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Temperance.


The sixth commandment saws. sethou
shalt not kill; p but the powers that
be" say you may kill if you get a
license for it.
How could the liquor traffic exist if
the christian people did their duty?
There are more than four million
voters in the United States, who are
church members. How easily could
they sweep this curse from our land.
and restore peace and comfort to the
suffering ones caused by this rum
selling. One good man said, eff slav-
cry IS not wrong nothing is wrong;'
this IS true of rum selling: it is the
cause of three-fourths of all the wick
edness and crime that exist in our
country. The only remedy is the ut
ter humiliation of the traffic forever.
The following report on temperance
adopted at Des Moines, Iowa, is well
worth our notice, and I wonld have
every church adopt the same.
say Amen to the'report META.
THE IOWA METHoD1sTs.
The following is the report on tenn.
perance adopted at the recent session
of the Des Moines Methodist Confer
ence in Iowa, by rising unanimous
vote and loud ''amens." There was
not dissenting voice:
l. That the Des Moines Conference
reaffirms its devotion to the princi-
pies and policy of prohibition, believ-
ing it to be the only effective method
of dealing with the rum traffic.
2. As Christ came not to regulate
but destroy the works of the devil, we
believe that destruction instead of
regulation of the liquor traffic is the
only policy which Christians can con-
sistently endorse.
3. We believe the rum traffic is en-
titled to no more protection or legal
status by license than are theft, arson
and murder. We maintain that the
license of an evil is "an agreement
with death, and covenant with hell"
4. We deprecate the attempt of any
party to reinstate the legalized saloon
in our state, and maintain that such
party is an enemy of the home, the
church and the state, and in alliance
with all the dangerous elements that
menace the purity of the home and
the safety of the commonwealth.
We maintain that party alliance with
against the state.
5. We denounce the attempt of any
party to cripple and obstruct the en-
forcemeht of the prohibitory law, and
then on the ground of non-enforce-
ment demand the repeal of said law.
9. We protest against the policy of
special executive clemency toward the
violators of the prohibitory law, and
respectfully suggest that it is the
sworn duty of our chief executive to
enforce said law rather than wink at
its violation, and then insist upon It's
repeal because it is not enforced.
Z. We can not indorse any party
that proposes as a temperance meas
ure to build toll-gates to the Jail, the
alms-house, the penitentiary, the gal
lows, and hell in the shape of license
laws. We demand an impossible
wall instead of a toll-gate.
8. We believe it monstrous mock
cry to pray "Thy kingdom come" and
then vote for the DEVILS mIghtiest
agency, the licensed saloon. We in
sist that in the present crisis our poll
tics and our religion should be ''well
shaken before using"
8. We pledge our moral and politi-
cal support TO the party that stands
for the maintenance and enforcement
of the prohibltory law, and invite the
cooperation of all home-loving and
law-abiding citizens, regardless of
previous party affiliations.
TO. We commend the Iowa State
Temperance Alliance for its faithful
and diligent work In this cause and
in its efforts to enforce the prohibitory
law, and agree with it that prohibi-
ton, as involved in this campaign, is
not matter of mere party politics,
but is question affecting the dearest
interests of soeiety-the moral and re-
hgious life of the people-as well as
the peace and prosperity of the homes;
and as moral and religious duty we
lay it on the hearts and corsciences
of all honest men of all parties to
work and vote to save the homes of
Iowa from the curse of the legalized
liquor traffic, and to this end we
pledge to the Alliance our cordial CO.
operation.