The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-01
THE ADVOCATES OF PROHIBITION.
1 Small Attendance at the Annual Meeting
Ofthe State Christian Temperance Union.

The State Christian Temperance Union met
yesterday afternoon at the Central Christian
sshurch. The attendance was small, there being
nut twenty men and twenty-four women present.
j Mrs. J. r. Wood presided. Remarks were made
bS AIRS. zerelda Wallace, DR.. Ryland T. Brown,
sobert Denny, Greenley Mclaughlin, d. B.
oss, M. e. Shiel, of Louisville, and others.
Mr.. Denny said the liquor law was already
.,ohibitory as to certain classes granting privi-
ages to q minority, and for that reason was I'M
constitutional He thought it would be well to
extend that prohibition to include the minority,
the linen Of good moral character who are al
owed under the law. to sell liquor. He never
.slieved that prohibition law could not be
orced. He could not believe such q thing in
he face of the fact that prohibition Is very sue
ssfully enforced against the classes mentioned
the majority would raise their voices they
auld speedily put the minority under the
ne ban and prohibition. He did not believe
It if the Legislature would pass an act such
1. Prohibitionists ask the Supreme Court would
sw say it was unconstitutional The law now
prohibitory absolutely so, from IL o'clock p.
until A. NJ If prohibition is constitutional
hours out of twenty -four, the Supreme
purt, by parity Of reasoning could not avoid
eclaring law constitutional if prohibiting the
ale the entire twenty-four hours Mr.. Denny
laimed that the features he had adverted to
we're. In sense, inimical to the spirit of our
Constitution, and that this notion Of dealing out
Epecial privileges to q limited few was directly
5ontrary to the spirit of our Constitution. If
BE is right for men to sell liquor, it is also right
for women who have families to support.
Mr. Shiel said that temperance work in Ken
lucky was going on with wonderful vigor and
success. There are ffty-one counties entirely
yithout saloons and something over fiftt judicial
istricts or townships in addition that are with
Sost saloons Kentucky makes more whisky and
DOLLS more prohibition votes than any State In
she Union. There the two extremes meet.
There are SO, 900 colored voters in Kentucky and
temperance work is going on among them. There
are twenty-six lodges of colored Good Templars.
The liquor question has got into politics in Ken
lucky, and people vote the way they pray In
diana needs something of the kind badly. She
has the meanest whisky law of any State in the
Union. ANY hoodlum who can get half dozen
ther hoodlums to testify that he has a good
aoral character can peadle snakes in Indiana.
1ar Shiel said he believed it would be
|0etter for the cause of prohibition
Indiana s;.,sat there were not
ms Ee thought two or three Of
20 Ave different State organizations
light be dissolved and merged into the
hers. He then referred to the debt owed by
10 Grand Council. Among the creditors was
bat poor and noble woman, Auretta Hoyt. now
ead He thought it wrong to repudiate such
ebts, and that the organization (which has re-
Rged to call another meeting), should in al
honesty pay its DEBTS before disbanding.
The following officers were chosen for the en-
suing year:
President-D. B Ross
-presidents-R 7. Brown and William
Edgerton.
Secrstary-Dr. J. G. L. Myers.
Treasurer-W. n CURE.
Finance Committee. Miller James Mustard
kand Mrs j. R. Wood
The meeting adjourned last night.