Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1874 — The State Temperance Picnic. [ARTICLE]

The State Temperance Picnic.

The State Temperance Picnic at Rattle Ground on the 18th, 19th and 20lh will call together the largest assemblage of people ever gathered together in Indiana. Our exchanges come with reports of active preparations for sending large delegations. From the remotest nooks and corners of the State they are coming to swell the ■ temperance ranks ami make a demonstration that will force the conviction upon the free- whiskeyites and all those that condemn the Baxter law and are in favor of the use of whiskey as “a beverage within proper limits,” that there hireTfb proper liTnits to a great evil —that it must be driven from the land altogether.. It can no more be confined to proper ligiits than any other wrong against the community. Those who consent to its use at all within any limit merely open the way for its use without limit. There is no half-way ground on this question—those who are not firm on the side of temperance, without coiidiJoiis or qualification, are agaiiist it. — Courier.