Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-02-12
LIBERTAS.
.,mspt in Support Of his
q Mn, /. on Prohibition.
% Regulate What the People
San Drink q Failure

1ryrRssoN' TIKI Feo' ~ i''''
.,,ftne Gazette.
= - to redeem my promise 70
no,ent reasons why the leg
lnt not to legislate in the in
ug.nohibition. 1t Is 80 aoso.
asssntially sumptuary that
na es, ,ar be ratified by
20 Texas, nor any people
p's 90 ~ under the influence of
,,rv and ianaticism OF New
IN n1rltanism.
psssv should succeed in get
s,hiti5n into the constitution?
.shodIed q eumptuary rtgu-
cine Inc organic law Of the state
w., be likely TO stop there2
'', would they stopT II
.n thus strike down
S 5ns,rv which mas in
o tnrn; or other been |
land sanctioned by the civ
IONS OF the earth in every |
he waters subsided from |
.stat. from Joseph and his |
rom Moses and David, from |
md ali the prophets down to
i.sinc Christ and his apostles.
~ do all that, can any man
~ they will please to stop? !
iilnndeItske to say that they
not re-enact the bloody blue
connecticut and Of the COM
IN In England under the
Ilisn regime? There Ia no &C.
/, tor fanatics any more than
They are like q mob or a
isd herd of buffAloes, They
Mi to look upon. They are
M the citizen Is to drink or not
can be regulated by law, why
rnlge his eating in the same
y and II controlled in one par
II might be- in any and in
b,rlicular. Some drinking, cay
eptally aud medically, would
be permitted, but absolutely
len on every other occasion, 1t
answsr 20 this to say that pro
n only proposes to prohibit the
, and selling OF intoxicating
and not their use. But, as J.
expresses It, prohibition Of
in fact, as it is Intended to be,
ltion OF the use, since the state
s we'll forbid q man to drink
u purp0sely make IL impossible
blm 10 obtain 1t. 1t is an
innate Interference with the
hl liberty of the indi'
. This expresses the
Il Of thousands Of good people
re honest aud temperate, but who
n reason with the force and clev-
Of Mr Mill, but whose instincts
IS 10 thesame just conclusion.
pf1hioltoTy laws are not new. They
Ne been tried and failed IN every in
b except one, / had like TO have
thOu.and times. Tue LecriRn
ator Zalcucus, $50 years before
b prohibited the use OF wine eY
L vas prescribed as q medicine
soOIdained that no womsn SHOULD
II on the street attended by NOR,
one msid servant. The Roman
ls punished with noistio csnsOrii
DO were guilty OF luxurious liv
The Lex Archia limited TIM
oer Of CUES 3 &C 3 feast. The Les
ils Tegula ed the cost Of bsnquets
{ was also the Lex Didi9 dl
ptihus promulgated Ia the year o
B COS, un extension of the Fan
law, TO restrain the expenses sn'
nit the number of guests st publi
als The Lex COrnelia de Stump
limited the expenses which gen
attended funerals The Lei
3 was 3 sumptusry law enacted
4alino RestlO for the suppression
xufy ~ Rome. The Lex lnli
emplibus limited the expenses 10
lslons On the dies proiesli, bus
Gays, to 200 sesteTCes; at festival
: and extra o Cs. ions, marriages
r, &c, 10 1000. There were sey
Olher such laws. But students {
40 history knew they could nevt
&c them, They were, In facl
letters on the statutes.
npluary laws werein great favor /
and irnm the time OF Ed ward ii
70 the Reformation. The prean
n lhestatute OF Edward III Tecitt
through the excessive and Oyt
eotly meats which the peOpl
Is realm have used more tha
aefe, many mischiefs have hal
II" etc, and concludes by sayinl
Ay other evils have happened
. their bodies as 10 their souls,
therefore, enacls that no ma
DC allowed more than two cOurHt
ulef or supper, or moro than ~
! o. food ia each course. That i
sho had not au income Of glOO pl
y rom q freehold estate shoul
lais, skins or silk. The use
cloth was restricted 10 II
lmlly, Another statute,
y III, divided the people In
and prescribed the Kind OF g.
ss.eh should wear.
fiAncP, from the days CHAR
Geaown to Phillip Nv aud Charl
unfair sumptuary laws we're e
In Scotland sumptuary laJ
ordained TO restrain ladies
ealing, drinking and appar,
yor gentleman, their husbant
o,alhers, may be protected. ~
,an, Froude, ssys this kind
l@uon has been abandoned by Q
%ned nations as being contrary
O'ples OF sound political econOm
avg cited the reader TO the aumI
avs OF Greece and Rome and q
sin European nations merely
.nAt the legislation which pr
~ 70 regulate what the people shs
utl9k and wear, Ia old. 1t h
FLED The enlightened natl0
.ili naa i ad nauseam usque. Eve
asent human being In his 81
10y ~ consciousness knows ii
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