Co-operating With Rome
By GEORGE W. SPIES
WHEN Rome held her national temperance convention at Wilkesbarre, Pa., in August, the daily papers had much to say of the wide-spread influence of that event in favor of temperance. Rome suggested “co-operation with non-Catholic organizations to secure and enforce” temperance legislation, and counted much upon it. How well the so-called Protestant forces have since co-operated with Rome in enforcing such legislation, is shown by the following facts: In Wilkesbarre, where the convention was held, scores of arrests have been made for selling liquor on Sunday; in Schuylkill County, on the south, one hundred and fifty saloons have been closed, and nearly one hundred arrests were made, for Sunday selling; and in Lackawanna County, on the northeast, over two hundred arrests have been made for selling liquor on Sunday. Thus in less than three months from the time that Rome called upon non-Catholics to co-operate with her, about three hundred arrests were made in the three adjoining counties referred to; and the end is not yet. Surely Rome must be highly gratified with the success of her temperance scheme, and with the fact eager co-operation she is receiving from the various “Protestant” denominations in enforcing temperance legislation, which makes so prominent the “mark of the beast,” the badge of Rome’s authority.