The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-03-08
RESOLUTIONS
OF the Reform Club of Butte
Oily, N. r.
And Address to the Iowa State
Legislature.

NOUS vote of the Butte City Temper
ance Reform Club at a regular meet
ing held at their lecture room in
Butte City, Montana. March 9TH,
1884:
Resolved, That the Butte Citv
Temperance Reform Club have
learned with great pleasure Of the
noble and humane act of the Iowa
State Legislature in the enacrmentof
9 law, which prohibits the "manu-
facture, sale or keeping for sale as. q
beverage any intoxicating liquor
whatever, "and whichpr0vides proper
legal penalties for the violation of
said law, and that as a reform associ.
alton We do hereby express our hearty
commentator of and cur sincere
gratitude to that Honorable Body for
this their commendable example af-
forded for the encouragement of the
faithful workers in the cause of tenn
perance reform in all sect ms of our
beloved country.
Resolved, That Rev. w. c. Ship
pen, Rev. G. w. Clark and NJ. D,
Hortenberry constitute a committee
to express to the Iowa State Legisla-
ture our grateful appreciation of their
service to the temperance cause and
transmit to that body a copy of this
VIM. PORTER, Pres.
/ c. w. CLARK. SEQ.
To the Honorable Senate and House
of Representatives Of the State of
LOWG in qenarnL Asse mabLu. Con-
vened at Des Nome City, kwa,
Greeting:
The undersigned committee would
respectfully represent; that at u regu.
lar meeting of the Temperance Re-
form Club of Butte City. Montana
Territory, we were assigned the
pleasing duty of trans hitting to your
honorable body their resolution of
congratalat.on and gratitude for your
wise, humane and noble action in
passing the bill providing for the
prohibition Of the manufacture, sale
or keeping for sale as a beverage any
Intoxicating liquors whatever.
The committee entertain the graft.
flying belief that In this grand act
you have builded more wisely
and gloriouslv than you yourselves
knew. In this your manly and fear
less strike for humanity, home and
country, you have inspired new faith
and courage in the earnest workers
of the cause Of temperance reform
III other States and encour-
age the hopes Of all such
in great Territories where
the heroic advocates of temperance
contend against more formidable
odds. but who from your brilliant
example will labor on with newly
strengthened trust that when they |
shall have merged into Statehood
their patient works of faith and love |
may be crowned with the enactment
of such laws as will bind in indis-
soluble letters Of legal suppression
the terrible destroyer that now daily |
sweeps from home, society and USE
full pursuit and honorable positions
many of the otherwise most prom
Using youths of our country.
Immediately following the adop-
ton of this resolution the officers
and members of the Club all arose
and gave three rousing cheers for the
Iowa State Legislature and its grand
prohibition IdW, Thus we greet you
with heartfelt sentiments OF approval
and with the voice Of rapturous APP
ringing from the tops of the
grand old Rockies, echoing back
from the homes and hearts in the
rock-ribbed and pine-clad mountains
to the homes and hearts in the fertile
plains, your own exalted prin-
ciples Of justice and purity in the
legal protection of home and hui
We would further express the sim
cere hope that the glory of your
grand achievement may never be
with any retrogression in
the cause of temperance reform in
your State, and that no adverse judi
,ial decisions may ever again dim the
cheering light Of hope inspired by
his your browning act Of legislative
integrity to the highest welfare of
With a heartfelt prayer of God
bless your honorable body, collective
y and personally, we have the dis
honor and feel a pleasure
Ible pride in subscribing ourselves IN
'ehalf of the Butte City Reform
Club,
Respectfully and gratefully yours,
w. G. SH1PPEN,
G. w. CLARK,
NJ. D. HORTENBERRY,
Committee.
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