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WACO TEX bElf 18 18S6
SENATOR COKE
A fow da a since tlio Galvealon
Ncwb reporter In tills city Interviewed
Senator Ooko on prohibition ami tlio
talk elicited from htm la bo wine bo
full ol useful lessons to our people
and withal no tlmoly that tho Kxam
IN Kit hat thought best to give It to Its
readers In full To this end wo sur-
render the greater part of our space
tbl moruiug
Waco September 11 A reprcson
tatlvo or the News called on Senator
Coke calcrday evening and found
him in Ilia library The result of tho
recent campaign being tho themo of
conversation the full vicwb of tho sen-
ator on the question of prohibition
wcro elicited
Ueporter Senator what conclusion
duou drawfroiu tho result of tho
recent elections in the largo counties
u liortbcrn and central Texas
Senator C Tho overwhelming do
leat of tho prohibitionists coulirms
tho opinion 1 havu held from tho
first that all tlio pcoplo need Is to
thoroughly understand tho subject
and tho alms and purposes of tho pro
hthltiou part aud that will Insuro
tho destruction of that party in Texas
Tho quostlou is an old ouo iu tho
north hut a new one in Toxas It
has not been understood hore but is
gottiuglo be aud tho more Is known
of it tlio less support it will have
Where prohibition has beeu success-
ful heretofore thero has hioti no con-
test It has token judgment by default
To tight it earnestly and intelligently
is to neat it
Icpujtcr Is prohibition a Unpo
litical 1m > iic backed by a distinctive
part organization
Senator CX That tho prohibition
part Is a political organization can-
not ho controverted 11 has a nation
ul organization holds national con-
ventions promulgates platforms and
prcsiuta candidates for president and
vicepresident Its distinctive prin-
ciples as set out lu its platform am
prohibition of tho manufacture and
sale of intoxicants aud tho cslabllih
liuntof leiuale sutTrago lu tho Uulted
States Tho platform relegates io
tho discretion of tho parly in tho sev-
eral states tho question of fcinalo Buf
triige to bo insisted on or not ac-
cording to tlio condition of public
sentiment Tho actlvo leaders In Iho
national organization arc chielly
women good people all of them
very earnest and somo of them vert
able l iuallt ot tho sexes In suf
Irogo anil capacity to hold onice In
their speciality and the hobby of all
of them The are manipulating the
prohibition movement In every statu
In thu union it may bo depended oil
that their hobby will bo brought out
at the right tinio iu all of the com-
monwealths Those who have ob-
served tho canvass lu thu counties
whcro local option has receutl been
UnAswuimii cuucuiu iui siIl
lion of tho female suflragoissuo How
oftcil have wo heard iu tho last few
weeks the cxilamation Ob If our
wives Aud daughters and inothers
could vote wo would surely expel tho
demon alcohol Our noble women arc
being lamlliariiod with tho Idea lrom
tho stump tho pulpit and tho lect-
ures of strongminded women sent
to do missionary work iu tho counties
referred to Thero and c n be no
doubt of tho alms aud purposes of
tho national prohibition party for lis
platform boldly avows them
Keportcr nu have spoken of
prohibition as a natioual issue now
what abojt prohibition as a polit-
ical organization in tho several
statcsi
tcnalor J It Is organized lu all
tho states with all tho equipments for
parly warfare Hero beioro me is the
plallarin of tho prohibition party of
Texas promulgated at Dallas b the
convention held thero It has a state
exccutlvo committee a county execu-
tive coinmlltco lor each county and
ou executive committee for each con
gressional district in its plan of
work it proposes to control the next
legislature for Iho purpose of com-
pelling that body to submit an amend-
ment to the constitution subjecting
tho entire state to the operation ot
prohibition aud for this purpose it
provides for nominating its own can-
didates lor tho legislature iu all cases
whoro tho nominees of other parlies
shall refuse to pledge themselves in
wrillugto vote for tlio submission or
such an amendment lu overy dis-
trict lu tho statcwhich elect members
to tho legislature thu democratic
nominees who refuso this dictation
are to be aulsgoulzed by nominees of
tho prohibition party Tho thhd
clause of Ijcr plattorm declares that
we rally around but ouo ilag and
that flag shall have for its motto one
word lrohlbllion tho convention
having used the discretion relegated
in tho ui tloual pisiform to the party
iu the several stole to drop tho fe-
male autliage plank doubtloM until
tbo condition ol public sentiment
lu Tens shall bo mora propitious
Such was tho tourso pursued lu ICan
m until prohibition was adopted
then tcmslo sll i jo was run up to
tho mastlu d r 01 jprlda of prohibition
where It now stands I will quote
from tbo uallonal prohibition plat-
form In this collection It Js very
suggestive wheu considered in con-
nection with tho Dallas platform
That we believe In tho civil and
political equality of the sexes aud
that Iho ballot lu tho hand of woman
Is a right for her protection and
would prove a powerful ally lor the
abolition of tho drinking saloon tho
