The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1928-05-01

The quadriennial general conference OF
the Methodist Episcopal Church is in ses-
sion in Kansas City from May to May 80.
Among the first important actions taken
by the conference was the adoption of
resolution placing the conference on rec
ord as most respectfully requesting each
of the conventions of the political parties
to write into its platform a plank COM
hitting that party and its candidates to
strict enforcement of the Eighteenth
Amendment, and directing that a commit
tee of five bishops be elected to convey
personally this request to the platform
committee Of each of the political conVen-
tons.
This resolution was presented by DR..
Ernest II. Cherrington, general secretary
of the World League Against Alcoholism,
and lay delegate from the Ohio Confer
ence. and was unanimously adopted. The
resolution is in harmony with the state
ment carried in the Episcopal address,
which is in fact q four-year report to the
followers of Methodsm. The address of
this quadrennial conference presented to
the $40 delegates representing the 15,000,-
900 Methodists, was presented by Bishop
Luther B. Wilson and concurred in by 43
other bishops. Discussing prohibition, the
bishops reported in part:
EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN NEEDED
There is assuredly demanded a cam
paign of education, systematic and inten-
sive, devoted to persuasion rather than
contention, that we dare not condone any
compromise with conscience.
I'VE must set ourselves to resist per-
sistently every change of Constitution or
statute which looks toward releasing this
traffic from any restraint which the pres
10 a most Pnrt in Of
permanent results when we insist that all
the facts be known.
1--WE must follow up our educational pro-
gram by calling to the polls upon every
election day all our sons and daughters
who have the franchise"
The resolution adopted by the confer
ence demanding political party planks on
the Eighteenth Amendment follows:
POLITICAL PARTY PLANKS ON THE
EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT
"WhereaS, The organized enemies of pro-
hibitSon have not only attacked the prin-
ciple of sobriety but with unprecedented
boldness have challenged the authority of
law, have defied the government, are adj
Vocating sedition and anarchy in the form
of notification of the Constitution itself,
and have held up to ridicule and contempt
those principles of righteousness and So
clal justice Tor which the Church STANDS;
and
whereas, These same forces of greed
and appetite have seemingly centered their
efforts upon the next presidential election
in the evident hope of placing in the eX-
ecutive mansion at Washington a Presi-
dent of the United States who will do their
bidding; and
"WhereaS. The next President of the
United States as the chief enforcement Of
fcer of the nation, will have largely in his
hands the appointment of the heads of all
departments under the executive division
of the Federal Government district at
torneys, United States narshals judges Of
the district and circuit courts, and posi-
bly, a majority of the members of the SUI
preme Court of the United States, all min
listers, ENJOYS. eonsuls and special repre-
sentatives Of this nation to all other coun-
tries Of the world, as well as many thou