The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-04-08

customs ana naDltS OF the people by
whom they are surrounded. Their
attitude is not domineering, and they
have not identified themselves with
the Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian
and other sectarian movements in
favor of prohibition. FROM THE
CATHOLIC CHURCH AS SUCH, THE
TRADE HAS NOTHING TO FEAR,
nor need the Catholic clergy appre-
bend that the attempted revival of
the nativist A. P. A. will result in
any serious retardation of the prog
ress of the Catholic Church on Amer
lean soil, because that church repre-
sents an organization and a fixed pur-
pose never attained nor aimed at by
any other religious body on earth,
and all attempts of it's scattered and
ouny rivals to wreak and disorgan-
ize it have resulted in dismal failures.
1t is with increasing interest that, as
students of sociology, we may watch
and record the vigorous growth of
the Catholic organization in this
country" There you have it. The
Catholic Cardinal comes out against
prohibition. The same month the
Brew ers' Journal comes out for the
Catholics. And the two are so inter-
woven as to constitute one piece.
Touch one, you touch the other.
The proposition is not to be denied.
The greatest foe to temperance and
prohibition in the United States is
the Roman Catholic Church Hypo-
critic that she is, she masQuerades I'M
der the name of religion and moral
lty, yet when the test comes lines up
with her sympathy, her words, her
works and her votes against God and
home and rative land.
2. The truhtfulnes of our original
proposition is proven by the position
the Roman Catholic Chucl takes in
regard to GAMBLING. Does it con-
denim it, as does the law of every
civilized land? Not one bit 1t en-
courages it. 1t legalizes it. 1t COM
1nercializes it. 1t makes it a source
of revenue. Many of the great cathe-
drals would have to go out of bust
ness, were it~not for it. In the Old
World, nearly all Of the Catholic
churches are supported by lotteries,
and Catholic lotteries in this country
are common.
Upon the completion of the Cathe-
dral, on Fifth Avenue, New York, a
I11I was plOJSCCSu' EO0ilSIOuS zeal
and curiosity attracted vast crowds
during the days and evenings that it
lasted. The New York Evening Post
gave sketch of what one of it's staff
witnessed at a gaming table on one
Of these evenings. Referring to the
scene, the reporter asked the Rev.
Dr. McGlynn, if there was no harm
in that. He is reported to have said,
in reply: "WeH l suppose, as a
matter Of taste, such games might
have been dispensed with. But it is,
at best, a question OF taste. You may
say, of course, that these boys will
acquire love for gam bling, and will
be tempted hereafter to visit objec-
tionable places. But the danger in
this case is remote. AS for their act,
it is innocent in itself; it is done in
a church, and, it is to be presumed,
with their own money-money given
them for the purpose. He goes on
until he ends up with the statement:
''YOu see, if cathedrals are to be
built, we must have money to build
them with. They are good things:
they are centerS of religion, distribu-
tors of charity, opponents and pro-
meters of what beauties and rem
deFs lovely our lives. But i'm this
country, You can't levy money by law
for erecting them; you can't send q
sheriff around and distrain peoples
goods. So, as we can't force the
out of them, and in this process of