Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-03
State Temperance Convention.

The following is the call for the State
Temperance Convention, which meets
at Grinnell on the 22d inst, and which
may or may not nominate State Tenn
perance ticket for the election this fall.
To the Temperance People of Iowa:
The committee appointed by our
State convention, held at Des MONIES
May 20, 1877, pursuant to a resolution
then adopted, has decided to call State
Temperance convention to meet at Grin
nell, Iowa, August %, 1877.
Your committee is not authorized to
direct the action that will be had at
said convention. The present and future
interest of the Temperance party will
then be discussed and decided, and if
any nominations are determined to be
made, the convention will feel as much
at liberty to make the same as if the
convention had been called for to that
special purpose.
1t is to be hoped that all counties, Sun
day-schools and churches will send as
many delegates to said convention as
they may see fit, but let them all be
sure to be represented.
I've invite all to unite with and
help us in this great work who believe
that incompetence is the most destruct-
i've evil of the present age; that it can
never be hanished from civilization with
out the united efforts of the friends Of
temperance; and that it is the duty of
men to make some personal sacrifice for
the public good.
2. We invite all who believe that the
slavery Of appetite to alcoholic drinks is
the most appalling and abject servitude
that eyer afflicted the human race, and
that the only sure way of breaking such
CALLING yoke is to disarm the oppres-
sor of everything, as beverage, that
can intoxicate men.
3. Weinvite all who believe that this
is the most mOmentous. as well as the
most unwieldy, issue that has ever been
presented to the people, in moral or ply
sicial science, or for legislative action;
and who believe that the propibition of
the traffic in intoxicating liquors is the
only sound legislative policy upon which
this vexed question can be solved; and
who are, therefore, opposed to all license
laws of whatsoever form or character.
4. We invite all who are in favor of
maintaining inviolate the personal liber-
ty Of all men and women to labor in this
cause without fear Of threats or intimi-
dations or Ostracising anathemas; and
who are infavor of inaugurating and
continuing persistent, pungent and I'M
yielding warfare against our common en-
envy until complete victory shall crown
our labors.
5. We invite all who believe that ed
ucation and Christianity are the corner
stones of republican government; that
the common schools are the breath and
life of our free institutions; that we'll
regulated financial system is the back
bone OF the government; and, inasmuch
as intemperance is the common enemy
of all these, that it is the duty of the
government to use all its power to ac-
complish the entire overthrow Of this
destructive traffic in our country.
6. We invite all who believe in the
vigorous and rigid enforcement of our
present prohibitory liquor law, and in
the enactment of such further prohibi-
tory legislation as will place the brewed
and fermented liquors under the same
condemnation as distilled liquors.
Z. We invite all who are in favor Of
using every lawful and honorable means
to save the 100000 of our people who
are annually going down to drunkards'
graves; to save the nation the 81 ,OOO,
100000 wasted annually by intemper-
ance; to save the people from exorbitant
taxation, and to relieve our poor houses,
prisons and insane hospitals of their vic
tins.
8. We invite all who believe that the
unrestrained liberty of licensed and
privileged class of men to infict the
worst Of all scourges upon our country,
is the liberty of tigers and not of men in
a well regulated government.
9. We invite all who believe that it
is the duty of temperance men to carry
out and enforce their principles by vot-
ing for none but practical and theoreti-
cal temperance men to fill all our Offices.
Hoping to see a large delegation at
our convention, we submit to the people
the interests Of our cause.
H. w. MAXWELL,
chairman If COmmittee