The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-07-19
prohibition Convention at corinth.

Pursuant to call the Prohibitionists 0
Alcorn county met in Convention in Cor
: inth, July Sth.
DIR. Steele, Chairman Executive Commit
tee, called the meeting to order Prayer b!
Rev. J. Bowen.
Rev. n. Kendriek, was called to the Chair
and T. H. Underwood elected Secretary.
i All friends of Prohibition present were
declared members Of the Convention.
DR.. n. C. Steele and Col. J. NJ. Walker
principals, and Rev. j. H. Taylor and John
T. Meeks, alternates, were selected to attend
the State Prohibition Convention at Jack
son. July goth.
A County Executive Committee was ar.
pointed, consisting of fifteen members
Hon. X. II. Harrison, n c. Steele, and G.
| W. MeClamroco, 1st Dist; Rev. J. H. Tay-
lor, N. Kendrick and and E. H. Romine,
I'd Dist; w. I. Gibson, J. n. Walker and
Rev. VIM. Henderson, Sd Dist; DR.. NJ. w.
Bynum, I. 81. Underwood and W. R. Smith,
4th Dist; Thos. H. Meeks, o. n. Steven
son and John Keyth, 9th Dist
The following resolutions were unani-
mously adopted by rising vote:
ResoIved, That the friends of temperance
Of Alcorn county in convention assembled
do hereby declare that we oppose and shall
continue to oppose the liquor traffic for the
following reasons
That it robs and enslaves labor, co~rupts
and bankrupts capital, poisons the heart of
OF industry, and poisons the arm of COM
merce
That every year in this country it takes a
thousand million dollars from the toiling
masses and reinvests a large proportion of
it in the awful business of blighting and
destroying the happiness and homes of our
citizens, murders a hundred thousand of
our people, and saddens a million homes.
That it is the abounding source of pau
perism, vice, ignorance, insanity, idiocy, |
disease and death of all forms of moral |
and social debasement, domestic misery
and national corruption of bribery, waste,
peculations and abuses in public offices,
mocking at all efforts of reform.
That it fills with injustice our courts of
law, and pollutes and violates the sacred
days and sanctuaries of religion.
That it is the chief factor in the majority
OF criminal designs, mobs and riots, aiding
and exciting to breaches of peace and law,
That the liquor traffic, with it's millions
Of capital, actually threatens the integrity
0f the government.
Ihat like every other crime and cause of
crime, it cannot be regulated nor reformed
by law, and can only be successfully dealt
With by the government declaring it a crime
md treating it as such.
That the State cannot license it as a le-
climate business without involving the
government and the people in the guilt cf j
he traffic, as the State thereby becomes a |
'arty to crime against her own citizens.
Reso!ced, Second, That, the foregoing be-
ng true, 1t IS our firm conviction that pro- I
llbItlon by the State, of the manufacture n
nd sale of all Intoxicating liquors to be (
Ised as beverages, is absolutely necessary T
or the successful suppression and banshing b
rom our homes and country this great !
ource Of evil, crime. and misery; and in Ii
rider to secure effective prohibitory meas !,
res, we earnestly invoke the prayers, coun- :,
el, and aid of all good people everywhere. T
Resotoed, Third, That we urge our ap- n
roaching State Prohibition Convention to 81
institute comprehensive, determined, and II
measures to secure as soon as n
ossible such legislation as will best rid our n
ountry of this great evil. ir
Res25ced, Fourth, That of candidates for q,
ffices of public trust we will support at the =.
those who come nearest reflect q,
lg our views on the temperance question, +,
roptded that for ability and general integ-
Y, they compare favorably with compet- nc
lg candidates; and in order that we may F.
Ote intelligently, we shall expect candi- %
ates for public Office who may in the future ds
X our support, to announce their views on 70
lis as on other questions. n
Res0Iced, Fifth, That we condemn the ty
ractice of raising revenue for educational *
lrposes by taxing in any way the liquor or
affie, because We regard it wrong in prinei- IN IN
e and vicious in practice, thwarting the No
Try objects sought to be accomplished, and ~
aking the traffic legal and respectable. 90
on motion of Col Inge, the Corinth Her %
d, Sub-Soiler and Democrat and Jackson ~
LARICN, were requested to publish the no
oceedings of this Convention. vi
Convention then adjourned. q
NJ. KENDRIcK, Chr'n or,
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