The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-04-30
PROHIBITION,
The Giles County Temperance A.
lance.

y " paper with proper temperate
/. matter" The writer, being a mem
e Der of said committee appointed a
o the organization Of the Giles Coun
D ty Temperance Alliance, deems !
proper that the readers of the CITI
= ZEN should become acquainted witt
this rganization-its origin, it
object and the manner of its work
ing.
The Tennessee State Temper
ance Alliance was organized Feb
ruary %, 1885, with headuuarter.
at Nashville, and it is proposed t.
have auxiliary organizations in ev
cry county IN the state to work fol
constitutional prohibition-the sup
preston of the liquor traffic. The
officers of the state organization
are: Hon. 10. H. RUSSELL, presi-
dent, Columbia; Jno. W. Paulett,
Knoxville; Judge Robt. Cantrell,
Lebanon, and Hon. jill Mcdonald.
, Union City, presidents; togeth.
er wlFh state executive committee
sting Of one member from each
congressional district. Mai. T. III.
N. Jones is the committeeman tor
the 7th district.
The Giles County Alliance, a full
report Of whose organization was
recently published in the CITIZEN.
is one of the auxiliaries referred to
above. In that report the names
of the county officers were pub
lished and need not be mentioned
here.
The object of the state and Of
the county auxiliary alliances is the
same and has already been Incl
dentally stated in giving the origin
of the organizations. 1t is to sun.
press the liquor traffic in Tennessee
by securing constitutional prohibi-
ton. 1t remains therefore within
the province Of this article only to
acquaint the reader with the man
ner of working, which may be done
by brief synopsis of the constitu
lions OF the state and county organ
lzatIons. Success in this, as in all
other political movements wherein
is involved a great principle upon
which the people are to be educa-
ted, depends no less upon the JUS
tice or FEASIBILITY of the end to be
attained than upon a thorough or
ganization of it's advocates; and in
order that they may avail them
selves of that strength which union
affords, the temperance people of
Tennessee are banding themselves
together.
The first article of the constitu-
ton of the Tennessee State
Temperance Alliance names the
organization, the second states its
object and the third is as follows:
This organization shall not be
made the ally of any sect, nor of
any party not in full accord with |
its principles" 1t is therefore to |
do its work outside of the political |
parties and intends not to paralyze
or weaken any party, but to create |
IN the state a sentiment in favor of |
prohibition so strong that mono but |
temperance men will offer for office. |
at will be the duty of the execu-
tive committee to watch well tie !
cause OF temperance in the state of
tennessee, and to take such action
and at such times as the advance
ment of the cause demands, ever re-
Numbering that vigilance and &C
tive, earnest work alone lead to sue
cess. The committee is to meet !
on the last Saturday in each
month. The officers are elected
annually on the last Tuesday in
February of each year. The execu-
tive committee shall appoint 4 com
mittee of five to be known as the
publication committee, whose duty
1t shall be to super;intend the pub |
LEGATION, issuance and distribution
of all temperance matter for the
state temperance organ, temperance
columns in all other papers in the
state, essays, addresses, etc"
The constitution OF the Giles
County Temperance Alliance, which
is the same in all other county ALI
ances in the state, provides that any
citizen of the county, of either sex,
who is in favor Of the object of this
association, may become 8 member
by simply subscribing to this:
eve, the undersigned, being in IA
vor of suppressing the manufacture,
sale and use Of spirituous, vinous
and other alcoholic liquors as
beverage, hereby do become mem
bers of the Giles County Temper
ance Alliance. 1t is the duty OF
the president "to superintend and
speedily organize in each civil dis
trict in the county sub-organiza-
TONS" The duties of the county
executive committee are 'to devise
plans for the carrying out of the
object of the Alliance; to secure a
suitable place for meetings Of or
CARNATIONS and committees; to pro
vide for raising funds necessary to
defray all legitimate expenses of
the organization, and to see that
the County Alliance furnishes the
state Alliance with it's proportion
OF funds for the state work, and
that all necessary information is
communicated to the state secreta-
~"
The plan provides for civil dis
trict organizations which shall
have for their officers a president,
a secretary and treasurer, and
shall be governed by the same con-
stitutien that governs county ALI
ances. "The district secretaries
shall make all reports to the coun-
ty secretary at each regular meet
ing of the county organization, at
which each district organization
may be represented"
The plan of work may be easily
understood from this brief state
ment of the important provisions of
the constitutions. 1t is time Giles
was organized that the work may
begin at once. To prohibit is no
small job, and although the temper
ance people have good reason to
feel encouraged, they must be deep
ly in earnest and very busy if they
sOccppd In order IN succeod thou