The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-08-13


We, the members of the Catholic Total Ahstin-
ence Union of America, assembled at Notre
Dame University, at Indiana, in our sixteenth
annual convention, give as reason for our pres
ence and life our hate of intemperance and our
determination to use all the means at Our COM
mand to destroy the evil.
We once more affirm our conviction that the
use of intoxicating liquors is subversive of NOR
atty, destructive of manhood, inimical to educa-
ton and religion. productive of crime, poverty,
misery and wretchedness in short debasing in
all Its effects and deplorable in all Its results
Desiring as we do to see Catholics throughout
our beloved republic take the honorable and
leading place of sobriety, morality and good
citizenship. to which the teaching OF our holy
mother, the Church, so constantly directs them,
we are persuaded that total abstinence and abs0-
lutte freedom from all participation in the liquor
traffic can and must powerfully aid in realizing
this blessed contamination.
Resolved, That we are deeply grateful to the
Fathers of the Council of Baltimore for their
words of approval aud encouragement Their
| Injunction ii shall always be our earnest efort
| to obey, ana our fondest hope is that we shall
never cease to deserve their cordial support
Their direction and cooperation shall always
be to us the pledge and assurance that we are
laboring in the proper spirit and with the prop
er methods to do the good work which they, even
more than we, have at heart to see perfected.
We are of the opinion that the indiscriminste
sale of strong drink Is an evil not inferior 10
common drunkenness itsef in the guilt and re-
sponsbility which 1t entails 1t is therefore to
4
ing that the Fathers of the Council in the light
of the Divine Wisdom by which they we're
guided, and in the exercise of most s0lici .Ous
re lard for the welfare, morality, religious faith
/ and happiness of the people, SO unmistakably
and emphatically placed the ban and seal of dis
approval upon the liquor traffic, and directed
Catholics to higher plane of labor and a nobler
sphere of Christian manliness and civil useful
ness than the demOraliZing business OF saloon
keeping and liquor dealing
| Resolred. That, as in the seed Is the hope OF
the harvest, so in the young of our people is the
4 promise of to-morrow's temperance work, we
i recommend the formation and support of boys
I examinations. The study of the best means
whereby they may be brought together, and held
Il by cords Of common inter st, should be mark
ed feature Of our work
ResolUed, That We deeply deplore the way in
which me laws relative to the selling of intoxi-
| ca ing drinks on Sundays, to minors and those
addicted to drunkenness, are defantly violated,
| and we earnestly exh0rt all the people OF our
| free land to show their American spirit for The
oil SCI vance of order and their heartfelt abh1r-
reuee Of social crime by doing al In their power
to cooperate with us Id. enforcing the said laws
| in all their rigor and integrity.
Resolved That, to carry ont the spirit of the
recent Papai encyclical on the " Christian Con-
stitution Of States" we should, In our efforts,
exact high standard of character in those pub
| lie servants who are e.ecred as our reprt senta-
range Catholics everywhere in the front ranks OF
all reform movements aiming to secure that
pure state of political morality which Is the
safeguard of peoples liberties.
Res0lUed, That we extend to the Irish people
our heartfelt sympathies in their struggle fol
constitutional rights and wish them God-speed
i ReSolUed, That our thanks go forth to the press
OF the country for the unfailing support 1t has
given our cause.
u R@olred; That, since our last annual conyen