Daily Kennebec journal., 1873-01-17
state Temperance Convention.
SECOND DAY-TnrH>pAY.

SECOND DAY-THUR>D
The convention met yesterday at 10 o'clock,
Vice President IIichborn in the chair.
Mr.. Munger OF Portland. from the commit
tee to nominate State committee for the en-.
suing year reported Tie following list;
Henry Tallman Of Bath.
Joshua Nye of Augusta.
J. w. Munger of Portland.
\. j. Billings of Freedom.
A. j. w. Stevens Of Parkman.
John S. kimball of Bangor
Mr.. Nye declined serving on the commit
tee, as he had held the position for many
years. Mr.. Nye was excused, and Ii. X.
Morrell of Gardiner was substituted.
DR.. Billings of Freedom was called upon,
and said he had been interested in the cause
from thirty to forty years and always delight
cd to labor in the field. They had driven
out the liquor traffic from Freedom, which
had for years been the banner town of rum.
They have considerable trouble from the le-
galized agencies, and thought the time had
come when they should be stopped. His re-
marks were particularly severe on the class
that he called ''legalized rumsellors."
Mr.. Munger of Portland said he was sur
prised that temperance men did not under
stand the law. 1t is stringent enough. Four
illicit seller. The civil remedies are ample.
The owner of the building in which the rum
seller pursues his traffic is liable to damages
even beyond those imposed upon the rumsel-
Ter himself. This advance step was taken by
the legislature last winter. Sc all the legal
powers that we now have, and not an open
rumshop will be found throughout the length
and breadth of the land.
A discussion was had in regard to agencies,
Il nd 20 j,r,, \ 1 Al
was adequate, but abuses came from having
dishonest agents.
Judge Hall, from the committee on resou-
tons. made the following report;
/. RESOLVED, That in reviewing the results
of the past year in the cause of temperance
in this State, we have abundant cause for
courage and hope, and while we feel a de-
gree of pride at the steady and permanent
advancement which has placed our State in
its eminent position as a leading example of
the power and benetcence of both legal pro
hibition and persuasion, we do not forget the
untiring activity and ceaseless vigilance re-
quired to sustain it in that position.
2. RESOLVED, That we hail with unbounded
pleasure the new and vigorous allies Of our
cause.-the Temperance Reform Clubs of
Maine-which within the past year have
sprung into existence ready armed for noble
and efficient service, which has been noblv
rendered, the saviour OF hundreds from u
> drunkard's doom, and the efficient promoter
of a sound temperance sentiment among the
people.
8. RESOLVED, That it is the duty Of all
temperance men to aid and encourage the Re
form Clubs in the great moral work of reform
ing the inebriate, in which they have been SO
successfully engaged during the past year,
and that it is their duty to contribute liberal
ly of their means to keep reformed temper
ance lecturers in the field, to preach the gos-
pei Of temperance from every hill top and in
every valley in the old Pine Tree State
4. RESOLVED, That we enter upon a new
year with renewed faith in the principles OF
legal prohibition of the sale of intoxicating
liquors; that we believe it to be the pledge of
our most permanent success, the safeguard
of the public and the protector of moral re-
form.
3. RESOLVED, That believing that the sale
and use of intoxicating liquors is by far the
most prolific source of paupauism, wretched-
ness and crime in the land, that intemper-
ance furnishes large per centage Of the