The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-08-25
Prohibition Matters.

The prohibition county committee
met at the NJ. T.. church, in this city, ON
Saturday last. Present, Ira b. Rey-
nolds, Rev. 4. Rogers and John ID.
Evans. The following address was pre-
scented, read and adopted, and the
Mankato papers requested TO publish
it, rs follows:
MANKATO MINI, Aug. 10th, 1882.
The committee appointed by the Pro.
hibition Convention held in Mankato,
July 26, 1882, to further the cause OF
constitutional prohibition in Blue
Earth county, by circulating petitions
and holding local meetings for the pur-
poses of influencing the voters of the
county, so that they will send men to
legislature who will favor the submit
ting to Il vote of tile people of an amend
ment to the constitution similar to that
recently passed 10y the Legislature and
ratified by the people of Iowa, would
respectfully ask all lovers of temperance
in every town in the county to organize
by appointing one of two of their best
men or WOMEN to canvas the town.
We want to know that some one is at
work in every town. We do not wish
to pledge any one to vote for prohibition,
'hot to vote for any person to he Il
member of the Legislature of the State
of Minnesota. to meet January, 1883,
who has not pledged his sacred honor
as man, to vote in the legislature as
sembled, for Il bill which shall submit to
the Constitution III this State, which
shall prohibit within its avn bounds,
"the importation, manufacture and sale
of all intoxicating liquors as beverage, I"
There can be no object to the sub
mission of such II proposition to vote
of the people, for as your noble Lincoln
said, this is a government of the
people, the people should decide such
questions. While we believe our
country had "new birth of freedom"
when the curse of slavery was wiped
out, so we believe that we will have n
much higher ''birth of freedom" when
the curse of intemperance is put under
the iron hand of a constitutional law,
made by the votes of the people. While
we do not ask the political parties to
endorse prohibition, we do ask them to
endorse this great question by instruct
ing their Legislative candidates to sup
port and oOrk for this question in the
legislature. We wish to send pledges
tracts and papers to every town in the
county, and we would like to have all
temperance men or women in the differ
cnt towns to send their names to IRA b.
REYNOLDS, Chairman, Eagle Lake,
MINI.
IRA B. REYNOLDS.
EDWIN ROGERS,
JOHN ID. EVANS,
A partial list of town committees
was appointed, as follows:
MankatO-W.W. p. Mcconnell, NJ. G.
Willard, ID. Il. Owen and minister of nj.
L. church.
Mankato township-Rev. w. H. Bur-
CESS, Nathan Bennett.
Lime-Gco. NJ. Bradley.
Jamestown-A. p. Davis.
Lcl.ay-A. ii. Presnall, Allen Moon.
Danville-.Jas. McBroom, J. w.
Vance.
Maplcton-D. c. Weston. Rev. John
Crimson.
South Bend-Rev. r. ID. Price, David
+. Evans.
Judson-Rev. VIM. NJ. Jones, John
Reese.
Butternut Valley-Humphrey Jones,
Owen Richards.
Garden City-ltev. j. lockwood, E.
w. Parker.
Lake Crystal G. F. Wells, John
Thomas.
Stering-Rev. J. L. Conrad, Rev.
Hunt.
LincOln-John S. Davis.
The committee then adjourned to
meet on Thursday, Aug. cath, 1882, at
one O'Clock p. H., in the county super
intendent's Office, Mankato.