Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1888 — But Will They Do It? [ARTICLE]

But Will They Do It?

In LSB4 the General Conference adopted a. resolution as explanatory of the attitude of the church towards the liquor traffic, the purr port of which was that we seek its entire prohibition. The experience of four.years had shown that as it stood, it was capable of perversion. To guard against this, while reaffirming the deliverance of 1884 in full, the late General conference expressed an opinion that where prohibition was jpot immediately attainable, we~ihould seek local option. Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, a member of the commit--tee, advocated it and voted for it in the committee, and again advocated and voted for it in the con*

feronee, and it was adopted ummimously. Now, will tfiose who lave been so freely quoting the Disciplin to prove that Methodists onght to support the Prohibition third party, be as assiduous in quoting this resolution to show that Methodists ought to support the Republican party this year in Indiana? The party flas declared for local option in Indiana. Oar Constitution, ns construed by theSapretne Cbur*-, will -not permit prohibition even indirectly. {Sweet vs. City of Wabash, 41 fnd,, 7.) Local option is our only chance. The Supreme Court has Sustained local option, f Groech Z vs. ihc State . 42 Ind., 047.) But will they do it? All will who are more desirious to secure the best legislation possible under the Constitution, than to defeat the Republican party.— Indiana Christian Advocate. — i