United labor bulletin. (Denver, Colo.) 19??-1915, 1910-04-28
AN OPEN LETTER.
What Rev. Father r. w. Dotzauer, Pas.
tor Of the Saints Joachim and Ann
Church Of Queens, Says About
Saloon Regulation.
Mr.. William Forster, Solicitor. New Yor
State Brewers Assn, SO Wall st
New York CITY

Mr.. William Forster Solicitor. New York
State Brewers Assn, SO Wall St.,
New York City.
My Dear Sir:-I wish to thank you for
your kind invitation to address the pub
lie convention to be held at Buffalo, Feb
ruary 9Th, under the auspices of the New
State Brewers Association, and l regret
to inform you that l am unable to do SO
owing to the sickness of my aged mother
who was recently taken down with par
alysis.
| l wish to assure you, however, that
the effort you and the brewers of this
state are making to place the traffic in
alcoholic beverages on a high moral
plane has my sympathy and deserves the
support and encouragement of every pa
| triotic citizen. The fanatical agitation
of small but noisy minority to legis
late morals into the individual has not
my sanction and is against every tenet
of reason and experience. Legislation
cannot make men sober, industrious and
moral-this comes only through the in
culcation of right principles derived from
the long years of mans experience.
For the last few years a prohibition
| a
strange as it may seem, the minds OF
almost one-half of the people. who have
been led to believe that drinking could
be stopped and the evils resultant there
from cease Instead of this the work.
ings of prohibition laws have shown that
drinking increased under conditions ere
alive of vice and crime together with a
! disrepect for law, and loss to the state
| in taxable property of millions of
dollars.
Nowhere in morals or in logic does the
Prohibitionist receive support Of his
stand. and it is most Numerically OPP
posed 10 the attitude of Christ who never
preached prohibition, but challenged d.
rectly the position of the Prohbitionist
in the fact of the miracle at the marriage
feast in Cana of Galilee; and they are
again refuted by st Paul, who advised
Timothy that little wine is good for
the stomach. The Christian church at
no period since the time of Christ con-
demned the use of drink-beverages. but
on the contrary commanded the virtue
of temperance, which is not prohibition.
In other words, Christ taught men self
control They must be masters of them
selves.
You may remove every saloon, close
up every beer garden and to the fur
therest extent remove every temptation
from man unavailingly, for the force OF
temptation is within and not without
You may shut down all distilleries and
all means of securing intoxicants. and
the weakling in whom the craving for
drink has taken hold of will long for 1t
until his cravings are satisfied, even
| though vicious and base drugs are re-
sorted to.
Temptation is necessary to mans de-
velopment His upbuilding comes from
his moral strength and will-power result
ant of self-control. To teach man to con-
troll himself is the grand and noble work
of the church, and should be the work
of the Prohibitionist.
Wishing you every success in your
cause and at this convention in sowing
the seed of truth and wisdom, | remain,
Yours respectfully,
REV F. w. DOTZAUER,
S. Joachim and Ann Rectory.