The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-04-08
To the People of the state of Oregon.

The bancful effects of ntemperance upon the
morality of the people and the body polite of
the State of Oregon, demands the earnest attcn-
ton of her citizens.
As blight upon morality in destroying lives,
running souls, producing misery, and in causing
sickness, sorrow, hunger and nakedness. instead
of health, happiness and plenty; it surpasses all
others and becomes the oye- .hadowing evil of our
country.
The political evils that result from the liquor
traffic a serious and growing cause of alarm.
1t is lanentable fact that the larger portion of
Of tax burden is tho result of intemperancc,
and that it peoples the receptacles for criminals
our Capital and various county-seats that it is
vastly instrumental in burl ening the State with
the support of the Insane at our asylum and tie
poor and the destitute in our several counties ::
that more than two-thirds of the eases ON orr
criminal dockets in police, justices and cireuit
courts, arise directly indirectly its effects.
Besides the capital, worse than wasted in its sup
port, the time that Is lost, the homes that des
olatcd the bright prospects that areblightcl, the
! many citizens of our young State who being
annually ruined, the drankea fights and street
brawls that disgrace cur many communities, and
the powerful yet pcrnIciouS influence that this
monster evil exerts in the enactment of the yari-
ons laws upon statute books, ON the customs
and usares of the people at large, and in the
ualiy growing upon US, and each succeeding day,
month and year becoming more frightfuly alarm
ing and proportionahly harder to eradicate, even
aside from the immense social and moral degeue-
racy to which it is continually giving rise, calls
upon the citizens of our State TO rise in their
mi ght and endeayor to check the fearful raya.es.
And as this evil will continue unless something is
done to stop it. and that promptly, and deeiSively,
therefore, VIC the undersigned, having been select
ed for that purpose, do hereby issue call to the
temperance people of Oregon, to meet III conven-
/ tion in Salem, on Friday. June 10th, 1871. the
object of this convention being TO compare notes
discuss principles, and to concert of action
on the part of the diffcrsnt Temperance element;
+ in State, and 70 devise measures for the en-
actment of such laws will assist in drivin, the
| tempter from our land. We would especially urgt
pom all christian churches, ec:lesias stc.tl bodies,
temperance organizations, &C., to send delegates
and upon all temperance men and women not con
nected with such societies to meet at such times
+ and places may best snt them, and choose del
ega3e-, who will assist with their counseis ana
views. Let come together citizens having
the best interest of young State and tn
future triumph of the temperance at heart
part of the co-worl1ers in the great reform. j. b
Roberts, Portland Hyer Jackson, Hillsboro
f. W. Ryan, Pertland q. w. Dimmiek, Needy
J. W. Shrum, Slverton J. II. Frush, Portland
c. b. Roland, Jefferson; w. X. Bishop Harris
burg; J. b. Garrison, Portland G.. w. Richard
son, Amity Ii. Lindsay, Monmouth; w. Pow
ell, Dayton; NJ. c. George, Albany.