Show THE CRU CHURCH IN ACTION AGAINST AGAIN sr prohibition fab tn ir ISM rev 3 V F milbank rector 0 of st pauls episcopal church at wellington kansas wiles ns as follows you ask for my opinion as n priest in regard to this great issue OFir first st let me say I 1 dislike prohibition hibi tion intensely to my mind it is all wrong or at least it goes nebout tha which it desired to accomplish com altogether 0 in the wrong 0 wy to my mind prohibition is tantamount t an to moral amoral weakness I 1 haye seen a great teal deal of it have ched its it comings and goings and have even done my iny best as a i just minded man to see sec renson in it to me it stands weighed w ei ched in I 1 n tile balance anil and ay a working fictor factor even in that which it desires to accomplish com or promote ote was found sadly wanting 1 I believe a 1 nation of be a nation altion 11 of hypo crits prohibition breeds bleed 1 and fosters suspicion dinong among neighbors it means behind doors it ninan all that is not open and above board it not otil only y breeds a sort of of secretiveness of ones onea actions but worse vorse still it introduces a condition of espionage which is boine thing repulsive vo to tiny any free eng lish speaking citizen 1 I hate ha t drunkenness trun kenness it is beastly inexcusable but I 1 fear and loathe prohibition still more moie I 1 bould sooner see sec a son of mine some homo home drunk beastly ns as that would be than alian to think that my boy was a sneak and a liar you ran can onto cure and sober a drunkard many lany have been redeemed but never liever yet have I 1 known a sneak or a liar changed into a detent decent man mail no I 1 hate prohibition intensely because as I 1 I 1 have said it breeds dishonesty and a lack of ca candor lidor and were my church the episcopal to commit itself to such on plural platform as a anany many chur churches thes have I 1 would resign tomorrow tomo irow send bend in my vestments and ao goto to work at soi uw else but there i Js s ono one tiling thing which two churches in america and throughout tho the world will never ilo do I 1 refer to the koman homan catholic episcopal churches wid and that is to take up this prohibition question Us as it now stands and andis J 1 is now managed inan ped indeed one ime cEtlin lannot ot le be a prohibitionist and still boliere in the inspiration of holy writ temperance is one thing and it iipp neph livis te 0 o all our appetites and ales desires aes ues prohibition is quite another the theone one is 18 strength tile the other weakness I 1 After living sonic years in an auti anti I 1 have conle conic to the he conclusion that tile the absence of tho the licensed saloon by no means abrogates or does away with drink ing or drunkenness it only seems to nie mo to kielp tho the druggist draggist grow grov rich i on that pernicious signing 91 gning a lie am ae I 1 call it when a man sneaks into a drug diug toie ditore and whispers he wants hows holds up tip am iii j hand halli ami allds swears wears chit t what 1111 I 1 myself y have been asked in a kansas town of when I 1 went into drug store for a L bottle bf wino wine for holy communion to sign a LIE so I 1 refused to celebrate the holy Bac sacrament until I 1 could openly procure the wino ivin witt without lout subterfuge what more could I 1 say 1 I 1 might quote great men inen Clad gladstone stone bismarck lincoln b back ick to washington anglon in glon and further farther yet back to canas marriage feast I 1 feet feel th that lt 1 I am in excellent cel lent coln company pany und in tile the society ind and companionship of the men who vao have made or help to make the v orld what it is |