Litchfield enquirer., 1878-05-09
HoIlister. for prisoner.

Hollister, for prisoner: State vs Framkln Cafd,ser, a rr,. .setS,- ton for theft in New N!ifor,:, ,n wEicil the jury disagreed last term, is now on trial.
 The Temperance cause has made great start in advance during the present week. Heretofore large proportion of the n,en who have signed the pledge have heen these wEo were already abstinents, if not total abstinents, in practice. On Saturday night, however, a number of gentlemen who have not hereto wrong in theory or practice, organized local temperance society under the following con | s.itution
 We whose nalnes are hereunder written, persons who have not hitherto, wholly abstain l ed from the use of alcoholic and fermented I liduors, in consideration of the many and great | evils that arise from the excessive use ot the | same, do hereby form ourselves into Society to be called the Litchfield Temperance Associ- l aton which shall be organized as follows, to l wit:
 Said Society shall be composed of Presi- dent, Vice President, Treasurer and Secre- tary. an Executive Committee of five persons, and as many others as shall subscribe their names to the following agreement:
 We the subscribers hereby agree that we | will hencefOrth wholly abstain from the use as beverage of all alcoholic and alt liquors, | including wine and cider, and will use all the means in ourpower to promote the enterprise | of Temperance.
 | After signing the constitution the following | officers of the association were elected Dr. Wm Deming. President; c. H. Hollister, | Vice President E. W. Meafoy, Secretary and Treasurer Henry B. Graves, A. B. | Shumway, Edward o. Peck, Henry II. Pres colt, Frank Munger, Executive Committed A public meeting is appointed for Saturday eve- ming next at Armory Hall, as will be seen by the Secretary's notice, above.
 Some fifty signatures have already been obtained to the foregoing constitution, and the number will be increased, it is hoped, to more than an hundred by Saturday night. The meeting of that evening will be one of greater significance than any which las yet been held. | An address is to be delivered by the Hon. G. l H. Hollister, whose well-known ability as a speaker would attract an audience were the subject one of mere ordinary moment but it l is no matter of ordinary moment. The ques- ton is whether this community is unself- ish enough, as a whole, to give up habits of | indulgence hitherto not uncommon among them for their own sakes for the sake of their fel- 1 low citizens who are manifestly injured by such habits and especially for the sake of the
 young who are in danger of following the eX-
 ample of their elders-to the inevitable ruin of
 many. Indeed it has been question hitherto,
 whether, so long as large proportion of our citizens were unwilling to make this sacrifice, the abstinence of the rest would effect any radi- l cal change in the habits of the community as a whole. This movement, comprising as it
 does the very element whose non concurrence with the theory and practice oftotal abstinence has threatened to materially restrict the use llness of the reform, promises better for a
 union of all people against tue common ene- my than anything we have. yet seen.
 Some will no doubt regret that the gentle men forming this society could not have united directly with the organization al ready in existence. We consider that a matter of comparatively small importance. The point is to commit every man, woman and child, we possibly can, to the practice of total absti- hence. No blow struck against the too con- mon practice of indulgence has been as heavy as that already dealt by the Litchfield Temper, ance Association. May it have long and a
 prosperous life
 In the meantime let no ether form of effort
 slacken The Centennial Society has plenty of room for efficient action. The Ladies As
 sociation will no doubt soon begin work. Rein forced as we now are, let us move on the enc my's works with all speed, and from all sides