oiecullng of laws tbo promotion of
reform lu civil affairs and tbo re-
moval of corruption lu public Ilfo and
thus believing we relegalo tho prac-
tical outworking ot this reform to tho
discretion of tho prohibition party In
the several states accordlug to Iho
condition of public sentiment in those
tales
boit will bo perceived that the
national and stale prohibition party
organizations work harmoniously to-
gether tho latter under the guar
dlanshtp and advlco of tho former
both having In view tho samo Due ot
policy ami worklug for tho samo
ends aud related to each other ex
actly as tho democratic and republi-
can national and state party organi-
zations arn Tho prohibition party of
Kansas elected St John governor
1 he samo party iu Ohio nominated a
candidate for governor aud other
state olllces at tho election to be held
this fall Tholr candidato for gover-
nor has already sent as wo aro In-
formed by telegraph a formal chal-
lenge to iovernor lloadly the dem-
ocratic nominee to meet him iu joint
discussion before the people It he
has sent a similar challenge to tho re-
publican nomluco wo havo not been
iiiformcd of It lu cvorv state of the
union thero is a prohibition parly or
aulzatiou aud wheu they hold tho
lalaucn of power they have Invaria-
bly thrown It against tho democracy
ami lu favor of Iho republicans
Upon what rule or reason or logic It
Is claimed that tbo issues presented bi
lbo prohibition party aro noupolltl
cal 1 coulots my Inability to under-
stand The term political Is cor
nctly defined to bo that which per
tains to a policy of tho state tro
blbltinii will mako unlawful a lino of
coiumcrco in which tho investments
are perhaps as heavy as In any other
single lino which is now protected
And licensed by law It will accord-
ing to tho published letter of tho
comptroller reduced the rcvunucs of
the stalo ouothlrd and necessitate an
additional advalorem tax upon prop-
erty to mako up tho deficit It will
deprive tho pcoplo of Tens of he
right they now cufoy to purchase or
manufacture intoxicants in Texas
It will lulllct great Injury oil many
citizens of Texas now dcallug In the
goods proposod to bo prohibited
he samo consequences will result to
tbo pcoplo of tho United States lrom
ho success of tho movement thtough
out tlio union ns contemplated by tbo
prohibition party In ndditiou to
theso results is tho proposition Io es-
tablish ftmalo sullrago That any In
tctlgcnt person can bo found who will
deny that Apaity fully equipped with
slato and national organizations for
carr lug out theso purposes aud ter
rlhly oarncstiu pressing them which
has profouudly agitated tho public
mind and greatly divided tho people
of Iho country with its issues is a po
litical party or that Its Issues aro po
litical Issues is ono of the woudora
of tho time
Ueporter It is said to be only a
great moral question
Senator C Ivory political qtios
tlou has a moral sldo to it aud so has
tills question of prohibition but It Is
nono tho less a polltlra1
question for having it It is not only
olitical but u party question bo
cause a dlstluctlvo political party
origiuated and maintains it and as 1
havu shown from its statu and na
tioual platforms it propose to an
tagonize aud docs autagoulzo all
other political parties iu upholding
thn lssuo lu other words tho prohl
nnrlv stain niuLuatlnuahJlA
voto with It for prohibition iu no
way lessous Its political and partisan
character TIiobr who expect this
party to disband If It should succeed
iu
establishing prohibition aud pro
prose to Aid it by voting tor that poll
cy Iguore tho uniform and unbroken
history of political parties They
necr disband when successful but
always become moro aggressive and
Ond new subjocls aud purposes to
live and cohere ou bla cry has been
abolished hearty a quarter of a cen-
tury yet tho republican party which
CAino Into existeuco for the solo pur
poso of emancipating the slaves has
no thought of disbanding If prohl
bltlon shall bo consummated then
comes woman sullrsge and the cru-
sade ou tobacco already determined
ou to be followed by a general regu-
lation ot tho morals aud Habits of tbo
people by tho government Faiiati
clsm nevor relents never takes
step backward Its motto Is onward
Is never satisfied aud will find em-
ployment as long as the world lasts
Once flushed with success aud well
started ou this career urged ou by
religions zeal the moro dangerous
becauso honest God oi iv knows
wherq It would eud Thero are
thousands ol honest sincere demo
crats tho i ery best people iu Texas
supporting this movement who
vainly Imagine they cau con-
trol It at the right time
Tho fanatics controlling tho national
prohibition organization aud engin-
eering tho movement know better
than this They are able pcrsltcnt
daring and tireless they know their
power and see it exemplified in Iho
resent widespread movtmont they
know they will routrol it and keep It
moving along the whole line of what
Ihey call moral questlous if they ouco
aro successfully started
Ueporter My questions havo been
fully auswercd but what wo desire
senatoraroour views as to whether
the prohlbltou movement is deuio
cratio or uot
