Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-10-28
THE LIQUOR DEALERS.

The National Convention of Liquor Deal
ers Effect a Permanent Organization and
Adopt a Name-The Platform and Reso-
buttons.
CHICAGO, Oct. 19.-The National Anti
Prohibition convention was slow in com
ing together this morning. This was &C
counted for by the fact that the various
committees were in session until nearly
daybreak this morning.
The report of the committee on plat
form and resolutions will be an elaborat e
document. The resolutions will assert
that the business men engaged in brew.
ing, distilling and selling liquor are re-
spectacle, law-abiding and honest. They
call for reasonable license laws in all
the States, and rigid enforcement
of them; pledge the association to do all
in its power to suppress low dives, and
disreputable haunts, where liquor il
sold, and call upon the local authorities
to take away licenses from such places.
The resolutions deny the right of the
law makers to take away the property
and destroy the business of liquor men,
The name of the National Protective AS.
ISOLATION will be submitted as the desig-
nation for the new organization.
1t is understood that the delegates tC
the convention have in private confer.
ence decided to take an active part in the
National election of 1883. The sum OF
one million and a half dollars is to bs
raised by assessments upon the follow
ing basis: Fifty dollars from distillerie:
and brewers; twenty-five dollars from
wholesale dealers, and one dollar per an.
mum from retailers. This fund is to be
expended in agitation and work in sup
port of candidates who will pledge them
selves to oppose State legislation and the
passage of sumptuary laws, and who viii
be in favor of leaving the regulation o.
the liquor traffic exclusively with Con
gress.
Chairman Atherton called the conven
ton to order shortly before ten O'Clock
Delegations were reported from Iowa,
Nebraska, Cleveland, o., Fort Wayne,
Ind, St. Joseph, Mo, Peoria, ILL.,, Mil
waukee, Wis, and other points.
The report of the committee on per-
manent organization, presented by J,
D. Pratt of Louisville, favored perma.
nent National organization, under the
name of the National Protective Assoct
alton, with an executive committee OF
one from each State as National COM
mittee. This committee is to be en-
dowed with iron-clad powers, among
them to draft a constitution, provide fol
ways and means, and in general to man.
age and direct the organization and any
campaigns it may institute.
The proposed name was adopted by a
large majority.
On the proposition to compose the Ma
tional committee of one delegate from
each State, Western brewers made Wig
orous attempt to insert the word "twO"
in order that the brewing interest might
not be neglected for the distillers. An
animated debate followed, and the result
was the wine and spirit interests carried
the day by large majority.
The platform and resolutions We're
then presented. the long preamble was
devoted to a condemnation of the indis-
criminate denunciation of the trade in
dulged in by the temperance element OF
the country, and the resolutions followed
in this order:
Resolved, That we recognize to it's fullest
extent, the duties and responsibilities rest.
ing upon US as citizens, and pledge our
serves to the faithful performance Of every
duty.
Resotred, That we most earnestly favor
temperance and most strongly condemn in
temperance, and appeal to every member OF
the trade to make proof of this declaration
business.
Resotred, That it is our duty, as it is the
our country, and we condemn every viola
ton OF law, regardless of the damage inf1ict-
ed in its observance upon any individual or
upon our general business interests.
ResOlced, That we are in favor of both pub
lie and private morality, and good order and
popular education. and that we feel the duty
trade, to work with the great body of our
people in the advancement of their inter.
ests
RESOLVED, that we are unalterably opposed
to prohibition. general or local, as an inva
sion of the rights of the citizen, and there
fore wrong in principal and impracticabie
in policy. Instead of attempting to destroy
n business that employs immense capital
and supports q vast number of honest
workmen, the efforts of our enemies should
be directed to eliminating the evils existing
in and resulting from the abuse of liquors
and only those would be found in opposi-
ton who have no interest to protect, no
character to maintain. no ambition to graf
work of reformation is greatly retarded by
the efforts, through prohibitory laws, to de.
stroy great industry, to degrade the men
therein engaged.
ResoIred, That in our National adherence
of all titled rulers, and in our devotion to
book as tyrant nor establish tyranny In
the law. We hold that the law should pro
tect the innot ent and the honest and punish
the guilty and the dishonest.
Resolved. That the general prosperity OF
dustry. giving NJ pempIovme2t to labor and
capital. converting raw material into articles
of universal USE thus benefiting the farmer
the mechanic, the railroad and the capitalist
While pubic sentiment is divided on many
great econn mic questions all must admit
that an industry purely domestic. collecting
and disbursing large sums annually, paying
revenue to the towns, cities, counties, States
and into the National treasury, is entitled to
all just and reasonable protection under ouI
laws
Resotred, That we are in favor of absolute
non intervention In politics as an organiza-
ton except in such places and at such times
as united action is necessary to protect our
selves and our business against such legiS.
lation as seeks to destroy our trade and not
to remedy evils therein existing.
ResOlred, That we indOrSe the license SyS
States imposing a reasonable license that
will not result in monopoly, but that will
give to reputable citizens the right to sell
wine, malt and spirituous liquors. We rec
OgniZe and admit two evils that result from
the abuse of all kinds of liquors and con
denim in the strongest terms every place by
whatever name known that encourages Oh
permits these abuses. We likewise CONDEMN
the indiscriminate issue of licenses and the
establishment or liberation of places open
| to disreputable characters, who expose theil
depravity under the guSe of tntoxication
Our interest as well as our duty as citizens
demand that we enter a solemn protest
| against all such places, and pledge ourselves
as trade to cooperate with the officers 0l
the law and with all good citizens to prevent
the issue OF licenses to all disreputable
| places.
| The resolutions were unanimously
| carried amid ringing cheers, and the
convention tEen adjourned until two
O'Clock.
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