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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 74

The Church of Rome

The Church of Rome.

The late Cardinal Manning's successor England Cardinal Yaughan, is as staunch an opponent of the crime of crimes, the Liquor Traffic, as was Cardinal Manning himself.

Father Matthew, a Prohibitionist.—Father Matthew was one of the early member of the United Kingdom Alliance for the legislative prohibition of the Liquor Traffic, and when joiningit wrote asfollows; "With rapture I hail the formation of the United Kingdom Alliance. I laboured for the suppression of intemper-ance until I sacrificed my health and little property in the glorious cause. The effort of individuals, however zealous, were not equal to the mighty task. The United Kingdom Alliance strikes at the very root of the evil. I trust in God that the associated efforts of many good and benevo lent men will effectually crush a monster gorged with human gore."

In America the Church of Rome is very much to the front in the conflict against the Liquor Traffic.

The American Catholic Times said :—"If Intemperance had not been the pre-vailing vice in America during the past 40 years, the membership of the Catholic Church would be larger by several millions; while her receipts for charitable and educational purposes would be more than doubled."

At its session held on June 3, the Catholic Abstinence Society of the Arch-diocese of Boston adopted the following resolutions:—

Resolved—" That we give our hearty indorsement to no-license as a wise and prudent policy, and the members of out societies are exhorted to labour in their res-pective cities and towns for the complete and final stamping cut of the saloon."

Archbishop Ireland, who received & letter from the Pope dated March 27, 1887 extolling his zeal in the cause of Temper ance, said before the Minnesota Catholic Total Abstinence Union, June 5, 1889:—"We thought we meant business years Ago in this warfare, but 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 Rumsellers. We imagined that there was some power in moral suasion, that when we would show them the evil of their ways they would abandon the traffic. We have seen that there is no hope of improving in any shape or form the Liquor Traffic There is nothing now to be done but to wipe it out completely," [unclear: CathoK] Follow Citizens, here arc cogent reasons for striking out the top line only or you voting paper.

Every great mission which seeks to [unclear: rescue] the submerged and improve the condition of the worker is a [unclear: ertinst] the [unclear: litpioi] Traffic, as witness the Salvation Army and the [unclear: Itarrtp.rdo] Mission General Booth said of himself in the Wellington Opera House. "I am a Prohibitionist" and gave force ful reasons why.