Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-02-27

vune of Jan 20
in Carrollton preached following important
in connection with the prohibition agitation;
Denial for Archbishop
"A few weeks ago circular letter sent to all the
priests of this city and mistaken, to all the
priests of this diocese by certain union society of
ladies' object of this letter solicit the assist
of the having law passed IN congress Tor
retary she declared that this circular sent to the
priests with the permission of the archbishop OF New
Orleans, who had fully approved this movement Right
here let that of the archbishop cannot
anybody from sending circulars or letters to his
priests, deny emphaticay and absolutely that this
the priests with the authority of the
archbishop and deny positively the statement that the
archbishop of New Orleans such absolute law OF
national prohibition
The question arises my mind if it is harmful and
sinful beverage be wine beer any kind of
liquor harmful and sinful to the individual or to nation
if it is against any divine natural law and finally II
it just and prudent such law to agitate the
passage of such law in congress and in the senate
rs it harmful and sinful for individual to use w1ne
beer any kind of liquor? Whatsoever God created
God created it for the welfare and of humanity;
whatever He has created is good To He gave the
intelligent mind everything intelligeny to him
He gave the strong will to stop whenever he had suf-
ceht of it Wine, beer and liquor in themselves not
bad; the intelligent and moderate of them is bene-
fetal TO The history of great shows that the
of such beverages has done harm to him who
used it nteligently and moderately Take for instance
that venerable great who spiritually lntell1gentl
socially and morally is the model American citizen,
the great and venerable prince of holy church.
Cardinal ames Gibbons OF Baltimore At his tar ad-
age his mind is absolutely clear the products of
his master mind universal that who politically has
ing of American principles and ideas who at his veneer
able age is physically we'll preserved that he almost
outnlarvels any young man. He moderately his
wine at his meals Take the master of Bismarck
He used take only his glass of beer and wine,
but glass of whisky. 1t did not do him any har
for he used moderately In fact all the leaders of the
ranco-Prussian war-William the First, Won Moltke
all of advanced age, used beer and wine daily-t
did do harm them, because they used mod
crately and with discretion.
'Everything be abused-even the best What is
hoier and is be respected than the relation
matrimony Yet know 1t just we'll that there
are thousands, even millions who abuse holy matrmony
Yet come forward and because matrimony is
abused again and again. therefore it should be prohib
tied.
The Examples of the Jews.
rs the of wine, beer and liquors harmful and de-
structve nation We have the history of the oldest
existing before 1s-the history Jews AS
far its history dates back find that nation enjoyed
the of wine Can anyone the greatest enemy
of the Jewish them of being drunkards? OF
being intellectually inferior to other race? dare
that other nations for shrewdness and ability
in science as we'll as in commerce go them
school
There is in country another nation very much
1srePresented and not enough appeciatedthe Italian
From early in the morning till late at night he works the
soil and gives to us all the example of industry and
His children become industrious and good cit
liens OF the union Does the glass of which he
used from his childhood interfere hard and
strenuous work, and being used it call him
drunkard?
Take the Germans. There never was a nation known
as heavier drinking race than the Germans Did his
glass of beer wine interfere the progress of this
nation? Did they remain intellectually we'll phys
lcaly behind any cher nation? Nobody would say so.
scripture asas f h d 1s to G sss n
rsss It, Can tina, which God gave us be
marriage fee esus csn %e honesty
and Justly admit that the good Lord
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