SOME EMINENT OPINIONS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1275, 2 November 1911, Page 6

SOME EMINENT OPINIONS.

ALL OPPOSED TO PROHIBITION, STATESMEN AND PRELATES UNITED. THE LATE MAIIQUIS OF SALISBURY. "\7OU wish to prevent a ccrtain number of people from getting drunk. Therefore you ask us to prevent four, five, or sis times qs many, who are sober consumers, from having an opportunity of the free indulgence to which they have a right. Why are we to punish the innocent in place of the guilty? The rich who possess, or can possess, wine cellara are free from the attacks of the prohibition reformers. It is the poor, tho working people, that the '.aw inconveniences. This kind of legislation is absolutely of a class character." THE REV. SYDNEY SMITH, DEAN OF ST. PAUL'S. "There has been in all Governments a great deal of absurd canting about the consumption of spirits. We believe the best plan is to let people drink what they like, and wear what they like—to make no sumptuary laws either for the belly or tho back." THE RIGHT' HON. WILLIAM EWAKT GLADSTONE. "I am glad you are not scandalised about my laxity as to the •publichouse.' 1 really had no choice. How can I, who drink good wine and bitter beer every day of my life, in a comfortablo room among friends, coolly stand by and ndviso hard-working fellow-creatures to take 'the pledge'? Wo must not allowany political feeling or prejudice to interfere with tho rectitude of our judgment, or to prevent us from giving the fame measure of justice or indulgence to licensed victuallers that wo should givo to any other class in tho community." HIS HOLINESS PIUS X ON PROHIBITION. His Holiness bcliovos in temperance, but not in Teetotalism. Addressing tho Catholic Uuiofl of Missouri, the Right liev. Mgr. Franz Goller declared that Pop'o l'ius X is not in sympathy with tho prohibition idea spreading through this country (United Stales). Mgr. Roller's remarks aro deemed significant because ho was among the first priests to bo raised to tlio rank of Papal ] ii\aio Chamberlain by tho present 1 ontitf. "Tho Pope certainly does believe in temperance," he said, "that is, moderation in all things, but not absolute prohibition. That is not the spirit <rf freedom, but of autocratic government. Tho Holy Father himself takes a glass of wino, and believes that men should be allowed to uso their own judgment in what they should eat and what they should drmk, and not havo other men decide matters for them."—New York "Times." THE RIGHT HON. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIr». "I lwic been a great traveller, and I havo seen prohibition at work in tho United Stales of America, and I rely, in regard to it, much more upon the information I have obtained from impartial intelligent peoplo than I do even on my own observation and the evidence I have received from such persons—persons thoroughly disinterested—is all to tho same oflect: that in towns, at any rate, anything iu the nature of compulsory prohibition of drinking is absolutely impossible, and it only leads bo drinking fn worse forms than under the old system. There is no doubt whatever that Mis :s a class measure in the strongest sense of the word. It affects the poor, it does not afl'eot the rioh. It interferes with tho poor man in his convenience, in ltis comfort, in all tho arrangements of his life; it docs not touch tho.home of tho man who has property of his own." SIR JAMES PAGET. "Tho best, and, iu proportion to irambor, Ui3 largest quantity of brain work has been,' and still is being, doiio by tlw people of thoso nations in mhich the uso of alcoholic liquors has hecn, and is, habitual. ... Oil the wholo, and on tho quostion of national health and strength, I cannot doubt,, with such evidence as wo lmvo, that the habitual moderate uso of alcoholic drinks is generally beneficial, and that -in tlio question raised between temperance and alwlinence, tho . vordiot should be in favour of temper, auce." *

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