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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1914)
t f f ? ? t t T T ? Y ? - f t f T t ? ? ? ? ? ? t ? ? ? ? t t ? t ? f t T t f f T t t ? f Y t Y t t t ? ? ? ? ? ? Y t Y ? t ? ? Y t t ? ? ; f ? t t f Y t f Y f f t ? Y ? Y t ? Y THK fJ A ZTTTTE-TTMES. HEPPXER. OHE.. THURSDAY, OCT. 22, 1014 PAGE THREE Real Leaders in the Churches United in Con demnation of Prohibition Prelates, Priests and Pastors Raise Their Voices in the Cause of Temperance, Not for "Reform by Law" Read What National Thinkers Say: "To (Jrlnk Is no sin. Jesus Christ drank. To keep a Moon la no sin. And any policy that claims tn the name of Christ', or does not claim His name, that deals with the well nlRh universal taste of man for alcohol ON THE BASIS OF LAW AND ORDER ALONE, cannot commend Itself to th brat Intelligence, and Is doomed to fall." REV. DR. RAINSFORD. St George's Episcopal Church, New York City. "It It right to drink wine and beer? It Is right for each Individual to decide that question for himself, and for the community to put such regulations on the sa,u of wine and beer, AND ONLY SUCH, as are necessary to prevent popular excesses and public disorder." REV. LYMAN ABBOTT. "The church of God has never declared the moderate os of alcohol to be a sin; this seems to be left, with other things, as open matters of Christian Liberty," THE REV. CANON WEST, D. D. "As for those who endeavor to enlist Scripture on their Ide by maintaining that the wine mentioned In Scripture was not an Intoxicating liquor, they must either be them selves very Ignorant and silly If they really believe It. or must be fostering a pious fraud in the hope of deluding the simple . . under fnUe pretences." ARCHBISHOP YVHATELY. "All true Amrrlrana, It seems to me, ought to strive to maintain and perpetuate XWrlran principles. State-wldo prohibition violates and local option supports thl principle, therefore 1 am opposed to slnte-vrlde prohibition an.t In lavor of local option." BISHOP DANIEL S. TL'TTLU, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church In the United States. "I am opposed to prohibition by statute. 1 would rather see America free first, and then have Its citizens use Its free dom for moral ends." REV. S. PARKS CAl'.MAN, Brooklyn. N. Y. "Under the present law (county prohibition) the taloon, where the traffic could be regulated, his given way to the drugstore, where minors and undesirables o.)a!n nil the whisky (key nast The liquor business should be i onducted pea and above board, and not over the bars of secret dras." REV. FATHER T. J. RYAN, Pontiac, Mich. "I cannot see the benefits to be derived from compulsory abstinence."- BISHOP GRAFTON, of Wisconsin. "Absolute prohibition has proven Impracticable, If not a dismal failure.' THE RIGHT REV. THOMAS F. LILLIS, Bishop of Leavenworth, Kansas. "The use of alcoholic liquors Is and always has been con sidered not only legitimate as a beverage, but It Is conse crated and hollowed In the most solemn and weighty rite of the Christina Church. You cannot, by mere law, eradicate a sentiment and destroy an Institution that has stood for ages and that Is so deeply rooted In our social life." ItEV. W, A. WASSON, New York. "Everyone knows that there are many saloons that are perfectly orderly and law-abiding. Have I, as a minister, any more right to Interfere with the business of such a place than the saloonkeeper would have to disturb the peace of my congregation while at worship?" VERY REV. D. D. J. HARTLEY. Little Rock, Ark. "I consider prohibition wrong because It Ib destructive.'1 BISHOP CHARLES D. WILLIAMS, Michigan. "The establishment ef prohibition would bo Impractical and would put a premium on the sale of Intoxicating drinks." CARDINAL UIBUOMS. "Prohibition drivel underground the mischief which It seek to cure." BISHOP HALL, Vermont. "Prohibition has been disastrous to the cause of dm. perance." BISHOP CLARK, Rhode Island. "It Is a rude Interferenco with the personal liberty for the law to tell me what I shall eat or how much I shall eat. It Is just as rude an Interference for It to describe what - shall or shall not drink, and how much," REV. DU. CHAS. PARKHUR8T, New York. "My eyes were opened to the great evils of prohibition In a very few years. The clubs organised by young men, the Idling of vile decoctions by women and children, the hypocrisy and corruption arrested my attention." REV. DR. BLANCH ARD, Portland, Me. "Many people thought state-wide prohibition to be the Ideal remedy. It Is Impractical, and Ite violation Is pro duotlve of hidden and shameful vice." BISHOP QAILOR, Tennessee. (Paid Advertisement Taxpnyers' and Wage-Earners' League of Oregon, Portland, Or.) t t Y t Y t ? ? Y t Y Y t t Y Y Y t t f ? Y Y t f Y t Y t t Y ? t v f t Y Y ? Y ? ? ? ? Y ?" ? ? Y f Y ? Y t t Y Y t ? t t t f Y ? t f ? Y ? ? Y t Y t t Y t HOW PRGHiBITfON IS I IH WEST VA. Wliat Happened to tlic I5ip;f;est Itiewery in the Stute, Xotv a Parkin); House. By Fred 0. Blue, Tax Commissioner of West Virginia. Wlien the question of prohibition was first submitted In West Virginia in 1888, it carried in only three coun ties, but when the same proposition was submitted