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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7977, 7 December 1911, Page 6

THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. . AND THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC. CARDINAL MANNING said— HOW can we contend against thee# legalised and multiplied facilities and temptations to intoxication? This in my answer to the blind objuration of those who tell us the ministers of religion are not doing their part; let the Legislature do its part, and wo will answer for the rest." New Zealand’s Legislature has done its part; New Zealand looks to the Roman Catholic clergy to do theirs. ARCHBISHOP IRELAND said—"Wo hare seen that there is no hope of, improving in any shape, or form the liquor traffic. There is nothing i now to be done but to wipe it out completely." FATHER MATTHEW wrote- “ Tho question of prohibiting the sale o£ ardent spirits and the many other intoxicating drinks which are now to be found in cur unhappy country is not new to me. The principle of Prohibition seems to me the ONLY SAFE and CERTAIN REMEDY for the evils' of intemperance. This Spinion has been strengthened by the hard labour of more than, twenty years in the temperance cause." REV. FATHER HAYS said—"THE LICENSING SYSTEM of the liquor traffic utterly thwarted the third petition of the Lord’s Prayer, ‘Thy King, dom Come.’ . . "They had a terrible .responsibility resting upon them as citizens of - this great Empire. They had a still weightier responsibility as followers of Jesns Christ, . . . Sacrifice for others was the essence of true civilisation, os it was the essence of Christianity itself." FATHER JOHN O’BRIEN, of Cambridge. Mass., IJ.S.A.: "I would say that No-licenso has been a great success in Cambridge. It removes temptation from the path of the young; it savee innocent children from the demoralising and often shameful scenes of the open barroom. Profoundly conscious of my responsibility to'God for the advice I offer in the matter, with a firm conviction that the interests of religion, moralitjr, and good citizenship are involved, X say to all who hear ' my voice: ‘Vote No-license.’ We can' only hope that Archbishop Redwood is as profoundly conscious of his responsibility in the advice he has offered to Roman Catholics in New Zealand. It is to bo noted by all good Homan Catholics that the Archbishop's cir- . cular letter expresses no opinion on the question of LOCAL NO-LICENSE. __ 7 ARCHBISHOPS AND 27 BISHOPS' signed a pastoral letter, which' was' issued in Canada last year, and which contained'these words:— ‘ "The Church, therefore, is not giving way to VISIONARY FEARS in calling upon her children, and in handing them - together beneath the Standard of “the Cross to organise an energetic campaign against one of the most dangerous enemies of religion and country. In this she stands faithful to her office, and to her traditions.- . . It has, above all, been realised that TRAFFIC IN INTOXICATING LIQUOB SHOULD .BE SUPPRESSED." WHY SHOULD OUR CATHOLIC CHURCH IN NEW RAISE VISIONARY FEARS AND OPPOSE THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST THIS NATIONAL ENEMY? ECHO ANSWERS, ”WHY?"-Advt.