Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-05-03
TEMPERANCE AND ronAcco-
a.. - 80 BEFORE the Methedist Cou6...
nv ~ rev. ID. b. Randall. ma AS"rs.s
TEMPERANCE,

commencement
sihce' Is an occasion of devout graf.
'uoe 10 God- Then the distillation of in.
Aica,hg liquors was in progress in m.nv
piaIes IN the State. Their use was common
~" very Few exceptions, among the people
and their sale was as common as the
VI any other article of merchandise. Now
we have not a distillery in the S,a,e =. 60.
| p'e"ery Now the number that nae a. .
leverage intoxicating liquors forms the ex.
epuoh. prohibition is the settled policy q,
.ne o,ate, and there is not an open prop shon
~ 'he state, with the exception of Soma
PAGES In fenobscot county, and notably
bangor. 10 the municipal officers of the
queen City Of the East, and to the sheriff ~
that county with his deputies who have
soieihhly sworn to execute the laws of tho
State' Is reserved the infamy of violating
.heir solemn obligations in this regard While
n'o1icating liquors may be sold in some of
our larger towns and cities, 1t is with the above
sAceptioh' sold secretly; it is hidden away in
uark and obscure places known only to the
| initiated " 'iie
but while we thus rejoice in what has been
uone' we are confident that there is still work
10 oe done before complete victory is gained
mere are many obstacles to be removed
| we indicate some of them: The apatbv of
| the church, both in its ministry and member
ship-principally the latter: the too frequent
medicinal use of intoxicating liquors: the
manufacture and use of cider and domestic
| wines; the lack of deep conviction on the
| part OF temperance men that temperance i.
| above party, and that their votes should he
given TO those candidates for Office only who
VIII use the power delegated to them for the
destruction of the traffic in intoxicating lio-
uors; and that no political interests are
paramount to this great object. To remove
| tnese ana other obstacles requires work We
| should bend all our energies in this direc-
ton. Therefore
Resotred, That the manufacture sale or
use OF Intoxicating liquors as a beverage. is a
crime against God and humanity. and is
destructive of the financial. political, intel
lectual, physical, social, moral and religious
interest OF the people, and should be imme-
| dlateiy and forever abandoned.
Resotred, That we will labor in all suitable
ways for the promotion of total abstinence
from all intoxicating liquors, and for the le-
gal prohibition of their manufacture and sale
we Will preach upon the subject. We will
pray for its success, and by personal influence
among our people will endeavor to create
healttful practical public sentiment upon
this subject.
| Resolved, That we recommend to all our
Sunday schools to use the temperance lessons
at least once a month, and to have every
scholars name enrolled upon the pledge Of
| total abstinence.
| Resoired, That we will use our influence
to have introduced, amoAg the text books of
| our common schools, treatises upon the ma
ture and effects of alcohol.
Resotred, That will labor to secure such
amendment to the Maine law as may be
deemed necessary for its speedy and univer-
| sal enforcement, and we will also labor to in
| corporate prohibition into the organic law of
the State, and in the accomplishment of these
| objects we will use our power at the ballot
| box, and endeavor to influence our people to
| do the same.
ReSoired, That the manufacture, sale or
use, as a beverage, by our people, of cider
| and wine, is a violation of our general rule
| upon this subject, and such members of our
church who are engaged in this business
should be at once proceeded against as pro-
| vided for in our Discipline.
| Resotred. That we instruct our brethren
| who NAV be elected delegates to the next
| General Conference to use their influence to
! have our Discipline so changed that the fol-
| lowing crimes now inserted under the head of
| ssmprudent and unchristian conduct" shall
! be placed under the head of ''immoral con-
| Duct" viz 1.-The buying, selling or using in
| toxicatng liquors as beverage, becoming
| bonds men for persons engaged in such traffic.
| renting property as the place in or on which
| to manufacture or sell intoxicating liquors"
| Resotred, That we cannot too strongly con-
| denim the course pursued by President Arthur
| in reintroducing the use of intoxicating liq
uors into the presidential mansion. His
course in this case throws the whole influence
| of the Chief Magistrate of our nation in favor
| of intemperance.
Resoired. That we view with unfeigned
sorrow the conduct of those members OF Con-
gress who were delegated to attend the funer-
| al rites of our murdered President Garfield
| We stand aghast as we contemplate the fact
that these men so forgot the solemnities OF
the occasion and the proprieties OF life ana
their own dignity as an integral part OF the
| government of this nation, as to indulge in
! the riotous excuses of which they were cred
bly reported to have been guilty upon that
occasion, thus degrading themselves and In
| sulting the nation.
| TOBACCO.
The unparalleled increase in the use OF
tobacco in this country during the past few
| years is alarming to every well wisher of the
physical. intellectual and moral interest OF
humanity. Its use impars health. blunts
4 the sensibilities. beclouds the intellect. and
retards the growth of earnest piety in the
soul. The terrible destruction of property
in the production and use ofthis weed should
had every economist to abandon It's use.
Allow a few statistics There were grown in
this country during the year 1850. 446-396
$50 pounds of tobacco, nearly 10 pounds 10
eyery man. woman and child in the nation
The estimated value of the crude production
is sac. 4I4,6l5, about So cents to each per
SON The manufactured article in its various
forms when placed on sale is probably In
creased on an average four-fod. making on
that basis Sl45, 65s. 400, considerably more
than the sum expended for all the religious
and benevolent institutions of the churches In
the nation. 49,,
Probably nearly or quite one in every ten
Of the membership of our church in this Con
ference is. by the use of tobacco, contriout-
inc to this great waste of Gods money. some
Of the members of our church. who say they
cannot afford to take religious paper, expend
from SIS to $50 year III the use OF tobacco;
! and among this number are many omela'
members of the church. We take the liberty
10 submit the following resolutions;
n, sofred. That the habitnal use or saie OF
tobacco is filthy and unchrlstian prse, ,!s
destructive Hs of health, of morals and of life
and should be at once and forever abandoned