The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1886-08-04
ProhlbltIon convention.

this fOUlishness.
Prohibition Convention.
Pursuant to call the Prohibition.
lists met 10 County Convention at
the Court House, August S1st, 'S6.
The meeting was called to order
by John D. Myers, Egg, and on his
motion, Rev G. W. Kepler, was
elected Chairman, and Rev. A. S.
Bowles, was elected Secretary.
Devotional exercises by Rev. r.
B. Ward.
The Convention was addressed in
an able fOrcible and logical speech
by MI. Myers.
The Chairman, on motion, APP
pointed the following Committee
on Resolutions
John U. Myers, j. NJ. Greenlee,
John Morrison, ]. W. Saunders, R.
s. Bickel.
On motion, the Convention took
a recess until 1:S0P. NJ.
AFTERNOON.
Convention re assembled prompt.
ly at the hour.
The Committee on Resolutions
reported as follows;
We, the Probibitionists of Mason
County in convention assembled,
do hereby declare:
LIST. That We regard the prohi6i
tion Of the liquor traffic as a polit.
ical question paramount to all 9th.
er issues; because the liquor traffic
is tho enemy of the citizen, the
home, the community, the state;
the arch enemy of The laboring
man and his family, the chief foe
Of every business industry, the de
stroyer Of private and public viz.
tue, the great fountain Of political
corruption, and is in every way de.
sLruclive to the peace, prosperity
and happiness Of the people; it is a
Shiny serpent which leaves moth
ing in its trail but social degreda.
ton, misery, vice, poverty and
crime; it makes victims for the
asylums, the poor houses, the pris.
ons and the gallows; il is not a
blessing bnL is the blacklist crime
that darkens the calendar of hu
man iniqnity; we are therefore,
uncompromisingly in favor Of a
speedy enactment and vigorous en-
fOrcement Of the most stringent
prohibitory laws to drive from our
land this dreadful liquor scourge.
I'd. The history of the two dOmi
nant political parties on the liquor
question proves them to be anti.
prohibition parties and the trusted
allies of the drink traffic; repeated.
ly have these parties refused to
enact prohibitory laws when they
had full power 10 do SO; they have
been repeatedly requested to pledge
themselves to grant the people the
exercise Of their constitutional
right to vote upon The liquor quest.
ion TO so amend their constitution
as to prohibit the manufacture and
sale of all intoxicating beverages;
and at all times have they refused
to grant them this constitutional
right to determine for themselves
whether or not they would make
prohibition a part Of the organic
law Of the state; there remains,
therefore, no hope Of redress thro'
the agencies Of these old parties,
so that we are compelled to cut
loose from them and declare our al.
legiance to the prohibition party
as the only agency through which
to secure the enactment aud vigor.
Gus enforcement Of the most strin.
gent prUhibitory laws and to incur.
porate into the constitution n
clause forever prohibiting the man
ufacture and sale Of all intoxica
ting beverages.
Sd, We disapprove Of all license
laws touching the liquor question,
or any other vice, because such
laws not only demoralize public
sentiment on the temperance qnes.
ton, but also tend BY the tax fea.
ture thereof to bribe TO silence the
people in theit completely there.
with, and to reconcile public senli
ment IN favor Of the continuance
of the traffic; we also disapprove Of
all such laws because by this Ii.
cense tax bride u state raises rev.
onde at the price Of blood, vice and
crime, to help support government
thereby compelling the families Of
the unfortunate victims of the
traffic to bear burdens by depriving