Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-08-28
POPULAR P0PULlSl,
apoTunp OF PRESIDENT OF FARM
ERs ALLIANCE on LOCAL
OPTION ELECTION.
rhe Prominent orator Gives HIS
View. on the Question and Is
We'll Received.

Hon, II. f. Jones, the Popullst or
,tor. was well received at Crowley
ana made a hne speech. Mr. Jones ls
a brother OF the famous Evan Jones'
president OF the Farmers Alliance
In his speech Monday he SAID
Fellow citizens. We have met here
tonisbt 10 discuss a. question that is
now to some extent aBitatlnB tue
minds OF the people OF your county,
and on which you VIII be called upon
ON the third day OF September next
10 exercise your franchise ns American
citi2eny Now. am here tonight 10
oppose the abolition Of the present
license law. wherein the people nave
protection from any encruachmehlH up
on their Individual liberty ana rights,
Having studied this question Tor many
years and having experienced the pnhe-
hui influences brought about In other
states whore local option has been en-
forced / am here TO defend thut lib
ertv for which our forpfnthcrB fought;
and In doing this I shall hrst read
you the opinions Of some OF tho great
men whom our nation has In the past
loved to honor. let m" read 10 you
tonight some of the opinions of those
men that stood at the helm Of state
during tho time when our nation was
lighting FOR her liberties during the re-
yolutlonaty war
John quincy Adams, a man whom
our nation has honurcd IA the past
and whose memory is hOnored today.
says; Forget not. pray you, tho
right OF personal liberty, Self-gOvern-
ment is the foundation Of all our po'
lltlcal and social institutions, and II
is by self government alone that the
law OF temperance can be enforced,
Seek not 10 enforce upon your broth
er by legislative enactmeuts that Vlr-
tue which he can possess only By tho
dictates Of his own conscience and the
energy Of his own free Will
Thomas Jefferson the man whom
all parties, al American citizens, honor
as a great honest. upright and prudent
citizen, says. mo man has natural
right to commit aggression ON the
equal rights OF another. and Tits IA all
from which the law ought to restrain
him Every man IL under the natural
duty Of contributing tu the necessities
OF society, and this IL all the law ought
to enforce upon him when the laws
have declared ana enforced all this
they have fulfilled their function, and
the idea is quite unfoundcd that on
entering Into society we give up any
natural right"
Nuw, fellow citizens I want TO rcud
TO you another letter / have before
me letter from n man whom the
South has loved In the past ana whose
memory W fresh In our hearts today,
fFuu 10 YOU thUlknl u ltNltl NlllNtN
by Jefferson Davis to T.. Il. lubbock
citizen OF Texas, during the cam
pulgn OF 1857, lie says. Reared In
the creed OF Democracy my caith In It's
teucts has grown with It's growth, and
/ sdhere to that maNlm. The world is
governed too much. When our faith
crs achieved their independence the
corner stone OF the government they
constructed was Individual liberty. and
the social organizations they Establish
I'D were not Tor the surrender, but for
the protection OF natural rlghts, For
this governments were established, de-
riVlng their Just powers from the con-
sent OF the governed This was not
10 subject themselves To the win uf
tao majority, ns appears from the fact
that each community inserted In It's
fundamental law bul OF rights 10
individual There was. then two.
fold purpose in government. protection
rnd prevention against trcFpass by
tho strong upon the weak, the many
upon she Few, Our sirea rejected at
the pretcnsloua 10 a system that sale
government ahall not protect It's cit
l9cns In all their natural and lnNllen
thlc rlghtg, Upon the baals OF thes,
general propositions ! Will briefly an
aver tho inquiry In regard TO the pro
addition amendment now ut Issue. u,
yc temperate in all things was a Wis
Injunction and would apply 20 lntoler
hnce as wei as to drunkenness, Tha
the iutcmperate use OF intoNicatin,
liquors ~ an evil. few II any viii deny
That Il Is the root OF many social dis
orders is conceded. But then tine cues
ton arises, what is the appropriate
remedy, and what the present neces
htyY To destroy Individual hbest,
and moral responsibility would be I,
Eradicate one evil by tho substitution
Of another which II is submitted wa
offered as u remedy. The abuse an
not the use OF stimulants. II must b
confessed Ia the evil to be remedicd
then II clearly follows that actlo
should DO directed AxalnAt the ahuu
and not the use, II drunkenness be tn
cause ~ disorder and crime why no
pronounce drunkenness Itself to be
crime and attach TO It proper and ado
auate renaltiesg II II be objected tina
the penaltlea could not be enforce
that Is an admission that public opir
ION would be opposed to the law. Bu
Il II be true that Juries could not b
,mpaneled who would convict 90 d,
GRADED a criminal as drunlard
necessarily follows that a statutor
prohibition against the sale OF intox
,ams would he dead letter"
Now, fellow-cltlzons, after havin
rend 20 You the opinlons OF those me
eminent In the politics Of your countr
! offer you that OF another man, OF
who Is Acknowledged today By bot
North and South as having been on
OF the greatest stateamen since IL
DAYS Of Thomas Jefferson. That ma
Is Abraham Lincoln; he says; Prob
billion Will work great injury to u
cause Of temperance. II IL a species
,ntemperoncs within itself for Il 10,
beyond the boundary OF reason. IN N.
Il attempts to control mans app,
ute by legislation. making crimes o,
OF thinga that arc not crimes. nrl
hibitior law strlkcn blow at tho vef
princlples ON which our government
founded, / have always been foun
laboring 10 protect tho weaker class,
against the stronger and can ncv,
consent 10 such law as YOU nropo,
to enact. Lintil my tongue shall BE- i
lcnced In death I viii continue 10 tigi
for the riRhta OF man"
ors more opinion UPON thls auessio