The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-09-18

to say otis all bosl." At the risk of
beiug tedious let me quote some opin-
ions of it which viii command res
pect throughout the civilized world
John Quincy Adams, one of the
greatest men ever produced by this or
any other country, addressing the
temperance society of Norfolk county,
Massachusetts, in 1912, among other
thugs SAID:
"Forget not, pray you, the rights
of personal freedom. Self
government is the foundation of our
political and social institutions, and
1t is by self-government alone that the
law OF temperance can be enforced.
Seek not to enforce upon
your brother by legislative enactment
that virtue which he can possess only
by the dictates of his own conscience
and the energy of his own will"
Thus, in less than half dozen sem
fences, does this great man exhaust
the argument against prohibition. |
now quote from "Mill on liberty" and
Of the author of this work IL was elo-
quent'y said: "lf there is man born
to speak the English tongue who
combines high integrity, great at
tainments, practical wisdom, and the
oretical craftsmanship, with faith in
and devotion to free government and
the elevation of the humble, that man,
one of the truest friends of America
ia the old world, is John Stuart MILL
lie says:
"There are, in our own day, gross
usurpations upon the liberty of pri-
vate life, actually practiced, and still
greater ones threatened, with some
expectation of success, and opinions
proposed which assert an unlimited
right in the public not only to pro-
hibit by law everything 1t thinks
wrong, and in order to get nc what IL
thinks wrong, to prohibit any number
of things which il admits to be inno-
cent. Under the name of preventing
intemperance, the people OF one Eng
fish colony, and of nearly half of the
United States, have been interdictcd
by law from making any use whatever
of iermented drinks, except for med
ical purposes; for prohibition of their
sale, is, in effect, MS it is intended to
be, prohibition of their use.
The Infringement complained of Is
not on the liberty OF the seller, but on
that of the buyer and consumer; since
the state might just a. well forbid him
TO drink wine, as purposcly make II
impossible for him to obtain 1t. The
secretary, however, (of the English
alliancc), says: Il claim, AS u citizen, a
right TO legislate whenever my socia
rights are invaded by the social act o.
another Aud now for the definition
of the social rights If anything in
vades my social right, certainly the
traffic of strong drink does. 1t de
stroys my primary right OF security
by constantly creating and stimulating
social disorder. IL invadcs my righ'
of equality by deriving profit from
the accrotion of q misery am toxet
to support. 1t impedes my right Il
free moral and intellectual develop
ment by surrounding my path will
danger, and by weakening aud de
moralizing society, from which have
the right 10 claim mutual aid and IN
fore found lis way into distinct Ian
gauge, being nothing short of this
that II is the absolute social right OF
every individual that every other in
dividual should act In every respect
exactly as he ought; that whatsoever
fails thereof in the smallest part, VIC
lates my social right, and entities IN,
to demand from the Legislature the
removal of the grievance. So mon
strOus n principle is Tar more danger
Gus than any single interference will
liberty; there Is no violation of lib
erty which it would not justify; it nc
knowledges no right to 9uy freedom
whatever, except, perhaps, to that OF
holding opinions in secret without
ever disclosing them"
now quote the language OF Gov.
ernor John ~ Andrew, the great wal
governor of Massachusetts,, one Of the
grandest men ever raised in that state
so profile of great men. Although a
man of the highest purity OF character
a total abstainer from drink OF auy
sort, Governor Andrew volunteered TO
represent 10000 petitioners, including
the school OF pharmacists of the
state, before the Legislature of
the state, asking repeal of the pro.
hibitory liquor law, and in the course
OF the most unauswerable argument
ever delivered against prohibition,
having first proved by the highest
scientific aud medical authority in
Europe and America that alcohol is a
food product, diet, as well as a bey-
erage, beneficial to aged people and in
many cases of sickness and invalid.
ism, and Indispensable ia some of
them, said:
81 aver that n statute of prohibition
aiming to Danish from the table of an
American citizen, by pains and penal.
ties, All article of diet which
a large part OF the people believe 10
be legitimate, which the law docs not
even pretend to excludo from the cat.
egory of commercial articles, which
IN every nation, and in some form in
all history. has held Its place among
Inc necessities or the luxuries of so-
clety, is absurdly weak, or else IL is
latal to any liberty. Whenever II
VIII cease TO be absurd aud weak. So
,iety by the operation of moral causes
WIZ have reached the point where ID
VIII have become useless, or else n
Viil be fatal to any liberty; since. II
Io' useless, but operated and fulfilled
- 'Nb"' 'NiN', ltn cAccutlOn VIII be
,erpetrated upon body OF subjects
u whose abjcct characters there will
70 combined tho essential qualities
which are neediul 10 cowardice and
erNlllly. DO you tell me that no
sewerage into which alcohol enters
SEQ IN cooking or placed upon Tho
able, iitly belongs to this catalogue of
pods l answer,that Is question of
cienoe, which neither the governor
or legislature has any lawful capacity
solve for the people. DO you tell /
10, thon, that whether the catalogue ,
expurgated or not, all such food is Z
Wholesome and unfit 10 be taken? d
answer; that it is a question Of diet. [
les, and Il is for tho profession of G
edicine. There is no principle, no b
nus between prescribing an article q
diet and prescribing a aose of ply. b
by authority of law. The next 4
Up VIII be ~ provide for the taking /,