Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-07-16

the Committee on Permanent Organi-
zation made the following report:
President-James Kerr of Martins
Ferry.
Vice Presidents:
Mrs. Rose Wood, Martins Ferry.
Rev ] 3 Marshall, GAINESVILLE.
DIR 7 G Rowles, Bridgeport.
Rev ID Rhodes, HeEdrysbugh.
Isaac Holloway, Flushing.
DR. Pratt, Burrs' Mills.
John Lippincott, Morristown.
Rebecca Hamilton, Louisville.
E G Morgan, Bellaire.
Rev NJ ] Ingram, Somerton.
A Armstrong, Armstrong; Mills.
III Wilson, Powhattan.
John Theaker, Pennington.
II c Welday, st. Clairsville.
Secretaries.
j Ashenhurst, Martins Ferry.
S B Piper, Barnesville.
Miss Mary Clayland, Bridgeport.
Mrs S Gressinger, st. Clairsville.
Mr.. Kerr, upon taking the stand,
thanked the Convention for the honor
conferred in calling him to preside
over their deliberations.
The committee on resolutions being
ready to report, Slater Brown, Esq, of
Pleasant Grove, the Chairman of the
Committee, presented the following,
which were adopted unanimously:
WHEREAS, The Constitutional Con-
vention having framed new COnSti-
tuition or organic law for our State, and
have ordered the same to be submit
ted to the people for their adoption or
rejection ON the 18th day of August of
the present year, and
WHEREAS, A separate proposition
has also been submitted for our action
in relation to the traffic in intoxicating
| liquors, and believing it contrary to
the interests of our great common
wealth and destructive to the morals
of our people to legalize evil in any
| form, and
WHEREAS, Intemperance is the most
gigantic evil and heinous sin prevalent
in our midst, and
WHEREAS, 1t is the duty of all good
citizens, without distinction of age, sex
| or party, to labor for its suppression,
and ultimate extinction. Therefore,
Resolved, 1st: That We urge the
friends of temperance, morals and or
der, to rally, as one man, to meet the
issue presented in this clause of our
new Constitution, to wit: License Oh
| No License.
Resolved, ID: That, to secure these
objects, we hereby form ourselves into
an Anti-license Society.
Resolved, Sd: That an organization
be formed to consist of one County Cen
tral Committee, to be located at the
County Seat, to consist of seven mem
bers; one Central Committee for eacl
township in the county; this commit
= tee to report from time to time to the
/ County Central Committee; one Vigi
Lance Committee for each School Dis
ltrict, to consist of three members, whC
will report to the Township Centra
COMMITTEE. e -G
/ Resolved, 4th: That the following
named persons constitute the County
lCommittee: H. G. Welday, DaviC
| Brown, Alexis Cope, George Brown
4 Aft. FL. Mitchell, Andrew Porterfield
Jos. H. Close. iaoa sdfa ~
/ Col. c. l.. Poormap, of Bellaire, wa
then introduced. and delivered in hi
usual energetic and forcible man
bner, an able address in behalf o
the Temperance cause. He spoke sub
Istantially as follows: d zra q.
4 The great cry,of the friends of licens
is. YOU can't stop the liquor traffic
: Men will buy it and drink it, and j
YOU cannot stop it, you ought to impos
tax on it for the benefit of the gov
ernment.' He said that it was tru
} that ardent spirits had always bee
! made and drank, but if it always ha
Iexisted and always will exist, is tina
anv reason Why we should license tn
-1Crinlo Apply the same line of argu
tIIrent to murder and all other crimes
ilyou cannot stop them. Then licens
ItheIn and what q state of affairs wouh
. we have? You claim that law doc
, not stop crime. Then why enact law
/ against crime? For the simple reaso
: -Itha. experience teaches US that lay
!. prevents crime and suppresses it.
: You might as well try to regulate tn
i. Asiatic cholera or Smallpox, as to tr
Ell to regulate the saloon business wit
: such men as ara now engaged in i
5 H,he only way to stop it is by war
(. determination. and if we grant licenS
: we will be going backward I'D the col
D t1ict instead Of forward.
4 Again we are told that We must rais
: revenue from the traffic. Then VIII
= not raise revenue from any other spt
e icies Of viliainy and criGae? 1t woui
: be Just as appropriate. But II you Wen
,, to raise large revenue from ever
i pint of WHISKY that is Il ait outtnrougi
GU: the lana il would fail to compeI