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Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15042, 9 April 1919, Page 2

CATHOL.JO6 AND PROHIBITION. ' In other lands Catholics Have, been v^ on2st tlie foremost "workers for Prohibition, and their influence has been a vital factor in its accomplishment. Especially is 1 this the case in the Canadian province-of Quebec, which has carried -l-TohibitiQiCiby.- a large .majority, and wherever 85" per eent./of, the voters are Catholic?.. Had .their • influence and that of the Hierarchy been against Prohibition this great reform would not have been achieved. Prohibition was not earned in Quebec until the leaders of the Church had wafc'hod its operations m other provinces which had gone dry-uv earlier years, and the clergy -were confident that ample supplies of sacramental wines would bo available. How convincing was the proof that Prohibition was a great siiccess and achieved what was claimed for it is shown by the fact that thirteen out of the fifteen Catholic bishops in Querec are Prohibitionists, while the venerable and reverend Cardinal Begin, of the diocese of Quebec was one of its most ardent supporters. Cardinal Merry del Val, writing to the international Federation of the Catholic Anti-saloon League on April 23rd, 1914 said: "The Popes in these latter days j cie i not *'ailed to call attention to the deadly evil you are combaiiing, and have proclaimed the necessity of prompt and effective remedies. How useful it is to show what a scourge alcohol is in its economical, moral, and physiological effects, its connection with tho deterioration of the family, wish the deterioration of society, whose most important interests -are menaced foy it. Hence among social works there are none more pressing than this." | Cardinal Manning, said: "I impeach} the liquor traffic of high crimes and mis-j demeanours against the commonwealth. j| It is mere mockery to ask ns to put down drunkenness^hy moral and religious means when the legislature., facilitates and multiplies inducements intemperance on every hand. Do* you know how you will help to break up the unholy alliance between the Government and the greatest fraud of the age? Vote against* it." Archbishop John Ireland said: "The saloon is the deadly enemy.of the health of the home, of the family/ of the conntry, and of God, and America demands • —and it will demand—in stronger tones yet that this American saloon shall disappear from the face of our fair land. We must -work and bend every effort so that Catholics in political matters will always be arrayed against the liquor interests." Bishop McDonald, Catholic Bishop of Victoria, British Columbia, said: "It seems plain that everyone who has at heart the well-being of his country, and of those who are in any way dependent on.him should cast his Vote and use his influence in favour of Prohibition." Bishop Cleary does not advise his people as to how vaej shall vote on April 10th. He stands for the personal liberty of Catholic electors to vote as their consciences may dicta te. Bishop Cleary, Catholic Bishop of Auckland with no personal interest in either the^ liquor trade or the Prohibition party says: (I) "He is satisfied with the provision to be made, for altar wine"; (2) "For Catholics this question as stated is a free one, to be determined in its last resort by the individual conscience." The "Tablet," which is opposed to Prohibition, says in its issue of April 3rd, 1919, page. 17: "You are not bound in conscience., to vote against Prohibition." 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