The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-03-20

MARSHALL, TEXAS, March |, 1879
} the friends of TempernnCe in TeXns:

| MARSHALL, IEHAS, Marcn !, 1910. Z
To the friends of Temperance in Texas: +
AT Dallas ON the 18th of February,
1873, n convention was held of all PEI
sons in favor of the enactment Of laws
prohibiting the sale of Intoxicating
liquor in Texas. AT this convention
was organized the Prohibition Asso
citation of Texas and the undersigned
were appointed the executive commit
tee, and instructed to publish this cal
and exposition of principles and put
poses.
We, therefore, announce that the
Prohibition Association Of Texas
will convene in The city Of Houston,
Texas, on the 18th, day of May, 1875
at IL o'clock y. NJ, the same being the
third day of the state fair.
10 this meeting of the association
every organized body of frien6 OF
temperance III Texas, by WHATEVER
name known, are most earnestly re-
quested 10 send delegates. Everi or
ganizati0n is requested to furnish iele-
gates with proper credentials, ami
with certificates stating name o. or
ganizaliOr, the number of male and
female members, and the date o. or
ganzation, signed 10y the presiding
officer and secretary. In addition 10
the delegates just mentioned, all the
friends of prohibition throughout'the
state are invited to meet the assOcia-
ton at the time and place above
named. And we especi Ally hope that
many, and with that all, The different
congregations of the various de 'omi-
nations of Christians will send prop
erly accredited representatives to this
meeting in Houston.
The one primary object of the Vrohi-
bition association of Texas is, by all
proper means, to labor for the enact
ment of laws totally prohibiting the
sale, at wholesale or retail, or manu-
facture of any and all kinds of mtoxi-
eating liquors in Texas. 1t is not the
purpose of the association, in the eff
fort TO accomplish their object, to form
any political party, but, Oh the contra
ry, believing that in my good men in
the ranks of all the political parties,
and that all the noble women of the
land will find in the movement for
prohibition a mutual field for. labor
and zeal, the association disavows any
political character.
Believing that, without laws prohib-
iting the sale and manufacture of in
toxicating liquor, intemperance will
continue, if 1t does not largely in
crease, it is hoped that, 10y eschewing
a political character, the association |
will receive the earnest cooperation \
and labors of thousands of humane
men and women who could not other |
wise be induced to labor together.
Without prohibition, it is believed |
that temperance will never become
universal, perhaps not even general |
among the people, and we therefore,
believe that prohibition and temper
apce are practically Convertible terms,
and that, therefore. in this, the cause !
Of temperance, we have cause enlist
ing, and that will enlist the earlist
sympathy and active labors of the
good of all PORTIONS; a cause in which,
il kept out of politics, the mothers and
daughters of OEr land will he, as they
have ever been our noblest, and most
and most deeply interested
Avoiding everything of political
character we will, as men and women
Of Texas, knowing no political party,
but interested in the great cause of hu-
manity-interested in the well being of
our fellow-m man, and the true dignity
and interest of our state, and at all
proper times and in every proper man.
ner urge upon the state government,
i'm the hands of one party or,