The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-08-14

breast fof artificial stimulation. Whis-
Ky is certainly at the root of much Of
the direst unhappiness which alilicis
But is it the fault of the
liquor itself or the grain which pro
duccs II, or is it due to the ungoveru-
able appetites of menP If we Danish
whisky, opium will take its place. We
have some respect for the man who
drinks whisky as a means of stimula-
ton, because IL appeals to the palate
also; but we have none for the man
who deadens his sensibilities aud
creates about him a sleeping, elon'
gated, unreal heaven by the use of the
noxious drug. 1t seems to be one of
the conditions of our poor, heavily
weighted humanity to require one or
the other of the above named evils.
We vote for whisky as the lesser evil.
Ask any intelligent physician if it
isn't, and ask any honest and frank
druggist about the enormous increase
in the demand for opium in some one
or other of its many forms. But this
is not the line of argument we meant
to pursue this morning. We mean to
enter plea against Puritanism,
against the spirits of the Manower,
and against the men to-day who
would prescribe the functions of our
common manhood as they and their
descendants did under the blue laws
of Connecticut two hundred years
since. Then man was compelled to
cat and drink what the law pre-
scribed, and at the hours named by
the law under the seli-same spirit of
arrogant intolerance which is to-day
pushing prohibition in Texas, they, in
Connecticut, IN that day, provided
that man should eat only so often.
Of cold victuals on Sunday and should
he at church so many times. Aye;
they went further than that in their
tyrannical and impudent intolerance.
The law actually provided that a man
should abstain from caressing and
kissing his wife on Sunday, and if i'll
formed upon and convicted, he was
punished with ruthless severity. BE
not deceived. The sclf-ssme spirit is
at work in Texas to-day, and un-
checked and uninterfered with, it will
produce the self-same results in less
than twenty five years. IL the law
can say what we shall drink, il can
with equal propriety say what we
shall eat and wear, and how often we
must go to church, what church, &c.
Nc. The one is no worse than tn,
other. They are oil the same piece
and the very self.same constituents
enter into both. Are we ready to go
TO such lengths in Texas? Can we de
liberatcly go back two hundred year.
and take up the ravelled thread :
where our proscripiiye fathers lait
them down? Never. never.
One orator, DIR. Carroll, we believe
in his speech ON Wednesday said: II
prohibition causes the grass to grow
in the streets of Waco, why, let i
grow, only so that whisky is de
stroyed.' Now. we submit that thi,
il not iair treatment OF til,
men who came to DIR. Carroll,
. aud DR.. Burleson's side only shor
time since, when they were straininl
every nerve to raise the Waco contin
gent for the endowment fund. Man,
of these men who are honestly bat
Ting against prohibition on the theory
that IL enforced it would ruin, or a
least seriously cripple, the CONNER
oial interests of Waco, contributed
most largely to that fund. They die
IL out ola profound respect for I'll,
venerable head of the university, al
well rs because they thought it wa
for the bnsines interests of Waco Il
sustain aud retain here this splendid
institution-this splendid CONSERVATION
of good morals aud higher education
Now, to be told that upon mere
idea, cloudy and unreal, as well IL
unreasonable scheme TO destroy wills
Ky, that to do so they would be willing
to see the business of Waco destroyed,
is too bad. II is not fair treatment OF
as generous aud public-spirited a set
OF men as ever labored for the up
building any earthly community
This community accords to the
churches and all other moral agents.
the fullest liberty TO pursue their own
ends unmoles'ed and uninieriered