The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-15
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
The ProhIbitionists.


The Prohibitionists.
The annual meeting of the State Trohibi-
tory Amendment Association was held al
Madison recently, and the following Board
Of Directors was elected:
7. C. Richmond, Green County; T. D. Kan
ouse, Outagamie County; S. d. Hastings, Dane
County; Fl. H. Giles, Dane County; J. @
Plumb, Rock County: a. a. Kelley, St. Croix
Fargo, Jefferson County; E. G. Durant, Ra
cine County;
AT the close of the meeting, the directors
met and elected the following officers:
President-Samuel D. Hastings, Dane.
Yice-President-J. c. Plumb, Rock.
Secretary-H. H. Giles, Dane.
Treasurer-R. Fargo, jefferson.
The Committee on Resolutions reported
and the following were adopted:
ReSolUed, That we indorse as sound the fol
lowing. views expressed by Hon. Emory A.
StorrS in aSpeech recently delivered at a large
public meeting in Chicago:
I'VE have reached an epoch in our history;
De assured OF II. We are confronting a very
great, a very grave question. 1t is question
partly economic and partly moral 1t is
question which politicians have been iRdustri
ously lodging and seeking to evade and avoid.
1t is question like all questions of that char
acter, which God in his Infinite wisdom has so
arranged that they can not be perpetually
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settled; and that they never in all this world
can be settled, until they are settled right
There is no use of trying TO get rid of the
question of regulating the saloons of this
world any longer. Little deXtrous platform
writers may leave these questions out of plat
forms, but you don't get them out of the
hearts of the people. The old Wing party left
slavery out of its platform when there was
nothing but slavery in the politics of the Ma
ton; and the people of the country left the
Wing party, out of their calculations, and TO die
the death that new no waking"
ReSOlUed, That in our opinion, il is equally
true that God, in his infinite wisdom, has so
arranged that there is but one right way in
which to deal with great moral wrong-but
one way " of regulating the saloons of the
world, and that is by absolute prohibition;
that all attempts to regulate the liquor traffic
by license, high or low. by local option or civil
damage laws, or by any eXpedient other than
total prohibition of the traffic in alcoholic
liquors to be used as a drink, will prove to be
snares and decisions.
ReSOlUed, That the demand that the adj
vocates of prohibition should not take the
question into politics is most unreasonable
and absurd, in view of the fact that it is q
political question; that it can only be reached
by political action and in view of the still
further fact that the liquor interests have
had the question in politics for years, and
that with them it is the great and all-absorb-
ing question. and no one receives their Bup-
port whom they do not regard as thoroughly
committed to stand by them in all emergen-
cieS.
of the past two or three years, we declare it
to be our conviction that no real friend of
prohibition can consistently support any man
for public office or any political party that is
not fully committed to the prohibition of the
liquor traffic.
wisconsin Items.
The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat-No. 1, nominal; No. 2,
$1.OS%@1.09; No. 3, nominal; No. 4, NOM
inal. Corn-No. 3, 55055Kc. Oats--No.
2, 4OG84O4c. Rye-No. 1, 62O862Ac, Bar
ley-No. aspiring, nominal.
Proceedings have been instituted al Mil
waukee for the disbarment of Miss Kate
Kane, the female lawyer, whose assault on
Judge Mallory, in the Municipal Court,
cost her thirty days Imprisonment. The
present action is based upon insulting re-
marks made by the lady as she was being
removed from the courtroom to the jail
on that occasion, rejecting upon the official
integrity of Judge Mallory.
Four of the champion eight weight" of
Northern Wisconsin met at Peshtigo, Mar
inette County, the other day, and compared
weights. Their combined weight was 1 $3.50
pounds. James Harp, the heaviest, weighed
399; Sam Newton, 334k; the others were
Abram Place and Harry Haggermeister.
Sam Newton has weighed as high as $40
pounds, but he is poor now and light.
Two hundred mechanics have been dis
charged from the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul Railway Company's shops in
West Milwaukee, on account of the pros
pective falling off in traffic caused by the
shortness of the grain crop.
David Holt, aged eighty years, settler
in Madison since 1S43, died few days ago.
He was postmaster there from 1S45 to 1S49,
and for many years prominent in political
and business circles at the capital in his
day. He was well known throughout the
entire State, but for the last dozen years
he had been wholly retired from the public
gaze.
The rates of license in few Wisconsin,
towns are as follows: Milwaukee, $75;
West Bend, $75; Oconomowoc, 500; Erin,
500; Fort Atkinson, SIP; Palmyra, SIP;
La Crosse, $3.50; Appleton, $125; Marsh.
field, $137.5O; Berlin, 5000.
During a recent temporary fit of insanity
man named Carrigan, living a short dis
tance west of Eau Claire, entered an unoc-
cupied barn, set it on fire, and persisted in
the flames. His remains were found burned
almost beyond recognition.
An emigrant woman, Norwegian, gave
birth to a bouncing boy on a train APP
preaching Oconomowoc from the East re-
Gently. The passengers, says a Wisconsin
paper, Immediately christened the infant
Oconomowoc Bornonthetrainson.
Ex-Mayor Wigman, of Green Bay, has
commenced suit for damages against ex-
Alderman Myers to the amount of $1,000.
The suit is based on the alleged circula.
ton of slanderous articles during the re-
cent election.
George H. Daubner, of Brookield,
Waukesha County, has been sentenced to
three years. Imprisonment in the Chester
Gill; Penitentiary for frauds in connection
with obtaining pensions.
The brick building at the corner of Broad
way and Main street, in Fort Howard.
Brown County, was burned few days
ago, the fire catching from stove in De-
laney's clothing store. Loss, $4,000; in-
surance, $500.
Articles of association were filed at Mad.
ison a few days ago of the T. B. Scott Lum.
Der Company, of Merrill, Lincoln County,
with capital stock of 100000.
Fred Fiield, the son of D. G.. Fifeld, Of
Milwaukee, who lost in the woods near
Ashland, Ashland County, walked into
Engineer Sewell's camp at noon few days
ago, having been without food or coat for
three days and nights, and being exposed
to the continuous northeast storm. He
would recover.
A few nights ago the barn of the Mara
thon Lumber Company, at Waukesha, was
totally destroyed by fire. Five horses be-
longing TO D. & T. Mcdonald were burned,
together with quantity of hay. Loss,
$1,000.
1hirty-five years ago, the first Wednes-
day in June, the Wisconsin State Govern
ment was born, the first Governor, Nelson
Dewey, being inaugurated and the first
State Legislature organized. The event
was celebrated in Madison by meeting of
the Wisconsin Pioneer Association. About
two hundred pioneers, representing all sec
tions of the State being present