THE REV. MR. DOWLE'S IDEALS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 203, 16 May 1918, Page 6

THE REV. MR. DOWLE'S IDEALS

Sirr—The t«r. gentleman who writes to you fi-om KketaUuiia must know thai; there is such a thing as "justification by works." The Man.watu facing Clu'j* oives .650,000 to patriotic purposes, and to help win the war. The Prohibition Partv hoards its money to the- tune o£ ,£50,000, and will only spend it in iU own propaganda, whiOi creates division, dissension, strife, and ill-will, when alt should be united to vin the war. tj Prohibition irould lose the war. ? . Prohibitionists had had ibeir w*y m England before the war ws would all have been under German sway to-day, because there would have been no stocks of alcohol wherewith to make high exposives. Then Mr. Lloyd vieorge says: lho man who drinks a glass of beer is contributing the silver Imllet. to defeat and destroy the enemy." ■It is therefore m these times probably more patriotic to drink beer than tea. At all even s, it w more patriotic to drink bee- moderately. San -ive money and put it into prohibition propaganda; and the same u> .s true regarding contributions to the PP A for it too is a disintegrating, sectional, and leligious batvcu-raievng mBt Kth«. inr litarties are being more mvny-thV would not have a soul to oall SglS^i^ltu^udrelU exalteth a nation/' but the Germans want to force their r khteou. s nes S and their .god upon the Si just as tho Piombition Par J Sli force its vi«!hte~ ( and g od upon this country. abo . ld^w oi methods are not righteous from » Chris Hen sUindpomt), neither aw I I*T lmnest They have sacrificed seven-six-Sβ of Ilir neighbour' trade ; ta. wm (ho war How much of their own.' W rhristhii' Vs that horn-st? Tho ev Sr fe says Prohibitionists e.» muiotic; but I say thei-e is inoro patr otism in the Monawaru Bacing Ci«b than in the whole Prohibition Part, ■ffhv? Because the clnb givos al. U profits to win H.e war; ho Prohibition Partv gives nothing-it- in hoarding «P JBSOOOO for tho purpose of instituting t Ume o ectional hatred in a country that should devote nil its available mouo> ■ ta (fi2nd«T« -ising out of tlu> people's pockets for suc-h disturbing nnroUn o« are the objects of the ProlnS Party and the ]>rotestanjFolijhc. \ssociation is not patriotic, nor is it attune with that righteousness, which ra xUeth a nation-il « n «n »»d * reproach to any. peopleM-,^^