SOME GREAT MEN.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1305, 7 December 1911, Page 6

SOME GREAT MEN.

WHAT THET THE QUES-

DISTINGUISHED CLERGYMEN 4ND OTHERS. • .(Scottish Presbyteriau). — 'Teototalism is au endeavour to raise up a thing into a virtue \Yhich is no virtue. It is based upon a sham. It is absolutely without foundation in Scripture.'

Rev. D. Lyman Abbott (editor of the ' Outlook").—"Prohibition was not tho method of_ Jesus. He lifed in an age of total 'abstinence! societies, and did not join one of them. ' He condemned drunkenness, but never in a single instanco lifted up His voice in condemnation of drinking. He apparently used wine customarily, if not habitually, and before all the world. Hence —He was a 'friend of publicans and sinners.'"

Cardinal Gibbons .(Catholic).—"The moderate use of liquor has never been condemned by the Church."

I'opc Pius X believes that men should be allowed to uso their judgment in what the}' should eat or drink, and not have other men decide for them. Bishop Doyle, of Lismore, N,S.W.,said: —"I aiu not prepared to accept your NoLicense campaign. My reasons are briof■V' y. s> ; - vo " have absolute Prohibition illicit traffic will soon follow. (2nd) Some 15 years ago'l travelled much in the United States of America, and I wish to inform you that I fourad more drunkenness in the prohibited States than in the free ones. No-Liccnse simply means illicit traffic.".

Hev.W m. Salmond, D.D., Otago Univer-sity-—"Prohibition is a harsh and crude measure, its temporary triumph will fill the country with turmoil, will genere.to discontent, and bitter passion, and land us in a quagmire of hypocrisy and fanaticism."

K«v. W. Oarr-Smith, of St. James's Church (Anglican).—"l want to say-thi<i: Nothing would induce me to vote XfcLiconse. Jluch of this literature—literature, I believe, absolutely pernicious—js issued in the name of the religion of Jesus Christ. Now, you cannot, without elosi'i? your eves to much contained in the Bible, condemn the moderate uso of alcohol."

Jiev. Br. Howard Crosby, of the Presbyterian Church, speaking of Prohibition in tho States:—"Prohibition is the greatest enemy to a much-needed reform.".

Kbv. Henry Ward Beecher, thoug.li dead, yet liveth in these words.—"lf you say to me—a lempcr-ato man—that' I ought not to drink, perhaps I would agree with you, but if you tell me that 1 must not drink, I will drink, because 1 have a natural right to do so—to drink what I please."

The Premier of N.S. Wales (Jlr. Wade). "I will not cast a voto in favour of NoLicense-"

Jlr. Doolcy, the world-famous philosopher, says—-"All that Prohibition has done so far is to make drink dear, hard to got, and d-—d bad when you get it." President Lincoln, tho man who abolished slavery, strenuously opposed Prohibition. He said:—"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance). It is a species of intemuorance within itself, for it goes beyond tho bounds of reason ill that it attempts to control a appetite bv legislation, and in making crimes out of things that are not crime. A prohibition law slriltts a blow at the very principle on which our governments are founded. Until mv tongue shall bo silenced in death, I will continue to fight for tho rights of men/'*