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Show H THEODORE ROOSEVELT SAYS: . 'TClie good citken will demand Hb- M . rty for himself, and ok a matter of HM rFde he will see to It that others M clll receive the liberty which, he thus H claims as his own. Probablyrtho best H , j test of truo lore of liberty In any jlr country Is the maimer In which mln- H orities are treated In that country. R Jffot only shonld there be complete MT liberty in matters of religion ancLopIn- MV Jon, but COMPLETE LIBERTY FOR L tiSACH MAN TO LEAD HIS LIFE kS HE DESIRES, PROVIDED ONLY f THAT IN SO DOING HE DOES NOT K ,t!WRONG HIS NEIGHBORS. Wide f1 (Xfrfierence of opinion in matters of re- Hl pllgiaus, political and social belief H8 (3nost oxist If conscience or, Intellect HP fullke are not to be Btunted, if there Is M to be room for healthy growth. BIT- H !i!ERR INTERNECINE HATREDS, J JBASED ON SUCH DIFFERENCES, Mi ;!ARE SIGNS NOT OF EARNBST- mr- f&Ess of belief, but of that M FANATICISM which, whether W &ELIGIOUS Ok ANTI-RELIGIOUS M DRMOCRATIC OR ANTI-DEMO- t CJLA.TIC, IS ITSELF BUT A MANI- l FESTATION OF THE GLOOMY H BIGOTRY WHrCH HAS1 BEEN THE H CHIEF FACTOR IN THE DOWN- i 2?ALL OF SO MANY NATIONS." H JOHN SHERMAN, AWrtRICAN H STATESMAN. Hi ' Many Times United States Senator, fllj President of Senate, and Sec- Iretary of State. "The contest for ages has shown that the attempt to regulate- the appetite ap-petite of people cannot be successful. The sooner any community appreciates appreci-ates that the bettor. .No party can, carry that load on Its shoulders and succeed very long." EX-GOVERNOR MALCOLM W. PAT-TERSON PAT-TERSON OF TENNESSEE. wL "Prohibition is fundamentally and 1, ' profoundly wrong as a governmental W policy. Tho only hvw the state could Im V euact which could properly be called a prohibition law of that could pos- elbly reach the end said to be de- fl sired to prevent tho use of liquor M "would be one which would make the M , use a crime." COUNT LEO TOLSTOI, NOTED AU- THOR AtfD PHILOSOPHER. !mi "Why should there be any prohibi tion of the sale of alcoholic drink? Why shouldn't I have tho Tight to ! drink just what I like, provided I do '; ii decently and not to excess? Be- H'i cause one person mokes a fool of him- H l ; Belt is no reason why tho next por- H son. Bhouid be doprlved of. It. The H''j people of America seem to be ending H ( in a wholly wrong direction la this H , matter." 1 OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, ; NOTED AUTHOR AND PHILOSOPHER. H "While advocating temperance H 'J nmong our people and all appropriate H I measures to promote it, I bellevo that IH the adoption of tho proposed amend ment to tho constitution prohibiting tho sale of intoxicating liquors would not accomplish Its intended purpose, but would lead to the surreptitious use o( Inferior wines and liquors." UNITED STATES SENATOR VEST. H '"I am opposed to prohibition. I H am opposed to It on principle. I am opposed to It notwithstanding the i slurs that are made by Its advocates r that every man who dafes oppose It favors'intemperance and'ia working In the saloon Interest. If you cannot trust ' people, their individual Judgment and their conscience, and their conviction l after discussion, as to their health i and "what they shall drink, in .the ' name of common senso how can you trust them at the ballot box with tho I . destiny of the country T' RT. REV. THOMAS F. LILLIS, Bishop of Leavenworth, Kansas. "Absolute prohibition has provon Impracticable, If not a dismal failure, and there Is probably as much violations viola-tions of the law In those states where prohibition Is widespread as there Is j in those states where the authorities ' ji have hesitated to enforce the present ', I existing laws for the regulation of the liquor traffic. Prohibition is an deal 1 its enthronement in this country would indeed be a great blessing If It could be enforced. However, it Is only on-ly a dream, an Idea, and for this rea-' rea-' son It is better to havo high license and proper police regulation." BISHOP HALL OF VERMOtlT. "Prohibition drives underground the mischief which It seeks to aure, mak-' mak-' Ing it more difficult to deal with the - evil and impossible to regulate tho i trade, aB, for instance, in the quality of liquor sold." i BISHOP BROWN OF ARKANSAS. i" "Generally speaking, I have also I; i this objection to tho prohibitory movo- a ment In the Interest of any form of righteousness, that it Is an attempt j to build upon the sand and a resort to the evil of tyranny that good may ' i be accomplished. I am profoundly con- vinced that tho superstructure "which I I I prohibitionists are seeking to erect I j I will not stand." 