The Alaska daily empire., 1916-07-31

The following authentic quotations from some or our great dvines are sufficient prove the statement that there is no such thing as united action" among the churches favor of prohibition These are but few. The number could be multiplied almost indet- nitely:
 CARDINAL GIBBONS:
 When a law is ilagranty and habitualy vio- lated it brings legislation into contempt It creates spirit Of deception and hypocrisy and compels to do insidousy and by stealth what they would otherwise do openly and above hoard. You not legislate men by civil sc- tions into the performance Of good and right deeds"
 BISHOP HALL. Vermont:
 Prohibition drives underground the mlschiei which it seeks 70 cure making It more dtiieuN 70 deal with the evil and impossible to regulate the trade. as. for instance. in the quality Of liquor sold"
 BISHOP CLARK. Rhode Island;
 Prohibition has been disastrous to the cause Of intemperance.
 BISHOP GRAFTON Wisconsin:
 -l not see the benefits to be derived from compulsory abstinence. Rabid temperance workers have accomplished very little toward destroying the drink evil" RT. REV. p. ]. ooNoHuE, Roman Catholic Church. Wheeling, w. Va.
 While I recognize the evils Of the liquor traffic am nevertheless driven to the convc- lion that prohibition will be a failure in the
  it is already a failure. the results Of such legislation being to multiply Illicit bars. and at the same time to deprive the commonwealth Ot the revenue accruing from license REV. oR. PARKHuRsT. New York;
 ~I am decidedly Of the opinion that the more beer and wine there is produced in this conn try and the more freely is transported from state to the less whskey will be used and the smaller the amount Of drunkenness REV. DR. BLANCHARD. Portland. Me-:
 My eyes were opened to the great evils Of prohibition in a very few years The clubs or ganized by young men. the selling of vile de- coctions by women and children. the hypocrisy and corruption. arrested my attention. REV. ". A. wAssoN New York: ~The use Of alcoholic liquors is and has al ways been considered not only legitimate as beverage. but it is cOnsecrated and halOwed In the most solemn and weghty rite Of the Chris ton church. Now you not by mere law. eradicate sentiment and destroy an institu- ton that has stood for ages and that is SO deeply rooted in our social life" RABBI HlRscA, Chicago:
 The best safeguard against drunkenness Is that drinking should be enjoyed openly BISHOP cHAs D. WILLIAMS, Michigan:
 "I am in sympathy with the purposes those who advocate prohibition have in mind. but. while their motives are ever so laudable the means proposed to accomplish the end i'm. practicable. In fact consider prohibition at this time wrong because 1t is destructive" REV. S. PARKEs cAoMAN, Central Congregational Church Brooklyn, N. Y.:
 When you enact a law intended to do than 1t ought to do 1t generally ends in doing less than 1t should do. For that l opposed to prohibition by statute. would rath- CT see America free first and then have its citizens use its freedom for moral ends" It such men as these are opposed to prohibition. you not safe in taking the same stand?-(Fair- banks News-Aliner, May 27, 1916.