The Winslow mail., 1913-02-08
PROHIBITION REPUCNANT
TO LEADING THINKERS
Fails OF Its Purpose Because In Conflict
With American Spirit Which Re-
sents Restriction on Liberty
The Pope Against Prohibitions

, Monsignore Franz Collier, pas
tor of SIS. Peter and Paul's
Church, in an address in St.
Louis, Mo-, said: This brings to
me the thought that his Holiness,
while he believes in everything
temperate, has no sympathy
whatever with the Prohibition
movement. He drinks a glass of
wine himself and believes that
men should use their own judg-
ment in what they should eat
and what they should drink, and
not have other men decide such
matters for them. That is not the
spirit of freedom, but of auto
cratic government. In this coun-
try of boasted freedom especially,
Prohibition has no place. The
Pope is the apostle of all things
in moderation, but not of Prohi-
bition.
Move Is Dangerous Precedent
Prof. W. E. H. Lecky, the
eminent logician: ITO attempt to
guard adult men by the law
against temptation, to place them
under moral tutelage, is a danger
Gus precedent. The tendency to
i coercive laws, on all matters re-
lating to Intoxicating liquors, is
certainly not a tendency toward
moral liberty. y
Prohibition an Expensive Error:
The Rev. Wallace M. Short,
pastor First Congregational
church, Sioux Falls, S. D., a ma
tive of Beloit, Wis, and graduate
of Beloit College: If some good
men may drink Scotch whiskey
or German beer, other good men
may sell, even though the priest
in the temple should thank God
that he is not as other men, or
even as this publican and the
brewer. Hypocrisy is a greater
moral evil than drunkenness, al
though drunkenness, or any intem-
perance, is a great evil. Dealing
with the temperance question in
a way that is sure produce both
bigots and hopocrites, but is sure
not to produce temperance, is an
expensive error. +"
Have Failed to Prove Its Necessity
Archbishop S. G. Messmer,
Milwaukee: "All my life | have
protested against the use of the
word temperance or rather
against the abuse of it as total
abstinence. object to the senti-
ment which assumes that man
who drinks an occasional glass
of wine or beer is not a tmeperate
man. Temperance does not mean
total abstinence. 1t means the
moderate use. | protest also
against any movement to pass
laws which in any way interfere
with the personal liberty of the
individual unless such interfer-
ence is necessary for the good
and protection of the community.
That Prohibition is such neces-
sity is thing which its advocates
have failed to prove. F."
Law Will Not Destroy Traffic:--
President Samuel Dickie:: 1T
need scarcely be said that the
prohibitory law placed on the
statute books of a state will de
stroy the liquor traffic. Cultivate
a loafer on the street corner, get
chummy with the porter of a
cheap hotel, make yourself solid
with an ill-favored hack driver
and, for consideration, you may
be conducted, as was the writer,
down into a cellar, through the
foul-smelling lavatory, and into
} a Joint. >"
Would Increase Whiskey Drinkers
Prof. w. E. H. Leckey: Zone
, of the evil results that are bound
to flow from the indiscriminate
prohibition of Intoxicating liquors
is that men learn to drink whis-
l key rather than beer, as it is
more easily smuggled. "