Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America

The saloon, building itself upon the ruin of broken lives and shattered homes, spreads desolation every where, respecting no class or sex.

The union recalls the countless boys ruined, the fathers changed into destroyers of their little ones, the industry paralyzed, the prisons filled, and it asks each saloon how much of this is its work.

[2]With regard to the issue of National Prohibition, the Catholic Total Abstinence Union passed a resolution in the 1870s resolving "That this convention, though not deeming it expedient to take part in any political of legislative action in reference to prohibitory liquor laws, recognizes, however, the great good that would accrue from the suppression of public drinking-places, and from such legislation as would restrain the manufacture of intoxicating liquors within the bounds consistent with public morality, and will gladly hail such legislation whenever the proper authorities may grant it.

"[2] The Plenary Councils of Baltimore declared:[3] We approve as highly commendable, in our times, the practice of those who abstain entirely from the use of intoxicating liquors.

We commend these associations, enjoying as they do the blessing of the Holy Father [Pope], to the paternal care of the clergy, so that they may flourish more and more, and always adhere to the truly Catholic methods they now follow.