1 ARCHBISHOP J. L. SPAULDING OF 1,1 PEORIA. lk "There Is a law of human nature. I' i .. "that excessive pressure brought to B'lj'i bear on any special form pf evil Te- I ft suits in other evil; and now -when va- IM y j rious influences are diminishing in- IJjr ' temperance in America, there seems H j to be no sufficient reason tor calling Hj, (I upon tho state to prohibit tho manu- III factirrc and sale of alcoholic liquor b. private, personal and domestic affairs the freer and happier we shall be." CARDINAL JAMES GIBBONS OF BALTIMORE. "I have never been able to convince myself that what we call total abstinence ab-stinence Is essential to morality. Tho moderate and occasional use of all alcoholic al-coholic liquors is not to be condemned con-demned In countries like France and Italj, where people as a rule drink wine, no serious harm results from the practice. Even in Rome, even at the vaticau, wine Is not prohibited, and as we know the papal doctors themselves prescribe It for His Holiness Holi-ness Then, again, I long since came to understand that, putting aside tho point of principle, it was virtually Impossible Im-possible to enforce a total abstinence law in a large community or in a state. The attempt to enforce such a law must consequently lead to one of the worst things illegality or hypocrisy; hypoc-risy; possibly both " HENRY WARD BEECHER, NOTED DIVINE. "If you say I ought not to drink I may agree with you, but if you say I shall not drink, I will drink and whatever I please, because that is my right." BISHOP LINES OF NEWARK, N. J. "Prohibition leads to the formation of clubs which cannot be controlled and which are more demoralizing than saloons," BISHOP JOHNSON OF TEXAS. "I would bo the last to curtail or infringe upon the rightB of men engaged en-gaged in the liquor traffic, for I believe be-lieve that they have as much right under the law to sell liquor as I havo to preach." ' BISHOP GRAFTON OF WISCONSIN. "I cannot agree wfth those who think the taking of wine In moderation modera-tion is wrong, becauso the process of fermentation Is one of God's created acts, and the Divine Master of tho Christian religion turned water into "wine.". BISHOP HOFFMAN OF PHILADELPHIA. PHILADEL-PHIA. "You cannot legislate people Into being good and prohibition does not accomplish its desired end after all, as witnessed in the state of Maine, which is anything but a closed stato except in name " BISHOP POTTER OF NEW YORK. "Our prohibitory laws, whether we put them in operation on one day or all days, are as stupid as they aro ineffectual. in-effectual. Most of our methods for dealing with the drink eil in our day and generation are tained with false hood, dishonored by essential unreality unreal-ity and discredited by widespread and consistent failure." BISHOP DOANE OF NEW YORK. "No such law can be framed that will not create popular excitement by its alleged Interference with individual individ-ual liberty and Its unfair discrimination discrimin-ation of privileges between classes, or will be used, as It has been for many years, as a means of extorting money by city officials and violators of the law to purchase Immunity." BISHOP FOX OF GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN. "I do not think there are five bishops bish-ops in tho country who fnvor prohibition." prohibi-tion." BISHOP CLARK OF RHODE ISLAND "Prohibition has been disastrous to the cause of temperance." BISHOP PERRY OF IOWA. "There is Just as much drunkenness drunken-ness under prohibitory laws as there ever was before. Prohibition does not prohibit. I have lived in five states where It utterly failed." BISHOP CHARLES D. WILLIAMS OF MICHIGAN. "I do not believe that absolute prohibition pro-hibition is possible," BISHOP NEELY OF MAINE. "The clubs are simply coteries of young men who call themselves clubs i and get together and have their bottles bot-tles in their closets. I am sure that these clubs have a very bad offect In that young men who never drank at all previously have done so in the secrecy of the club, as they call It; that they would not be seen to drink over a bar, but they do it in their club room." BISHOP DONOHUE OF WEST VIRGINIA. VIR-GINIA. "I most earnestly protest against threatened prohibition legislation." ARCHBISHOP 1V1ESSEMER OF MILWAUKEE, MIL-WAUKEE, WIS. "I do not bolieve that we can reform re-form men by law Prohibition, according accord-ing to many observers, actually brings more liquor thai the open sale of In toxicants under police supervision " RIGHT REV. THEQPHILE MEER-CHAERT. MEER-CHAERT. Biehop Catholic Diocese, Oklahoma. "Honest people have taken it as an insult to their American freedom. It haH brought many to a point where thoy have no respect for tho law or for an oath, and there has been by far more drinking and much -more abuse of liquor than ever before.'1 CARDINAL.EDWARD MANNING. "Drunkenness is not the sin'dfdrlnk but of the drunkard." v BISHOP BROOKS OF OKLAHOMA. "I am not strictly opposed to anyone's any-one's using liquor. It is a matter of man's personal privilege." MONSIEGNEUR HARKINS OF MASSACHUSETTS. 