The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-08-20

int Hhino. ~ DToHDhioh INV Wii'i
fails in Iowa viii fail in Texas, 1hicl
increases the evils OF intemperance IL
Iowa cities will do the same in Tcxa
cities.
Intoxicants can not be excluded
from the country. They are needed
In every drug store, in compromising
medicines. Sick people must hav,
them. Many housekeepers use then
in cooking and preparing food. They
are used largely in the arts and manu-.
features. Many people will have then
as n beverage and all the laws that cat
be put on the statute book can not pre-
vent it. This is the universal expert.
ence where prohibition has been tried.
Prohibition domiciles the whiskey bot
tie at home in the family, where the
young are corrupted by IL, and secret
drinking is done.
But fellow citizens, l oppose this
prohibition movement on higher
grounds, that those affecting my 10.
cality or those suggested by the inn
practicability of enforcing such II law
oppose it because it is direct as
sault upon the personal liberty of
every man to be subjected to its oper-
alton. II is an effort TO regulate by
law the personal habits of the people.
II is an abandonment of the theory of
our government, that our people arc
capable OF government. If our
people are to be put Unloading strings,
and guard placed over their mouths
TO see that intoxicants do not enter,
they are babies and unfit for self-gov-
ernment. IL they are fit for self gov
ernment, as hold them TO be, aud ms
the theory of our government assumes
them TO be, then law which prohib-
its any sane man twenty years of
age from eating or drinking that which
he desires is n direct palpable and out
rageous violation of his individual
liberty. II Is a precedent If adopted
which will justify the spoliation OF our
people of every personal right hereto
fore held sacred. The same logic
which sustains prohibition will enable
the government to forbid you the use
of tobacco, and il this move is success
full the next crusade will be against /,
tobacco. | know this TO he already |
in contemplation in the minds OF some. |
by the salne process of reasoning your |
apparel may be regulated, and your
.iiet, and the whole batch of New |
England blue laws may be enacted. |
Once started on career Of this sort |
no man can tell where il will end.
Human nature is the same now rs il .
was one hundred years ago, and
history repeats itself. ~ The right
TO bear arms, the bnlwark Of our lib
1rty, may he attacked by the same
method used to carry their point on
he liquor question. Guns and pis-
OILS have slam more people, made
more widows and orphans, produced
more rags and starvation than all other
'auses combined.
My prohibition friends are great on
OF this character and this will
&c most inviting field for them. In
hort fellow citizens, you have not
'inglc personal right which may not
&c taken from you Just rs il is pro-
posed to take from you the right To
rink what you desire. No man
hould willingly part with one jot
" title of his personal liberty.
The personal liberty of man
hOuld be like the virtue of n woman,
whole and perfect, beautiful in its
its harmony and entirety.
Eternal vigilance is the price OF lib
,rty,n and has always been. With
entinels always on duty, never sleep
ny and never firing, there is not a
PEOPLE on the globe except our own,
whose liberties have not at some time
leen taken or stolen, and in years
hough giant in strength, our grand
md glorious nationality is yet in its
infancy. AS long as our people re-
ain their personal liberty they will
free government.
Free men will always fight the err
ors, the blunders and the crimes OF
hose in authority, and may be relied
N when the government goes wrong
o bring it back 10 the right track. II
re will only preserve the personal
ioerties of our people we need have
10 fear for the perpetuity of our tree
government. Only ee men can main
ain free government. Only men
eaious of their personal rights and
ibefties can remain free because
eternal vigilance is the price of lib
'rty. - No free people ever yet lost
heir liberties except by war or con-
quest, who were not despoilcd of them
~ slow and easy stages through means
md measures which failed to arouse
md alarm them, until too late for sue
,cssful resistance. There is but one
safe course to pursue, and that is by all
awful means to resist every attempt,
:omc from what source il may, UNI
Ter what guise il may however plausi-
Die may be the preteXt, TO abate or
;urtail the personal liberties Of our
people one single hairs breadth.
II il no crime to manufacture wine,
pecr, brandy and other inioXicants.
i has been done ever since the world
The reasonable and dis
rect use OF these articles is not a crime
lr vice. The wisest aud best men to-
lay, and in all ages Of the world, in
very country In the world use them
N some form or other. II is the abuse
II intoxicants not their use which is
vicious or criminal. II one hundred
men who have each the right TO de-
ermine for himself what is best for
hin personally find pleasure, COM
'ort, health and enjoyment in Il ra-
ional use of intoxiCants, shall they
nc deprived of that liberty because
i've or ten others get drunk and make
beasts OF themselves T? Shall they be
punished for the vice or crime of others,
when guiltlcss themselves OF any vice
The prohibitionists propose to do this.
The proposition is monstrous one
for free people and free g Nernment
and has never been and wi,l never be |
enforced. Iyield to no man greater
detestation of the vices and crimes of
than have always felt.
| will 90 rs far rs any other in favor
of legislation which can be enforced
which is pract ical and will he effective
in reducing the evils of the liquor
traffic to the lowest possible minimum,
but will resist, come from what quar-
ter il may in this or any other proposed
legislation the INVASION of one single
iot or title of the personal rights and
liberties Of the people. Upon this