Senator C I read no man into or
nut of Iho democratic party This Is
not my province 1 claim only tho
right accorded to tho humblest mem
ber of Iho parly to hold and cxprcsa
my opinions ou Ihe subject All
other democrats aro aa fully entitled
to tholr opinions as I am to uiIuoTho
prohibition movement is In my opin-
ion and judgment directly antagonis-
tic to tbo traditloiiBtho fixed aud Inn
dameutal ptiiulplea aud Iho practices
of tbo dcu ocral r party and that
every voto cast lu aid of it is a direct
blow at the democratic parly whether
so Intended or not hot mo quote
from iho Chicago democratic platform
on this subject with Iho remark that
tho limo provision Is lo bo found lu
tho St Iouls democratic platform of
1876 aud In everr plafnnu of the
party sinco that time Wo oppose
sumptuary laws which vex Iho citizen
and lutcrtere with individual liberty
It was upon tho platform contain
CALL
tlio cost of living as furnituro aud
lug this provision that MrTlldcu wascontaining
Hsiicu in a uuuicrofp oji crjiirnniaTir iifeininTrrBDloiftAy
advised against tho passage of a locaf
dptlon law because Among other Mas
ous which ho gives against such laws
ho
says they aro in many respects
Biimptuary
Hut outside of this Iho deinocratlo
parly lu framing its platform al
wajs addresses Itself to live Issues If
tho clauso rolatlug to sumptuary
laws lu the democratic platiorui Is
Intended to mean extravagance Iu
apparel furnituro aud cost of living
what more silly or ridiculous thlug
could tho
parly havo put In Its plat-
form for whoever heard of any such
lssuo In our politics or among our
Who ever heard such a sub
ect discussed In this country No
Iv lug man Tho general pupular ac-
ceptation of tho meaulugof this plank
of tho democratic platform ever body
knows to bo a declaration against pro
hibition rroblbitiou is tho only ls
suo it can possibly rcicr to fir other
wise It would bo au absurd and seuso
less declaration Iu order to clinch
tho argument And estop prohibition
ists from denying It let mo read
from tho platform of the natioual pro
hibition party
The iact that the democratic party
lua In Its national dellverauco of party
policy arraved itself ou the sldo of
the drinkmakers uud sellors by
declaring agalust the policy of
prohibition ot such tralllc under thn
falso names of sumptuary laws aud
wheu lu power iu somo ol tho stales
rctulug remedial legislation aud iu
congress ot refusing to permit Iho
creation of a board by iuqulry to In
vestigate aud report upon tho effects
of tins tralllc proves that tho demo-
cratic party ahoud not be iutrusted
with power and place
lids highest and most solemn ofll
clal uttoranre ot the national prohlbl
iIo h party made in natioual conven
tion at Pittsburgh ou tho Stth day of
July 1884denouueos Iho democratic
partv as unlit to be trusted with povv cr
or place became iu its deliverance of
natioual party policy it has declared
agalust prohibition under Iho falso
naino of sumptuary laws This
ends tho argument ou that point
aud closes tho mouths of all who
havo deulcd that the deinocratlo party
denounces aud opposes prohibition In
Us platforms Iho prohibition move-
ment Is a great political iiiovemeul
looked upon In tho north by the ene
mies of tlio democratic party as tho
wedgo which Is when driven homo
lo split that party asunder in Ihosoulh
Many quotations from prohibition and
oficr Journal could be given to show
this Vet In tho face of this fact and
of thodeuuuclalou by tho prohibition
platform of tho democralloparty as
unlit to bo intrusted withplacuor
power democrats Are asked lo stand
Idly by and raise neither volie nor
hand in defense of their party
I have beeu charged with Incmisis
Icucy ill that I advocated tho adop
llou of tho present constitution
THE NEW ARRIVALS OF
SEASONABLE GOODS AT
T R JORDANS
democracy of Texas Tho allegation labors adjourned aud weut home It
of prohibitionists that their move left tho people of Texas in self among
incut Is democratic becauso tho con tho number to choose between tlio
stltutlotiat convention of Texas coin new constitution and tho republican
posed ol democrats provided for lo constitution of 11166 1 chose and
cal option lu tho constitution Is eon voted for tho present coustltutiou
xrluslvely ausworcd by tho fact that with alt Its defects as the better of tho
the members of that convention wero two I advocated tho new conslltu
uot clocted to formulato deinocratlo tlou beforo the pcoplo alwas with
principles but for a different purpose Lie quallQcallon that It had many do
Democratic principles aro formulated fects but that It was preferable to Iho
aud promulgated by representatives old one Tho local option clause In
of the democratic pcoplo of tho thirty tho coustltutiou was mandatory upon
eight states of tbo unlou sent to tho tho legislature requiring at tho tirst
national convention for that purpose session of that body tho passage of a
It is only Biich a convention that has law Burh as wo uow havo I as gov
tho right to speak for tho national p crnor being a part of tho lawmaking
democratic part and overy ouo of power aud having taken an oath to
them has spoken on this subject iu support that coustltutiou was of
