The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1866-06-16
STATE TEMPERANCE OONvEETIoH.

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Rev. H. D. Fisher presided. Il
The attendanes was large and much
interest was manifested in tbs proceed
ngs.
committee on the state Of the country,
which was adopted by the convention:
Your committee, TO whom was referred
the state of the country, in regard to the
temperance reformation. would respect
fully represent that owing TO The limited
spsce of time allotted it. foI bids anything
but cursOry view of the nOmentOus is
sues involved.
TO give them due attention would re-
ouirs not only days, but months-uot |
only q report but volumes. They are of
Sufficient importance to engage the
press and tongues of the brightest intel.
iects of the age.
Great satisfaction is felt that the diff
ferent portions of our young aud grow
ing State are so generally represented in
The Convention, held Al season of the
year, when the soil demands the labors
of tile husbandman to assist in bringing
forth its produce.
10 the opinion Of your committee for
the FIVE yeaas past, during the great and
terrible struggle which has just closed,
and in which our country has acquitted
itself so nobly, and to the admiration of
the entire world. intemperance has been
learfully on the increase. During the
period spoken of, from reliable infor ma
lion furnished, il is estimated that the
manufacture Of, and traffic IN ardenEspir-
its, has cost the people of the United
States directly $500. DOC, 900, has burned
or destroyed five millions worth of prop
erty, has destroyed one hundred and IF
ty thousand lives, sent one hundred and
twenty-five thousand TO prison. fifty
thousand children to the poor house,
caused eight hundred murders, twelve
hundred suicides, and left TO the country
one hundred thousand orphan children.
This is attributable to the dreadful effects
of intemperance alone, to Say nothing Of
the ravag.s of the war.
| The relation of the efforts of the advo-
! Gates of the temperance eau So during the
time referred to, has been owing in. a
great meas ure 10 the almost superhuman
exertious required to crush the "Great
Rebellion" Men and money, { as from
every other moral and laudable enter
prise were lavished without stint, and
ungrudgingly thro wn into the scale, where
our very existence as q nation was in
volved.
The demon of intemperance, held al
most full and complete sway,-a host o.
whiskey manufacturing and vending ss.
adjustments have sprung up all over
our land-:he evil assumes bold front.
and stalks forth unblushiDgly, and will
gigantic strides through every portion o.
our fair State. An effort which will re
quire the assistance of every lover of hit
country and of his-race, is necessary tc
stay its fearful rsVsges. Il fires up thu
animal passions of our fellow men, caus
ing them to forget their duty which they
owe to themselves, their neighbors, thei
children, their wives. their country ant
their God. It has been the cause Of en-
failing more misery, of spreading NOR
disease. and the death Of more human be
ings than all the wars and pestilence'
with which the earth has been cursed
It has caused the sorrow and poverty o
orphanage. the tears and lamentations o
widowhood, the desolation of home, th,
de secration of self, and the violation O
pledges. 1t has been the cause of pro
ducing three fourths Of all the crime
three fourths of ali the pauperism, one
fourth of all the diseases, and air th
drunkenness. Our taxes would, in the
opinion of your committee, be decrease
more than one-fourth, if we lad upon on
statute books a sound aud well natures
kprobibitory liquor Law. There can be n
doubt of the cnnstitutionality and practic
ability of such law. If the Legi. latur
possesses the right and the power to i'm
pose certain restraints, aud TO regulat
the sale CT Intoxicating drinks, it can pro
bibit it's sale sltogether-as State meas
ure, and upon the principle of the great
est good to the greatest number. Tn
advocates of the temperance reform in tn
State of Kansas, must put their shoulder
l 10 the wheel aud work zealously aud un
s tiringly for the securing of this great ell
I. evator of mankind. Therefore,
a RESOLVED. That instant and immediat
g steps be taken for the formation of TEN
! perance organizations all over the State
: in every county, city, village aud town
!. ship.
/ RESOLVED, That the temperance pres
is an indispensable auxiliary to the tenn
perancs reform, that We hail with pleasur
the National Temperance Advocate pub
E lished in New York city, also the West
+ ern Temperance Advocate, pubiishe'
weekly in Chicago. Illinois. together wit
the Youths Temperance BInner, pub
D lished at the Temperance Publishini
House in New York City, also the Youth
Temperance Visitor, published in Rock
land, Maine, as eminently calculated Il
disseminate the principles Of Temperance
e throughout the country, and that We rec
ommend the friends of temperance to d.
Z all in their power to secure wide ci-cu
lation of temperance literature.e
ResolVed, That no efforts or means b.
spared to show up to the public, by means
of Unemployment of lectures and the-ci
culatiOn Of tracts. the workings of tht
present license system IN all its deformiIy
f Resolved, That churches, ministers o
the gospel and other persons. be earnest
lysrequested to redoabIe their efforts il