The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-17
MEMPHIS DAILY APPALACHIAN. SEPTEMBER IL. 1886.

ssloon and hold it to be the supreme
duty OF government TO adept such
measures as will restrict it and control
its Influence and at the earliest posi-
bic moment extinguish it altogether.
3. We believe the national govern
ment should absolutely prohibit the
manufacture and sale OF intoxicating
liquors in the District Of Columbia
and in all the Territories Of the United
States.
4 We believe the hest PRACTICAL
method Of dealing with the liquor
traffic in the Eeveral States is to let the
people decide whether it shall be pro-
hibited by the submission of conftitu-
tional amendments, and, until such
amendments sre adopted, by the pas
sage OF local option lave.
8. That inasmuch as the saloon
business, creates a special burden OF
taxation upon the people to support
courts, jails and almshousts, therefore
a large ennual tax should be levied
upon the saloons as long as they con-
tinue to exist; and that they should
be made responsible for all public and
private injury resulting from the
traffic.
6. That the Republican party,
wherever and whenever in power,
will faithfully enforce whatso sver or
dinances, statutes or constitutional
amendments may bs enacted for the
restriction or suppression OF the liquor
traffic.
7. That we approve the action OF
Congress and of those States that have
done go, in providing for teaching
the physiological effects of intoxicants
in our public schools, and that we
earnestly recommend ID every State
Legislature the enactment of such laws
as shall provide for the thorough
teaching OF such effects to our child
dren.
s, We recommend that the Repub-
lican party, to which We belong, and
whose welfare we cherish, shall take
a firm and decided stand, IS the friend
of the home and the enemy of the
saloon, in favor OF this policy and
these measures. We pledge ourselves
to do our utmost TO cause the patty to
taSe such a stand, and we call up3n all
temperance men and all friends of
humanity, of whatever party or name,
to join with us in occurring these OBJ.
jects and in support Of the Republican
party, so far as it shall adopt them.
Some opposition was provoked by
the fifth resolution on the ground thai
it recognized taxation OF the liquor
interests, IL was opposed by MI.
Wright, OF Iowa, and M. Dodge, of
Michigan. The resolution was de-
Tended by delegates from New York,
Kansas and Rhode Island and several
o her States. 1T was fna ly adopted,
and the re: solutions adopted as a whole
with only three dissenting votes.
During the interval between the reas-
eembliDg Of the convention and the
receiving of the report of the COM
mittee, the Hon. Hiram Price, OF
Iowa, spoke of prohibition as an ulti-
mate result of the present sgitation.
This was illustrated by a careful study
OF the hietoty OF the country during
the past fifty year,.
Mr.. Dunn, Of Maine, SAID the Re-
publican party was amply able to N
force prohibition. Ia Maine the peo.
pls hsd DO fsith in the Pfohibitionists
as a political party, but in the Repub-
lican party for the creation aud en-
forcement Of the statutes governing
the sale aud manufacture OF liquor.
Gen. Conway, of New York, said
the B~inghampton convention had
spoken with no uncprtsin sound re-
gsrding snti-saloon legislation, and
had only looked with anxiety at the
probable outcome Of the national con.
vention.
Speeches were a'so made by the
Rev. f. Lathrop, of Minnesota; Gen.
Nettlston, OF the came State; Judge S.
Tyler, of Indiana, and others, holding
to the general view that the practical
hope OF the temperance people restsd
with the Republican party.
The following National Committee
was appointed, some vacancies to bs
filed hereafter: Maine, Senator VIM.
P. Frye; New Hampshire, Sens-
tor Henry w. Blair; Vermont, George
A. Brown; Massachusetts,, Col. Z. II.
Haskell; Rhode Island, Henry B. Met
calf; New York, Gen. Convey; New
jersey, the Rev. F. B. Carroll; Penn
%sylvania, the Hon. w. w. Braun;
lows, Hiram Price; Minnesota, Gen.
A. B. Nettleton; Indiana, Ex.Gov
viii Cumback; Wisconsin, E. P.
Wheeler; Kansas, Albert Griffin; Hi
mole, Col. W. A. James; Georgia, the
Hou. Alfred E. Buck.
The convention then adjourned
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