ianguago which can not bo misiindercourso bouud to obey It and sign the
stood Again It will be remembered law which I did
by gentlemen who attended Iho dem
ucralic stato convention held at jal
vestou lu thespriugof 1876 to uoiu
iuato candidates for governor and
other stato olllces under tho prcscut
constitution then atmut bclug sub
mitted to tho popular vote lhat Colo-
nel John D Elliott ouo of tho Travis
county delegates offered a resolution
approving aud indorsing thn new cou
stltutiou and if my memory serves
me correctly Captain William Walsh
tho proscut commissioner of tho gcu
oral land otllce also a dolegato lrom
Travis county moved to lay tho re
solution ou tho table and tho mover
tiudcr tho taolc aud the motion to lay
uu tho tablo waa carried without a di-
vision So tho democracy of Texas
refused to endorso or approvo
tho present constitution Again
tho prcscut constitution was ratillcd
at tho polls early iu the sprlug of 187t
whereas tho national democratic con-
tention which mailo tho tlrst declara-
tion against prohibition did not meet
until the 28th of Juno of tho same
year Until lhat limo It had not been
deemed necessary to speak In national
couvcntlou ou this Btihjoct and
it may havo been that tho
localoption clauso in tbo con-
stitution of n democratic state llko
Texas was one of tho causes which lid
to tho declaration lu Ihe national
platform against prohibition Wheth-
er It was or not tho fact oxlsls that
the declarations lu tho national dem
ocratic platforms against prohibition
and tho approval by tho democracy
nf Texas ot theso platforms havo all
occurred since the adoption of our
present constitution
Tho force of this argument has been
sought to bo Avoided l > claiming that
the term used iu tho deinocratlo plat
form sumptuary laws docs not n <
clmto prohibition iu its signification
aud to establish this old dcliiiltlous if
sumptuary laws taken from dic
tionaries and luw books have been
paraded beforo the public showing
sumptuary lawB to signify laws
restraining extravagauco Iu fur-
niture appartl aud cost of living
etc tho same being lu abrdg <
incut of llbcrt It may bo remark
ed that uuder the definitions referred
to prohibition Is clearly sumptuaryt
becauso drink enters as lullylnto
lrohlhltiou speakers havo devoted
a great deal of labor lo proving by
reading from supreme court decisions
tho validity of tho localoption clauso
of the constitution and tho law
passed iu purauauco of it 1
do uot kuovv aud havo never
heard of a man who questions tho va
lidity of cither Tho labor seems to
mo to havo been entirely uuuecessary
for nobody doubts or has questional
the sovereign power ot the stato to
prohibit wholly or partlall or regu
lato as sho sees lit tho manufacture
mid sale ol Intoxicants ia her limits
whether derived from her pollto povv
ors or from clsowhcre It makes no
manner of difference II is sulTlcleut
to know that her power over the sult
ject Is sovorclgu and uuquostloncd It
Is to tho exerJiso of tlio power that
objection is made And tho logic
upon which tho objectiou reus
applies with equal torcu to tho exor
else of the power whether lu I ho slate
tho county or tho precinct Prohibi-
tion or local option can uot bo main
tallied lu the precinct by any argu
ment which Is not qttsiy potent lo
maiutalu It iu tbo county and in the
state aud vico versn It a majorit
of my neighbors in my precinct have
tho moral right to say that 1 shall uso
no beverage with alcohol Iu it and
shall havo no food on my tablo with
ultliul iu ithoweormuth mycomtort
my plcusurcur my htalth may re-
quire the uso of that article and how
ever discreet aud temperate I may be
lu using It tbo majoritv lu the couuly
niiil tho majority iu tbo stato have tin
samo moral right toll cat the minor
Itlea iu tbo couuly and tho statu iu the
samo way Tho argument would
soem stronger for tho county
nud still stronger for tho slate be-
cause ot increased number aud tbire
fore greater good if good lor tho
precinct 11 is better for the count
and best lor tho stale Ilellevlng that
overy sauo man In this couutr
Iwcnt one cars old possesses certaiu
inalienable rights which no maturi-
ty though poascsslug the power can
justly or rightfully deprive him of
and that amoug these is tho right to
cat drink and wear what ho pleases
provided ho docs not ollend public
decency or morals aud mako a nuis-
ance of himself and that o punish
him with a dcprivatiou of liberty iu
s guiltless of
lug beasts of themselves U a crime
against personal liberty and free gov-
ernment I am opposed alike to pre
cluct county and stato prohibition
Tho theory of democracy favors the
least possible government ami
tho largest pertoial liberty
Capacity for personal self govern-
ment by the citizen under tho largest
personal llbcrt Is the foutida
tloustouo upon which the fabric
of our lreo government rests
Prohibitions assume thai tho citizen
Is Incapable of personal selfgovern
ment in respect to tho use ofatohol
and would put a guard over his
mouth lo see that uunc enters Their
theory Is at war wltu tho Iheor of
our government 1 hey are sapping
aud mining the ver foundation of
our free Institutions In clcnjlng the
