Convention Call | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 28, 1902

Convention Call.

MICHIGAN STATE ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE CONVENTION, FEB. 10, 11, 1902.

1. To consider the subject of local option for counties.

2. To consider the subject of prohibition amendment to State Constitution.

A number of counties in Michigan are expecting to vote on local option next April. Among these are Eaton, St. Joseph, Gratiot, Isabella, Newaygo, and possibly Livingston and Oakland. Some others have been organized for the fight, but will not put in their petitions till next year.

If there were but one county in Michigan to vote on “Saloon, or no saloon,” every temperance man and woman in Michigan should be interested in the fight. No matter whether you live in the county that is to vote or not, it is your fight. The liquor men stand together, and every county that tries to drive out the saloon has to fight the liquor traffic of the whole State of Michigan. The saloons in the Upper Peninsula will give money to fight prohibition in St. Joseph County, or any of the counties. But if we can enlist all the temperance people of the State of Michigan to help fight this battle against all the liquor men of the State, we shall have the men and the means to succeed.

1. How shall we help these counties?

2. How shall we secure tons of literature for distribution?

3. How shall we get the State Issue into every home in these counties?

4. How shall we secure the best speakers of the State to enlighten and arouse the people?

5. How shall we secure the means to carry on this fight? Shall we meet the enemy and defeat him? Or shall we acquiesce in his dwelling in our land and consuming our labor and breaking up our homes, and hindering the work of our churches?

At a recent liquor dealers’ convention they put up the sign: “Down with the white-livered preachers!”

A wealthy liquor man boasted, “We have plenty of money to buy the politicians, and we will soon close all the churches.”

The undersigned, believing that the saloon is a continual menace to the home, a constant corrupter of politics, a breeder of vice and crime, a debaucher of youth, and a hindrance to the Church, do hereby call upon the good citizens of Michigan to meet in a convention in the city of Lansing, Feb. 10 and 11, 1902, to plan for the promotion of temperance as indicated above.

We hereby urge the following organizations each to send at least one delegate, viz.:—

All Christian Churches.

All Young People’s Societies.

All Woman’s Christian Temperance Unions.

All Good Templar Lodges.

All Granges and Farmers’ Clubs.

All other societies interested in the objects of the convention.

Some of the best temperance speakers of the State and nation will be on the program.

We expect to secure railroad rates.

Signed by the following individuals on their own personal responsibility, and not for any society in which they may be officers:—

NAMES. ADDRESS. REMARKS.

W. G. Hubbard.....Lansing.....State Supt. A. S. L. Hon. John Robson.......“........Chairman Adv. Board A. S. L. J. W. Humphrey.......“........Senator from 8th Dist. J. L. Snyder.......“........Pres. Mich. Agr’l College. R. E. Macduff.....Flint.....Pastor Episcopal Ch. Dan F. Bradley...Grand Rapids...Pastor Park Cong’l Ch. Noah W. Cheever...Ann Arbor...Atty. and Ex. Cir. Judge. J. H. Kellogg...Battle Creek...Supt. B. C. Sanitarium. L. H. Ives.......Mason........Pres. Farmers’ Club.

And forty-one others from various parts of Michigan.

Don’t forget the date.—Feb. 10 and 11, 1902.