Republican farmer., 1920-03-12
NEW JERSEY DRY HEAD IN ATTACK
 ON CATHOLICS

Another attack on the Roman Catholic Church by the Anti-SaIoon League was made yesterday when its New Jersey superintendent, the Rev James K. Shields, in a statement ar raigning Gov. Edwards for his stand on National Prohibition, asserted that ego per cent. of the effort, sac rffice and votes that have put over prohibition-and will sustain it-have come from non-Catholics-"
 Following the declaration that 'tthe Ar.h-Sa1oon League packers are 100 per cent. American and not the $50 per cent class the Rev. NIT. Shields continued:
 'sThe people to whom Gov. Edwards is appealing are chiefly foreign born, from Continental Europe and Ireland Wherever there is ignorance or vice or 1awlessness there will be found people who back Edwards.
 'In speaking contemptnously as he does of the Anti-Saloon League, MT Edwards is sFurring the mighty hosts of American Protestants for whom the Anti-Saloon League is the spokes- man and the fighting right arm in the | battle against the most vicious forces | in American life.
 |'The Anti-Saloon League has al- ways been controlled by representa- ! tives of Protestant Christianity; it has been financed chiefly by Protas- | tant church men and women and, as an expression of the patriot purpose of this loyal class of American citi- zens, it has achieved the greatest vic | rounds in second setto. Young Multi l gan and Frankie Ryan will furnish | tory for morality, civic decency and | patriotism the world has ever ! known"
 | Referring to Gov. Edwards speech in Atlantic City last Saturday night, | in which the Governor charged that William H. Anderson was aiming at a religious feud, the Rev. MT. Shields said:
 Prom that safe retreat CAtlantic City) Gov. Edwards attacks the Anti Saloon League, gIorifies Cardinal Gibbons and attacks American Prot estantism, which, by co-ordinating it's forces under the leadership of the Anti-Saloon League, has written Pro- hibition in our fundamental law.
 This is a question: of American ism, not of religion,'' MT. Shields con- tinued. 'I am not arraying Protest ant against Catholic. I know some Catholic preIates are opposed to Pro hibition and are always ready to Ie1id their names to the support of the
 liquor traffic, but, on the other hand. there are multitudes of Catholics who are bitterly opposed to liquor and the liquor traffic.
 After quoting Cardinal Manning
 who 'impeached the liquor traffic for
 high crimes" and that sturdy
 fighter, Archbishop John Ireland |"
 who, MT. Shields said. aligned him
 self with the plans and the purposes . of the Anti-Saloon League in his
 condemnation of the American saloon,
 MT. Shields added:
 ''1 could fill a newspaper with state
 ments of like character from Catholic prelates.''
 When the statement of the Rev. MT. Shields was called to the attention of , Gov. Edwards last night, he said:
 "I am a Protestant. I was born a , Protestant and I expect to continue to
 be a Protestant; but I will not permit , to go unchallenged attacks on the
 august Catholic church by the spokes- z men of the Anti-Sa1oon League of
 New York State or the State of New
 Jersey. No attempt in this day and . generation to array the Protestant | . body of this country against our Cath 9 olic felIow-c citizens should be made in
 the name of Americanism. . "When the people realize what this l original 1anatlc1Sn means they VIII
 wake up. The Anti-Saloon League, s having put it's conception of the per
 sonal habits proper to Americans in
 the Constitution, may next attempt by manipulation to write it's particular
 brand of sectarianism into the Consti-
 tuition. The Anti-Saloon Leagues
 latest attack on the Roman Catholic a Church does not make this at all un-
 likely, strange as it may sound to an
 American