Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-09-10
Temperance OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ra,

temperance COnventiOn--MaincL Law
In response to a call addressed to all IN,
friends of Temperance in Southern Wisconsin
without distinction OF sect or party, large mum
Der OF strong hearted and strong handed citizen.
assembled i'll convention at Troy, on Wednesday
! Aug. 18th, in the Congregational church,
| Their object was chiefly to consider the expedi
ency OF nsttuting means for securing the en-.
actment and enforcement Of a liquor law simi
lar to that of Maine, in Wisconsin. The con
vention was organized by calling w. w. TREAD
WAY, Esq, of Genesse, to the chair, and the ap
pointment of Prof. S. p. LATHRoP, NJ. d.. OF
Beloit, as Secretary pro tenn.
After singing and prayer for the Divine bless
| ing, the following permanent officers were cho
| sen.
President, T. l.. WRIGHr, Esq. of Beloit
Vice Presidents-T. III. SLEEPER. ESQ
GAINESVILLE; ErHRAIM WILCOX Salem, w. W.
TREADwAY, Esq, of Genessee, and ERsKINy
SHREWSBURY, Esq, of Summit
Secretaries-J. ii. NoRTHRoP, Lafayette, and
Rev. Il. HUMPHREY, Racine.
The following resolutions were introduced
by the Business Committee, and unanimously
adopted.
Resolred, That it is the duty of Government
to protect the people in their rights of person
and property and that the traffic in intoxicating
iqnors as beverage is destructive of these rights
and detrimental TO all the interest which govern
ment is constituted to protect that the laws
which sanction the traffic are wrong, and ought
TO be repealed and that the security of life,
the safety of property, and the relief Of the peo
pie from the burdens of unjust taxation, demands
its suppression by law.
ReSolred, That the principle assumed and
carried out in the Maine Law that spurious and
intoxicating liquor kept for sale as a beverage,
should be destroyed by the State as public evil,
meets the appreciation of this convention, as con-
sonant with the destruction of the implements
of gambling and of counterfeting, of poison
Gus food, infectious hides, and weapons of war
in the hands of an enemy ; that if the liquor
destroyed is private property, it is only so as are
the implements of the couLterfeiter, dangerous
and deadly to the best interests of the commun-
ty; that its destruction is no waste of the boun-
ties of Providence, more than the destruction of
noXious weeds, while its very destruction enrich
es the state TO an amount exceeding that for
which it could have been sold. 1t tends to put
end to all subterfuges frauds, and secret sales,
and to the demand for it in community 1t
makes the state perfect asylum for the inebri-
ate. 1t is solemn manifestation TO the world of
the vile and worthless nature of the article des-
troyed and an unmstakable token to the VEN
der, of the end to which a righteous public SEN
timent will ultimately bring his business For
these and other reasons the convention give it
their hearty appreciation and they do strongly
recommend to all the friends of Temperance to
cherish it as the sure, and the only sure triumph
of their cause and continually to urge its adj
option upon our legislature
Resolred That for the more efficient advan-
cement of the cause of Temperance in this State,
we recommend as follows:
!. The organization of a county temperance
alliance in every county, where no such organi-
cation now exists, for the purpose of aiding in
the formation of town alliances, and the employ
ment, if practicable, OF county agent or agents,
for the more cffcctual carrying out of the OBJ
jects herein named.
9. The organization OF temperance alliances
in every town and neghborhood as far as pract-
cable in the several counties.
g. That each alliance so formed employ every
suitable means for the diffusion Of temperance
information, especially of the facts relative to the
principles and WOrklnga of the Maine Liquor
Luw to labor in all suitable ways to obtain the
enactment of a law prohibiting the traffic in in
toXlcatlng liquors as beverage; to adopt such
measures as will best ensure the enforcement
of such law, if enacted and in all other ap-
ways to advance the interests of the
temperance cause.
i. That we proceed to appoint committees in
the several counties here represented, for the
purpose of calling meetings in said counties to
carry ont with efficiency the first three clauses of
this resolution.
ReSOircd, That we recommend to the friends
of temperance to use every honorable means TO
procure the nomination Of thorough temperance
men in the political parties to which they are re-
spectively attached.
Committees were appointed in accordance
with the suggestion Of the fourth clause Of the |
third resolution for all the counties represented !
in the convention, and arrangements were made
for the appointment 0: similar committees in all
the counties of Southern Wisconsin.
Much enthusiasm was manifested by the con- |
ven,on There were ready and powerful spea-
kers to sustain each resolution as il arose. The |
spirit of the meeting was ardent, though the de-
struction of ardent spirit was the expressed de-
sign. 1t is hoped that its suggestions will be |
Needed and that one of its consequences will be |
a demand for the Maine Law in Wisconsin too
potent for Legislative resistance.
Il. l.. WRIGHT, Prcs't.
= = n II I NorTHaoF, Secretaries.