POPE AND PROHIBITION
PONTIFF’S AID SOUGHT.
INDIGNANT CLERGY,
WASHINGTON, December 5.
Indignation is felt by the Roman Catholic clergy at an attempt to involve the Vatican in the Prohibition controversy. A letter to tho Pope ha.s been sent by the United Prohibition League asking for his moral support of dry law enforcement.
Roman Catholic clergy have denounced the league’s action, which, they say, tends to involve the Vatican in American politics. Rum Row smugglers are spending money lavishly in an effort to land Christmas liquors. Treasury officials have learned that smugglers aro willing to pay £1,000,000 to any portion or group who arranges to keep the coastguard patrol oft lot o«fe asfek
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Evening Star, Issue 19128, 21 December 1925, Page 11
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112POPE AND PROHIBITION Evening Star, Issue 19128, 21 December 1925, Page 11
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