GREAT CATHOLIC LEADERS AND PROHIBITION.
THE OPINION OF HIGH DTGNL'
TAMIES OF THIS CHURCH
It is well that New Zealand CutMks ylioiitci realise ihut the lenders of then Ciiurdies in otiiei' iiuids are amouyst the foremost advocates oi i'rohibitiun Father Mat lie w, thi? of Tempenifiee, \\ho was a Jcgal stiasionist ->.s we!i* as a moral sua?iohist, wrotv -.s ioiions:—"The piiljcipie oi Prohibition seems to Jiie tlic oni\ suie ai»d cercuiu remedy of the eviis oi Jntem'peranio. ilita opihidn lias teijn si ivii^tiie-nfetl and contixiued by tlie html labour of more than twenty year's i'h the temperance cii Use."
700 CATHOI.ro PFJESTS IN QUEBEC Jj'OK I'KOHIIMIION.
The following extract from the Pioneer, a. well-known Canadian newspaper, shows how the Catholic Church iv Canadu stands with regard to fie Prohibition movement;—" A deputation waited upon Sir Lohiyr Gouin, Premier v of Quebec. Among the speakers wns Mgr. Itoy, who represented the Cardinal Ardhbishop. tin spoke strongly in favour of Prohibition. Se^eu hundred priests and en© hundred temperance societies, representing two hundred thousand men and women, had placed theinijeives on record as in favour of doing a fray with the liquor trai*fic. Amongst the hundreds of etftineiit dignitaries who have sufiporteti the Prohibition movement ate the following:— Archbishop John J. Keafte. Ai-ehbishdp Bruehfesi, of JMdntreal. , Archbishop J, E< jftojv, D.T)., of Quebec. Bishop J. V. Itegis Canevinj of Pittfrbui'gh. Bishop J. J» Hennessey, D.D., of Wichita. , '■—. ■ fiiehop John J. Matiafeh&n, D.D., .df
Wilmfhgton. Bishojj John J. Nilan, DiD., of Hartford. . T Bishop Paul P. Rhode* of Qreen Bay; lit. Rev.' M»^r. James E. Cassidy, ot • Fall Rivir. " .".: Areliii)ishoji Jaiftes* J. Keane, bf Dubuque, lowa. Bishop Loras, of Dubuque, lowa. Bishop John P. CarrolJ, of Helena. *
GREAT CATHOLIC LEADERS AND PROHIBITION.
Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17544, 10 April 1919, Page 4
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