The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-04-17
THESE PEOPLE CAN UNDER
STAND

intelligent people cannot understand
how I can mix Personal Liberty,
God and Religion" with my position
on prohibition. If that were true, it
would be pitiable. The positions of
the men below tag them as intelli-
gent. The force of their statements
adds to this evidence. They are
preachers, and even dozens of them,
high up in the councils of religious
thought. They understand. Let them
tell you how.
Bishop Grafton, Wisconsin: 81 can
not see the benefits to be derived
from compulsory abstinence. Rabid
temperance workers have done very
little toward destroying the drink
evil"
Rev. p. ]. Donohue, Roman Catholic
bishop, Wheeling, w. Va: while /
recognize the evils of the liquor traf-
fic, am nevertheless driven to the
conviction that prohibition will be a
failure in the attempt to cope with
such evils. In many states it is al
ready a failure, the net results of
such legislation being to multiply ILL
cit bars and at the same time to de-
prive the commonwealth of the rev.
enue accruing from license"
Rev. DR.. Parkhurst, New York: Il
am decidedly of the opinion that the
more beer and wine there is produced
in this country, and the more freely
it is transported from state to state
the less whiskey there will be used
and the smaller the amount of drunk
enness."
Rev. DIR. Blanchard of Portland,
Me-: my eyes were opened to the
great evils of prohibition in a very
few years. The clubs organized by
young men, the selling of vile decoc-
lions by women and children, the n.y.
pocrisy and corruption arrested my
attention"
Rev. W. A. WATSON, Mex York;
"The use of alcoholic liquors Is and
has always been considered not only
legitimate as a beverage, but it is
consecrated and hallowed In the most
solemn and weighty rite of the Chris
tian church. Now you cannot, by
mere law, eradicate sentiment and
destroy an institution that has stood
for ages. and that is so deeply rooted
in our social life"
Rev. ID. J. Hartley, Little Rock.
Ark: Everyone knows that there are
many saloons that are perfectly or
Derby and law-abiding, where people
go to drink their beer in peace, with
congenial companions. and where a
drunkard is scarcely ever seen. Have
I, as a minister, any more right to in
terfere with the business of such
place than the saloon keeper would to
disturb the peace of my congregation
while at Worship"
Monsignor Harkins, Holyoke,
Mass: II was born when the prohi-
bition laws were in effect in this state
and know the evils which existed un-
der them. Under no-license in Holy
oke there would be less drinking, but
more drunkenness"
Rabbi Hirsch, Chicago: THE best
safeguard against drunkenness is that
drinking should be enjoyed openly.
The saloon in America is frequented
solely by men, and a certain stigma
attaches to those who are seen there.
The worst thing in American social
life is the separation of the sexes. In
Germany, where whole families are in
the habit of drinking together in
places of public resort, where the wife
accompanies the husband, and as a
matter of course excess is not found,
and the tone of the German cafeis as
high morally as that of the German
homes"
Bishop Chas. ID. Williams, Michi-
gan: Il am In sympathy with the pur-
pose those who advocate prohibition
have in mind, but while their notions
are ever SO laudable, the means pro-
posed to accomplish the end is i'm
practicable. In fact, consider prohi-
bition at this time wrong, because it
Is destrtuctive.-ad.
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