NO-LICENSE CRUSADE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 136, 4 December 1911, Page 5

NO-LICENSE CRUSADE.

IN PALMERSTON. By Telegraph—i Press Association. Pakneraton N., Last Night. The No-license crusade is being carried on most vigorously here. Nearly ail the clergymen (except the Anglicans and the Roman Catholics) preached on the subject last Sunday evening. The Rev. Mr, Doull, St. Andrew's Church, preached strongly in favor of prohibition, and other ministers have also done so.

The Rev. Mr. Rosher.. (Anglican Church), however, recently referred in a sermon .to temperance as against prohibition, and to-day, at St. Patrick's Church, the Re.v. Father Costello read a circular letter from Archbishop Redwood in reference to the state ment of the Rev. Hammond, of Sydney, who is touring the country for the, No-license League, as follows: "Leaders of the No-license Party 1 have publicly declared that if national prohibition is carried', one of the. results will be that after about ten yeare no wine, even for medicinal or sacramental purposes, will be allowed into the Dominion. As this would render the celebration of Mass impossible, we ■feel obliged to warn our people aginst prohibition and to warn them not to vote for it." ' Father Costello said that ho would not have referred to this matter otherwise, though in some other churches here sermons favoring prohibition had been preached. The Catholic doctrine was one of temperance. The men who preached that wine wias in itself'evil, must preach that Christ was a bod man. His first miracle was to convert water into wine at the request of his worker, which declared to be the best wine kept to the last elements. Good wine and good spirits were not evil, but were created by God himself. It wm not their' use but their abuse that the Church Condemned. There was no harm in taking wine in moderation. For those who could not take it in moderation by their own free will, then teetotaiism was the nemedy. This was- a free country, and reform should be a free will reform and not an enforced' one.