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The prominent industries are : Agricultural 

 implements, employing nearly 1,000 persons; 

 brick and tile, over 2,500 ; flour and grist mill 

 products, occupying nearly 3,000 ; lumber, al- 

 most 6,000; cheese and butter, in factories, 

 nearly 1,000; slaughtering and packing, about 

 2,000 more, or some 15,000 persons in all. 



According to the census of 1880, Iowa was 

 the second among the States in the produc- 

 tion of corn, yielding 276,093,295 bushels. Of 

 wheat it produced 31,177,225 bushels. Of coal 

 the product was 1,461,116 tons. 



The following proposed constitutional amend- 

 ment has excited considerable discussion : " No 

 person shall manufacture for sale, or sell or 

 keep for sale, as a beverage, any intoxicating 

 liquors, including ale, wine, and beer." 



It was adopted by the last Legislature, and 

 must pass the next Legislature before it can be 

 submitted to the people. It has been questioned 

 whether it prohibits absolutely the manufact- 

 ure for sale, or only the manufacture for sale 

 as a beverage. The third annual jubilee of the 

 temperance people of the State was held in 

 July, when it was resolved to form a corpora- 

 tion to be called the State Prohibitory Amend- 

 ment Association of Iowa, having for its ob- 

 jects " to procure the submission, adoption, and 

 enforcement of the proposed amendment to the 

 Constitution of Iowa prohibiting the manu- 

 facture and sale, within this State, of all in- 

 toxicating liquors as a beverage, including ale, 

 wine, and beer." 



The following resolutions were adopted : 



The temperance people of Iowa, represented at this, 

 our third annual jubilee, gratefully acknowledge the 

 divine blessing upon the labors of the past, arid nope- 

 fully proceed to plan and labor for a grander jubilee 

 in the swiftly approaching future. 



1. We rejoice in the general, permanent, and sym- 

 metrical development of the temperance work through- 

 out the civilized world, and especially that ? as in other 

 things, so in this grand march of the nations toward 

 prohibition. America, the " little child" in the family 

 of nations, " shall lead them." 



2. We rejoice that our younger sister among the 

 Western States was the first to catch this spirit, and 

 Kansas, under the leadership of her noble Governor, 

 St. John, has been the first to respond to Maine, and 

 has u prepared the way of the Lord," by kindling the 

 first ot the fires of constitutional prohibition upon the 

 prairies of the West. And we rejoice the more that, 

 when the whisky ring invoked the aid of the Supremo 

 Court in quenening these fires, that honorable body 

 found it in neither their heads nor their hearts to relievo 

 the distress of those devotees of drunkenness and ruin. 



3. We rejoice that the dominant political partv in 

 our State did, at its convention recently held at *Dcs 

 Monies, enthusiastically reaffirm its action favoring 

 the submission of the amendment to a vote of the peo- 

 ple, and did nominate as its standard-bearer a candi- 

 date pledged in advance in favor of such submission ; 

 and that another political party, honorable in its 



membership and respectable in its numbers, has also 

 sounded the trumpet of " prohibition " with no un- 

 certain sound ; while, as we have reason to feel assured, 

 there are thousands of members of the only other po- 

 litical party in the State who arc our peers in their 

 hostility to the liquor-traffic, and will stand shoulder 

 to shoulder with us at the polls in support of the pro- 

 posed amendment. 



4. We rejoice in the success that has crowned the la- 

 bors of our " Woman's Christian Temperance Union," 

 not only in instructing and guarding the young, but 

 also in reforming drinking men, and throwing around 

 them influences helpful and beneficent ; and we hail 

 them as honored coadjutors, worthy to be, and who 

 ought to be, our equals hi every word and work that 

 tends to the world's advancement. 



While thus rejoicing over the past, we recognize the 

 magnitude of the work before us, and address ourselves 

 thereto, believing it to be self-evident that, while dis- 

 tillers, brewers, liquor-dealers, saloon-keepers, gam- 

 blers, and keepers of dens of vice, oppose prohibition ; 

 all churches, all benevolent organizations, all who are 

 interested in the education and elevation of society, 

 and every individual engaged in any lawful and re- 

 spectable business, ought to sustain prohibition by 

 voice, vote, and uncompromising, invincible labor. 

 Therefore, 



Resolved, That we go from this convention deter- 

 mined and pledged to work and vote for such candi- 

 dates for the office of Senator and Representative, and 

 only such, as are clearly and unequivocally pledged to 

 vote and work for the submission of the prohibitory 

 amendment to a vote of the people, as proposed by 

 the last General Assembly holding that a refusal to 

 submit to a vote of the people any proposed constitu- 

 tional amendment, when demanded oy so large a 

 number of the electors of a State, savors of disloyalty 

 to the principles of our government and to the righto 

 of a free people. 



Resolved, That, in furtherance of this purpose, we 

 will push forward the work of organization for a 

 thorough canvass of every county, township, ward, 

 district, and individual in the S_tate, seeking to im- 

 press the individual with the disaster that may fall 

 upon his own home as the result of his single vote. 



Resolved, That we highly esteem the valuable serv- 

 ices of the press, both religious and secular, and in 

 particular do we recognize the importance of well-sus- 

 tained State temperance organs. We therefore com- 

 mend "The Prohibitionist," published at the capital 

 of the State, and the ' Northwestern News," pub- 

 lished at Davenport, to the special attention and pat- 

 ronage of all friends of temperance. 



Resolved, That we commend the wisdom of the or- 

 ganization of a lecture bureau, under the control of 

 a committee heretofore chosen by this body, and 

 charged with the duty of supplying the field with 

 competent and worthy workers, and at the same time 

 guarding the public against impostors and incompe- 

 tent pretenders. 



Resolved, That regarding this as an irrepressible 

 conflict, so long as the demon cf the liquor-traffic lifts 

 its head upon our soil, we go forth to this contest 

 rising every arm and munition heaven's arsenal af- 

 fords, especially the gospel, the law, moral suasion, 

 and scientific instruction. Confiding in these forces, 

 aided and energized by the power of our God, WK 



SHALL CONQUER. 



A convention of brewers, called to concert 

 measures to defeat the proposed amendment, 



