The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1883-08-01
Resolutions for the Campaign.

The following are the resolutions
adopted by the joint commission on
temperance of the annual conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
in Ohio:
The commissioners from the vari.
GUS conferences in Ohio met re-
Gently in Columbus, and besides
planning for the furtherance of the
canvass in behalf of the second prop
osition to amend the constitution re
lating to the liquor traffic, adopted
the following resolutions on that sub
Iject
We, the joint commission, com
posed of representatives from several
annual conferences of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, in the State of
Ohio, having met to consult in
reference to the best plan to be pur-
sued by our Church and by all
friends Of temperance in our State,
irrespective Of political or religious
affiliations, do resolve as follows:
I. We are unanimously and un-
compromisingly opposed to the first,
or regulation and taxation" prop
osition. We believe it to be not
only unnecessary but positively mis-
chievous, in that it would open the
way for license and in no way in
crease the authority of the General
Assembly to repress the traffic. Its
adoption would in many ways be a
rerOgrade step in the temperance
reform.
2. We believe that the righteous,
wise, land practicable thing to do is for
our people heartily to unite in a
thorough canvass of the State, and by
every other lawful means seek to
secure the adoption Of the second, or
prohibitory, proposition.
8. Owing to the manifest disadvan-
tage Of being compelled to vote for
the amendment at a general election,
and to secure a majority Of all the
electors voting at said election, and
also owing to the organization, cap
ital, and craft Of our enemy, we rec
Ognize the magnitude Of our under
taking; but, neverless, we are grateful
that an opportunity has been offered
to all friends Of temperance to unite
their efforts to secure in our organic
law a simple, direct, and unequivocal
prohibition of the manufacture and
sale of alchoholic beverages.
4. While we believe it to be right
that questions involving social and
moral reforms be made issues in
political campaigns, we are glad that
in this instance, all voters, irrespect-
i've of political party, have the priv
Iilege of expressing, in the most de-
Cisive manner, their temperance
principles. This they now can do,
whether the party leaders favor, op-
pose, or ignore the amendment ques-
ton. We do, therefore, call upon all
! temperance men of every shade Of
political preference, while each votes
his choice of party tickets, to unite
in advocating and voting for the
"Second proposition"
s. We hereby express our desire to
fraternize with all organizations now
in the field having this same purpose,
and we earnestly solicit the cooper
alton Of all religious associations,
ecclesiastical bodies, and temperance
organizations through the State.
9. We respectfully recommend to
all our ministerial brethren that they
labor diligently by sermons, lectures,
addresses, personal conversations,
and by means of the public press
to impress all voters with the impor-
tance Of voting for the prohibitive
amendment.
7. We do hereby record ourselves
in these efforts to secure the consti-
tutional prohibition of the liquor
scourge, purely non partisan and
non -sectarian, seeking only the glory
Of God and the highest welfare ofour
fellow,men,
w. G. WATERS, of Toledo,
President.
| JOHN PEARSON, Of Urbana,
Secretary'of the Joint Commission.