The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1916-10-20
MtTHOOISTS GIVE
APPROVAL TO RYE
ON LIQUOR ISSUE
CONFERENCE ENDORSES THE EF-
FORTS OF GOVERNOR TO
EXECUTE THE LAWS.
FOR DESTRUCTION OF TRAFFIC
PIedaes Efforts To The Submission OF
A Federal Amendment And Would
Eliminate Government Licenses in
Dry Territory.

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of the liquor traffic in Tennessee ant
in the nation; an endorsement Of thu
e administration of Gov. Tom c. Ry'
: and of the law enforcement legisla
> ton passed during his term were thu
features of the report of the Temper
ance committee submitted this morn
ing to the Tennessee Annual Confer
ence at Mt. Pleasant by Noah W. Coop
er, of Nashville, and unanimously
+ adopted.
The report follows:
believing as we do that the traffic
in intoxicating liquors is the cause o.
countless evils, that endanger every
home and state and the life and hope
of our nation, we here resolve anew tc
work and pray for its utter destruc
ton.
ITO this end we urge that our chill
dren be taught it's wells and to avoid
it's touch. We urge that every honor
able effort be made to secure
81. A national law to at once pre-
vent the manufacture and sale of in
taxicating liquor in the District of Co
/ lumbia, and in all territory under Con-
gressional jurisdiction.
"2. A national law to stop the ex-
portation of liquors into other coun-
tries and their importation into ours.
"3. The submission by Congress to
the forty-eight states, for their ratifi-
cation or rejection of an amendment
to our Federal Constitution to prohibit
the manufacture and sale, the tmpor-
ton, expectation and transportation of
intoxicating liquors.
a. A Federal law to prevent the
licensing of the liquor traffic in dry
territory.
IS. A law to prohibit the shipment
of liquor from one state or place to
another, even as we forbid white
slavery and anarchy,
sc. A law to stop the storage OF
liquor in wholesale houses or other
houses in Tennessee. Such houses are
a curse to our State.
~. A law forbidding all clubs or
persons or places from keeping liquor
for sale or gift We regret the defect
in the Locker Club Law that con-
strained our Supreme Court to declare
it unconstitutional; and we pray our
State Legislature to reenact this law
in constitutional form, so that these
places of distinction may be sup
pressed.
"S. We urge the passage of nation
al and state laws to prohibit all adver-
tisements of the liquor traffic, and to
forbid all liquor advertising from the
United States Mails, and from inter
state commerce.
SO. We heartily command our last
legislature and Governor Rye for their
faithful work in the enactment Of laws
to suppress this cursed traffic, and its
allied evils of office prostitution and
public and private corruption. We
urge that these laws be kept and full
ly enforced, and that such others be
enacted as will help to save our State
and our homes from all the evils Of
this horrid traffic. Our State has lost
countless millions of dollars by this
traffic. Thousands Of lives have beer
. corruted and destroyed; thousands Of
mothers hearts have been broken;
thousands of homes have been de
stroyed, and horrid corruption has In
vaded hundreds of offices in our State
;. The liquor traffic and its greed fol
:. gold at any cost has thus blighted oul
:. State and people We thank God, tina
:. new and better era has come to ou
:. State, and we here vow our purpose
:. to preserve what we have gained ant
:. to 90 forward to new conquest To-
!. righteousness in our State and Ma
+ ton.
!. 1--WE believe in temperance in al
:. things. This means the right use o
!. all things We discourage all inten
:. perance in word or deed; all wron
use of the powers God has given US
' We want to overcome evil with good.
1--WE feel that wondrous prosperit
> brings great temptation in drinking
i eating, reading and using variou
= amusements luxuries 1t is our Chris
y tan duty to make our lives example
4 of simple living, and noble thinkin!
i Thus we will repel those habits tina
i would divorce us from prayer, froI
i charity, from church and Sunda
= School.
i 1--WE are in danger of repelling tn
= world from the church by the inten
= perate use Of our prosperity and "
= urge upon all our members and upo
= all men the righteous use of ali God
. blessings; left like ill-gathered mann