The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-09-19

SIOaL President.
"A. A. WALBURN, Secretary.
PREACHERS AID SOCIETY.
We beg leave to report hat the
Preachers Aid society now has a vest
ed fund in first mortgages on Iowa
farms of SIG, 200; cash on hand, $9.31;
total, SIG, 709.31
That the interest collected from this
fund, and paid to Conference stewards
at this Conference, is $1,027.5S.
That the total paid by this society to
conference claimants from 1856 to 1899
is $13,433.5S.
Such has been the care in the man
agement of the funds of this society
by the treasurer, w. S. Hooker, thai
not one cent of it's funds have ever
been lost, and the interest is all
paid UP.
And in view of the great need of in
creasing the vested, fund we present
the following resolutions.
First. That the Dies Moines Confer
ence commends the action of the
Preachers Aid society to increase it's
vested fund to 100000.
Second. That we will welcome III
financial secretary, the Rev. M. A.
Wright, to our charges and give him
our assistance in the prosecution of this
work.
Third. And we further request every
Tcharge in the Conference to give to this
fund rs cents per member as a jubilee
thank Offering in memory of the heroes
of Iowa Methodism.
Fourth. That the program commit
tee of the succeeding sessions of the
IDes Moines Conference be required to
arrange the anniversary of the Preach
ers' Aid society for an evening of Con-
ference week.
VIM. B. THOMPSON,
w. S. HOOKER,
j.. d. DeDAR.
C. s.. NfYE.
Your committee on temperance re-
ports as follows:
That as a Conference we are in per-
feet accord wit. the declaration of the
General Conference and with the
Methodist discipline, that the Liquor
traffic canno be legalized without SIM
and that I'VE regard voluntary absti-
hence from all intoxicants as the true
ground of personal temperance, and
complete legal prohibition of the traf-
fc in alcoholic drinks as the duty of
civil government" From this position
we hope there will be no backward
step.
That we recognize in the Woman's
Christian Temperance union and the
Anti-Saloon league potent factors in
the destruction Of the monstrous evil
OF intemperance, and pledge them our
influence n help. That we shall only
succeed in the destruction of this evil
when we become as independent in vot-
ing as are brewers and saloonkeepers.
That the purpose of liquor sellers to
debauch the boyhood of the land by do
ing missionary work. as outlined by
the president of the brewers ~associa-
ton in the statement that "nickels
given away now in drinks, to the boys
Will return after a while in dollars into
their till is diabolical in the extreme,
n demands greater earnestness at
our hands along the line of temperance
education.
That the demands of the liquor SELL
ers of the state that the restrictions
put upon their business on public days
be removed, should meet with an I'M
qualified refusal; and we protest
against n further concessions by our
state legislature to the liquor power.
That we hereby authorize the presid-
ing bishop of the Des Moines Annual
Conference in it's behalf to appeal to
President Mckinley to carry section II
OF n army reorganization law into
full force and effect, in accordance with
Its natural meaning, and the intent Of
congress. by issuing an order as COM
mander-in-chief of the army and navy,
suppressing all liquor selling on ali
premises used for military purposes, at
least until the opinion of the attorney
general a De fully tested in the
courts.
That the legislature should at it's next
session authorize the appointment of a
liquor commission to inspect all liquors
and prevent the sale of such as are i'm
pure. to gather statistics with regard
to the traffic and it's relation to crime.
pauperism and insanity.
hat we reaffirm our conviction that
the responsibility for the continuance
of the mulct law and the saloon with
their attendant evils rests upon the
Christian voters of the state.
We repeat the request made by the
Conference last year that at each ses-
sion Of h Conference there will be
held a special temperance anniversary.
g: W. I. BROWN. President.
B. sHINN, Secretary.
After very carefully inspecting the
work of the Freedmen's Aid and
Southern Educational society, we real
ize more than ever that the nature and
extent of it's work is second only to
that OF the Missionary society. 1t has
forty-eight schools, as follows: One
theological, ten ~collegiate, twelve
academic among the black people,
three collegiate n twenty-five aca-