West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-09-05
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON cREDEN-
TIALS.

hiS' .uoisSoU, Shlii lldI, IGPOit-
ed the difficulties add confusion as
to credentials to this double Con-
vention, and recommended that all
present be admitted to seats. Re-
port adopted.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON REsoLU-
TIoNs.
Your Committee respectfully
submit the following as feebly indi-
eating the sentiments of this Con-
vention:
l. We are still alarmed and hor-
rifed with the threatening pres
ence all about us, and in our midst,
of the organized and legalized Lii
quor Traffic; and while this direst
enemy of God. Home and Native
Land is ruthlessly invading happy
family circles and laying waste the
dearest and most sacred affairs,
bearing away as spoils our most
precious gems and treasures, we as
true West Virginia women dare
not be quiet if we would, and would
not be still if we could.
2. 1t is the grossest injustice and
cruelest tyranny for the State to
impose upon its burden-bearing
mothers the care and obligation Of
raising up for it, sober, honest and
virtuous citizens, while at the
very thresholds of our homes it
establishes and maintains by law,
the most enticing snares and vilest
dens of iniquity, to entrap our boys
into vice and drunkenness, and
lead them away from mother, home
and God, down through d;shonor
and shame to ruin ard death. And
while the saloon is planted over
against our home, we ciH not hold
our peace.
3. To the end that this direful
danger may be removed, and our
happy home-realms be secure from
invasion and dissertation, as we
have long prayed, we again hum
bly, pray the Legislature of our
State to submit to vote of the
people the Prohibitory Amend
ment, and for this we will ever
pray, until, like our good sister OF
old, we shall be avenged of our cru
ell adversary, because of our very
importantly.
4. The grace of God in our home
work, and the force Of law by the
State, must unite to free the peo-
pie from the curse of Intemperance,
and as ministering servants at our
Preside affairs, we demand the Pro-
hibition of the Liquor Traffic, that
we may be protected in the blessed
home work God has given us to do.
5. Women can have no sympa-
thy or patience with any compro-
misc with the sin of Intemperance
or the crime of liquor selling, and
therefore they must condemn ut
terly all such political tampering
with the great evil as License"
Tax" or other alleged restrictive
measures that legalize or recognize
the criminal business.
6. The women of West Virginia
do know that they kmoo what they
want in this vital matter, and they
knoU that God knoo0s Uhat they aoant,
for they have in bitterness of soul
told Him oft and again and they
are well assured that loyalty to
their homes will win from their
voting lords the boon of protection
they crave.
7. TO secure the end prayed for,
the Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union, in all its Departments,
must be organized in every county
and district, and to effect this, a
fund of at least $500 should be rails
ed at once, and used in putting an
efficient organizer in the field
8 The study of Hygiene and the,
effects of alcohol on the human sys-
tenn should be made prominent and
compulsory in our common schools,
and to this end the Legislature
must be earnestly petitioned.
8. The Union Signal, our National
organ, should be in the home of ey-
cry mem Der of the Union, who
would be an intelligent worker in
the Masters cause.
10. For our State work, the WEST
VIRGINIA FREEMAN is an indispen-
sable helper. Its columns are free