The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1883-06-13
THE PROHIBITORY AMENDMENT.
Declaration Of the Ohio WOman's Chris
tian Temperance Union.
Cleveland, May 21, 1888.

CleVelaud, May u, 1888.
In the providence of God, the effort
made by the Ohio Womau's Christian Tenn
perauce Union to secure the submission of
a prohibitOry amendment, TO q vote of the
people, next October, has been successful
The petition, bearing nearly 100, 600
signatures, which was presented to the
Ohio Legislature, was the result of six
months ceaseless labor on the part of the
women of the State; of hundreds of ad-
dresses delivered under the Unions au-
spices, on the subject Of license, taxation,
prohibition and constitutional amendment;
of ], 500 standard temperance works, with
more than $50 600 special documents sent
to nearly every township of the State; and
of 40 600 personal letters, with an equal
number of postal cards mailed from these
headquarters in the interest of the great
movement; not TO mention the thousands
of dollars paid for speakers, secretaries,
printing, postage and stationery.
After all this expenditure of time money
and effort we should prove most recreant
to duty, were we not to press onward to
secure the cOnsummatiou we desire-the
adoption Of the prohibitary amendment
To hesitate, now, is to indefinitely post
pone constitutional prohibition in Ohio. It
is not an easy matter to bring a great peo-
pie up to the point of taking righteous
view of a gigantic wrong.
1t has cost the women OF tho United
States ten years of iucessaut activity, with
brain and pen, to place the cause of tenn
perance in its present commanding position
before the Nation. In effective working
condition no State is in advance Of Ohio.
The State Union has no thought of retreat.
1t will 60 forward.
In furtherance of the work, this summer,
the Union. will use, in great part. the
methods employed in the recent campaign.
Immediately, several of the ablest speak
ers in the country will be placed in the
field. John B. Finch, a prominent Demo
crat of Nebraska, than whom there is no
more eloquent advocate Of temperance liv-
ing, aud that distinguished Republican.
Ex-Governor st. John, whose services and
sacrifices for this cause are widely known.
will, with others, take the platform IN be-
half of the amendment.
There are five hundred local unions in
Ohio, lGud Tie number is daily increasing.
ready to work with singleuess of purpose
in this cause. In the State are eighty-eight
counties. Thirty-seveu of these are already
organized for the conflict The remainder
will shortly be brought into line.
We shall endeavor to call the attention of
every Church, Sunday School and family
in the State to this matter aud to awaken
their interest and enlist their efforts.
Indeed, all classes of our citizens will be
repeatedly called upon to aid the Union in
its undertaking.
The names Gf electors will be obtained
from the poll books, and each man will be
urged to pledge himself to vote for the
second proposition of the amendment, and
not for the first. And we here beg every
electOr to remember that az LIQUOR dealers
and their abettQrg who vote upon the
amendment viii cast their ballots for the
Jtlst proposition only. Temperance men,
preferriug prohibition, but voting for both
propositions will inevitably cancel their
vote for prohibition, and thus take their
stand ON the platform Of the liquor dealers.
insuring a majority for license,
As says Joseph Cook, SO says the Ohio
State Union ''What the liquor dealers
want we do not want"
Prohibitory Amendment Associations.
auxiliary to the Ohio w. Q. II. T., and of
which the. membership fee will be s.. 90
annually, for five years, will be formed
throughout the State, and will be composed
of both men and women. Tho object of
these Associations is to create permanent
fund for continuing the work of prohibi-
ton, if the present amendment fails, and
for enforcing it if adopted.
oThis question of "What shall be done
with the liquor traffic ~ is vital one, and
in the near future must be settled