The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1912-08-01

abiding, where people go to drink their
beer In peace, with congenial compan-
ions. and where a rdunkard lis scarce
ly ever seen. Have I as minister
any more right to interfere with the
business Of such a place than saloon
keeper would have to disturb the peace
OF my congregation, while at worship?''
sReV. Jacob B. Meeker, OF st. Louis,
Mo-: The greatest fallacy of the
present time Is that Of the right of the
majority. This nation has attained it's
greatness through dts recognition Of
the inalienable right of every man. If
| stop a man from drinking beer he
has the right to stop me from drink
ing coffee"
Rev. F. P. Keicher, Oklahoma City
OKLA: Zone Of my greatest surprises
were the conditions prevailing in what
I had hoped to prove a model prohi-
bition state. Back in my town of Mil
waukee, city of 100000 inhabitants,
there are $500 saloons and thirteen
breweriss, but, must confess that In
my. five months residence in your new
state I have seen more drunkenness
and lawlessness than I ever saw in
milwaukee, in five years time"
Rev. Father T. J. Conalty, Pres.
Catholic Total Abstinence Societies
Americas II have seen the prohibit
ton principle In our local laws, and
my experience of increased hamts Of
vice and increased difficulties for tenn
, perance work have led me to despise
the farce Of attempting morality by
: Jaw. These are some of the reasons
that urge me, as a total abstainer, to
add my protest against placing in our
constitution a law which appears to
me to be bad in morals and impracti-
cal in politics.,
! Rev. DR.. w. G. Helt, Evansville,
Ind, ex-Superintendent Anti-Saloon
League: II am by nature and educa-
ton teetotaler, and have been an
ardent and sincere advocate of prohi-
bition. have reached the place, how
ever, where I will no longer allow nv
desires to bias my judgment as to the
best method of dealing with so im-
portant matter as the drink Dues
ton. Methods Of work must be adapt
ed to meet the present conditions. To
attempt to force a law of any charac-
ter upon the people against their pro-
test will fail in it's purpose. Laws
cannot be successfully enforced with
out a sustaining public sentiment"
DR.. Howard Crosby, Noted Clergy
man: Prohibition throws wide open
the ftoodgates of vice. An imperative
law is no law at all. There is the un-
licensed vice which feels it's temporary
freedom and is prepared to make the
most, of it. L" prohibition in MaiAe2
There never was in any state that
adopted it. The main effects of proht
bition where tried are poor liquor,
large prices for it, an increase Of in
mates in the lunatic asylums, poverty
TOR the farmers and system of semi
thleVery and deliberate falsehoods on
the part of the inhabitants and tran
s1ents which units them for prayer
and church goih g."
Rev. DR.. Rainsford, of New York
City: ITO drink Is no sin. Jesus
Christ drank To keep a saloon is no
sin, and any policy which claims the
name Of Christ or does not claim His
name, that deals with the well-nigh
universal appetite Of men for alcohol
on the basis Of the law and order alone
cannot commend itself to the intelIi-
gence and is therefore doomed to fall"
! Rev. j, NJ. Savage: 81 believe the
| common talk that traces all crime, or
nearly all, to drink lis false and mis-
leading. Is there no crime in Moham-
medan lands? The Turks are not
quite pattern angels"
Rev. S. Parks Cadman, of Brooklyn,
N Y: when you enact a law in
tended to do more than it ought to
do, it generally ends in doing less than
1T should do. For that reason I am
opposed TO prohibition by statute. II
| would rather see America free first
ana then have its citizens use that
freedom for moral ends, People can
not be coerced into a distaste for IL
quor by law"
Rev. Paul e. Kretzman, Of Denver:
1T Is wrong for any society or the
state to forbid the individual to make
use Of Gods gifts I'm the right man
ner. What the Bible permits and
sanctions we cannot condemn. The
Bible permits the moderate use Of H.