The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1921-09-17
BISHOP
AGAINST AMENDMENT

Bishop Hunting of Nevada, who
was in Eureka Thursday on his re-
turn from attending the fourth annu-
al synod OF the province of the Pa
cific of the Protestant Episcopal
church at Salt Lake City. told a story
before his associates of the cloth.
which indicates the spirit in which
the missionary bishops of the churcn
are handling their work.
Bishop Hunting said that about
two years ago, during one of his trips
through the Sagebrush State. he went
into the town of Searchlight and
found that the then active mining
camp afforded no building large
enough to hold religious services ex-
cept the dance hall. This had a small
raised platform at one end, erected
for the convenience of the dance or
chestra. Some boxes were obtained
from a nearby general store. a rude
altar was arranged and lighted by
candles also procured from the store
The services were held in regulation
manner and as the Episcopalian con-
gregation filed out a priest Of the
Roman Catholic church came in and
the hall was Immediately thereafter
used by Catholic worshippers for their
services.
A notable incident of the Salt Lake
gathering was the utterances by the
Right Rev. Thomas F. Gailor. bishop
of Tennessee, on the eighteenth
amendment and how in his opinion
1t is retarding the cause of temper
ance in this country. Bishop Gailor,
who is the head of the presiding
council of the Episcopal church of
America, in an interview is quoted as
saying:
ITO me the writing into our con-
stitution of the eighteenth amend
ment was objectionable. The sa-
looms were going. The church was
making headway against what evil
there was in liquor. To my mind it
was nothing short of hysteria that
put over a restriction which could
not hope to suppress that evil.
"In Tennessee since prohibition the
liquor traffic has increased tremend-
ously. I visited five universities in
that State last Winter and in each
case I was told that the drinking of
intoxicants by young people was more
of a problem than ever before.
Throughout Tennessee they are max
ing whisky wherever they want to,
and you can hardly expect anything
else when they can sell it for "a a
quart and it costs about 10 cents a
gallon to produce. And there is more
drinking among the young than ever
before. That is human nature. When
ever we adopt the German system and
say ..verboten' to our boys we may
expect they will disobey us.
81 recall meeting a hillman last
Spring. / told him: Jake, / wish
you'd quit making all the white
lightning and he answered: I grows
the corn, and it's my corn. amt it?
dries it out and shells it, and it's
still my corn, amt it? l grind 1t into
meal. and it's my meal, amt it? Well,
then, If I make little mash and dis
till little whisky. it's my whisky.
amt it?' / explained that in this one
thing the Federal government said
it wasn't his whisky. 'Oh, well.' he
replied, 4 don't see as it's any of
their business; they amt ever done
nothing for me- And" commented
the bishop, II guess Jake was about
right, for he lives a great distance
from the railroad and the Federal
government bothers very little about
him."
Bishop Gailor also voiced disap-
proval of the rejection of the League
of Nations covenant. 81 take no part
in politics." he said. 'I am neither
republican nor democrat in such ques-
tions," declared Bishop Gailor. 81
want to say that politicians of both
parties have played politics with the
good name and the conscience of the
country. Whatever in the League of
Nations was repugnant could have
been written out, but to refuse to
countenance any measure for univer-
sal peace was nothing but denial of
every principle for which this coun-
try went to war"