poworof the citizen to govern him-
self and his appetites fur upon the
existence of this power dipuids the
stability of our government If the
right to uso alcohol In any form is
laKcu awn It la bold I avowed by
prohibition leadcis that thoy will
proceed to mako war ou tobacco
What pcrsoual right will bo lreo lrom
assault and what liberties will tho
peoplo possess after the havo com-
plied with the demands of this funatb
clsm Only free nicu can umluliiiii
freo government Dcprlvo our peo-
ple of their persoual llbirtles and ou
havo undermined tbo structure of
our free government audit wllltum
blo lo tlio grouud No peoplo were
over too jealous ol their liberties lor
a grander or truor sentiment was
neicr uttered even by Audruw Jock
boh when ho said that eternal vigilance
Is tho prlco of liberty Tho general
wcliarc tho safety of the pcoplo
Is Iho supremo law and such
generalities aro tho slogans of
iho proh ibltloalsts There nevor
was a proclamation of mar
tial law which strikes dovv u all liberty
there never was a deed of despoils in
done thero never waa a greal crime
gainst human liberty perpetrated
that It was uot done lu the uiimo of
Ihe general welfare and Iho safety
of Iho
people They aro moat appro
prlalcty Invoked in lids luttaucovvhen
a raid is being mado ou Iho personal
liberties of tho people Such a sac-
rifice of individual and natural
liberty as Is uccessary to tho c inimoii
good is Another ol their catchwords
of the samo character and meaning
which lu tho
scuse used by them
would Justify any iionnlty which
fanaticism could suggest ft seema
norcr to have occurred lo any oflhein
that there aro persoual ami individual
rights luhercut lu every cltlzciihls
birthright which aro inalienable
which lie
cau uot takeu from him
rightfully nor except by brulo force
Ihey Mem ueter lu havo heard oftho
old Jclfersonlaii democratic doclrluo
prcservo Iho personal
liberties of Iho
pluauil Ihey wIU take rare of freo
government ttiocoiimioii good and
of prohibitionists to pooh pooh Iho of calomel antimony aud Epsom sails
personal liberty argutueut aud by act ol tho general court Do oil
to say Its all bosh At tho risk of tell mo however lhat all such bever
bclug tedious lot moquoto someopln
Ions of It which wll command res-
pect throughout ihe ilvlllzed world
John Quluey Adams ouo of tho
greatest men over produced by this or
any othor country addressing thu
temperance society of Norfolk county
Masssachuclts iu 1812 among other
tblugs sapl
Forget not Iprayjou Iho rights
of personal freedom self
government is Ihe toiiudatlou of our
political and social Institutions and
It Is bv selfgovernment alono that tho
law of temporauco cau bo enforced
facek not lo cuforco upon
your brother by legislative enactment
that virtue which he cau possess only
bv Iho dictates of his own conscicuro
aiid tho energy of his own w III
TIiub in less than half a dozcu scn
teuees does this great man exhaust
tbo argument agAhist prohibition 1
now quoto from Mill ou liberty aud
of tho author of this work It was elo-
quently said If thero Is n man horu
to speak tho English tonguo who
combines high integrity great lit
laluments practiesl wisdom aud the
oretical statesmanship with faith in
and dovotlou to lreo government and
Iho elevation of Iho humble llmt man
ouo of tho truest friends oi America
la the old world is John Stuart Mill
ilosays
Thero are lu our own day gross
usurpations upon tho liberty or pri-
vate life actually practiced and still
greater ouca threatened with somo
oxpcclallou of succuss aud opinions
proposed which assert au unlimited
rigut lu tho public uot ouly to pro
lilblt by law everthing it thinks
wrong and iu order to get at what it
thinks wrong to prohibit any number
of things which it admits to bo Inno
ccut Under the name of preventing
Intemperance the peoplo ot one Eng
lish colony and ot nearl halfot thu
United states havo beeu Interdicted
b law from making an use whatever
of icrmented diinks except for med-
ical purposes for prohibition of their
sale Is iu etlect as It is intended to
he prohibition of Iheir use
Tho lufriugemeni complained of is
not ou tho liberty ol tho seller but on
thai of tho bu er and ronsiimcr since
the stato might just as well forbid htm
to driuk vvfiio as purposely mako it
Impossible for him to obtain it The
secretary however jf tbo English
alllAiiee sa 8 1 claim as a citizen a-
right lo legislate whenever ui social
rights Aro invaded by tho social ai t of
auotlHr Auil now for the dclmttiou
of thesocial rights If auythlng In
vades my social rich certainly tho
tratllc ol strong drink docs It de-
stroys my piimary right ol security
by constantly crealttigandstlmulaling
social disorder It invades my right
of equality by deriving protlt from
Iho accretion of a misery 1 am taxed
to support It impedes my right lo
free mural and intellectual develop
ment by surrouudlng my path with
danger and by weakening aud dc
moralizing socktfrom which I havo
tho right lo claim mutual aid and in
fore found Itsnav into distinct Ian
being short of this
gauge nothing
thai It Is thu absolute social right of
every individual that overy other In-
dividual should act in every respect
