Show I IDE PROHIBITION lUmU OPPOSED The Rev George Eliot Cooley Cooler at atone atone atone one time Ume was waa one of the most influential influential Ual Methodist t ministers in Vermont He was as prominent and popular in his hJ own church He fought foucht openly against the tho statewide prohibition law Jaw lawIn JawIn lawin In Vermont and aDd when that state I voted vot against statewide prohibition and in favor of licensing the saloon I the Rev Mr Hr Cooley Cooler played a principal part in that campaign in speaking of ot the tho statewide prohibition law Jaw in 1901 1981 before fore the Methodist conference of Vermont Mr Cooley said aid Good men mea and sincere ten men ean eon and do differ honestly on en the results of this tit law I stand staad unqualified unqualifiedly ly Jy on OR the tha ground of temperance am a a J of or life Ufe to which all U individuals are amenable We Weare W Weare 8 are coming to see that it is Ie Im Impossible impossible possible to bring brine brIn the Kingdom of ot God by b legislation yet aa as ear earnest earnt nest neat men HI we are anxious to de determine termine upon the tha best beat t method of ot dealing with the temperance evil I May Mar Ma it U not be possible Ible that In is the tha effort to prevent present this thle evil of in intemperance Intemperance temperance by b a Ii state tate prohibitory law we are fostering greater and more Insidious evils evUa Ite Re Respect for the tb courts has been un undermined undermined by b the wholesale die dis disregard dJ regard of law l w confidence In judi judicial cial processes has baa been destroyed by ao so many man miscarriages of Jus Justice Justice justies tice ties the oath has bas been inval invalidated invalidated and perjury promoted by bythe bythe bythe the effort to enforce a law which many feel teel under no obligation to observe ob Me MeThe The condition of things thus brought about ought to be appalling to the teacher ther of morals and the advocates of or law Jaw and order ord r Who IB is not aware of the great reat injury done to te organised society by these persistent attempts atte to subvert the law It tends tens to tomake tomake tomake make officials candi candidates candidates dates for tor office dissimulating and when elected unfaithful and hypocritical The effect of ot the law has been to rear a class clam of men who shamelessly pay fines and bribes and hush huah money in or order order order der to evade its operation and another class which will Just as shamelessly this corrupted money I take Issue l ue emphatically and sin sincerely sincerely with these who would maintain and enforce a state prohibitory law Without the people behind a law In to each oom oem where it Is to be enforced that law Is to Impotent Bishop Satterlee says MY Prohibition has been tried in other places place II and It ItI I has been found wanting In Maine which is pointed out as the first place where prohibitory laws were wre enacted prohibition is la a farce I r am persuaded per says Cardinal I Gibbons that it is practically Impossible Impossible Impossible sible to put prohibition into effect in any large community Laws like prohibition that are certain to be vio violated violated 10 fated had best beet not be made for tor Inces Incessant incessant sant violation draws drawl upon them dis disrespect respect re Cardinal Gibbons is a great force for but is 19 not an idealist No one will chit great prince of ot the Roman Catholic church of being in the pay of ot the liquor inter interests Interests interests ests Bishop Perry of ot Iowa said There Theres Is s just as much drunkenness under the prohibitory laws In Iowa as there here ever was before Prohibition does doea not prohibit I 1 have lived In five states where it failed utterly The Th drug stores became the saloons Four thousand housand druggists in Iowa took out government licenses to sell whisky and it is to be supposed that they tho would not pay 25 for tor the privilege unless they really meant to sell seU whis whisky whisky ky ny Bishop Gallor of ot Tennessee lives in ina Ina ina a state where they have a statewide prohibition law it was passed paned by the theD Democratic D patty and its enforce enforcement enforcement ment is in the hands of at the tho Demo ratio party Memphis Tenn Tonn has three times as many saloons In pro proportion proportion proportion portion to population at the present time line as has Salt Lake Such a dras dra drasIc drastic tic Ic law Jaw as prohibition says Bishop Gallor Imposing a special theory of ot morals upon a community must be become become come ome a provocation p of o deception and lying and disrespect for law which lire are re worse wo e 1 an intemperance In Intemperate temperate legislation is as bad as the Intemperate use of food and ald drink These men all take the position that hat where the sentiment of or a 8 com community community favors the tho prohibition of liquor quor r as av a beverage that It can oan be bedone bedone done one and the law will wUl be obeyed They take the position also that it Is I I not DOt possible pos able to compel the enforce enforcement ent meat ment of ot a sumptuary law where whore the sentiment of ot the community ie is 1 I against it |