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Show What Our Own Bishops Say. At a certain Catholic total abstinence meet ins: held in Boston the other day the members were much startled when a speaker Avho Avas supposed to , haA-e an entirely different subject wandered off into a fervent approval of Bishop Potter's "Subwar Saloon." Ho extolled the Protestant Episcopalian bishop for his earnestness, his evident desire to do good, and his success in so doing. In this strain ; did the speaker go on for many minutes. Then i when he had finished there arose quietly another member who said he was rather surprised to hear j in such a place and on such an occasion such Avariu 1 praise given to the zeal, the earnestness, the good j will toAvard the workingman of Bishop Potter. ''Bishop Potter,"' said he, "may be all that has been said of him,' and his saloon may be au excellent j thing. But he is, after all, only a Protestant bish- ' op,-and -what he says and what he does cannot ap- 1 peal to Catholics as forcibly as what "a Catholie i bishop might say or do. Sow, I never heard of a Catholic bishop establishing or sanctioning a sa- j loon.. What is more thau this, if avc are loyal j Catholics we will not worry much about Bishop Potter and his ideas on the saloon question. We will go, a3 we arc bound to go. to our own bish-ops, bish-ops, for leadership; and what do they say concern-ing concern-ing the saloon? Do they favor saloons of any kind i -4 If they do I haAe yet to learn it. I do knoAv thU much, 'however, that in the Council of Baltimom they expressly exhort Catholics to keep out of the saloon business altogether and seek some more seemly way of making a living. That is the Catholic Cath-olic bishop's idea of the saloon. Bishop Potter to the contrary notwithstanding." Bostoniensis in I Union and Times. ' i I |