The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-08-31
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
The Personal Liberty Boom Haa Evi
IDENTIFY struck the Bourbon DsmOc-


IDENTIFY struck the Bourbon Dsaa0c-
racy.
Fort ScoTF. Kan, Aug. 26.-The
Democratic county convention for the
election of delegates to the state and
congressional conventions met today.
Several townships were not represented,
and those that were only partially. AT
ter the election Of delegFtes resolutions
were adopted re-affirming their position
in regard TO prohibition, holding It to
be the inalienabie right of every citizen
TO determine his own habits and the
course of his religious and other
opinions, his clothing and drink
by the dictates OF his own
individual conscience and prefer
enco without coRstrAint or persecution
from fanstical, sectAriAn, hired lecturers
or party-Fidden majorities, and they
deny the right of any man or set Of men
10 deprive him of personal liberty by
law or otherwise. They affirm that our
government is the educator and agent Of
our people, and was made for the pur.
pose of protecting the liberty OF CHI
zen, and net for the purpose of bec0m-
ing his master or guardian, TO dictate TO
and c0erce him, nor for the establish
ment of legal inquisition and govern.
mental or corporate conscience, life and
actions, and that the fact that sumptuary
laws are passed or other infFingements
Of this personal liberty are perpetTated
by majority Of the popular
government does not lessen the infamy
or turpitude Of tyranny, but only in.
cEeases the numbe1, rashness and ire
spOnsibility of the tYrants; and they
Furthermore deny the right Of few
sectarian and interested parties, leaders
Of Kansas 20 coin new chains for the
human racs or TO denounce and damn
as immortalities, acts and habits which
are Inherent in themselves, and which
have the direct sanction Of both by the
precept and example Of the founder Of
Christianity, OF His apostles, Of Hi
church, in all ages, and Of the good
Sority OF their own number personally
practice while openly denouncinl
and forbidding others. The. Demo
crazy regards this prohibition
not only as an 0dious and ty
rannic invasien Of the personal liberty
of these but as che reckless and blind
and fanatical war against nature; a. a.
attempt 10 arrest by force q persistent
need OF humanity as well as necessary
incident OF human progress and civilt:
cation, Tor the purpose Of an immediate
arreStment OF those evils of intempef
ance and excuses which are incident q
all human action and which can only be
repressed by rational and moral means
directed against the excuses themselves
and that every such attempt TO arrest
the evil or excessive action by forbiddiRl
all action and by Furnishing and hand
cutting the innocent to prevent the pos
sibilily of their becoming guilty, are a.
futile and ruinous aS they are imbecile
and culpable.
They further affirm that our constitu-
tional prohibition was secured in q man
ner which gave no proof of its popular
appreciation, and that the subsequent
experience of its practical effects de-
| mends as matter Of public policy and
private right, as we'll as of justice and
fairness to the people, that this whole
subject be submitted TO the people foI
their deliberate approval or rejection
and in such q contest the Democracy oil
Bourbon Co will be found on the side OF
personal freedom, personal temperance
and national regulation and reform, in
stead of Changing morality and hand
cuffed abstinence.
General Blair was not here.