The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-03-24

| temperance iOH.~'
The Ladies' Pay their Regards t.
! the Late Imbecile Legislature.
The Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union held its regular month";
business meeting yesterday afternoon
Mrs Geo. Wallace presiding durin
the half hour spent in devotional ex
ercises, when Mrs. DIR. Harvey tool
the chair Such monthly reports a
were ready were made and other bust
ness taken up. The meeting las
Wednesday night, March 18th, at TIL
Y. Nj. c. A Reading Room was re
ported by Mrs. Harvey, as the larges
yet held, several men signing til,
pledge, and the meeting Of the Yoke
fellows reformed mems organization
on last Saturday night, was ATTENDED
by sixty men.
The following resolutions were
adopted as the sense OF the Union:
! RESOLUTIONS.
| Whereas, The women of Indian;
are not wanting in intelligence tina
| what temperance law will ultimately
best promote the welfare Of society
| neither were they wanting IN patriot
ism and that spirit of heroic self ABB
negation that gave their sons, hns-
bands and brothers to their country
in the hour of its peril; neither want
ing in that law-abIding spirit which
makes them as Il class the most peace
full and obedient citizens OF the State,
and
Whereas, 1t was found by careful
observation that as rule only one
woman in a hundred refused, when
asked to sign the temperance petition
presented to the late session OF the
Legislature Therefore
Resolved, That the passage of the
license law by our Legislature over
the protest of the women Ct Indiana,
taking as it does, from the men whose
brains are not beclouded by intoxl-
cants, and from people by whose will
legislators are empowered, all power
to protect society from the encroach
ments of tue liquor traffic, we regard
as a direct insult to the intelligent,
patriotic and law abiding women OF
Indiana.
Resolved, That We regard the day
of its passage. March ID, 1875, as the
day of Indianas disgrace; more than
when her soldiers fed upon the field
of Buena Vista, because the Indiana
Legislature surrendered to power
which should arouse every manly in
stipct of aRtagonism when it lntrudes
its villainous presence upon the
threshold of legislation.
Resolved, That we do not regard
the event as any cause for discourage
ment. or any reason for relaxation of
effort, but the contrary, rather; and a
proyidential indication that the con-
flict is hereafter to be less compro
missing on the part of temperance peo-
pie
Resolved. That we call upon our
sister organizations throughout the
State to renewed efforts in keeping the
subject of temperance constantly be
fore the people. and to continuance IN
PRAYER 10 that God who has said, 1e
shall not afflict any widow or father
less child. If thou afflict them in any
wise and they cry at ali unto Me. L
will surely hear their cry, with the
hone that the remarkable success Of
the last year in educating public SEN
timent may be trebled at the end of
another two years.
Resolved, That we earnestly en-
treat all true and good men TO make
financial and other questions second
arv, and make combined effort to
secure such laws and constitutional
amendments as may be necessary to
forever put the liquor traffic, with all
its blighting influences, under the ban
of the law OF man in our State, as 1t Is
already under the ban of the law OF
God.
Resolved That we most earnestly
urge the fathers and mothers of Indl-
ana. whether actively engaged IN the
temperance work or not, to lose no
opportunity of impressing upon the
minds of their children perpetual
epmity to all that can intoxicate.
Mr.. EDrToR:-You will see by the
resolutions adopted by the Indiana
polls Woman's Christian Temperance
Union. that the women think their re-
quests were not treated with as much
respect as they had reason to antici-
pate by the law making power OF the
State, in their assembled wisdom, and
this will be the more apparent to ev-
cry unprejudiced thinker when it is
remembered that those women have
been for the past year laboring with
all the zeal and earnest devotion that
the sacred object of the Association
can inspire, viz: to save their hus
band, sons and brothers from the
degradation that flows in the path Of
the liquor traffic; and then, as grand
elimination of their efforts. they went
up to Indianapolis and presented in
good faith the petition of 10000 wo-
men of the State, asking the men who
claim to protect them to refuse to
pass a license law What influence,
the speeches Of the women who ad-