The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-21
Genital Anti Prohibition clnh
Permanent organization4py.,s.-

Permanent Organization platso,n
A permanent organization of tba
Anti Prohibition club was effected eatfal
City Hall last Saturday night. by n. y NE
ton of Col. Jones s. Hamilton a. p else
dent; NJ NJ. Mcleod, Secretary: p resi-
gler, ST., Treasurer. The meetin, spea-
was very largely attended, was ada.leh
by Messrs- NJ. NJ. Mcleod John Nd Nd
Henry Strauss, L. c. Kerr and Joll
Hamilton. One hundred and twenfv - >.
names were added to the roll of u:ra sesea
making total of 525. The f olIoois
Platform was adopted:
RESOLVED, That this Club shall bal
as THE CENTRAL ANTI-PRoHIBIr1ox CIesn
ITS OBJECTS.
First-Opposition to political fan.s
ism now Incorporating the couptrv. -,
the guise of religion, known as Proiib s..1e'
Second-To inaugurate and CARR on
campaign in Kinds county by disco
ting information as to the real obiec,
pose and effect of prohibition. ana Vl'
awaken among the people a sense ~
threatened danger to their rights, privil..
and liberties under the law.
Third-The officers of this Clnh a..
consist of one President, one Vice pa.
dent. a Secretary and Treasurer; ana =
Rules of the House of Representa-
shall govern its deliberations where -
| cable.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES.
There shall be appointed by the p.
dent, Campaign Committee. to cons;,.@
seven members, to be known AS the -
/ 49, whose =. 49,.
attend promptly and efficiently to the =
ecution of an active and vigorous campsi.s
Our PLATFORM
1. We stand opposed to all sump.r,.
laws, because time and experience bs.
proved them to be pernicious in their V
| innate results on the people, and op,s;s
of the legitimate functions of goverpnar,
What man shall buy, and what he sb.e
sell, and what he shall eat, or drink or va re-
all pertain to the personal freedom Of 4.
citizen, and are beyond the proper spbs,.
of public control. Majorities should DOW
ern in all matters pertaining TO polS;o,
rule, but they have no right to control =;
norities in matters of purely persor,l
option.
?. The liquor traffic, beyond the ave.
to which all callings are subject. is a trsE,
in which any man should have the sams
right TO engage as in any other, and shonls
be left purely to personal choice.
3. Prohibition by law is aristocratic !,
its tendencies, denies beverages TO tb4
poor, and gives monopoly of them 70 tbs
rich. Nature should not be reversed Ne,
in all times and countries have used stimn-
Tents, especially the laboring poor. and God
has neither prohibited, nor denounced thar
use. The law should not deny it to eitba-
and especially should it not discriminate,
favor of the wealthy over the toiling
masses.
4. 1t Is a FOOLS argument to probib;,
because some use to excess. The same lo,ic
would prohibit the sale of food because q
many die of dyspepsia induced by glu,.
, tony. Man always has been and ever wil
be subject to temptation, and all sbou8
not be denied harmless indulgence beeau.a
some are immoderate.
i .. The direct aim of Prohibition i N
obtain political power. Denials Of M.
avail nothing, since the fact is that whereye,
it has made Roadway, it has political tiek.
cts in the field. A mere glance into historv
will show the horrors which affiict peopIs
governed by party in favor of sumptusry
laws, or controlled by religious fanaticisu
p and Prohibition in Mississippi, if success
: full, will show a complete illustration Of
| both.
We believe in temperance, and inars
+ ligious people, but not in government
{ dominated by Incorporate fanatieism. mis-
I taken for religion. Religion should teach
by precept and example, and il Is hurlfal
to the cause of religion to teach the habit
of looking abroad for the faults of Others
instead of looking within to correct our
own.
z. We are opposed to any law which g7es
to the land owner, rights which are denied
}, to those who own no land, thereby estab.
Il fishing a property qualification in the right
:, of petition among electors, and thus crea.
d ting an odious class distinction among our
citizens. This the Prohibition law does
n We shall always insist that every citizen
v the humblest and poorest as well as the
proudest and richest-shall have the equal
: right of petition in all matters affecting
the welfare of the community.
s. We oppose a law which, while it pre-
. tends to allow the sale of liquor for sacrs
!, mental, domestic, scientific and medicinal
purposes, in reality forbids and precludes
by its very terms, the sale for any of those
purposes; no one, not even the druggist
/ who is allowed to sell the most viruleut
: poisons, can, under the terms of this Law.
; sell a drop of wine or brandy, for any pur
II pose whatever, not even in cases OF extreme
> illness, and Hn1er the prescription Of a
/ physician; and we deny the assertion Of
l. the Prohibitionists that the law permits
{ and authorizes the sale for any purpose rid,-
+ eJer.
/, 8. We believe that the success of the
II Prohibition cause will endanger, if not de
/ stroy, the entire public school system, the
only means given the poor for the educa-
h ton of their Children; and it is unwise, if
n not suicidal, to consent to any experiment
that may by any possibility interfere with
: the present sources of revenue set apartl y
> the Constitution for that purpose
10. We favor licensing, regulating and
taxing the liquor traffic, and a strict en-
forcement of suitable regulations against
: selling to minors or persons intoxicated
{ or those who habitualIy become so. and
forbidding its sale to any person on the
D Sabbath, except by druggists, in case Of
sickness, and then only on the prescription
of physician.
H. All citizens of Kinds county, ire
spective of past party affiliations, who be
lieve in the correctness of the principles
= enunciated in the foregoing platform, are
: cordially invited to CO operate in the great
, movement against personal prescription,
: religious intolerance and the inevitable
j results of Prohibition.
BYRON LEMLY.
|. HENRY STRAUSS,
O CHARLES MoRGAS,
. GEORGE LEMON
+ JOIN HART,
q p. ". PEEPLEs,
NED FAgIsB,
: Executive Committee
The Decline of Home Politeness.
There is, says the Louisville Courier
} Journal, a general complaint at home
!. and abroad of the decline of pOliteness
a Although part of the lament may be
due to the time honored feeling that
things are not now as they used to De,
yet there is good cause for the Oft
7 heard moan. In America we lay per
haps too little stress IpOn the outward
= and visible signs of an inward grace,
: We think it enorgh that person shall
mean well, no matter how far short be
may come of expressing his good ID
tentions. There appears 20 be so greal
), a rush to accomplish the daily round Of
business that little time, if any at all
is given to those acts of graceful cOurte
, sy, so trifiing in themselves, yet which