exactly as he ought that whosoever
falls thereof lu tho smallest part vio
lates my social right and entitles me
to demand from thu legislature thu
removal of the grievance So mon-
strous a principle is lar morn danger
ous than any single interference with
llbcrt Ihcro
Is no vlolatlou of lib
crty which It would not Justify it ac-
knowledges no right to any freedom
whatever except orhaps to that of
holding opinions iu secret without
ever disclosing them
1 uow quoto the language of lov
cruoiJohn A Andrew the great war
governor of Massachusetts one oi tho
grandest men ever raised in that state
so profile of great mcu Although a
man oftho highest purityof character
a total abstainer from drink of any
sort iovcruor Audrewvolmitcred to
represent 80000petitioners Including
the school ol pharmarlsts of the
state beforo tho legislature of
the slate asking a repeal of the pro
hlhltor liquor law and In Ihe courso
of the most unanswerable argument
over delivered against prohibition
having tlrst proved by thn highest
scientific aud medical authority in
Europe aud America that alcohol la a
food product a diet as well as a bev
eroge beneficial to aged pcoplo and In
many cases ot sickness and Invalid
Ism and Indispensable lu somo of
them said
I aver that a statulo of prohibition
aiming to banish lrom tho table of an
Amencau citizen by pains and penal
ties an arllclo of diet which
a largo part ol tho pcoplo believe in
bo legitimate which the law docs not
eveu pretend lo excluds from the cat
fgor of commercial articles which
In every nation ami lu somo form In
all history has held Its placo ainon
tho necessities or tho luxuries of so-
ciety la absurdly weak or else it is
tiitalto
auy liberty Whenever it
wlllceaso to bo absurd aud weak so-
c 1 iVy operation of moral lausea
w halo reached Iho point whoro It
w J have bccoino useless or clso it
will be fatal to any llborty since J
not use ess but operated ami fulfilled
by legal force its execution will bo
perpetrated upon a body of aubjects
in whoso abject characters Ihcro will
bo combined tho essential qualities
width aronecdlul lo cowardlto
servility Do jou tcU mo that no
lieverago into width alcohol enters
c o0 1l l K or placed upou Iho
table i 1
lltly belongs to this mlaluguo of
food I answcrthat la n iiiiuatfou of
elenco
which neither tho governor
iiorlegUUlurohasaiiylawriircapacily
losolvo for the people Dojoutcll
iuitheu that whether Iho catalogue
Is expurgated or not all such food la
unwholesome
and unlit to bo lakcu
I answer that It Is a qucstlou of diet
ellca and It is for tho profession of
ages lit their most luuocent uso In-
volve a certaiu danger that possibly
any ouo may probably many and cer-
tainly some will abuso It aud thus
abuse themselves aud by conscqucuco
that all men as a matter of prudeuco
aud therefore otduty ought to abstain
from aud reject It 1 an-
swer that Is a qucstlou of morals
for tho answer to which wo must re-
sort to Iho Bible or to tho church or
lo the teachings of moral philosophy
Tho right lo answer It at all or lo
irotcnd to auy opinion upon it blud
ug tho citizen has never bocu com
milted by the peoplo In auy freo gov
ernment ou earth to the possesstou of
tho secular power If tho stato cau
pass between tho citizen and his
church his llible his couscieticc ami
to act upon questions of his own per
sonal habits aud decido what bo shall
do on merclv personal grouids then
it has authority to luvado ttie domain
of thought as well as ot privato litis
nuit prescribo bounds to tho freedom
of conscience Iheroisno barrier iu
principle whero the government must
stop short of n stato church pro-
scribed by law ami maintained b
persecution Doon tell me that the
using ufwiuo or beer as n beverage
however temperatcl Is of adangtr
ous tcmleucy by rcasoU of its exam
ple Do ou luslst lhat temperate
use of it by ono man may be pleaded
by another as the oceaslou and apolo-
gy for Its abuso I Aiiswor that if the
guvornment restrains but ouo mm
of his own just rational liberty to
rngulalo Ids privato conduit and af-
fairs lu matters Innocent of them
solves wherein heolleuds uot against
peace public decorum or order nor
tho persoual rights of any Iheu Hi
government buth usurps undelegated
powers And assumes to punish ono
man In advance fur the possible fall of
another The argument that becauso
ouo mau may offend another must bo
restrained Is tbo lowest foundation of
tyrauny the corncrslono of despot
Ism Liberty is never denied to the
fieoplo auy whereon tho grouud that
iherty is doiiied to be good or right In
itself Tho universal pretext of every
despotism Is that liberty is dangerous
to society that Is that tho peoplo are
unfit to enjoy It
Under tin Iiitlucuco oftho great ar <
gumculfrotn which this extract Is
made tho leglslatuioof Massachusetts
repealed tbu prohibitory liquor law
and returned to high license I could
mako many mure quotations from the
speeches and writings of men of
the first distinction In tills coun-
try but will nottrespass further upon
your timu to do It These will
sulllco lo illustrate tho full force of tho
argument Tbo democratic party
would havo been recreant to all Its
traditions aud antecedents from tho
