The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-09-15

people" The people reSd no gusrcian-
chip; ttoy only neesi 10 be LETT alonA
each upoG lis own individual r.spnuN
sioility 70 public opinion aud the laws.
II is the habit OF prohibitlonists 10
pooh pooh tie psrscnal-liberiy
At the risk of being tedious, let ma
quote some opinions of 1t which will
comTand Tesneot throughout tho civil
izsd werld, John Quincy Adamp, Que
OF the greatest mon ever produced by
this or any other country, addressing
the Temperance society, OF Norfolk
county, Massachusetts, 1872, AYnoo-
other things, said:
"Forgst not, pray YOU, the riahts
Of personal freedom. Self-Sov.
ernm9ns ia the foundation of cur polltl.
cal ard social institutions, anG ills bv
seli-goverament alone that the law OF
\ temperance osn be enforced. =
Seek not TO enforce upon yo1r brother
by legislative epectIneut that virtue
wMch he csn possesses only b. the die
tEtSs OF HE own cansc,sncs and the
energy of his own wlli"
| Thus, in less than hNlt o dozen sea-
tences, does this groas msn exhauss
the argument against prohibition. L
must quote from "Mill on Iiberty,n
an6 OF lha author of Lhis work IL was
eloquently said; 81 there Is man
born 60 speak the English tongue, who
combines high integrity, great atiain-
taants, practical wisdom ana the0ret.
ical craftsmanship, with faith in and
devotion to FREQ government and the
elevation of tho humble, thar man,
ono Of the truest friends of America Ia
the world, Is John Stuart Mill.n He
says:
"There are In cur own day gross
usnrpations upon thu liberty Of pri.
vato life. actually practiced, snd still
greater ones threatened, with some
expectation ot success, aud opinions
proposed which assert an unlimited
right in the public, not only
to prohibit by law everything
IL thinks wrong, aud in order 10
get at what it thinks wrong, to pro-
htbit any number Of things which il
admits to be innocent. Under tho
name OF preventing intemperanca, the
people OF one Elglish colony, and of
nearly half o. the United States, have
boon interd.cted by law from making
any use whatever of fermented drinks,
except for medical purposes; for pro,
hihition OF their sales in, in effect, as il
is intended to he, prohibition OF their
use. Tho infringoment
complained OF is not on the liberty OF
the seller, but on that of the buyer and
consumer; sisCo the State might last
IS well forbid him TO drink wine, as
purpOselY make 1t impossible for him
10 obtain 20. The secretary, however
(of the English Ailianoe), says: ~
claim, as ciIz9n, 4 right 10 legis-
late, whenever my social rights arc ip-
vaded by the social act OF nnother,
And now for the definition of tho $50
cial rlghts;' IF anything invades my
social rights, certainly the traffic in
strong drink d0ss. II destroys my
primary right Of security BY con.
stantly creating and stimulating social
disorder. AZ invades my right
o. Or equally by deriving profit
misery l am taxed TO support. IL i'm
pedas my right 10 free, moral and i'm
teilectual development BY surround-
ing my, path with danger, end by
| weakening and domoralizing suciety,
from which have tho right 10 claim
mutual sid aud intercsurse,' a
theory of social rights, tho
llko Of which, probably, mover ba-
fore found It's way into distinct Ian
guage, being nothing short OF this,
THAI 10 Is the absolute social right oil
every Individual thas every other in
dividual should act in evory respsct
exactly as bo ought; that whatsoever
fails thereof in tho smalleat part, yio-
latss my social right, and entities
mo 10 demand from the legislature tho
removal or the grievance. So mon
strous principle y far moro danger
ous than any angle Interference with
liberLyi there Is no violation OF liberty
which 1t would not justify; IL ackUow-
Lodges no right TO nny freedom what
over, eScept, pernaps, 10 that Of the
Aolulng opinions IN seordt without
eFaf uiseioslns theiu'"
ROW quote tho language CT Gov.
r ardor .Jonu a. Asdrow, the great war
governor oil MSAsaehus9tta, one of tho
grandeat men oyer raised in tlrat State,
30 prolific OF groet men. Although d
man OF the highest purity OF character,
total ebStalnor from drink ofany &c Il !,
Governor Andrew volunteered 10 rem,
resent 80 coo petitioners, including tho
school Of pharmacists OF tho state, he
fore tho legislature OF tho State, ask
ing repeal of the prohibitory lquOr
law, and in tho course of the most un-
answorablo argument ever delivered
against prohibition, having first
proved by tho highest scientific and
medical authority ia Europe and
America that alcohol Ia q food product,
q dict IS wen as a beverage, beneficial
TO aged people and ia many cases Of
sickness and tnvalidism, aud indis-
pensable In some OF them. said:
81 aver tnat q statute of,prohibitlon,
aiming 90 Danish from Irritable of an
American citizen. by psihs and peu-
altleg, an article of dist which large
part Of tho people believe to be legiti.
mate, which tho law does not oven
pretend to exclude from tha category
Of commercial articles, which In ey.
cry nation, aud ia some form Ia ull
hiatory, has held it's placo among tho
necessities or iuxuries of society, Is ab-
surdly weak, O. olso II
Is fatal tD any Lib
crty. Whenever it viii cease TO be
absurd and weaf, society by the oper-
! alton OF moral causel, will have
reached tho point where IL will have
become useless, or olsa IL will bS fatal
TO any libarty; aimee, Al nnLu.alogs