ISLAM, THE FUTURE OF. 



met January 19th, and adopted the following 

 resolutions : 



Whereas, The enemies of personal liberty are con- 

 stantly increasing their efforts to ingraft upon the 

 statute-book of this State more laws with reference to 

 the manufacture and sale of all liquors, the provisions 

 of which are notoriously unjust and tyrannical ; and, 



Whereas, An amendment to the Constitution of the 

 State of Iowa ? prohibiting the manufacture and sale 

 of all liquors, including beer and wine, is now pending 

 and will be brought upon its final passage before the 

 next General Assembly ; therefore, DC it 



Resolved, That in the face of the existing and com- 

 ing dangers to our business and to the continual en- 

 croachments upon the rights and individual proper- 

 ties of the citizens of this Commonwealth, we deem it 

 the highest duty of all persons engaged in the sale or 

 manufacture of distilled or fermented liquors in this 

 State to unite themselves for the purpose of defend- 

 ing liberty and property as guaranteed to us by the 

 Constitution of the State of Iowa. 



Resolved, That this convention proceed to organize 

 a State Protective Association, embracing all re- 



spectable persons engaged in the manufacture or sale 

 of liquors. 



Resolved, That the members of this association arc 

 hereby pledged to use all just and honorable means to 

 secure tne election of only such men to the Legislat- 

 ure as are opposed to all sumptuary and prohibitory 

 laws, regardless of their party affiliations. 



There are 120 breweries in the State, which 

 in 1880 manufactured 252,000 barrels of beer, 

 on which a tax of $252,000 was paid. In these 

 breweries more than 1,000 people are em- 

 ployed. The buildings, etc., represent a capi- 

 tal of $2,840,000 ; machinery, apparatus, bar- 

 rels, tubs, etc., an average value of $1,500,000 ; 

 all these figures aggregate a total of $5,840,000. 

 The wages for employes paid by the brewers 

 amount to $720,000. 



According to the final returns of the census 

 of 1880, the population, by counties, as com- 

 pared with the returns of 1870, is as follows: 



ISLAM, THE FUTURE OF. Mr. Wilfred S. 

 Blunt, who spent several months in 1880 and 

 1881 in Jiddah, the sea-port of Mecca, and 

 in Egypt and Syria, in the almost exclusive 

 society of Mussulmans, for the purpose of ob- 

 serving the tendencies of Mohammedan thought 

 and of studying the prospects for the future of 

 the faith of Islam, gives an estimate as to the 

 approximate census of the Hag, or pilgrimage 

 to Mecca, and of the population of the Moham- 

 medan world, which will be found in the table 

 on the following page. 



The numbers included in the four great sects 

 are roughly given as follows : 



1. The Sunnites, or Orthodox Mohammedans 145,000,000 



2. The Shtitea, or sect of AH 15,000,000 



8. The Abadites ( Abadhiyeh) 7.000,000 



4. The Wahabites 8,000,000 



All of these sects hold in common to the 

 four fundamental beliefs of Islam, viz. : A be- 

 lief in one true God, the creator and ordainer 

 of all things ; 2. A belief in a future life of re- 

 ward and punishment ; 3. A belief in a divine 

 revelation imparted first to Adam, and renewed 

 at intervals to Noah, to Abraham, to Moses, 

 and to Jesus Christ, and, last of all, in its per- 

 fect form, to Mohammed a revelation not of 

 dogma only, but of practice, which has taught 

 a universal rule of life for all mankind, in poli- 

 tics and legislation, as well as in doctrine and 

 morals ; and, 4. A belief in the Koran as the 

 literal word of God, and in its inspired inter- 

 pretation by the Prophet and his companions, 

 preserved through tradition (Hadith). On other 

 points, however, both of belief and practice, 



