Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-24
Prohibitory Amendment to Ma
tional Constitution Urged by
Church Body.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE
ADOPTED BY SIT TO IA
Council Of Congrcgationalists Also
Discusses Race Problem-Mis.
sionary Society in Session.

KANSAS CITY. October a4-Ey vote
OF 5lI TO IL today the National Counci
of Congregational Churches went on rec
ord In favor OF temperance. The vote de
feated a movement headed by Gov.
Simeon Baldwin OF Connecticut. who en-
posed the report OF the temperance com
mittee favoring an amendment to the
federal Constitution prohibiting the man,
ufacture. sale. Importation and exporta
ton of Intoxicating beverages through
out the United States.
The recommendations of the committee
were read by Rev. John Faville of Apple
ten. wis. lie said:
.'rhe Supreme Court OF the Irnite,,
States already has paved the way Tor
such an amendment 20 the Constitution
and We believe II Is timely to take action
on the temperance question"
Statement Challenged.
This statement OF Mr.. Favine was chai-
lenged by a number of lawyers In the
body. Mr., Faville explained that the
statement was made In general terms:
that the Supreme Court had ruled against
the liquor traffic az n business.
They have practically declared IL I'M
constitutional, have they notg' ASKED his
DIRECTORS.
mo. no. they chorused. and At that
time Gov. baldwin arose to state his OBJ
jections.
This In a proposition said Gov. Bald
win. Ito. have the council change lis
speciality from religion 20 political sci-
ence. 1t is beyond the province of this
council to promote any amendment to
the Constitution of the United States.
We may pledge ourselves and our church.
es. but this amendment IL contrary TO the
genius of government. Home rule Is the
foundation of the government Let the
states regulate and not the United
States"
Charles IL. Prouty OF Spencer. Mass.
and money as a result or the liquor
traffic.
Missionary Society Convenes.
Separate from the national council. the
sixty-seventh annual meeting OF the
American Missionary Association con-
| vened today.
III. Paul Douglass of New York city
| spoke of prejudice AS relating to the ne
gro question. The trend OF his address
way extend the hand OF brotherhood to
the colored race and aid II In every way.
! II was no part Of the church's duty even
| to consider intermarriage Of negroes and
| whites. He contended the time had not
| come for the church to decide upon such
| q question.
| "wny does n certain type of man
keep saying niger, nigger,'" said he.
simply because liz he did not say
| niger. Niger he would be forced To
say brother, brother The function OF
the epithet Is to make men worse than
they are"
Specializing on the ideas OF the Al
mighty In the creation of man. MI.
| Douglass said:
| God made the world. Has not evoiu-
tiOn condemned the races to perpetual
inequality? Didn't God intend then
and are we not to accept the visible
| o, mbols of color and speech as tho
| natural marks Of superiority and M
color upon the Divine will. Ii makes
human barriers inevitable and eternal"
Race Problems on Pacific Coast.
Rev. George w. Human OF Berke-
ley. CAL. told the delegates of the race
problems OF the Pacific coast.
"Only n comprehensive national solu-
tion." he said. "of the orien.aI immi-
grafton problem that settles on u
| Christian basis the political status in
| the nation of the orientni immigrant
! and the nations moral responsibility
| for him. will satisfy the pcopie OF the
Pacific coast. the governments .! Chin..
| and Japan or the conscieuceS ~ broad
| minded people anywhere
IF slave cannot breathe tue air OF
England then keep slaves away or set
them free England mas CHOSEN the
nobler alternative ana nas put an end
| to slavery. Physical slavery IS an ap-
propriate symbol of all artificial DIS
tinctions which separate races ot man
kind. The churcn must give US more
of the force which comes from per-
sonal Christian contact with the ori-
entails before the oriental problem IN
| the United States Is to be solved.