St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-06-06
HUBBLE SPEAKS ON
THE HOBSON BILL
Some People Here Endorse Nationwide Prohibition
PIan---One Hundred Hear National
Prohibition Speaker.

constitutional prohibition was de-
livered at the court house in Ope-
lousas last Thursday night, May
18th, by Milton S. Hubbell of
Shreveport, State lecturer and
promoter of the Temperance
Instructor" Co., of Washington,
D. c., a magazine issued annual
" in the interests of national
prohibition, and supporting the
Shepard Hobson bill now before
Congress.
Mr.. Hubbell is a pleasant and
very entertaining speaker, not
fiery or sensational, and does not
appeal to passion or prejudice,
but gives his opponents the full
benefit of all they do for the ma
tion industrially, financially or
morally. He speaks with that
emphatic delivery that displays
thorough knowledge of his
subject, he said in part:
: It is not my purpose to con-
demn the liquor people but to
convert them if that is possible,
and the past has shown that it
is. We have a bill before Con-
gress that looks toward the en-
actment of an amendment to our
national constitution which will
forever prohibit the sale, manu-
facture, Importation, or the
transportation for sale of alco-
holic liquors as a beverage.
A TRIBUTE TO THE CATH
OLICS.
It has taken a good many years
of hard struggling on the part of
such noble bands of temperance
workers as the w. C. T. u,
Prohibition Party and Band of
Hope to make the national issue
possible, true the latter organiza-
tion has not received recognition
as an aggressive agent in the
promotion of temperance prin-
ciples, but that is accounted for
by the fact that it is of Catholic
origin, and its efforts have been
confined solely to the education
of the Catholic youth along these
lines.
The Catholic people are gener-
ally accused of promoting the Ii
quor traffic or at least of being
partial and lending helping
hand through the ballot, but |
am in position to assert that as
a whole that is not so, for the
strongest organization they have,
namely: the Knights of Colun1-
bus is a strictly temperance order
and excludes all persons who are
in any way engaged in the liquor
traffic either before or after hav-
ing obtained entrance to the
order.
That the best element of AM
erican Catholics are for temper
ance, ] simply cite these two or
ganizations as proof of, and |
may further add that the head
of the American Church, James
Cardinal Gibbons. is also very
emphatically for prohibition, in
proof of which quote you the
following clipped from The New
Republic" of May 9th, 1914: 1
believe that the right of the peo-
pie to determine by local option
law whether saloons shall be
closed or not within their res
pective communities is in har-
mony with the American princi-
pies of self-government. and /
congratulate the people of Char
les county in that they will have
the right to settle this question
by ballot on May 10th, next, and
realizing the damage which has
been done by the liquor traffic in
this dbunty and / sincerely trust
that at the coming election they
will Danish forever the licensed
saloon.
The above is taken from a
signed statement by Cardinal
Gibbons to the Anti Saloon
League.
BELIEVES IN A SQUARE
DEAL.
/ Go not believe in the Carrie
Nation style of campaign, nor
any other person or organization
that fight from the view point