ARCHBISHOP O'SHEA'S ADDRESS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 257, 24 July 1920, Page 10

ARCHBISHOP O'SHEA'S ADDRESS

(To the Editor.) Sir,—l read Archbishop O'Shcn's deliverance as reported in your paper with* much satisfaction. Tho community is fast becoming accursed by sectarian bitterness, sectional strife, and un-Christlan hatred, and they who profess to bo tho greater Christians nro those who display most of the un-Christian spirit. Although we are told "Not to judge, lest wo bo judged," yet/I am satisfied that until we get /id of the un-Christian spirit anion? ro-callc-d Cliristians, wo will not have peace in our time. "As far as lieth in you live peaceably with all men." That is an injunction mora honoured in tho breach than in observance by such organisations as the P.P.A. 'and tho prohibitionists. Tho p.p.A, is continuously tilting at tho windmills of the Catholic faith. ■ If the operators of the P.P.A. see the footpath being asphalted in the street where tha priest lives, they put it down, with Christian charity, to the influence at work in the corfioration of the Catholio Church. Tho prohibitionists and tha I.W.W. are continuously waging war against other sections of tho community with as much vehemence and hatred as ono could expect from uncivilised, yet rival tri'bes, in Darkest Africa. Tha Protestant churches aro being degraded by tho prohibition party. The Rev. W. H Freeman, of the Presbyterian Church, Carlisle, New York, who lias spent 6omo: months in tho heart of the prohibition party, says"The Prohibition League, instead of being used by the churches, uses them. If the churches understood how they arc being muck pawns of by the Prohibition League they would revolt." .The llov. Freeman further adds: "If ministers of religion will not submit to being held in bondage by th<* Prohibition League they are coerced by about the same methods which nro used by tlw prohibitionists in coercing legislators. And this is the Rev. Freemans conclusion: "I saw enough of the terrible power which they—the proxibitionists-exert secretly, of the unscrupulous methods tliev use, of their brazen, contemptuous attitude towards the public, and thf com. plete lack of sincerity they exhibit among themselves to convince me that the institution is ono of the most dangerous in tho country." _ At a timo when there is so much to irritate and annoy, exasperate, and provoko, Parliament ought to pass an enactment to suspend th« operations o. th« pp A tho J.W.W., tho Catholic .Federation "tho Prohibitionists, ot hoc genus onme for ten vears, so that we might find an answer to our prayer, at least for a decade, "Give peaco in our timo, 0 Lord."—l am, ctc., PROTESTANT.