Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1888 — METHODISTS FOR PROHIBITION. [ARTICLE]

METHODISTS FOR PROHIBITION.

The Kansas State Conference Demands Sweeping National Legislation. [Topeka (Kansas) special.] The annual State Conference of the Methodist Church, Bishop Walden presiding, on Wednesday passed a resolution declaring for national prohibition, and also resolved to support no party which did not. stand squarely on a temperance platform. It demanded the following legislation: 1. A law providing that in prohibition States the collectors of internal revenue shall be forbidden to issue tax permits for the sale of liquor except to those who have ben duly authorized by the B;ate to sell intoxicants lor the purposes permitted by the State law. 2. A law prohibiting the sale of liquor in the District of upon the military reserva-

tions, in the Territories, and wherevet the United States exercises authority. 3. A law enacting that the sale of liquors shall be subject to the laws of the ttate in which the liquors are to bo consumed, so that manufacturers and dealers in non-prohibition States shall be forbidden to transport liquors into prohibition States, except under such limitations as may be prescribed by the prohibitory laws there in force. 4. The early submission of an amendment to the Constitution of the United States prohibiting the importation or sale of intoxicating liquors, except for medicinal, mechanical, or scientific purposes.