The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1925-11-02

Adoption of Prohibition
Justified, Says Report of
COMMITTEE Fed. Churches

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ltion has already yielded results
which fully justify its adoption"
This is the flat statement of the
Administrative Committee of the Fed.
eral Council of Churches considering
its policy on the subject in the light
of the recent report on the prohibi-
tion situation proposed by its re-
search department.
There is nothing in the report the
administrative committee says. ito
justify modification of the stand of
the churches for prohibition"
The Council renews in the state.
: ment its pledge of unequivocal sup.
port Of national prohibition. Prohi-
bition is the deliberately and perma.
nently established policy of the coun.
try, it declares, adding THE liquor
; traffic and the saloon must not come
| back again"
The churches must set themselves
with new purpose to see that pro.
hibition is enforced by law and sus.
tanned by the national conscience" ="
it lays.
Hope of Report.
] The statemeat urges the friends
of prohibition III other countries not
to be deceivedA by various attempts
TO interpret the Research report as
a confession of failure or even dis.
couragement. and calls the churches
to undertake new moral crusade
to strengthen the hands of those who
ARE responsible for prohibition en-.
lforcement. 1t asks voluntary COM
plance with the law in the interests
of orderly government" 1t appeals
for new measure of fairminded.
ness and good. will ON the part of
all in connection with this vitally i'm.
portant issue IA order that the out
be determined by reason rather than
by prejudice and self-interest."
In concluding, it expresses hope
and confidence that the report, call
ing attention as it does to the real
dangers with which we are confront
led, will stir the churches to a re-
newed sense OF their responsibility
not only for the enforcement Of the
prohibition law but also for rallying
the conscience of the nation to its
support"
The statement in full is as fol
lows:
"In view of the widespread inter.
est attracted by the report of the
Research Department of the Federal
Council Of the Churches of Christ in
America on the prohibition situation,
and Of the serious misundersts a. ing
which have arisen in connection with
that report, the Administrative Com
mittee Of the Federal Council, COM
posed of representatives Of the
church bodies which are members Of
the Council has authorized the fol-
lowing statement of its conviction as
to principle and policy.
Support for Prohibition.
First of all, the Committee would
Iamphasize its unequivocal support OF
national prohibition, as expressed in
many public utterances and reaffirm-
ed by the quadrennial session of the
whole Council in Atlanta last Decem-
ber. We declare our strong convic-
tion that the policy of prohibition is
the deliberately and permanently es-
tablished policy of this nation, that
this policy has not failed, but on the
contrary has already yielded results
which fully justify it's adoption, that
the liqpor traffci and the saloon
hoa bat
the Churches must set themselves
with new purpose to see that prohi-
bition is enforced by law and sus-
tanned by the national conscience.
Beneficial Results.
The statement adopted by the
Federal Council in December. 1924.
as the authoritative expression of
its attitude toward the prohibition
amendment, declayes that the effect
upon the physical. economic, social
and moral life of the nation of the
extraordinary effort of society to pro-
tect itself from the liquor traffic has
been so beneficial that it is now
generally agreed that the law will
stand, based as it Is upon the unas.
sailable purpose to promote the gen
eral welfare The present-day duty
OF the moral citizenship of the nation
we believe to be:
al. To magnify the value OF the
principles Of total abstinence and the
obligation upon the law-abiding citi
zens to practice the same;
"'2. To make Enthusiastically clear
to both the lawless sellers and the
lawless buyers of intoxicants that the
liquor traffic has been permanently
outlawed in the United States as the
enemy OF society;
"3. To urge local, state and fed
leral governments to cooperate with