The Cecil Whig., 1886-08-14

town or city in the whole Union in
which this interest is not openly defiant
of law and all the restraints of orderly
government. In the Legislatures OF
many States it is supreme, defeating
every effort to subject it to proper limi
tations. With unmatched msolence and
audacity, it tramples down every bar
rier raised for the preservation of the
Sabbath disregards every law prohibit
ing the sale of intoxicating drinks to
haDitu2l drunkards and minors and
even sets at naught the authority OF
courts and juries. Everybody knows
that if any other business were conduct
ed in such brazen contempt of law and
deCerCy, it would encounter speedy and
utter extinction. Why should this per
niCiouS traffic be treated with lenlenCy
which no other like pursuit would com
mand 1t is high time that good cltl-
zens everywhere should assert them
selves against this tremendous evil,
which is every day acquiring additional
power, and growing more and more ag-
sressive. There is surely reserve po-
tency in an awakened public feeling
equal 10 the task of compelling the
liquor interest to obey the laws OF the
land and the party which shall, with
honest purpose address itself to the
work of rousing and concentrating that
public opinion, and enacting measures
of practical reform will accomplish a
public benetaction vastly ecllpsing in
importance any service which the exist
ing parties have rendered the country
since the Civil War.-/1uNk LCSl1c' s
illustrated NfarSbabt2.
Non-Sectarian and Non-Partisan Temper
ance Work.
We received last week the following
circular which want of space then pre-
vented the publication of. 1t clearly de-
character of the organizations mention
ed, and recognizes the axiom that in
unity there is strength.
BALTIMORE, May 11th, 1886
In pursuance of an action taken by the
Maryland State Temperance Alliance
and the Maryland state Temperance Lea
que, whereby comforting committees were
respectively appointed to consider the
question OF union of the two organiza-
tions into a single society the respec-
tive committees thus appointed met in
Joint pnnypntInn the .thnyp Nat TO
consummated the purposes of their ap-
pontment by adopting the basis Of ag-
reement set forth in the following pre-
amble ana resolution, viz
WHEREAS, two distinct temperance Or
ganizations known as the Maryland State
Temperance Alliance, and the Mary yland
State Temperance League, having the
same end in view, have been operating on
different lines for the suppression of the
liquor traffic, and whereas each organiza
ti,n with faith in the axiom that " in
unity there is strength" have appointed
a committee of conference looking to the
consolidation of the two bodies The
sembled, after careful consideration agree
upon and adopt the following
Resolced. That the two organizations
shall be and are hereby consolidated un-
der the name of the Maryland State Tenn
perance Alliance with tue understanding
and agreement that the said united body
shall be non n-sectarian and non-partisan
in its purposes aud methods.
Committee on part of the League: III.
o. Devries. Pres. of the League J. X.
Taylor, II. NJ. Murray, Edwin Black burn,
\ J. Gill.
Committee on part of the Alliance: :
Edwin Higgins Pres of Alliance w. +.
Speahe, r. T. Smith, B. II. Miller, Geo.
G. Bacon.