total absainer it thing
to be drunard is another thing to be drunkard
and the path which God has given many present-day
workers the light to follow widely dverge.
believe under penalty Of being considered presmptuous
that the advocates of total abstinence in the past fighting
Gods battle in the holy of temperance fight
ing with hand tied being their backs God for the de-
sructon OF the demon Of nemperance put into the hands
of his intrepid soldiers not only the weapon Of education but
also the weapon of legislation We told that the last days
of Father Mathew of ''the who had swept half the
world with his fiery will and energy broken days
Weapon of Legislation
He lived to his falng much Of his past work
done He knew that all over Ireland and in these United
States great numbers had fallen away and broken the
pledge that many who had been by him to God
had been retaken by the demon of drink and in his later
days he realized that much of the work which he had lived
crumbe before his might have been intact
had he fought alike with the weapons Of education and eg
laon God did not then will it So This is not spoken to
Father Mathews dscredit Nome Cotholic or non Catholic
will deny that much of the harvest which reap
ing, has sprung from the seed by Theobad Mathew
loved and lover Of his kind clad in this world with the owy
habit of friar clad in the world beyond with the gorgeous
robes of Immortality There believe his prayers before the
throne of God obtaining for his beloved children here be-
low greater and greater wisdom and greater strength
for the semmng Of the remorseles tide of the accrsed
drink which daily and hourly sweeps out into the abyss Of
hell out beyond the reach of the Of Cod the souls and
bodies OF countless muttudes of drunken and fallen
believe that the merits of this holy martyr in the
Of temperance winning for the of
that he fight the demon incompetence with
every weapon at his disposal and that he cannot hope
make the sober by education while by legislation he
establishes drnkardshops on every street corner.
Men Can be Legislated into Morality
The merits Of Father Mathew before the throne of
and mercy the kingdom of God where the drunkard shall
fast eecng the awakening of the people from
the into which it has long been drugged by the
tracker in liquor injecting into the community at large the
false and pecous doctrine that cannot be egsated
into sobrey. But when in order to seemingly Justify and
bolster the crmbng and passing institution of the saloon
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