The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-09-22
Bishop Brown Declares Utter
anee of Wet Speaker to be
Absurd
TWO CHURCHES INsULTED
Booze Men Have Ever Misrepre-
scented Catholics and Episco-
palians, History Shows
BY J. II. Larimore

was hailed everywhere as Pussy
foot" and his name became house
hold word. Now it is the "Beareat'
that has gone from America to Eng
land and his object is to abolish
American Prohibition.
His name is J. w. Glenister and he
is said to be New York publisher.
In an interview in the London Even
ing Standard, Glenister declared that
Prohibition In America does not pro-
hbit and that we are going to have
it abolished. He told the English all
about the alleged putting over OF Pro-
hbition while the boys were away and
said that there is to be formed
Peoples Voice League. I'VE will
have Pussyfoot Johnson rolling the
Statue of Liberty back to France"
said Glenistcr.
His speeches and interviews to the
English might pass unnoticed except
for the following statement in which
he goes out of the way to insult two
Episcopalian churches"
1--WE are going to hold big rallies
and am sure we are going to have
the entire cooperation of Catholic and
Episeopalian churches
Upon receipt of news from Great
Britain that Glenster had made such
statement with respect to the
Catholic and Episcopaian churches,
DIR. Ernest H. Cherrington, general
secretary of the World League Against
Alcoholism, wired Bishop William
cabell Brown who is president of the
Episcopalian Convention now sitting
in Portland, Oregon, giving Bishop
Brown the text OF what Glenister said
about the two churches. DIR. Cher
rington received from Bishop Brown
the following reply:
Words quoted in your kilograms
are absurd as statement of the con-
yentiop of our church absolutely
proves" as.i
@ls In League Offciary
From time to time the vets have
attempted to show that the two
churches, Episeopalian and Catholic,
are in favor OF liquor and against Pro-
hibition. AS matter Of fact it would
not have been possible in good many
cases to bring about Prohibition with
out the aid of men and women in
these two great denominations. First
OF all. it should be pointed out that in
the ofheiary of the Anti-Saloon
League OF America both churches are
we'll represented, as for instance, Rev.
Father ]. ]. Curran, Wilkes Barre,
Pennsylvania, Catholic pastor, Is one
OF the Vice-presidents. William B,
Cochran, Baltimore, an Episcopalian,
is member of the National Ex-
eeutive Committee OF the Anti |
Saloon League.
In all the state leagues both !
denominations are represented on the |
headquarters committee. Names of
clergymcn and laymcn in both
churches are on the ofiiciary in the
World League Against Alcoholism,
One of the American delegates to the
International Congress Against Al |
coholism at Lausanne, Switzerland,
was Rev. Father John G. Beane
Numerous Catholic temperance |
organizations as well as the temper
ance societies of the Episcopalans
OF which Rev. James Emphringham is |
the head, have been engaged in every
temperance movement
The file of the American Issue
shows numerous quotations from the !
clergy OF both these denominations
In letter to the societies that COM
prise the Catholic Total Abstinence
Union, Cardinal Dougherty made an
appeal to Catholic citizens in which /
he said they had great deal to do
in helping to enforce the Eighteenth
Amendment
Not very long age Bisnop Gaylor
OF the Episcopalian Church took an
attitude against Prohibition. I'm
mediately his fellow-bshops and
other clergymen in his church came
to the defense OF Prohibition. Among
them were Bishop c. S. Quin of
Texas, Bishop William Lawrence of
Massachusetts, and c, L. Slattery,
Rector of Grace Church, New York. |
Each Of these clergymen declared it
was the duty of all persons to obey
and uphold the law and that Prohibit
ton was great benefit,
At the annual convocation OF the |
Episcopalian Church in Oklahoma,
Bishop T. p. Thurston, who was pre-
siding, made plea for the observance
of the spirit as we'll as to the Prohibi-
ton law He even went so far as to |
say that the drinking of liquor stored
In homes prior to the going into effect |