Smyrna times., 1880-09-22
The Delaware State Temperance
Alliance and It's Object.

The Committee Of Publication of the |
Delaware State Temperance Alliance has
just issued the following circular addressed
"To the Friends of Temperance in Della.
ware:'
The committee appointed by the Will
mington Annul Conference of tho Metho.
dist Episcopal Church, at its session in
March, $780, "to take such steps as may be
necessary to inaugurate the needed organi-
zation and effort to secure Local Option in
the State of Delaware" in consultation with
other temperance workers, effected a tom.
porary organization of the Delaware State
Temperance Alliance, in Smyrna, on the
Both day of August last.
With this result secured, the work of the
committee was completed
The Delaware State Temperance Alliance,
by its Committee of Publication, issues tho
following declaration of principles and call
! WHEREAS, The Temperance work in this
State has been carried on by variety of
| organizations and agencies, acting separate
ly and independently of each other, while
having a common faith and laborins for a
common end;
AND WHEREAS, 1t has become necessary
that moro efficient policy should be adOp-
ted, by which the Christian church should
be fully recognized in this work, and unite
with all other agencies in general society,
to be designated the Delaware State Tenn.
perance Alliance, which shall be the recog.
nized representative of all, and which shall
leave each organization free to labor in its
!. own peculiar manner, thus securing a
common brotherhood through which the
combined influence of all may be felt in the
! work of temperance reform;
THEREFORE,, We declare the following
platform of principles:
First. The evils of intemperance arc
destructive of the industrial, social and
religious interests of society and of tho
nation at large, and, for these reasons the
States should no longer license and protect
the traffic in alcoholic drinks.
) Second. The liquor traffic is the opet
. enemy of the church, and the church
r should take the lead in destroying thi
traffic and preventing the evils which ilov
directly from it.
> Third. We recognize all forms of tenn
, perance organizations and other mora
/ reform societies as valuable agencies in tn
overthrow of the evils of intemperance
3 and we believe that, in the Providence O
i God, the time has fully come when tn
church and all these agencies should unit
:. and combine their efforts.
d A meeting of the Alliance will be hel
:. in Dover on the first day of December mex
). to effect a permanent organization by tn
;. election of officers, and the transaction c
a other necessary business. All churche
r. Sunday schools, ministerial association
temperance and other reform socetie
l. colleges and academies are invited
5, become members of the Alliance by senC
ing, as delegates, not more than three re-
it resentatiVes, male or female, with propt
,e credentials, from each organization. Ind
vidual friends Of the cause are also invite
h to be present and to Lccome member
le The annual membership fee is, at least,
o. from each organization represented and f
each individual member not representa-
n an organization.
as L. c. MATLACK,
Mt y. +. MARTINDALE,
d, WILLIAM II. HUTCHIN,
ed Committee of Publication.