STARTLING INDICTMENT. BISHOP OLEABY" SPEAKS OUT. WELLINGTON - , December 15. The recewt issue of Auckland's Roman Catholic magazine, 'The Month,' has just arrived in Wellington, and one of the most surprising features is a powerful editorial by His Lordship Dr Geary, Catholic Bishop of Auckland'. Dealing with the forthcora. ing poll on Prohibition, one paragraph is headed ' Human Wreckage.' Dr deary writes thus regarding the liquor trade: "Herein lies one of the 'tragedies of the traffic in intoxicating drink—the "antagonism between the monetary interests of a large section of 'the Trade' " and the welfare of the individual and the nation. Out in 'No Maifs Land,' " close in front of trenches where we served as a military chaplain, there laid " the piled-up or scattered bodies—all unburied—of over three thousand gallant "colonial storm troops that had been destroyed by a sudden whirlwind of firo v "from the nearby German lines. That moving speotacle of battered bodies does "not represent a tithe of the humaD wreckage left all over this Dominion by " the sins of a considerable section of ' the Trade,' Vhom neither moral suasion "nor the civil law nor the appeal of pity has been able to bring within control. "And the- less appeal there is to conscience in 'the Trade' the more must the "State rely for reform upon its power and right of repressing a traffic the " evils of which it has hopelessly failed to reduce to" the limits of tolerance or "moderation. 'As to the right of a State to suppress the liquor traffic,' «aid " the great Cath6lic Archbishop Spalding, ' there can bo no question, since the /'right to 6uppre:s crime involves the right to suppress its chief cause.' It is "the sins and the sin-making and crime attendant upon the operations of 'the "Trade' that have created the movement for its abolition; .they have furnished "it with its chief driving force; they have made it (in our personal view) a whole"some necessity in a land that would give its best "to the shaping of the new and " better era -that is, we hope, at hand." JQEAR MR PROHIBITIONIST,We do not. require your advice as to how we should vote. We know from experience just what is good for us; also, that our country will be better served by the carrying of Continuance. This will people happy and contented, which is infinitely better than the indu< and general turmoil existing in Prohibition America to-day. We (and the sensible portion of the community) do not mind vour coarse language. J his snows conclusively that you do not know the first rudiments of iemperance. I remain, Yours affectionately, TRUE BRITON. SHOP EARLY TO-MORROW, SHOP EARLY TO-MORROW (ELECTION DAY). Wi: CLOSE OUR WAREHOUSE AT NOON. W. PENROSE AND CO. GEORGE STREET, NOVELTY NEC! EAR AND BLOUSES FOR HOLIDAY WEAR AT I MOLLISONS' I ALL HIGH-GRADE GOODS, at MODERATE rRICES. A STAR LINE.—2SO Dozen NOVELTY NECKWEAR, in Crepe de Chine (,e ,r- ' > •Jap bilk, Organdi, and Swiss Muslin, Voiles, etc.; all new self-colors and YioraT designs; latest sailor roll and capo shapes; perfect goods. Usual price, 5s 6d to 7s 6d. Special Xmas price, all Is each. f ' , , v ~.„,. BLOUSES, ETC., FOR XMAS GIFTS. A Aow Lot of Exclusive Styles in Very Smart Blouses; materials-Crepe de Chines Jap bilks, Voilee. and Radiums. ' HIGH-GRADE WHITE CREPE DE CHINE BLOUSES, hand-made and hand-er eiecl collars; no two Mute; all sizes. Xmas price, «9s 6d each oL p°i„f D Sa C s E T E M d M.OTSBS, now collars, hanTembroidered, in Pale 1 ink, baxe, Lavender, and Black; all sizes. Xmas mice 42s LU V?S C BLOUSES in Light Ground, with' Colored Stripes, in Pink and ".-tures; lngh-class styks; all sizes. Xmas price, 35s each. lilt, XOILk BLOLofcS, real Irish hand-embroidered, with scalloped and lace-edge collars; p iressy and useful holiday blouse; all sizes. Worth 32s 6d Xmas price, 15s 6a each. RADIUM SILK BLOUSES, the popular Costume Blouse of the dav; very smart styles-colors-Pink, Sky, Cream, Fawn, and Black; all sizes. Worth 42s Xmas price', REAL JAP SILK BLOUSES fine quality; roll and square collars; self-colors of Helio P , l , nk '.„ Sk y' Champagne, Sea Green, Cardinal, Cerise, and White; all sizes. Usually 425. Xmas price, 21s. FOR GIFT GOODS THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE MQLLISONS', THE BARGAIN CORNER, GEORGE AND FREDERICK STREETS
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Evening Star, Issue 17226, 16 December 1919, Page 7
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