Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1853-12-29
M | s C E LII An Y,
TEMPERANCE ADDRESS.
TO the Total abstinence Societies, and
TO the friends OF Total abstinence in
the State of Ioua.

10 me LOtm s1OSt1nence Societies, an
TO the friends OF Total .4bstinence Il
the State of Iowa.
The undersigned. a Committee an
pointed by the Grand Division of th
Sons of Temperance of said State
would respectfully call your attention I,
the suhjec, which engages the efforts o
that organization, to wit:
The suppression OF the Liquor ,rat fl
as a beverage. Procrastnalion and de
lay-the deleal Of armies, the wreck O
families, and the ruin of individuals. -
Truths no more trulhfully applied Il
other relations in life, than to the Ten
perance cause, delays are dangerous. -
Therefore, if our objec, is to be attain.
ed-Iowa redeemed from the grasp Of
the liquor maker and The liquor vende,
Iowa TO bloom with health and vigou
Iowa To be strong in manhood and
age-lowa, whom her citizens shall be
proud OF, at home and abroad-the tenn.
pe-ance men of Iowa must ACT, and
they mus, act at once.
lie who quietly folds his arms, seats
himself on the bank of the Mississippi,
and waits until that stream passes by,
that he may cross it on dry land, will
tarry long. That man who in these
days reasons with the manufacturer and
the vender of alcoholic drinks, reasons
with the breeze of heaven, and storms
at the win,ry blast; for The Mississippi
rolls on. in her resistless course, the
breeze y.i gently play S around his weak
intellect, and The wintry bias, blows no
less cold, To the houseess orphan (made
so by the vcnder;) nor dets the maru-
iacturer and vender make and sell less
of their distilled poisons, despite the
tears and reasons uf The widow, or the
rawlings OF the maniac. Reasoning with
them is sowing sead on a rock founda
lion, il brings forth no fruil; the vender
goes on in his maddening and damning
career.
The question then may naturally oc
cur TO you, What shall we do! Whal
etlor, shall We pui forth, that has not al.
ready been done! Or, what can BIZ done,
IN addition 10 the efforts. already going
an! Panick Henry once asked the
questions, "Shall We gather strength by
lrresolution and inaction! Shall we ac.
quire tie means OF eiieciual resistance,
by ying supinely on our backs, and
huggIng the dslusive phantom of hone,
until our enemies have bound US hand
and foo,!" nm
Are mol those las, questions appllca.
bic TO the Tempe rance cause in Iowa, al
this day! DO they moi come home 10
us, every one of them! In thai ,mmor
Ial patriots language, ave have but
one lamp by which our feet are guided |
and that is the lamp Uf experience. -
Ohio, already illustrates that supineness
she groans from the millions Of mon
ey inUoiued in the traffic Of alcoholic
'irinks and the preparations now being
made in that State to drunken the entire
west. Tha, eternal vigilance which is
Tie price Of liberty, points TO the lrium-
phant States Of Name, Vermont, New
York and Wisconsin aud the rum cars.
I'd city o! Baltimore. Shall we then in
iowa, rest on our oats? Shall we wait
yet little longer! No! Neuer!! Let
hat be the answer from the South to the
extreme North; reverberaled from The
North to the extreme South, NAV the
'ch0 be taken UP from the eastern bank
'f the Missouri, hurled across our fair
md fertile plains and prairiss to the ives,
'ank of the Upper Mississippi and The
tones OF lowa's sturdy sons
'ass along down the extreme length of
he Father of Uafers, giving clear cold
water to the sons and daughters congre.
,ated on its fair borders. Then lei us
ONE from the cities, the towns, the vii.
ages. the valleys, plains and prairies, the
'amlet and the cottage, from ali classes
# society, the high and the low, the
ich and the poor, ALL and say 10 The Ii.
uor maker and the liquor vender, say
. the world away with these snbterfu.
es, away with liquor laws enacted by
VhiskeJ influences. and away with your
mock Constitutional trials. A prohib-
ory law we demand, and nothing bu.
rohibitory liquor law, ,ha. will suppress
8 entire sale as beverage in lowe.
Respectfully submitted to the Tenn.
erance portion Of Iowa.
JAMES THORINGTON,
THOS. MARTIN,
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