San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-12-02
LIQUOR MEN.
Formation OF a National Destructive
Association.
A PARO ID Y.

DY REV. DIR. W. NJ. GREEN, OF COLUMBIA, TENN.
CHICAGO, Oct 19.-The National
Convention of Liquor Manufacturers
re-assembled this morning, and
adopted the report of the special
committee apr ointed to outline plan
for future action. The Report pro
vides that the Association shall be
known as the National Destructive
Association, and that it shall be di-
rected by a national committee of one
representative from each State. OF
this number an Executive Committee
is to be appointed to actively con-
duct the work of destruction against
young men, old men, women and
children, as ordered by the Associa-
tion. The following are the resolu-
tions adopted.
Resolved, 1. That we recognize to
it's terrible and alarming extent the
duties and responsibilities resting
upon us as dram sellers and manu-
facturers of liquor, and pledge our
selves to the faithful performance of
every duty in the line of our calling
to debase and destroy humanity.
2. That we most earnestly favor
intemperance, which brings us money
and business, and most strongly con-
demn temperance, as it closes our
dram shops, and furnishes bread to
women and children, and appeal to
every dram seller to make proof of
this declaration in the daily conduct
of his business, by making all the
drunkards that he can.
3. That we are in favor of public
and private immortality, disorder, an
archy, and ignorance, and that we
feel the duty resting on us as dram
sellers and manufacturers Of whisky
to work with the great body of our
calling in making law breakers and
poupers, so that we may accumulate
The bread of children and the wages
of the laborer unto ourselves.
4. That we are unalterably opposed
to prohibition, general or local, us an
invasion of our rights to take away
the money, brains and lives of our
countrymen, aud therefore wrong &C
cording to our principles, and i'm
practicable, because we will use our
money with drunken Legislators. In
stead of attempting to destroy bus
mess that employs immense capital,
made from the sale of drunkard's S
homes, and employs vast number
Of honest wofkmen, who eventually
fall victims themselves, the efforts of
our enemies should be directed to
eliminating the evils existing and
resulting from the abuse Of liquor,
by selling more liquor and making
more drunkards. In this crusade
against law and order all dram sellers
should unite, and only those be found
in opposition who have no capital to
invest, whose ambition 10 too high,
whose characters have improved,a and
whose consciences are not dead. The
very work of reformation is greatly
retarded by the efforts through pro.
hibitory laws to stop the sale of
whisky, and to stop the men en-
ployed in manufactures where drunk
ards and murderers are made.
5. That IN our adherence of the
execution of law, in the punishment
of the instigators of crime, we should
not install the statue book as pro-
tector of innocence, nor establish a
defense against the dram seller in
tie law. We hold that law should
protect only the dram seller and man
lfacturer of intoxicants, and punish
women children, insane people and
IDIOTS and drunkards.
6. That lawlessness and immoral
ity in our country is directly IN
creased by distilleries. saloons, and
liquor houses, that give
wages to hundreds, and take away
he wages of tens of thousands, that
convert grain, which should be the
bread of children, into poisonous in
.oxicants, thereby bringing money
nto the hands of liquor capitalists, /
md impoverishing hundreds of thou
iands.
z. That we are in favor ofabsolute
lon-interference in politics as an or
,anization, except in such places and
{ such times as action is necessary
o protect the business of the dram
maker and dram seller against snch
egislation as seeks to protect the
,eople from the evils resulting from
,ur business.
s. That we lndorse the license sys-
EN-, which is a reflection on our
rade, and favor the enforcement of
avs by the States imposinga license
hat will bring more trade to the {
ilded saloon; that viii give to citi-
ems who are willing to risk the de
truction Of their own and their
eighbors' children in order 10 mike (,
lOney,the right 10 sell wine, malt !
nd spurious liquors, adulterate'. {
5 we Ike, with tobacco, strychnia. I
cad rats, and poisonous berries
ie are forced to recognize and ad- {
1T the evils that result from the
Duse Of all kinds Of liquors, ami
,ndemn in tde strongest term every
.ace. by whatever name known,
iat enoOurages OF pormiis this
luzc. bat 10 The same time. while we