Church Politics and Labor Trials
By Editor
The incident related in the following short letter in the Des Moines, Iowa, Bulletin is decidedly significant:— "During the District Conference of the M. E. Church held at Sheldon, November 13 and 14, one of the presiding elders, in an enthusiastic address, made the following significant statement: 'The M. E. Church is the strongest political and ecclesiastical body in the United States.' He used the illustration of cannon balls to represent the church, Epworth League, and Sunday school, which when hurled against those who oppose the advancement of the church, will, like an avalanche, sweep everything before them." Over 100 cases of members of the American Railway Union are pending in the United States District Courts of San Francisco and Los Angeles, the charges in the main being interference with the carrying of the mails during the great strike last summer. The following resolution of the Farmers' Alliance, recently in session in this city, expresses the sentiment of that body:— "Resolved, That the Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union of California view with alarm and indignation the action of Judges Morrow and Ross in their arbitrary and tyrannical treatment of the members of the A. R. U., who are undergoing trial in their respective courts, and, in their action, we see the approach of absolute despotism."