The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-11-03
MUST Danish The SALOONS
Roman Catholic Paper Comes Out
Strong for Prohibition.

The Monitor, the official Roman
Catholic newspaper for New Jersey,
contains in a recent number power
full editorial entitled, THE Handwrit-
ing on the Wall" beginning with
THE movement against intoxicating
liquors is worldwide" and ending, In
full-faced type, with the declaration
THE SALOON MUST CO."
Following a strong presentation or
the anti-alcohol war in Russi, France
and England, the editor has this to-
say about the United States and New
Jersey:
Here In the United States a great
wave of Prohibition is sweeping tho
country. State after state is joining
the Prohibition column until 1t begins
to look as though the whole country
would register its will against the IL
censing of the sale of intoxicating
drinks.
I'VE note also a distinct change in
the appreciation Of Prohibition as
moral movement amongst American
Catholics. Instead Of, as formerly, re-
jecting absolutely the principle of Pro-
hibition, there is feeling that there
are circumstances which justify even
Prohibition. Such a contingency is
the salvation of the manhood or wo-
manhood Of q country! The common
necessity will override individual
rights and nahe what ordinarily is u.
fanaticism, legitimate demand.
Moreover among Catholics, moder-
ate in their views on drinking, there
are many who, noting the abuses OF
the liquor traffic and the sin and mis-
cry which it brings into the world,
are willing to forego whatever rights
they may have as individuals and see
the entire traffic abolished once and
for all. They feel that the evils OF
intemperance outmeasure their own,
private rights and selfish pleasures.
THE father who beholds his boy
drifting into the degradations Of the
drunkard's life will be only too happy
to weigh his personal sacrifice
against the destruction, body and soul,
Of the son whom he loves. Thus in
way and sense drunkenness becomes
it's own antidote.
IF the Spartan learned the lesson
and value of abstemiousness from the
sight Of the drunken slave, the Chris
ton learns it not from the slave he
despises, but from the boy he idolizes.
The family in which the demon rum
claims a victim is sure to have men,
urhn hat ri wit oil al
heart and with a personal conscious
ness of it's deplorable effects.
Now this army of enemies Is con-
stantly growing around the liquor
traffic, especially under the stimulus
of modern conditions. The industrial
age in which we are living will not
tolerate the drunkard. If he loses the
affection of his family and the re-
spect Of the community, he also for.
feits the good will of his employer
and his name Is soon written among
the industrial outcasts. He cannot
earn living and life becomes un-
han-nh1n"
Writes former Princeton man: AT
made it Il. w. W."
That one term plank in the Demo-
cratic platform of 1912-it is more
than likely to hold. after all.
When President Wilson called upon
the Mexican commissioners at New
| oil
did he wave the Stars and Stripes?
man in Washington has made a
bust of the President, thus anticipat-
ing Mr. Hughes by several weeks.
Discussing the Endorsement by the
Democratic convention Of Texas OF
Mr.. Wilson's Mexican policy, the
Houston Post (Dem.) fatty declares:
ut is not believed anything like a
majority Of the people Of Texas in
dOrse our Mexican policy, and those In
position to know seriously doubt
that the platform adopted expressed
the real sentiments of the convention
itself"
The Omaha Bee couples woeful
waste with watchful waiting as
Democratic failing.
Boiled down, the best that has been
said of President Wilson's Mexican
policy was that he had good inten-
lions. We've often heard of a road
paved with this kind of material.
The President Is deceived IL he be-
lieves that the history he has written
Is not more praiseworthy than that
which he has made.
President Wilson signed the Philip
pine bill as moving picture cameras
clicked. There Is one man who Is not
afraid to have his mistakes recorded