The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-11-26
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HILLsBOROUGH. OHIO.
Thursday, Nov. 26. 1874.
Temperance Convention for
the State of fOhiO.

Temperance Convention for
the State of Ohio.
The COMMITTEE of Fifteen" ap.
pointed by the Opera-house Mass
meeting in Cincinnati, August 9th,
was authrized to call State Tenn
Iperance Convention. It was not
deemed expedient, prior to the State
election, to issue call. Since the
election, letters have been received
from various parts of the STATE re-
questing such Convention. In view
of these requests, and in pursuance
of the purpose of our appointment,
we hereby call Convention to meet
in Columbus, O., Wednesday, Decem-
Der 9, 1874, at IL o clock a. M. to be
composed of temperance men from
all parts of the State.
1t is desired that this Convention
shall include men from all parties
and organizations who favor temper
ance, the suppression of tippling
houses, and an impartial enforcement
of the laws. All present will be en-
titled to part in the discussion;
in voting, the members from each
county represented will cast a vote
based on the number of Representa-
tives from their county in the Lower
House of the General Assembly.
The object of this Convention is
not to create a political party, but to
provide for thorough organization
throughout the State of temnerance
workers of all political parties and
religious denominations, in order to
promote more active temperance
sentiment; to secure the enforcement
of our temperance laws; to procure
such changes in, and amendments to
laws as experience proves to be nee
essary to their efficiency; to reach
and rescue the victims of the dram
shop; to guard the home against des-
ecration by intemperance, and by all
proper means, without interference
with any just right of the citizens, to
Danish from society the chief enemy
ofits order, peace, and prosperity.
The opponents of the temperance
reform are emboldened by the mani
fest indifference of q large class of
the community in regard to the
liquor traffic and it's results, and the
consequent neglect of public officers
to enforce the temperance laws, and
possibly by their views of the result
of recent elections; and yet we be-
lieve that the events of the past year
have prepared the public mind to be
more readily reached and directly in
fucnced by an efficient movement,
which shall be general, in favor of
temperance, than ever before. The
temperance women of Ohio have ac-.
compished much, and meeting is
soon to convene at Cleveland which
is designed to enlist the co o-operation
of women throughout the nation.
While they actively and successfully
prosecute, in their chosen ways, the
work to which they are moved by
the clear conviction of duty, there
remains much in the long line of this
contest that men can do, and must
do, to insure and hasten the victory.
All the facts indicate that the time
has come for an advance movement
on the part of the temperance men
of our State Let the Convention,
which we hereby call, be attended by
earnest workers from every county,
that, by taking counsel together,
practical plan may be devised to Sc
cure the cooperation of every man
who favors the triumph of temper
ance and the suppression of the
liquor traffic in Ohio.
c. W. ROWLAND, PHILIP HNKLE,
JOHN SIMPKNsoN, W. I. FEE,
ABNER L. FRAZER, S. K. LEAvITT,
R. L. STANTON, SMITH STIMMEL,
G. W. Cole, WM. GLENN,
SAMUEL WELLS, A. J. HOBBS,
]. NJ. WALDEN, E. G.. DALTON.