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ASKS "HANDS OFF POLICY" Galveston Priest in Open Letter to Texas Governor Points Out Mistakes of Past. GALVESTON, Texas, June 12. Rev. Thomas A. Carney, pastor of the Shrine of the True Cross, at Dickinson, Texas, head: of Catholics on the mainland of Galveston County, today, in an open letter to Governor Allred, asked that the state executive keep hands off gambling in Galveston. "I believe that a wisehands-off policy that will overlook, not approve, in order to avoid a greater evil, certain types of public gaining is better," said Father Carney, who referred to himself as a professional preacher on morals and a man of experience in moral situations. "There is no evil in gambling, itself," Father Carney asserted, "and it becomes morally wrong and sinful only when some circumstances make it so. "National prohibition has proved to us that an attempt on the part of the government to encroach upon the liberties of the people in matters that are essentially not wrong, even though they may be open to abuse, is usually unwise and impracticable."
