The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-05-14
Cardinal Gibbons and The Liquor
Saloons Tzle Subject Keeps
the Old b1e3z9 jumping.

ton to the fanatlcal DryS.
Very few natives of New Orleans ever were
Dry, for any unreasonable length Of time;
and there isn't more unpopular fad that
you could propose to New Orleans than that
of closing the saloons.
Finding himself among the out drinl1ingest
drinkers in Dixie, the Prince Of Baltimore
fairly reared against the fad Of Prohibi-
ton.
Well, Sir, it was not more than three months
after the Prince returned to his principality,
before he found himself right up against it,
on this here liquor question.
The Drys pushed the Prince into corner,
and kept him there until he signed card for
the newspapers IN fa0or Of the closing Of the
saloons.
When I read it in the Baltimore Sam, my
amazement was truly amazing. If ever there
qc0a Prince that the Vets had a right to
believe they could bet on, that Prince is j.
Card. Gibbons
Nevertheless, the Prince went over to the
Drys, in his own principality Of Charles
County, Dlaryland where Lord Baltimore
planted the charter which pledged the
Romanists to quit killing people for not join
ing their church
But, Sir, it just so happened that Prince
Gibbons had to go to New York. for the
Pun lj10O VI tttAliI Sill - LOL Abaly. WIlEIo ~
Italian cardinals and Sart0, the Popo-maIz-
Ing 80 Italians In all-aro ruling the earth,
more or less, in the name Of Jewoss, named
Mary, and a jew laclzleg carpenter, named
Joseph.
While our Prince Gibbons was in New
+ York, he again fell into the New Orleans
atmosphere. for New York is almost at Wet
as New Orleans
Consequently, the New Workers, who are
heavy drinkers and devout papists, got after
the Prince Of Baltimore about Topping to
the Drys in Charles County, Maryland.
How do you suppose the Prince got out Of
the scrape?
Well, Sir, he adjusted his chemise, tucked
Hn his pettIc0at8 lifted his tuneful Ebenezer,
and said
81 am too old now to change my attitude on
subject as important as this, and what I said last
week applied only to Charles County, Md, where
the saloons were not conducted in a satisfactory
manner. I declared I hoped the saloons of that
county would be abolished, and I still hope
while am strong advocate of temperance,
I am certain that prohibition never be
enforced, and if it should be it would make hypo-
critics and violaors Of the law It will also cause
the manufacture OF illicit WhisLey which is not q
good thing since it will replace a good product,
of its kind, with bad product It will also rob
the Government OF legitimate tax and very
considerable one. Prohibition cannot be enforced
in any Christian country
81 do .belieyePn local option, and where the
saloons menace to the community they
should be abolished. That is why I advocate the
adjustment of the saloons in Charles County
But l would'not advocate the same idea for the
entire country
The saloons in Charles County ''were not
conducted in q satisfactory manner?"
/ wonder what was the matter with 'em
Maybe the heretics owned these saloons. Yet,
the heretics do not generally monopolize the
grog shops. In New Orleans, they DON'T in
Norr Yn1lt thnu don't