THE DRINK QUESTION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3027, 26 October 1908, Page 6

THE DRINK QUESTION.

WHAT PROMINENT ECCLESIASTICS SAY ABOUT IT.

CARDINAL MANNING.

"1 wish all trades well but that of the publicans and brewers. The prosperity I wish these trades is that they should cease." "It is no rhetoric nor exaggeration nor fanaticism to affirm that intemperance in intoxicating drink is a vice that stands head and shoulders above all vices by which we are afflicted." * * * CARDINAL VAUGHAN. "The houses of the liquor trade are so many vampires that suck the life blood of the bodies of the poor." * » * ARCHBISHOP IRELAND. "We have seen that there is no I hope of improving in any shape or form the liquor trade. THERE IS NOTHING TO BE DONE BUT TO WIPE IT OUT COMPLETELY."

ARCHBISHOPS AND BISHOPS OF AMERICA. The Catholic Archbishops and Bishops of the United States lately.made a proclamation as follows:—"We also call upon all pastors to induce all of their flocks who may be engaged in the sale of liquor to abandon as soon as they can THE DANGEROUS TRAFFIC, and to embrace A MORE BECOMING WAY OF MAKING A LIVING." * * * A WELLINGTON PRIEST. Father Herron recently preached an impressive sermon on Temperance in O'Donnell's Hall, S. Kilbirnie. He told his congregation how several of his school mates had gone to ruin through drink, and that, when visiting the Wellington Hospital, the nurses would often ask him to look at patients suffering from D.T.'s. Instead of receiving his blessing, they would sometimes curse him. In view of such experiences, it is no wonder that he should urge his people to;VOTE NO-LICENSE at the coming election, and ask them to try and induce their friends to do the same. * * * ! HIS HOLINESS THE POPE. "Pope Pius X. has urged the local clergy to influence landlords to retuse to lease their property for the purpose of establishing wine shops in Rome." ) (Alliance Record, December Ist, 1906). * * * VERY KEV. A. P. DOYLE, of the Paulist Fathers, says : "prink deprives a man of intelligence. Drink enslaves a man's will. Drink plants the lowest animal desires in his heart."