The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-08-30

prcssly denounces the democratic
party for opposing prohibition under
the false designation Of sumptuary
legislation. The senator then took
up the quotations made by DR..
Carroll from decisions OF the supreme
court of the United States and
the supreme courts of several
OF the states, which has been read to
prove that the states have power over
the liquor traffic, not only to regulate
but TO suppress IL entirely, and said
he was at loss TO determine why
Mr.. Carroll took the trouble TO read
so much authority when so far as he
knew no living man disputes the su-
preme power of the state over the
subject All MIR. Carroll had to dc
was to turn TO the constitution OF
Texas and read 1t, and he would have
seen that the state had ALREADY assert.
cd and exercised the power in ques
ton, and had done so without the
dissent OF a living man SO
far as the question of power
is concerned. MIR. Carroll says the
state uses lis police powers in the
legislation on this subject, which is
true and he does not seem to know that
law may be enacted In virtue Of the
lpolice powers OF the state and still be
a sumptuary law. The senator said
that this law learning so copiously dis
plsyed from the pulpit ON the holy
, Sabbath by Mr.. Carroll was blank
shot, since he labored hard TO prove
what nobody has ever denied, and
| every one admits that the state has the
power to enact prohibition law.
He said that those OF us who oppose
prohibition admit the sovereign power
of the state over the subject, and have
never questioned the right of n major
ity of the people in the mode pre-
scribed by the constitution aud laws to
make, alter, amend, abolish or in any
way change their constitution. There
is, he said, no question of power in
this controversy. The question is as
to the moral right OF majority TO use
its power to the destruction Of the
liberties Of the individual citizen. The
people have the power, and the only
remedy is to appeal TO them as we arc
now doing, he said, in this county.
1t is, he said, this right OF appeal to
the people who may err sometimes,
| but whose sober second
thought is always just, which Is the
great bulwark of individual aud per-
sonal liberty under our form OF gov
ernment.
The senator then proceeded to the
discussion of the general question al
issue. lie read largely from the tes-
timony of the most distinguished ply
sicians in Europe and America show
ing that ale, h d is in many of its com
binations and even in its liquid state
on account OF its nutritious qualities, a
food rs we'll as bevcragc-that i'll
many cascs OF disease and invalidism
IL is highly beneficial and III some OF
them absolutely indispensable. lie
adverted to the fact that the college OF
pharmacists in Massachusetts meinori-
allied the legislature of that state
TO repeal the prohibitory law, and
that 1t was repealed on tleir petition
and that of 80 200 other citizens. lie
said that fourteen states, which he
named, had since 1852 tried pro-
hibilion and all had abandoned it eX-
ccpt four-lowa, Kansas, Vermont
and Maine-and that no state in which
prohibition exists, is democratic
| htults llt blSiuHSttl NJ thN
possibility, as shown by the expert
euce OF the states which had tried it,,
of enforcing such law, giving nu
merous proofs of it. lie discussed at
length the violation ofpcrsonal liberty
involved in the adoption Of prohibition,
and read from a speech of John q.
Adams and extracts from the writings
of other distinguished men in support
Of his position on this point. lie
warned the people that "'the price of
liberty is eternal vigilance and never
under any pretcxt to part with the
smallest portion OF their personal
rights or liberties. lie said that jeal-
ousy OF personal liberty is the surcst
guaranty Of free government, and its
perpetuity. The senator said prohi-
bition comes TO us hand in hand with
female suffrage, that only prohibition
is being pressed now, the hope of the
nauipulators of the movement (who
are chiefly strong minded women)
being that after our people are warmed
upon pr hibition they will be induced
to embrace woman suffrage. II sue
cessful with prohibition they will mex
press woman suffrage. In kansai
both of these principles are openly al
vocated already, as they will be il
Texas. Those who delude themselve
with the idea that this is only mora
reform movement, will find themselve
grievously mistaken, that II is al
adroitly planned political movcmen
and that contest is to be fought be
tween the prohibition and the demo
cratic parties there can be no question
The northern democrats, he said, hav
fought this heresy upon every inch u
ground, and their sturdy and immova
able resistance TO the cncroachment
of personal liberty by the prohib
ton party has done more
make Grover Cleveland president Ina
any other one cause. We cannot, Il
4 said, turn our backs on the norther
. democratic party. They are to a ma
Q opposed TO prohibition. They kno
b what that party means; II is their ol
+ enemy and they never fail, either
] their state or In the national CONVEX
4 tons, to denounce and antagonize Il
= lie said he did not doubt the demo,
b racy of those democrats who have en-
Il braced prohibition. lie believed the
v as sincere rs he claimed TO be, but b,
u lieved them 10 be in error, because
e said the record of the democrat
II party has been invariably, aud is nov
J. In direct antagonism to the princlpl
n of the prohi6itiOnists. lie here a
h pealed to democrats, ayuwing h
l. perfect confidence in their d
10 mocracy, to re-eXamine this qu'
he ton, saying he felt assur
C. that they would repudiate it ,
he ter fully understanding it. Flo
" weeks ago he believed prohibit
n would have carried in this county
nd 1900 majority while now he believed
" would be beaten by majority mt
H. than half that number. Prohibitio
" he said, will not live under intellig'
ne discussion among our people.
ny Our people cannot be humbugs
ok Inv II II a reasonable chance il pi,