limo when uudorMr Jcllcrsoii It
vindicated tho personal liberty ol tho
citlzu against tho odious alien ami
sedition laws when It fought uud au
qulshcd kuovvuolhluglsm iu dotonsc
of the pcrsoual rights of foreign born
citizens and when atlcr tho civil war
them to personal liberty aiid ciTizcn
ship had it failed to declare lu uu
inlstttblo terms agalust tho Invasion
of personal liberty by prohibitory li-
quor lawa so lorcibl depleted by Mr
Adams Mr Hill and iovernor An
drew iu tho quotations I have mailo
from them
Tlio northern democrats havo
fought prohibition cvor sinco It ori-
ginated it Is an old of theirs
enemy
It aiwttscoopcistcs with tho repub
licans
against tho northern democra-
cy and no ono cause contributed so
much to Iho democratic victory In tho
election of Urover Cloveland as tho
consistent aud sturdy aud uncoin
promising fight of tho democrac lu
behalf of personal liberty against tho
heresy of prohibition 1rohlbltlou
docs uot prevail In a slnglo democra
tic state Tlio first prohibitory law
ever passed by the New York legisla
ture was vetoed by lhat grain old
democratic statesman Horatio Soy
uioiir then governor Within the
iMtthreo weeks tho demnerary of
Ohlooflenusvlvaula and of low a In
their stato conventions have declared
slrouglyagalusl proh billon
Tho rorord ot tho democratic party
may be Bcauncd throughout sud will
be touiid lo bo uniform aud unbroken
Iu opposition lo prohibition as well
as to every other form of lavaslon of
tho
pcrsoual liberty of the citizen
Elbert tho development ol Individ
ual manhood freedom of thought and
action along with accountability to
public opinion and law havo over
been the ruling thought and purpose
oftho democratic party Iu fts rela
tions with Iho people Much a party
with such
antecedents and history
could not If It would
and would not
Hl1 lilrk such au issue as tho
proh billon party has prcscutod
Speaking for
myself and no ono else
I do declare that any man who claims
sincerely to lo a democrat aud at tho
amoa proliibdloulsl and thero aro
thousands of sueiln my Judgment
Illlior
inlaapi rehcuds tho mis
siou and record of iho democratic
parly or Iho purposes and alms oftho
pruhiblllou parly
Ueporlur 8 uatnr whit Is tho
eifetl of prohibition lu tho slates
whero H has been tried f Doos pro
hibition prohilil
Si nalor 0 If human testimony is
to bo bollevcit It does not If human
oiperlinea is worth au thing it warns
us against the experiment Tho evils
ol Intemperance aro uot of Ally con
slderAhlo magnitude In any of tho
rural districts of our country It Is
iu tho towns and cities ami centers ol
v
pbllanthrop and statesmanship for
their amelioration And It la lu theso
very localities that a uulvcrsal con
curreuco of testimony proves bojond
a possibility of doubt that prohlbl
lory liquor laws aggravato aud lu
crease All tho admitted evla of iutcnH a
pcrance This testimony conies from a
T R JORDANS
year tho number of saloons as shown
bv carefully collected statistics has
Increased lu twentyeight towns aud
cities from 770 under tho Ilceuso law
DIG under prohibition and tho Inter-
nal revenue reports show sixteen ree-
nters of spirits and 43J7 dialers in
iiiloxiraus in Iowa notwithstanding
prohibition Thu llrltlsh consul re
sident at Portland Me was In
Btructcd a few ears ago by his gov
crnmeut to examlno into the opera
tlou of ihe Maine Honor law and re
port fully upon It lie did so ami re-
ported that while the etrccts of the
law might bo produetlvo of some
good lu the rural districts where
iherowashut little drunkenness un-
der auy circumstances lu the towns
aud cities Its operation was harmful
and bad In 1882 Maine had oue
dealer In liquor fur every seven linn
dred and ulnetoiie of her poople
while West Nlrglula with tho same
population ami no prohibitory law
had ouo liquor dealer for every eight
hundred and seventeen pcoplo More
saloons lu prohibition Maine than In
uoiiprohlbilloii West Virginia
Within tho last llilrtthroe voars the
states of Maine Delaware M unesola
lihode Island Massachusetts Indi
ana Vermont Michigan Connecti-
cut Iowa Nehiaska New York New
Hampshire Illinois aud Kansas have
had prohibitory liquor laws of dlller
> nt degrees of severitv Eitloeu
stAtes nud al tills time only flvo
Maine Kansas Iowa Hew Hamp-
shire aud Vermont retain th < m
These laws hate been swept from tlio
statutebooks of all ttie others Mas
sacliusetls tried prohibition twice be
foro sho could give it up and tho last
time it was iu torcc only about one
year beforo she repealed it again and
ubaudoued It Shall wo uot protlt hIs
thoexpcriencc of tho world with lb
Is
< uotlotif qlio democrats of Inwa In
llielr state conv eutlon held some tw u
weeks ngu solemnly appealed to the
people ot Iowa to repeal prohibition
in tho iutcresi aud lor the advance-
ment of the causo of temperance
Would this appeal havo been made
upon this ground to Iho very people
who know tho factsunless believed to
bu well founded All tho states w liicli
havo tricil prohibition and abandoned
it have found in high llrcuso ami
stringent legislation against sales to
minors drunkards etc a relief from
Iho evils of Intemperance which pro
