To the Editor of the "Noweit-Cuina Dany News.
Sin—On reading the remarks of Bishop James Cannon published in, your "lane of to-day, respecting American boys and girls staying out all night, drinking bootleg. hootch, breakings human and divine Tavs, etc, ete, one is at a loss to" Know how such a rambling states ment should be taken.
'To blame France for such a state of affairs as existing in America the present time is not only a sugh' on cur gallant allies, but the height of discourtesy, Does this Bishop try. to tell us that had America waited alittle longer before deciding toveast in her lot on the side of right, and' eventually been too late, that' the Land of Liberty would today have been a real paradise, with no drinking of bootleg liquor'or bobbed haired bandits No Bishop, you are wrong, and incidentally this is one of the most paltry excuses ever put forward in respect of prohibition Jaw breaking.
If America is, tainted with "the taint of France," what is the state of the British Istes, whose sons wore on French soil for three years before the Americans? What is. really meant by the "taint of France"? Tt would be well for the Bishop to remember that France isnot the only country in the world where Toone women are to be seen at every.
Where the real business was being done in France there was no time for wine shops, free living or loose women, To one who saw a good deal of fighting in France, who has nothing but great admiration for the French people, and who has always been generously received by the French, it is really nauseous to vad such cant as vomitted by this responsible Bishop of the Method-int Epleeopal Church. am, ete Win. 'T, Furstow.
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