The American issue. [volume], December 12, 1913, Page 7, Image 7

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The AntLSaloon League
Editorial by Rev. Father P. J. O’Callaghan, President of the
Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America in the
Catholic Temperance Advocate for November.
The Anti-Saloon League will cele
brate the 20th anniversary of its estab
lishment by holding a Jubilee Con
vention during the second week of
this month in Columbus, Ohio. All
signs point to a great and memorable
gathering of veteran warriors and en
thusiastic neophytes in the struggle
against the saloon. We feel that ev
ery friend of temperance ought to
wish all success to the forces gath
ered in Columbus under the banners
of the Anti-Saloon League. The
Catholic Total Abstinence Union of
America in its resolutions formed at
many conventions has repeatedly con
gratulated the Anti-Saloon League on
its successful attacks upon the saloon.
It is fitting that at this moment the
felicitations of the past should be re
peated.
We feel that all friends of temper
ance ought to be bound by bonds of
sympathy with all who fight on the
side of temperance. None has waged
a more consistent or a more persist
ent fight against the saloon than has
the Anti-Saloon League. In season
and out of season that League has
watched for opportunity to cripple the
saloon power and to overthrow it
whenever possible. There has been
The Catholic Total Abstinence Un
ion of America cannot be affiliated
with the Anti-Saloon League. Our
National Union is a religious organ
ization and such all the wisest friends
of temperance want it to remain. The
Anti-Saloon League has never asked
tor affiliation and respects our Union
because of the position it has main
tained. The purposes of the Anti
Saloon League do not clash with the
purposes of our National Union. They
belong to a field into which our Na
tional Union cannot go as an organ
ization without destroying its useful
ness in its own field of activity.
There is so much for all to do, it
behooves every organization and every
man to do that work well which his
hands have found to do. A great cause
ought to inspire great charity among
its defenders and establish bonds of
sympathy amongst all who face the
same enemies.
We congratulate the Anti-Saloon
League on its many years of valuable
service in the cause of temperance.
We know of no religious or civic
organization that has done as much
as it has done to eliminate the saloon
in large sections of our country. We
believe the saloon is a proximate oc
casion of sin for so many thousands
that it seems to us not only the right
of citizens to eliminate it but rather
their duty to extirpate it wherever
possible. We hope the great conven
tion in Columbus will inspire new zeal
in those who are fighting the great
battle against the most destructive en
emy of our country and humanity.
SULLIVAN GAVE ’EM A KNOCK
OUT BLOW.
Sullivan, Ind., November 12.—Jack
son township, Sullivan county, voted
against having saloons at the local
option election here by a majority of
247.
THE BARTENDER.
By Rev. F. E. Inezer.
The dirty grog shop on the street
The worthless bums are filling,
Some dressed in broadcloth gay
And others dressed in drilling.
Behind the bar the tender stands
As fat as any possum;
His hair awry, an eye knocked out,
His nose a toddy blossom.
Farmer—I have a brownleghorn
down home that lays the year around.
Cityman—Oh, that’s nothing. We
have a milkman at home who lays
a bottle of milk in front of our door
every morning.—Judge.
IHJ UlbgUlaC dliu LUC odlUUll iiilCitSLO
have learned to fear and to hate the
Anti-Saloon League. We honor it for
the enemies it has made, as well as
for the services it has rendered to the
cause of temperance.
It has been said that the Anti-Sa
loon League has made mistakes. It
is always a safe assertion to declare
that any human organization has
made mistakes. What organization or
what individual has not made mis
takes? Let him who is without fault
cast the first stone. We regret that
some friends of temperance have vied
with friends of the saloon in condem
nation of the Anti-Saloon League.
The sympathies of the former ought to
make a vast difference in their esti
mate of the League over the estimate
made for obvious reasons by the lat
ter. Friends ought not to exaggerate
at all events the faults of friends. Our
sympathies reveal our real friendships.
It is good to be so well-balanced and
so catholic-minded that we can enter
into the feelings of all sorts of peo
ple. But that is quite a different mat
ter from making chameleons of our
selves and changing the color of our
sympathies with every newest asso
ciation. We owe charity to all men
but sympathy only to those whom we
deem worthy of love and admiration.
Our sympathy is with the Anti-Saloon
League and we view its faults with
the eyes of friends and not with the
eyes of those who have plenty of
reason for hating it.
Hit; / *
COLUMBUS GREETED THE ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE
CONVENTION, ALL RIGHT
—From Ohio State Journal.