The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-12-20
POINT OF DANGER PASSED
Non-Partisan Temperance People Check
Efforts of Third Party Agitators.
The State Conference Fayors Enforcement Of
Existing Liquor Laws and Those That Nay
Be Enacted-Pian for Permanent Work.

of the State was continued yesterday morn
ing at the T.. Nj. G.. A. Hall. but t~henon-parti-
san and third-party representatives seemed
to be exceedingly suspicious of each other.
Many of the former felt that a plan had the
people TO capture the meeting, and were
not certain when they met yesterday morn
ing but the plan had succeeded. The
sequel. however, proved that by wise gen.
eralship. the good sense and loyalty to true
temperance principles of DIR. Parkhurst,
the hopes of the third party were blasted.
It's representatives tried vigorously to undo
the coils quietly put around them. but
without avail. 1t was believed that they
had a majority in both the committees on
resolutions and ON permanent work when
the conference adjourned the first day.
These committees labored long night before
last to arrive at agreement on a report.
The committee on permanent work finally
disagreed and brought in ma
jority and minority reports. The
committee on resolutions, of which
DIR. Parkhurst was chairman. did not. come
to an agreement until nearly 10 o'clock yes
terday morning, and. pending delay. the
two reports on permanent work were read
to the conference. During a wrangle on
the question of disposing of them, the conf
mlttee on resolutions came in with It's re-
port. DR.. Parkhurst, in presenting it stated
that. after long deliberations. the commit
tee had unanimously agreed to the resolu-
lions he would now read to the convention,
which were rs follows:
Whereas, The kingdom OF the Lord Jesus
Christ is not OF this world. but its laws are given
10y its King to be publishedby His ministers and
obeyed by His subjects;
Whereas, The sin of drunkard- making is I'M
der the woe of God (Hab. NJ, 49,, and the victims
of drunkenness are banished from the kingdom
OF Christ tI Cor. vi, 10l;
Whereas. The liquor traffic In this country,
with Its hundreds OF millions of capital invested
In the manufacture, Its more than two hundred
thousand saloons for the sale of intoxi-
eating liquors as "a beverage. rs the greatest organ
lied zoe or the kiDgdom OF Christ and running more
young Ben In the State or Indiana than the
whole number of the same class brought into
the kingdom OF God by all our churches CON-
bIned;
Whereas, The united wisdom of the highest
councils In the various Christian denominations
has declared that our proper attitude toward the
saloon power should be uncompromising oppo-
sition;
Resolved. That, as members of the church OF
God, we cannot say peace to that which God has
cursed, nor consent to the building up of our
cities with the profits OF the saloons, whose ill
gotten gains we look upon as the blood OF the
bodies and souls of those for whom Jesus gave
his life upon the cross.
Resolved, That the conservation by the Holy
Spirit, pressed upon the conscience or the
cnurcnes, ana the prOyldentlnl fn0lcatlODS point
TO this as the time when this subject shall I've
made paramount, and that We viii urge our
churches TO so regard it.
Resolved. That we rejoice in the fact that the
Church OF Christ. though yet divided on many
subjects. is practically united on this, and that
we to-day present a solid front against the sa-
loon power, this enemy OF our common cause
Resolved. That pending the accomplishment of
the chief end, the adoption of prohibition, we
favor a rigid enforcement of such law as we
have, or may have, upon the subject.
Resolved. That we urra all miniQtQrS of the
gospel and persons engaged ia religious work to
press upon the. public the gospel temperance
phase OF this reform.
The fourth resolution was q sumner to
the third-party people. and during their
CONSERVATION DIR. L. A. Goodwin said thathe
rejoiced at this report, and if he had never
before believed in answer to prayer the re-
port would convince him. He felt more
like rejoicing than voting. Some one struck
up, Praise God. from whom all blessings
how,"' and during the singing and hand
shaking. there were hurried Whispering
among the third-party people.
When a motion was made to adopt the
resolutions Mr.. Pollock. of the Phalanx,
fourth resolution, and wanting to offer an
amendment to il. When that was ruled
ont he declared for higher law" saying
that he ''obeyed God rather than men,
Judge Lamb asked whether he proposed to
become a rebel and refuse to abide by the
law, and while Mr.. Pollock was writing
under the thrust and the logic of the situa.
ton J. u. Kingsbury offered another
amendment TO extrlcate his friends. which,
the chair ruled. would have to be referred
Jaques. another third-party lieutenant, ap.
pealed from the decision of the chair. and
on putting the motion on appeal the chair
was sustained. DIR. X. L. Brown ther
claimed the floor, mid great confusion
and said that he did not approve of the
fourth racolntinn that ~ r. q p,ifbort N ny
spine and broadly intimated that the com
mittee had committed n great blum
der: The third-party people could Sc,
little difference between resolving
hateful license law. drafted as it was by
saloon men more than twenty years ago
and resolving in favor of il. They declared
that it was piling up the monstrous sin by
also declaring in the resolution that future
and possibly like legislation should also b.
enforced. Moderate temperance men salt
that they expected no more than that thu
conference would resolve i'm favor of en-
forcing existing laws while struggling fot
better, and that though the resolution wa
logical and right. 1T went further than they
hoped to get it. Pending the vote many o
the third-party people remained silent, al
they saw they were beaten, and the resolu
tons were adopted.
The minority report of the committee or
permanent work was then taken up, aud j
l.. NOUUWdIU. VI IaIkc COunbN, uTStG IL
adoption. 1t simply proposed to do moth
ing, and stated that the Prohibition League
a third-party adjunct. the W.. &. I. u, an.
the Sons of Temperance were organization
enough, and there was no need of anything
else. 1t was at once manifest that tn
third party meant to have no more organ
izations in their way.
Its all very nice" said the Rev. f. +
Evans. Ito stand on the fence and gush
but we want to do something. We hav'
all heard of the acts of the apostles. not o
their resolutions Wemust sink our differ
ences and unite for work"
j. b. Conner congratulated the confer
ence IN passing such logical resolutions
but said if the minority report on worl
should be adopted it would mean q segre
CATION of temperance people instead o
uniting them, and wanted the two report
recommitted. with instructions to harmon
ize for n plan of permanent work. A. i
! Hawkins. of Connersville. said that i
looked TO him lke the third party peopl
had attempted to pack the convention T.