THE ROMAN CATHOLIC.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 81, 17 November 1911, Page 5

THE ROMAN CATHOLIC.

CHURCH AND THE LIQUOR TRADE. The “'Trade" is in a bad way when they start to send for eminent church divines to see them through. We do not wish for one moment to say that some of the dead men did not say what is alleged, but with the exception of Cardinal Manning it is our intention to quote living men. 'The present Pope Pius the X learned that liquors were sold within the Vatican walls and he ordered a stop to be put to it at once. Cardinal Gibbons: 1 am heartily and absolutely in favour of local option.

Archbishop Ireland: Would God place, in my hand a wand with which to dispel the evil of intemperance, I would strike at the door of every saloon, every distilling, of every brewery until the accursed traffic was wiped from the face of thid earth. Cardinal Logue: Abolish the liquor traffic and we will win the iforlcl for Christ.

Father Doyle, the great “Panlist Priest,” says: Of all the evils that have cursed mankind; crushed women’s hearts, sent youth to destruction, driven virtue to the haunts of shame, and paved the pathway, to hell, there is nothing can compare with the evils of the liquor traffic. Cardinal .Manning: For thirty years I have been priest and bishop in London, I have learned some lessons, and the first is this: The chief bar to the working of the Holy Spirit of God on the souls of men and women is intoxicating drink. In conclusion, just take the latest plenary Council held in Canada and nearly the whole of the Archbishops and Bishops there were dead out against the liquor traffic, and the same happened at the Baltimore Plenary Council, and the trade have the cool cheek to endeavour fo unhide the church for their own ends.*