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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11730, 4 December 1905, Page 4

Gallic Leaders. HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIII. SAID: " It is well known to us how ruinous, how deplorable is the injury bath to faith and morals that is to bo feared from intemperance in drink. . . . Let pastors do their best to drive tlhe plague of intemperance from tiha fold of Christ by assiduous preaching and exhortation, and to f>hine 'before all as models of abfiraienc3." The. late CARDINAL MANNING • SAID: " I wish well to all trades, bub with a reserve. I hope the baker may bake and sell more bread. I hope the clothier may sell more yards of cloth and make more co.ats. I hope every farmer may sell more wheat. But I cannot say in my heart and conscience that I hope the brewer will brew more beer or the distiller distil move spirits or the publican sail anore of "both. The prosperity I wisfh to this one trade is that it should cease." • The Catholic Archbishops and Bishops of America SAID: "We also call upon -all pastors to induce all of their flocks that may be engaged on the sale of liquors to abandon, as soon as they can, the dangerous traffic, «nd to embrace a •more becoming waj' of making a living." CARDINAL LOGIIE (IRELAND) SAID: "The drink evil -is still sumoiently widespiiead and ruinous to engage the besb energies of the clergy for its extirpation." Archbishop IRELAND SAID: " We thought -we meant business years ago in this warfare. I hope God will forgive us for our weakness, for we went into the battlefield without sufficient resolution. We laboured under the fatal mistake that we could argue out the question with the rum-sellers. We imagined tihers was some power in moral -suasion, tha,t when we wonld show them the evil of their ways. they would 'abandon the traffic. Wo have seen there is no hope of improving dn any shape or form the liquor traffic. There is nothing now to ibe done ibnt to >wipe it out completely." FATHER HAYS SAID: "'My one desire is to do good to my fellow creatures— withcub distinction of race or class or creed to save all from ifche Drink-deinon, the prolific source of poverty, crime, lunacy, i disease, impurity, infidelity, suicide, and murder. There is not a town I in all the Hand in which it has not left its traces an broken' hearts, ruined 'homes, a.nd dishonoured mames. It has wrung tears from the eyes of devoted wives and sorrowing children.* It foas sent loved ones down to an early grave. There is scarcely a home where they do not .mourn one ruined or a life blighted by this' foul and fascinating sin. Is the Liquor Traffic a blessing or a curse? If it is a blessing, 'God speed it ! If it >is a curse, then, in God's name, as Christians, as patriots, as lovers of your fellow<men, protect your children, your homes, your country from a system of temptation, whose prosperity is measured *by tlhe degradation and sin it produces, ana whose riohes are wrung from the tears, the .labour, antl the jlife-blood of the people." The late FATHER MftTHEW SAID: "I laboured for the suppression of intemperance until I sacrificed my (health and little property in the glorious cause. The efforts of individuals, (however zealous, were not equal to the mighty task. The United Kingdom Alliance strikes at the very a-oot of the evil. I trust m iGod tihat the associated efforts of many good and ibenevolent men •will effectually crush a monster gorged with Ihuman gore." He also said: "The principle of Prohibition seems to me to be the oniy saife and. certain remedy for the evils of intemperance. This opinion tos been strengthened and' confirmed by the hard labour of twenty • years in the Temperance cause."

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