4 Vk-&A& berf-kaa jiw jtfobJWioiy, I laws were in offect In thfa.state and know "the evihs which existed under them. Under no license in Holyoko thet'o would he less drinking but more drunkenness." ARCHBISHOP RICHARD WHATELY OF DUBLIN. .- ' Author and Scholar "As for thoso who endeavor to enlist en-list scripturo on their side by maintaining main-taining that tho wine mentioned in the scripture was not an intoxicating liquor, they must either be themselves very Ignornnt and silly, if thoy real ly believe It, or must bo fostering a pious fraud in tho hope of deluding tho simplo into what is right under false pictenses. And pious frauds almost al-most always do more harm than good to tho cause for which they are employed.'' em-ployed.'' BISHOP GAILOR OF TENNESSEE. "I believe that the general tendency of tho Episcopal clergy is to favor r 'I er than oppose a well regulated saloon." ARCHBISHOP RYAN. '"Regarding tho ethics of tho question, ques-tion, I am constrained to say that many false principles and not a lit-tlo lit-tlo fanaticism have charactorhed the movement. I am In favor of total ab stinenco for all poople who deslro and need it. I favor high license and every means consistent with true principles prin-ciples and duo rospoct for individual liberty to promote tho practice of temperance " RABBI HERSCH OF CHICAGO. "The best safeguard against drunkenness drunk-enness is that drinking should be enjoyed en-joyed openly " REV. DR. BLANCHARD OF PORTLAND, PORT-LAND, ME. "My eyes were opened to the groat evils of prohibition in :i very few years. Tho clubs organized by young men, tho soiling of vile decoctions by women and children, tho hypocrisy and corruption, arrested my attention." atten-tion." REV. LYMAN ABBOTT, AUTHOR AND EDITOR. "It was not the method of Jesus. He lived In an age of total abstinence societies and did not Join them. Ho emphasized the distinction betweon Ills methods and those of John tho Baptist, that John came neither eating eat-ing or drinking; the Son of Man came eating and drinking He condemned con-demned drunkenness, but ncvor iu a single instance lifted up his voice in condemnation of drinking. He commenced com-menced his public ministry by making mak-ing wine in considerable quantity and of fine quality, and this apparently only to ndd to the joyous festivities of a wedding.'.' VERY REV. DR. D. J. HARTLEY OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS. "Everyone knows that there are many saloons that are perfectly orderly or-derly and lawabidlng, where people go to drink their beer in peace, with congenial companions, and whoro a drunkard Is scarcely ever seen Have I as a minister any more right to interfere with the business of such a place than a saloonkeeper would havo to disturb tho pence of my congregation congrega-tion while at worship7" REV. JACOB B. MEEKER OF ST. LOUIS, MO. "The greatest fallacy of tho pros-ent pros-ent time Is that of the right of the 1 majority. This nation has attained its greatness through Its recognition of tho Inalienable right of every man. If I stop a man from drinking beer he has the right to stop mo from drinking drink-ing coffee." REV. DR. W. C. HELT, EVANSVILLE, IND., EX-SUPERINTENDENT ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE. "I am by naturo and education a teetotaler, and have been an ardent and sincore advocate of prohibition. I have reached the place, however, where I will' no longer allow my desires de-sires to bias my judgment as to the best method of dealing with so important im-portant a matter as the drink question. ques-tion. Methods of work must be adapted to meet the present conditions. condi-tions. To attempt to force a law of any character upon tho people against their protest will fail in its purpose. Laws cannot bo successfully enforced without a sustaining public sentiment." senti-ment." REV. F. P. KEICHER, OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. "One of my greatest surprises were the conditions prevailing in what I had hoped to prove a model prohibition prohibi-tion state. Back 'in my town of Milwaukee, Mil-waukee, a city of 3G0.000 inhabitants, there aro 2600 saloons and thirteen breweries, but I must confess that in my five months' residence In your new state I have seen more drunkenness and lawlessness than I ever saw in Milwaukee in five years' time." REVj FATHER T. J. CONALTY, PRES. CATHOLIC TOTAL ABSTINENCE AB-STINENCE SOCIETIES AMERICA. "I have seen tho prohibition principle princi-ple in our local laws, and my experience experi-ence of Increased haunts of vice and Increased difficulties for temperance work have led mo to despise the farce of attempting morality by law. These are some of tho reasons that urge me, as a total abstainer, to add my protest against placing in our constitution consti-tution a law which appears to me to be bad in morals and impractical In politics." |