in 1912 it lost in only three counties. Although the popu lation of the state has doubled, there were 3,000 less wet votes the second time than the first. This vast charge in sentiment was attributed to educa tion. The effects of alcohol taught in the public schools since 1888. The first thing we did after the amendment had carried was to pass a real prohibition law. One of the wets described it as having horns. We did away with the clubs and we did away with, the drug stores. No physician in West Virginia can give you a prescription for wine of whis key. They say you can't enforce it. I want to say that you can. Our po lice courts are practically idle. Last week, for the first time in the history of the state, a grand jury adjourned without finding a single offense wor thy of indictment. I want to say that prohibition has not hurt business. Wheeling, which was the wettest town in the state, has turned her Brewery into a packing house, and it employs three times as many men as it did. In Charleston, the brewery has be come an ice plant, and we are to have cheaper ice, so that the poor of the city can acord it. In Wheeling whore there were 14 saloons in one block, every place has been rented to another form of indus try, some at advanced rents. A shoe dealer located In that block, writes that his business has increased 35 per cent since the city has been dry, over a corresponding period when it was wet. HOT LAKE MANAGER WOULD LIKE NOTICE OP ARRIVAL IX ADVANCE. . Persons contemplating a visit to Hot Lake Springs, Oregon, who re quire the service of a wheel chair or other special convenience, are re quested by the management to give notice of arrival in advance, so that proper care and attention may be assured. (Paid Advertisement.) END OF WAR AVILL SEE BIG IM MIGRATIOX TO V. S. Chicago Record-Herald: Mark Sul livan, editor of Collier's, In an ad dress at Detriot last Saturday to the advertising clubs of that city, Cleve land, Buffalo and Rochester, declared that the Immigration from Europe that would follow the end of the present war, and especially from Germany, would add enormously to our national assets. That immigration will Increase is to be expected. Poverty, political oppression and religious nrosecution are, historically, the stimulants of emigration. Except in the case of the Jews of Eastern Eurone the lat ter factor has ceased to be operative. Nor is an increase of political op pression likely to occur. If the war produces any political effect it will De in the direction of more demo cratic liberty. The factor of poverty will remain and be intensified for the time. Whichever side "wins" the destruc tion of wealth will have been enor mous. The life of the common man will be harder and he will be more inclined to take "hazard of new for tunes" in lands over which the des tructive broom of war has not passed. Mr. Sullivan estimated an immi gration of at least 1,000,000 immed iately following the end of the war, and largely from Germany. Wherever in Eurone the immi grants come from they will be wel comed Ty all right thinking Amer icans. None will be more welcome than those from Germany. They will not add to our nrnhlpm of illiteracy nor swell the ranks of unskilled labor. No Deonle in En- rope arc better schooled. None show a higher average of skill in the arts and crafts. Abraham Lincoln, lone ago, declared every able-bodied im migrant worth at least SI 0.00 to this country. An addition of 1,000,000 trained and educated workers thus means, at the lowest estimate, $1,- 000,000)00 added to our national resources. Quick Work in Viro Protection. In reviewing the lire protection work of the past season, the District Forester at Portland, Oregon, an nounces that some very effclent and speedy records have been made in reaching fires. ' Perhaps the most striking instance of this speedy work occurred at i ranger station three-eights of a nv.lt from Silver Lake, Oregon. Tli ranger received a telephone call tt the effect that there was a fire at a mill twelve miles away. He immed iately saddled his horse, rode into town, hired ten men and three auto mobiles, and with this force reached the fire in just forty-eight minute? from the time he received the tele phone call. The run from Silver Lake to the scene of the fire, twelve miles away, was made in twenty eight minmutes. Sri ' C. A. BARRETT ATHENA, Umatilla County, Oregon. Regular Republican Nomi nee for Senator,, 19th Senatorial District, Comprising the Counties of Umatilla, Union and Morrow. A man of experience in business and farming. Favors amendment to our tax laws, making tax payments May 1st and November 1st wjthout interest or penalty. Favors less appropriations and re trenchment in public expenditures; the abolishment of all useless boards, and the consolidation of others where possible. A man that knows the demands of Eastern Oregon and always ready to defend them. CONSULT YOUR BEST INTEREST AND MARK YOUR BALLOT NO. 55 X (Paid Advertisement Authorized by J. D. Plamondon, Athena, Oregon.) get wise- Go to the Jack Rabbit Garag Headquarters for Gasoline and Oil. All kinds of Re pair Work by Skilled Mechanics. 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