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6 THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA only by devoting our highest energy and our deepest love to the wholesome development of our spiritual faculties and those of our children, by putting in practice the precepts and the counsels of the oldest and most experienced teacher in all the world. CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA. [B. E. D. A.] C atholic sons of Georgia aroused by bigots’ taunts, A re panoplied in might of Truth; have donned the Casque of Right; T ake up the gauge cast down by hate of all that’s good and true; H ell’s Minions, paralyzed with fear—seek safety in flight. 0 Id Satan’s lies re-echoed from Pulpit and from Press, L ed many from the path of truth to wander far astray; 1 nstructed, now, by men of worth, commissioned from on High C an they retrace their erring course and tread the narrow way. L ove is their Motive and Truth their chief aim; A bide in harmony, with hope and with prayer. Y ouths and fair maidens; all hearts in the cause, M ake fervent orisons to God’s throne repair; E ager for conquest of souls held in bondage, N eedful are courage, devotedness, love; S uch only may conquer, as secure aid from above. A ssociation is your title, your labarum of strife; S houlder to shoulder must you march, while on the foe you press, S erried may your columns prove, and hopeful be your breasts; 0 ur Leader’s ensign is the Cross, which vice can ne’er depress. C ourage, then, and fealty! Your cause is just and right; 1 n unison is strength indeed; in harmony content; A 11 for each, and each for all,” will be your hearten ing cry, T o steel your arm to achieve brave deeds, and for God’s Truth to fight; I ntrepid souls must sally forth, with faith and hope and love; O n the heights with Christ is Victory sure; with Him you cannot fail; N o human power can Faith destroy; Hell’s Gates can ne’er prevail. O ne in mind and one in purpose; then, let our purpose be, F aithful to impart the Truth:—the Truth that makes men free. G rand old State of Georgia; our dear Old ‘‘Cracker State.” E rror, vice and bigotry befoul thy beauteous plains. 0 rganized for nobler aims, men prostitute their skill; R ecreant heirs of manly sires invade your holy fanes; G allant sons of Georgia repel aspersions vile, 1 gnobly cast on woman’s fame and consecrated toil; A rise, brave knights of Christ and Truth; foul Satan’s power despoil. REBUKING A TROUBLE-MAKER. (Editorial from The Charlotte Observer, March 9th.) The national prohibition advocates may have reason to regret the indiscretions continually developed by their State Superintendent in New York, Mr. Ander son. His latest ‘‘break” was in addressing a letter to the Protestant preachers in that State attacking the Catholic clergy as ‘‘enemies of prohibition,” and ‘‘in league with Tammany to further a State-wide anti prohibition movement.” This new play by the New York Superintendent was plainly an undertaking to stir up enmity between Protestants and Catholics, and we may be sure it is calculated to do the cause of pro hibition more harm than good. It has been the ob servation of this paper that within the ranks of protes- tantism there has been a more vicious arraignment of prohibition by constitutional amendment than has come from Catholic sources. In fact, the attitude of Catholic clergy and Catholic membership toward pro hibition has been of a nature which should have pro tected it from assault such as has been made by the rampant leader of the New York prohibition forces. There has been more occasion for rebuke to Protes tant ministers than for arraignment of the Catholic priests. Temperance and sobriety has been a tenet of the Catholic Church. Cardinal, bishop and priest ever stand for morality and temperance, but in the Catholic, as in the Protestant world, there is a rebel lious element to take into account. Because some Catholics are lined up against the prohibition amend ment is poor reason that the Catholic Church should be publicly arraigned as opposed to this great moral reform movement. The country will deprecate any attempt to arraign Protestant against Catholic in a movement which means so much to the welfare of each and all, and it might be regarded as significant that in the same New York papers that carried An derson’s gratuitous attack upon the clergy, was printed an assault upon the methods of the Anti-Saloon League, headed by Mr. Anderson, by a New York preacher, in which contention was made that the league’s program of action, linked in any way with the churches, ‘‘cannot fail to lead the churches into a social conflict from which they cannot escape with out the. permanent impairment of their highest vir tues.” It was further contended that ‘‘the league has not put into exercise those elements of good will, that patience of action, that poise of purpose, that