WHEREAS, Prohibition is now a part of the Constitution of the United States and is no longer a political question, but a question of respect for and the enforcement of law, a question of the authority of the whole people expressed in law, and
WHEREAS, The brewers and their paid attorneys are making every possible effort to circumvent and nullify the law by making beer and wine the entering wedge for the return of the saloon; and
WHEREAS, the said brewers and their paid attorneys claim that there is a reaction in the public mind against prohibition; therefore be it
RESOLVED, By the Southern Baptist Convention in annual session assembled in Washington, D.C., May 12-17, 1920, with 8,000 messengers enrolled representing a constituency of 3,000,000 white Baptists, that we hereby respectfully and earnestly petition each of the two great political parties of the United States to put a plank in their respective platforms to be adopted at their approaching National Conventions declaring strongly for the maintenance and enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution and of the law enacted for its enforcement.
Second, That we also petition said parties not to nominate any man for the Presidency who is not known to be committed to this policy of law and order.
Third, That the Committee on Temperance and Social Service be and the same is hereby authorized and instructed to communicate a copy of these resolutions to the Chairman of the Executive Committee of each of the two great parties.