Communications
August4, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 329 ...
...With that letter I am in curse of the saloon...
...I offer On the other hand, there have been local statutes enacted a further suggestion that any attempt to exploit that state of by some of our states which have gone too far...
...For instance, mind for the purposes of a political campaign, would be highly in Indiana, it was unlawful until this year for a physician to reprehensible...
...That is deplorable...
...The fault is mine: he asked in your columns a question O the Editor:-There is a great deal of nonsense written nowadays in regard to law enforcement...
...hospital at the time...
...On the other to assume, in my reply to that question, that because he asked it he had any complete picture of the situation and of what hand, the advocates of prohibition insist that every law must be obeyed no matter how unreasonable it is or how much it has been happening at Washington...
...the use of intoxicants as a beverage...
...Should not that matter of permanent value be put in five convenience to themselves...
...How ungrateful way...
...Weal are now ready, and will be sent upon request...
...violates the fundamental principles of justice or liberty...
...Despite the present widespread violations accord...
...this to be the case...
...To compare the pro- Catholics in the United States as to what our government hibition laws, which merely prohibit the sale, gift, or transpor- should or may not do to remedy or alleviate religious and tation of intoxicating liquors, with a law that remands a human educational conditions in Mexico...
...Will not his friends see to it...
...whatever that a conscientious man would be perfectly justified T O the Editor:-On page 147 of The Commonweal of in breaking the law to save the life or preserve the health June 16, an editorial had this heading: The Friends of either of himself or of those who were dear to him...
...ArrangeT O the Editor:-Will you convey to your correspondent at Los Altos, California, that I am truly sorry to have ments have been made for binding Volume III in leather or in cloth, information regarding which will be supplied on added to his mental confusion on Mexico...
...August4, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 329 COMMUNICATIONS T IN REGARD TO LAW ENFORCEMENT of bewilderment (The Commonweal, July 7) would indicate Richmond, Ind...
...to Saint Augustine and Newman...
...It is quite possible that he has been spared, in California, the vitriolic denunciation of President and Secretary of State which has characterized portions of the Catholic press in the (The Commonweal requests its subscribers to communicate East and from which the pulpit has not been free...
...That is a mischievous and dangerous state of mind...
...The house Brownson...
...We violated the Fugitive Slave Law then and helped Catholics are toward that great man who is at times compared the runaways to liberty, and I always thought we did right...
...volumes' Why do not his friends give this their kind attention...
...application to The Commonweal...
...If so, he any changes of address two weeks in advance, to ensure the may not have understood a word of what I said...
...The one is expressed in a published letter to President being to absolute slavery is absurd...
...I think this law did interfere with a man's fundamental right to restoration of health and perhaps THE FRIENDS OF BROWNSON even of life itself, and where that was the case I have no doubt Denton, Texas...
...Do seminarians know him...
...WILLIAM DUDLEY FOULKE...
...prescribe any alcoholic liquor even to patients who might be in extreme need of it unless these patients were actually in a WILLIAM FRANKLIN SANDS...
...There are, I should judge, two trends of opinion among Both these contentions are wrong...
...RAYMOND VERNIMONT...
...cotics and of alcoholic liquor for beverage purposes are a perOf course, there are many things in those twenty-two volumes fectly justifiable regulation of human conduct and ought to which are useless for our day, but one-third is of permanent be observed by all patriotic citizens at whatever personal in- value...
...Many of his books are out But the laws preventing the sale or use of poisons and nar- of print...
...of the law and perhaps the increasing intemperance among the wealthy classes, these working-men's families have received The other trend is a confused, disorderly, and heated demand for "action" without adequate knowledge of the extent great benefit from prohibition and the rest of us ought to be to which "action" has already been taken, or of the limits of willing to give up a great deal to accomplish such a result proper governmental "action" in the circumstances, or the conand should cheerfully obey the law so far as it seeks to eliminate sequences of "action" both to the United States and to Mexico...
...Are there many young Americans who know wherein I was reared was a station of the Underground RailBrownson...
...I was wrong Law and return all Negroes to their masters...
...On the one concerning my statement that a practically universal convention hand, people are saying that the prohibition laws are an infringe- of international law denies the unconditional right of a government on personal liberty and that no one is more bound to ment to intervene on religious grounds between another govobey them than we were bound to obey the Fugitive Slave ernment and that second government's nationals...
...ON MEXICAN RELATIONS (The title-page and index for Volume III of The CommonBiddeford, Maine...
...His note receipt of all issues...
...REv...
...In that and helpless families of scores of thousands of working-men letter, they state their realization of the delicacy of the situawho abused their wives and children and failed to provide for tion and their confidence in the manner in which it has been them the proper means of subsistence, on account of the deadly handled by the administration...
...The law has a right to demand of us that we shall sacrifice something of our pleasure Coolidge by the group of eighty-five or more bishops and archbishops who administer the affairs of the National Catholic and comfort for the general good...
...The evils of intemperance were enormous, especially in the misery caused to the innocent Welfare Conference, and who through that organization voice their opinions on various matters of public interest...
Vol. 4 • August 1926 • No. 13
