Graven Images

The attacks of his political enemies are something Mr. LaFollette will receive in due course, but why should he be attacked by the Methodist Church? Dr. Clarence True Wilson, Corresponding Secretary of the Board of Temperance and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church, answered that question last week in addressing a camp meeting at Spirit Lake, Iowa. Said he: "We are to be congratulated on the high ideals of both platforms and the character and loyalty to Government in- stitutions that the four men who are running in the major parties stand for. You could not get a poor President out of that list. Both parties manfully stepped up to the standard of the 18th Amendment and pledged an enforcement program.

"The only party and the only wet candidate running is Robert M. La Follette. He has been continuously wet. . . . He has been a tsar in his own State politics, eliminating all the men who would not bow down to his 'graven image.'

"I am a Progressive. I find myself in sympathy with all the principles that the various Progressive parties' advocate. The cause is worthy of a better standardbearer. We will have to stand pat or not stand anywhere."

In couching this last phrase, Dr. Wilson was probably grasping in his mind for Benjamin Franklin's famous dictum: "We must all hang to- gether, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." That phrase may not have come quickly to his mind, with the result that he substituted a phrase acquired in his duties as a censor of public morals.