New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
Report Adopted by Confer
ence Urges All Churchmen
to Battle Every Form of
Anarchistic Propaganda
Favor the League Idea
But Say Final Peace Terms
Have Waited Too Long
and They Deplore Delay

The New York conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, at its ses-
sion at the Metropolitan Temple, Four
teenth Street and Seventh Avenue, yes
terday, called upon all churchmen to
join in the fight against Bolshevism
and all forms of anarchist propaganda
in the United States.
The call was issued in the form of
a report on the state of the country,
submitted by a committee headed by
Chancellor J. r. Day of Syracuse
University.
The report, as adopted, says in part:
Final peace has waited long and
with increasing difficulty. The foe Of
mankind has become more arrogant
and the problems of the nations which
united for freedom have been per-
picked by more difficult problems that
could have been more easily solved by
prompt conditions.
Live and Oppressive Questions
unfortunately the attention of the
world was turned upon future war pre-
vention, which in the nature of the
case involved long delay. instead CT
upon an adjustment of the claims of
boundary, indemnity and reparation,
which are live and oppressive ques-
tions to hundreds of thousands with
out homes, without food and without
employment, questions upon which
commerce and industry must wait until
immediate national limits and obliga-
tions can be established.
"While we appreciate the vast un-
dertaking and equal responsibility of
the worlds readjustment, we deprecate
the delay that has waited for subsid-
iary and subsequent matters. The very
magnitude Of the undertaking urged
that the whole mind Of the commission
should be concentrated upon the speedy
conditions of peace.
Favor League of Nations Idea
"While we do not commit ourselves
to a particular form or specify details,
we nevertheless most positively affirm
ourselves in favor of some agreement
that will eventually give us a league
of nations. This is Christian ideal,
and the times appear to be fully ripe
! for the United States to lead in such
! legislation.
The propaganda of the common foe
Of mankind has created in Russia the
Bolsheviki, like the dregs of the
French Revolution, poisoning q revolu-
tion of freedom against overthrowr
tyranny and using the instruments OF
death and pitiless cruelty against the
innocent. The horrors Of indescribable
forms of revolution in the name OF
freedom, forms that have substituted
the ballot for the bullet, are being de-
Tended by certain destructive Social
lists IN our own country.
This important doctrine of riot anc
bloodshed has quickened the hot blood
of the restless and murderous forces
among US. 1t justihes the bomb ane
lncendlary torch, the strike anc
destruction of factories. We have
helped to save the world to liberty. We
must now return to our own country
and awake to the preservation of those
institutions, laws and customs which
for $50 years have been the hope of al
mankind.
Must Obey Our Laws
eff other peoples wish for time to
live among as for that time they mus,
be of US They must respect our flag
every stripe of it, every star of it;
they must obey our laws and not at
tempt to substitute their own laws fo,
ours.
STRIKERS that menace our courts and
demand the release of criminals should
be treated as alien enemies and treated
summarily by the law they defy. All
men, whether alien or native, who by
speech, organization or riotous print
seek to incite to violence should be
given sufficient time behind secure
prison bars at wholesome daily labor
to think soberly and become safe cit
liens.
I'VE trust in God.
"Bolshevism, Red Socialism anc
other forms of anarchism shall not
pass"
The conference also adopted resolu.
tons protesting against the passage
of the Sunday baseball and Sunday
motion picture bills, and calling upor
Governor Smith to veto the measures.