Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-04-19
:HsHOP CANNON AssA|Ls
). DEMON RUM IN LONDON
Militant Churchman Attacks Cana
dian Professor Who DcnounccS
L. s. Dry Law.
CALLS HIS CHARGES RECKLESS
In Long Letter To the London
Times He SwatS Wicked Old John
Barlcycorn and Says Thirty Gov
crnors Arc Dry.
ny ROHERT y. PREV,
Service stan Correspondent.

.'' Especial Cable DispatchO
LONDON, April lS-Thc heaviest
sroads!de yet delivered In England
from an American source in the in
'terests Of prohibition appears in the
form OF = three column letter 20 the
London Times by Bishop Cannon, Of
the Methods; Episcopal Church,
South, who was assigned TO do mis-
sionary work in Texas.
The communication is reply TO
Professor stephen Leacock. OF McGin
University, who recently wrote to
the same paper declaring that IAN ap-
paii:ng catastrophe has ovcrtaken the
United States and eight provinces o..
Canada in the form OF prohibition,
resulting from crusades financed by
feebic-mIndcd philanthropy and in
sp.red by brutal ana iu;olerant fam
atheism.
Joy OF prosecuting ones fellow
men IS the main Inspiration OF the
prohibition crusade. The typical ac-
tive worker is either relentless
fanatic inspired ny higotry or "a self
interested hypocrite.
Assnils Prohibition Trickcry.
The hired spies OF the prohibition
Interests draw pay from hypocritical
societies o: hyster!cal women There
Is no doubt that the vast majority OF
decent people and all gentlemen were
and are against the movement. The
people o. the United States and those
OF Canada never ratified prohibition
.! general vote nor have they even
been offered an opportunity to reject
r. The prohibitionists took care that
= The policy was adopted by vote OF
: The politicians in Congress. who spoke
only for vocttcrous .ana;ical min
trity organized for hysterical threat
: entnE.'
bishop Cannon. who Is now In Lon
T., don. declares that prohibition was an
: ac'!'e issue In the congressional cleo
= !ions OF 1915, the prohibi;ion.s:s
: winning in an open fight by popular
vote. He continues
: The opponents OF prohibition
: worked ceasclessly day and night. hui,
: lost every battle because tho poli,>-
: aians in Congress knew tina, the
-sreat majority o: the people of the
United states desired prohibition.
: The gentleman from Montreal
: professor Leacock. purposely ignores.
or is ignorant OF tho fact that In every
-state OF the Union where it was pos-
-sioie the An;i-Saloon League labored
TO secure popular vote on prohibi-
non SO thai today. through tho CT
-aor's OF the prohIbltion!sts ana
AGAINST the strenuous efforts OF the
liquor traffic. State after state mas
voted dry by popular vote.
Thirty i.DF,'t f.nycr,,r.
:. To-day there arc thirty four dry.
by STATE laws apart from Federal
laws II cannot he TOO strongly en-.
-phas!zed that the prohibition move
-ment has been Christian in inspira-
-tion. independent for its pcrsis,cn,
vitality from the active support o..
Protestant churches.
Its inspiration has not been a DC.
sire 10 prosecute ones fciiow-men.
but TO aid them by prohibiting a
4. Tattc characterized by tho Ca!,ci
States Supreme Cour; as the mos,
+prol!hc source OF insanity. paupcr!sr
vice and crime, and by removing ;hr
traps which have swallowed IN the
earnings and the vitality OF tho
fathers and caught and manned and
ruined the children.
= Il have never heard more wild ana
1-ecNicss statements than those OF
FFotesso! eacL.cis. The Governors OF
thirty states recently over their own
80 & natureS declared their belle! in TIE
value OF prohibition. Are none OF
ia-u GeE;.e!Hcn?''