The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1855-03-10
To r-mrerrnee r,e.alu,i n.

The hrst resolution acts l"it"s '''N
believe the recent vote Of the people oil
Texas upon the no license law, submitted
by the last Legislature for theii ratitca'ion'
fully warrants the next general assembly,
without further instruction, in adopting the
discriminating principle
The above contains our first objection.
We do not believe the vote on the " no IL
cen~p law warrants my such thing, ana
we think /. would be exceedingly dangerous
to the temperance cause 20 act so decisive
" upon any such presumption. 1t i' true
that It gave us reason 10 believe that tue
people Of Texas would sanction a much
stronger law, aud in our opinion wen
devised prohibiiory law; but to asset that
such an act could be safely passed withon,
further sanction from the people, Is say-
ing ia our humble judgment. great deal
too much.
I, i. extremely hazardous to pas2 any law
curtailiug mems privileges unless It IS ao'
COMMANDED with clear and uuoqurvocM
expression Of public opinion. To I.lneidaie
,hl. matter The Legislature pass d a ia"
prohibiting the sale OF spurious Dluofs
within fye miles Of THE place, aud Tor two
months after /, went into operation, not
the sligh;est H'ionlion was paid 70 %. Oar
coffee house, were IN fuil blast, and 40
doub, would have continued open until
now. Lad not A vote of the people been IA
ken. No sooner was that vote given, aud
il was found that only foy or sixty were IN
favor of the traffic, than every dram shop
closed It's doors This was ties, OF the
prohibi,ory question on limited scale,
and warrants the belief that no such
law can he carried out without decisive
vote upon it, To pass mn act as con'emN
plated by the resolution we have named
would be to place law on our statute book
which would be a dead letter
Our next objection Is to the sentiments
contained in the Bird resolution, which says,
,ha, " we do agree to use al proper means,
to secure the election Of high minded, hon
orablo, and competent men, 10 legislative
and executive offices, giving preference to
those who will advocate and procure the
passage Of probbiiory liquor law b the
Legislature
AZ we understand ihis resolution, it AZ
grms that those who voted for it will make
the iom rerancc question the leading one in
the next canvass. To explain Suppose
there are two men running for the legIsla
.urc, both of ahom are honorable and
One Of them advocates a
State policy which you believe will rebound
to the prosperity and honor of the State.
But unfortunately he does not believe in
prohibition. According to this resolution
YOU cannot vote for him. but must give your
suffrage to his opponent, however ohlec
tionable HE other views may be.
We are opposed to this mixing ~ the
question q temperance with that of poll
tics Let it stand on its own merits, and
there will be no difficulty in carrying its
banner in triumph over the State.
4 friend OF ours, minister of the Gose
pei and warm temperance mat, assured
Us that in Tennessee, where he resided, the
question had been lost, just by mixing II up
with politics. The wings and democrats
,or;.l not be made to abandon their irlend'
And be said that by the defeat which they
met, he belioyct the temperance cause WA
set back ten years
Those contain the sam aud substance OF
our objections to ihoso resolutions II Inc
resolutions are carried ut, according to The
hair import Of their language, the rca,l' -"
be-. as we think, anything but gratifying to
the true friends OF temperance
The period has arrived when prudence
and foresight are not only necessary to
success. but to render our triumph perma-
neut For this purpose two things are
neccs,nfy, first we should make as many
friends AZ possible and M few enemies.
The friends OF temperance ough, to recol,
lee, that denuneiat.on never won any man
over TO the cause Secondly, we should
pass no law which we cannot sustain tri.
umphnntly before the people. We had
better be too SLOW than too fast; we had
better be year later ,hsn to make M ia.
cautious step and lose our foothold. The
more quietly we secure our object, the bet
tor it will be for tho cause. 80 eroGt r..
form was ever accomplished in a day,
Our position on this subject ought to be
well understood. We have but to repeat
what we SAID in our first article about the
" Rev James Young, OF Louisville, Ky"
and which seems TO have been overlooked
by our temperance friends, as well as every
thing else we have ever said and done on
the subject OF temperance. After saying
we we're in favor Of prohibition. We contin
ued ave believe that intemperance can
never be stayed until the traffic in alcoholic
liquors is abolished that tAc mufhy stream
Of polu,ion will continue to flow on, bear
ing uhon ito bosom disease, crime, and