hlhltory laws utterly failed to give
t has been found utterly Impossible
to cutorco prohibitory laws The
alw a s arouse a spirit of resistance
As has been well said lliey aro a
trumpet call to battle and practlcall
nroalwas overthrown Search war
Iauts under which an armed consta
bulary seize persons and search them
for liquor break and enter houses and
homes searching for It a system of
espionage which sets tho servant to
watching bis emploer which sends
tho deleetlvniulo the family which
tills tho ciuniry with spies and iu
lormirs nud Ihe courts with pctt
cases these arc iho uiethods through
which prohibitory laws must Vie
cufurced If culureed at ail and
they breed among a spirited
la uirh conteiiiut for tho
lug It that It speedily becomes a
dead letter oris repealed Such has
Ueeu the experience of the states
whero prohibition has been trlod
The great revenues derived from the
tralllc lo tho states and nation being
about onethird of all rctelved lhat
is the proportlou lu Texas Is lost
wherever prohibition is adopted
throwing a heavier burden of taxa
tion ou property and resulting Iu no
substantial diminution of tho evil of
iutcmperauco hut lu great demorali-
zation aud contempt lor all law Tne
evils of Intemperance are admitted to
bo very great hut ll is withlu the ob-
servation and experience of all lhat
they are much less than formerly Iu
ulhcr words that drunkenness and lis
accompauiiig vltes havo for many
eara been growing less ami that
there has been no tlmowhen Improve-
ment lu this respect has been so rapid
and marked as now If wo will only
get rid of Ihe false
notion that evil can
bo voted out ot the world and men
made moral by legislative enactment
and let home dlcipliuo moral tralii
lug and school and church iiilnencos
continue Iho good woik now golug
on to bo supplemented with
appropriate legislation regu
latlug a tralllc which all human
cxpericuco proves we can not sup
press wo havo done all lu our power
to reduce tho evils of luleinpcrauco
to the lowest possiblo minimum
vlolil to no mau a greater detestation
oftho evils oftho vices ami crlmos at
tendaut upon drunkenness Ihau I
havo alwnB felt aud wll1 go as far as
any other lu favor ot legislation which
is practical and cau bo euTorcod for
tholr prevention I heliovn Iho hlgh
lleiiso system tho hestot devised
accompanied with prupei restrictive
clauses I quoto hero Mr Ilaards
letter beforo
referred to
Wasiunoton I C March 1 1H8
My dear sir I do not llko to intrude
mv opinions unasked upon members
of tho legislature
1 agree with ou lu thinking loca
option laws of very doubtful constl
tiitloiulltyand positively Inexpedient
So far as my cxpericuco goes a woll
regulated sjslem oi llecnes whereby
revoiiuois largely brought into iho
public treasury coupled with sovcro
penalties fur illicit sale has proved
tin most ctllclcut chock tho
upou
abusu or tho liquor tralllc
In many respects Iho question Is a
sumptuary ono and laws attempting
lo establish sumptuary regulation
becomes Inquisitorial aud linpossiblo
of execution so that lu
population that they aro found In inuiiltlcs In this country whero com thev
Iheir highest development and tall hate been enacted thoy havo
most loudly for wiso and
fort Judicious cither aggravated Iho evil Ihey
wcro Intended to prevent or havo
fallen luto contempt and iisolcssness
and been repealed
Tho statements I havo soon ot tho
real condition of those communities
Iu which total prohibition has been
attempted havo Impressed mo very
trougly In confirmation of thceo
every stato whoro prohibition liaavlowa
bc utrled without an cxeypltoii In Icrsonal Influonco aud oiamplo
iV mSu 4 t of Juy > precept and tho recognition or
i h i i
last prohibition had beeu
In foreo ouo Iho great truth that Intetuporaueo la
tho uso of stimulants or all kludt In
morbid physical fact both hi cause aud
effect islu mv Judgment the i
view to commemo vviih blall c
abundantly provo that the attciiinlcd
suppression by alatutes or the use or
alcoholic sliinuhius is acioiupanlcil
by au Increase iu the use or oiilstc
Aud lhat open drinking being tloiincil
secret drinking ensues
I do not believe aiy nun has >
greater horror or Intemperance tl
I anil my appreciation of its dangers
and ovll effects grows with my cxiiiri
ouco of human attain nut tin graver
tlio ovllthc moro ess ntlul to apply h0
right principle to Itsviire and for the
rcusous I havo stated and miinyolliers
I hopo tho oxperlmeiit ut local onttou
will not bo tried b our legislature
but Increased eheiks uiidertlio Ihcnsc
system bo continued Yours ttnrertly
I1 v Al
Mr llayard Is a wise and a good-
man lie Is tbo chief and most coiitlilm
tlal and trusted counselor ol our dem-
ocratic president Ho has alivsv
been a frieud and defender of tbo
south Ills views upou the question
so earnestly given ought to dialling
gravo aud serious consideration I
natlclsiii tiny scout Hum hut thoflr
minded consul valivo people olicxas
who love good government and arc
sei king the li st and most practical
method of dealing with the liquor
question and promoting the cause of
temperance will give ilicni thought
lul and careful reflection
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