WHAT FATHER ZURCHER SAYS.

White Ribbon, Volume 28, Issue 328, 18 October 1922, Page 5

WHAT FATHER ZURCHER SAYS.

Prohibition bad been a blessing to America. In Buffalo they had a sisters’ institution called The House of the C.ood Shepherd,” and one of the nuns in that institution had told him that before Prohibition four or five drunken women came into the institution every week; after Prohibition, there was one drunken woman brought m ever y four or five months. The Catholic Church in America did not think the liquor business very honourable. The Church told the Catholics to get out of it and make their living in a more honourable way. The Catholic bishops found the liquor traffic to be a moral danger to Catholic people. A Catholic layman in America Chief Justice Tainey— had laid it down that an\ traffic entailing debauchery, pauperism, and misery could be eliminated without infringing the constitution of the US A. The Lord wanted unity, and he believed that when unity was realised between Catholics and Protestants it would be found that its foundations were first laid in the Prohibition move, ment.