The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-09-17
Address Ofihe Cincinnati Tenn
perance Committee.

Address Ofihe Cincinnati Tenn
perance Committee.
For want of room last week, we
were compelled to leave out the con-
cluding portion of the address of the
Committee of fifteen, of the Cincin-
matt Temperance meeting to the Peo-
pie of the State. The Committee
say:
I'VE appeal to our Temperance
friends who have honestly differed
from us on the license question. As
that is no longer living issue be-
fore the people of Ohio, why can we
not unite on this now common Tenn
perance ground, and work together in
harmony?
We also appeal to our Temperance
friends in the Democratic party.
Some will be recognized as old
Democrats who sign this address.
We ask others if there is, at the pres
ent time, any principle embraced in
the platform of either party, as dis
tinguished from the other, more i'm
portant to the moral, social, material,
or political well-being of the State of
Ohio, than that declared in the
above resolution of the Republican
party? For ourselves, those of us
who are Republicans are free to de-
clare-and we know of many Tenn
perance Republicans who take the
same ground-that if the position of
the two parties of the State were re-
versed on this question, we should
unhesitatingly give our adhesion to
the Democratic party.
We finally appeal to the Temper
ance friends, who are organized into
political party called the 'Pronibi-
ton Party" No third party, organ
lied on the simple basis Of temper
ance, has been able to carry any
State in the Union at the polls.
In Massachusetts, and other Eastern
States, the friends of Temperance
have achieved all their success
through one or the other of the pre-
viously existing political parties.
Can we hope to do any better in Ohio
than the friends of Temperance have
done in New England, where they
have been battling for the cause at
the ballot-box much longer than we
have? At the time when the 'Pro
hibition Party" was formed, several
yers since, neither of the great polit-
ical parties of the State took decided
Temperance ground. Both usually
ignored the subject. But within the
last few months the whole position
has been changed. Public sentiment
has so risen on temperance that
both parties have spoken. The liq-
uor interest has plank in the Demo
cratic, as the temperance has in the
Republican platform. Can Temper
ance men hesitate which party to
support, when inevitably one or the
other must triumph at the polls?
We may, with propriety, state for
the information of all concerned,
that it was the deliberate purpose of
the friends of Temperance in this
city to join in a distinct political or
ganization, had not one or the other
of the political parties of the State
placed itself, through its Convention,
on Temperance ground. In that
case we should have exhorted all the
friends of temperance to unite in a
distinct organization, with the same
earnestness that we exhort them to
unite with rs in sustaining that par
ty which has adopted our princi-
pies.
To all our friends in the various
Temperance organizations through
out the State, we say that our mo-
tive would be wholly misconstrued,
and we should be judged harshly, if
any person should suppose that we
here assume to dictate any voter in
the line of his duty. We regard
ourselves only as equals addressing
our equals. We have thought that as
the earnest friends of temperance,
living IN a city where the hardest
battle for our cause has to be fought,
and feeling the necessity of early
union and energetic action, we
might properly speak word to our
brethren in other portions of the
State; and all we ask of them is to
receive our suggestions in the same
friendly spirit in which they are Civ
en-.
The Eighth Annual Reunion of the
Society of the Armyof the Cumber
land will be held at Columbus, Ohio
on Wednesday and Thursday, the
10th and 18th days of September
commencing at 10 o'clock A. NJ. or
the 10th inst. All officers and sol
5;o,.s who OF opu fiua caY-vad will