Show BISHOP CANNON IS DRY LAW CHAMPION American Clergyman Gives Englishmen Reasons for Prohibition tion Acts By Robert P. P Th f 8 r lal CaMe Dispatch Universal l Service Staff tarr O Correspondent rrt London April IS The IS-The The heaviest hea broadside yet delivered in En England land from an American source source- in the Interests Interests Inter Inter- ests of or prohibition appears In la the form of or a three column letter to the London London Loudon Lon Lou don Times by Bishop Cannon of or the t o Methodist Episcopal church at Washington Wash Wash- In ington ton The communication Is a stinging re reply reply re- re pl ply to Prof Pro Stephens I. I cock of or McGill Mc- Mc I jill Gill university who recently wrote to the same paper An An appalling catastrophe ph has b s overtaken overtaken over over- taken tho the United States and el eight ht provinces of Canada In the form of prohibition resulting from crusades financed b by minded feeble-minded philanthropy philanthropy philan philan- and inspired by brutal and In Intolerant Intolerant intolerant in- in tolerant fanaticism Bishop Cannon who Is now v in London London London Lon Lon- don read Professor Lec c ek ck a lesson in American constitutional law and points out that prohibition was an active active active ac ac- ac- ac tive issue In the tho congressional elections elections elec dee Ions of or 1916 the prohibitionists winnIng winning winning win win- ning in an open fight by a popular ote Vote He continues The opponents of prohibition worked ceaselessly day da and night but lost every battle because because because be be- cause the politicians in Congress knew that the great reat majority of the people of the United States desired tion Toda Today there four are arc I thirty four four states dry b bs' bs state laws apart from federal laws It cannot be too stron strongly l emphasized emphasized em em- that the tho prohibition movement movement move move- ment has been Christian Inspiration independent for its persistent vitality from the active support of or the Protestant Protestant Pro Pro- churches Its inspiration has not been a desire desire desire de de- de- de sire to persecute ones one's fellow men but to help them b by prohibiting a traffic characterized b by the United States supreme court as the most prolific prolific pro pro- source of or insanity pauperism vice and crime and L by removing the traps trap which have swallowed up the earnings and the tho vitality of or the fa fathers fathers fa- fa theta and caught and maimed and ruined the children The governors go of or thirty states re recently recently re- re over their own signatures natures de declared declared de- de dared their belief in the value of pro pro- Are none of them gentlemen gentlemen gentle gentle- men 1 |