The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-03-19
prohibition Association of Texas.
MARSHALL TENAs, March |, 1870
10 the friends OF Temperance In Tcxnsi


10 the friends OF Temperance In rcxasi
AZ Dallas on the llth of February,
1879, u convention WIS held OF all per-
sous In favor Of the enactment OF laws
prohibiting the sule OF Intoxicating
liquor In Texas. Az this convention
was organized the Prohibition Asso.
citation of Texas and the undersigned
were appointed the executive commit
tee aud instructed TO publish this call
and exposition of principles and pur-
poses.
We, therefore, announce that the
Prohibition Association Of TeXas,n
viii convene In the city of Houston,
Texas, on the 18th, day of May, 1876,
ut II o'clock A. NJ, the same being the
third day Of the state fair.
To this meeting of the association
every organized body of friends Of
temperance in Texas, by whatever
name known, are most earnestly re-
quested 10 send delegates. Every or
ganization Is requested to furnish dele
gates with proper credentials, aud
with certificates stating name of or
ganizaton, the number of male and
female members, and the date of or
ganizaton, signed by the presiding
officer and secretary. In addition 10
the delegates Just ment Toned, 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 Iomi-
nations of Christians will send prop
erly accredited representatives to this
meeting in Houston.
The one primary object of the prohi-
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 aud all kinds Of intoxi-
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, on the contra
ry, believing that many 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 mutual field for labor
and zeal, the association dsavows any
political character.
Believing that, without laws prohib-
ting the sale and manufacture of in
toxicating liquor, intemperance will
continue, II 1t does not largely in
crease, il Is hoped that, by 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, 1t is believed
that temperance will never become
universal, perhaps not even general
among the people, and we therefore,
believe that prohibition and temper
ance are practically convertible terms,
and that therefore, in this, the cause
of temperance, we have n cause enlist
ing, and that will enlist the ,earlist
sympathy and active labors of the
good OF all PORTIONS; a cause in which,
II kept out Of politics, the mothers and
daughters of cur land will be, us they
have ever been our noblest, and most
efficient, and most deeply interested
tO-UiIutoiS. aE =
Avoiding everything of political
character we will, as men and women
of Texas, Knowing no political party,
but interested in the great cause of hui
manity-interested in the well being of
our fellow-man, and the true dignity
and interest of our state, aud at all
proper times and in every proper man.
ner urge upon the state government,
whether in the hands of one party or
another, that it license no man to de-
stroy his fellow-man, and that its rev.
enues must be no lorger taken as the
equivalent paid to the state for the
privilege of degrading our youth aud
manhood.
1t il terrible that In this bright and
beautiful world a civilized government
should, for revenue, authorize men to
deal out death to their fellows-death
not only to the body. hut death to repu-
tation, to virtue. Ia the eoul, aud
death to all the hopes aud happiness Of
the loving ones of the immediate vic.
tim. We hope To see q full attend