Women's National Temperance Convention Address and Plan of Work

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MEL® AT CMl¥EIiAIO>,OHI0, MOTEMME 18% IMhf AlB i§&, 18'I4,
Mniered AcwrMng to Aet 0/ C^0m^«s_^^^	
APPEAL.
Women, sisters, motbers in all lands give jour atte.ol:iori to tlie .facts herein stated and Jet them awaken in your humaoe hearts all the noble instincts of your two- fold nature.
The liquor traffic is the greatest curse of our race. It is ttridernsiom^ our nation hy vIoIsitiMg the spirit and letter of its constitution, (which was framed for the protection of the weak agiuustthe stion<?)hy sintisgo- niziiig all the noble prirciples upon which It is foond<-'d» by paralyzing ail our iiisuUiiious, civil, intellectu¬ al, moral and leligioos, by pervert¬ ing the earilinal issues of human des¬ tiny, life, liberty at^.d love, whii4i eoibodies"the pursuit of happInesj*.^*
This traSic is drai^^mg our li^mn- eial resources withoot eomp^^nsa- tion, hoarding up the milliop.s in an unholy mooopolj; eollectsing rheiw pitile.-sly off Oie poor uiikigiied vas- sah of the Droik-demon. The moil I^-^s thus expended %Yerj year cxe d the expi^iuliture on all the hum !,"'!* liud H.telleetuai enterprises ofrii^^ and. It is equal every year to K'L th-4fc has ever be-^ti expended ill clt^.rrh enterprises bince the land¬ ing' of the Mayflower. Coimdiig ;> snf time of the intemperate* th . igo of the natlon^s property w^'Uid io-jdatrain ofwagotk^i^ with a t r, of go Id to each wapren, thirteen m' i- oug. Poverty snd suifering evM'j; «viier« result to ^he ^ower class* eK ' Ummg t^e higlust ehi.%^5"S use- t».3^ s and geiiin< a=e q*j.^^n<-hed in the r ,ni-g!ass. Gri^g—^.oi s .ire ten till 's as frequeut as boi s ^ hurches and -c^ioohhou^eB. Tn the wiiut of imi AA-emeiit of the lower classes we^iiust add a uio^^-fo dcommission ofcrhiie. The iuRi^-^eiiily, iosaoity. Idiocy, igotiraJKv. t.nd wickecluess 1'^e nation art- iV'ii^]j d^e to th«s QftiM\   The c:ue ^-i ;lie-4:« ar^d other
Glasses of sufferers impose uujiisfe burdeus on ,gocd mUzenB. Our per¬ sonal liberty Is viotared. Our homes,, which ahiiiild he l;he pamdisa m earth-joy are devasled hy the mxrm* Our temporal existence is iinperilod and who can predicS the degenera- tin^ power upon gener^ti.oas yet to be.
One hundred and Mty thoiis^^nd fives are ^aerdiced every year in our nation alone, i^^oris tills a iserely temporal sacrifice of the uation^ Mugs, born u- rule ia the earih aod over the higher realm of their own ptreat Tiahir$^:-i: hiitskn eternal sacri- Hee of the Irnioorla! mms of Qod, for *'^no drunkard Bhr4l eiiser the Kia**- dom of Heave^ii.^^
For all this erp^snallty there h not the shadow of ar) excuse. The almost unlveiB-d demaud (or^tim^di IS aliuorunal aiul not < ssential. It Is Che result i>f tlie stimulants tb*^m- selves. The dnnkissg ^aUvay^ pre¬ cedes the crying detyaad for drink, either rean^te-j or iiismedlatelj. Stipply this abiit^rmal demaud, as has been the ruee, aud it l«ere»»es md inftniium. Tlie whisky nmr''ei was never glutted. Er-t in tLe .u- terests of the whole l^ii^ii^iis. r ?€-<'. r^*- move, ^boiish the drink i^v^i^m 4\iid ttie demand is icoue.
By a wonderful dispeBsation fram the Biviue Kuur, attended by un- lOListakable sigus of power aiid ap¬ proval the woifseti of this fiatl^^n have been stt apart an the apostle - of the Temperance Gospel. The pa?j- derous truth of this gospel is.—'t fie liquor traffic is dfpres^kjc^ rui^mu.^^ eriminaly and ought to engafr ti^e beat energies Cifihe people fo.^ Ih Gb~ oiiHon.
Women, who?*e keei} pereepl'^^Ji lakes in all il>e tcrnus of Tie c'l-.; worn ea, who.^ e ea i n 11?t sy n ? ph th t h, liitensiiied % a love bu'.h huu^mt aud divine^ peBC'iati^ to ih^ ih^p'h of human   wrelelje'^oe^a;   women