Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-06-25
THE PROHIBITIONISTS.
Nominees, Platform and National Commit


Nominees, Platform and National Commit
tee.
The Prohibition National Convention
was held at Cleveland on the 18th, with
l42 delegates, representing twelve
| States Arkansas, Connecticut, Iowa,
Massachusetts,, Michigan, Minnesota,
| New JERSEY, New York, Ohio, Penn
sylvania, West Virginia and Wiscon-
sin.
Neal Dow, of Maine, was nominated
! by acclamation for President, and A.
II. Thompson, of Westervil,e, Ohio, for
| Nice-President, of the United States.
The platform is as follows:
| The Prohibition Reform party of the United
| States, organized in the name of the people to
revive, enforce and perpctuate in the Govern
mcnt the doctrines Of the Declaration of Inde-
| pendCnce, submit for the suilrages of ull good
| citizens the following platform of National re-
| forms and measures In the examination and
! discussion Of the temperance question ii has
| been proven and Is an accepted truth that alco-
| holic drinks, whether ferInented, brewed, or
! distilled, are poisonous to the healthy human
| body, the drinking of which is not only need
| less, but hurtful, necessarily tending to form
/ Incorporate habits, increasing greatly the
number, severity and fatal termination of dis
/ eases, weakening and deranging the Intellect,
| polluting the affections, hardening the heart
and cOrrupting the morals; depriving many
/ of reason, and still more of its healthful ex-
! ercise, and annually bringing down large num-
! bers to untimcly graves; producing In the
! children of many who drink a prcdispOstion
! to intcmpcrance, insanity and various bodily
and mental diseases, causing diminutiOn of
| strength, feeblencss Cf visiLn, hckleness of
! purpose and premature old age, and produc-
! ing to all future generations deterioration of
moral and physical character. Alcoholic drinks
are thus the implacable foe of man as an indt
| vidual.
!. The legalizod importation, manufacture
and sale of Intoxicating drinks ministers to
their use and teaches an erroneous and de-
| sentiment
| thus tending to produce and perpetuate the
| aforementioned evils.
| . To the home 1t is equally an enemy, prov
| ing the disturber and destroyer of its peace,
| prosperity and happiness; taking from it the
| earnings of the husband, dcpriving the de
| pendent wife and children of essential food
| clothing and education; bringing into il pro-
family, abuse and violence; setting at naught
the vows of the MAJ riage altar breaking up
the family, and sundering the children from
the parents, and thus destroying one of the
most beneicent institutions of our Creator.
| and removing the sure foundation for good
! government National prosperity and welfare.
3. To the community il is an enemy p"Oduc-
! Ing decentralization, vice and wickedness; its
places of sale being often resorts for gaming,
| lewdness and debauchery, and hiding-pluccs Of
| those who prey upon society, cOunteracting
the efficacy of religious effort and of all means
| for intellectual elevation, moral purity social
| happiness and the eternal good of mankind,
without rendering any cOunteracting or COM
pensating benefits being in its influence and
effect evil, and only evil, and that continually.
4. To the State it is equally an enemy, Leg
| islatiYe inquiry, judicial investigation and Of
| ficinl reports of all penal, retOrmatOIy and
dependent institutions showing that the man
utActnre and sale of such beverages is the pro
noting cause of intemperance, crime and
pnnpeTism and of the demands on public and
private charity, imposing the larger part of
taxation, paralyZing thrift, industry, manu-
factures and commercial life, which hut for il
would he unnecessary; disturbing the peace
of the streets and highways, filling the prisons
and poor houses, corr uptinF politics, e iSla-
ton and the execution of the laws, shortening
| diminishing
ductive power in manufacture and art, and is
manifestly unjust, us well as injurious to the
community on which it is impC sed, and is con-
trary to all just views of civil liberty, IS well
rs a violation of the fundamental maxim Of
our common law, to use your own property or
liberty so as not to injurc others.
5. 1t is neither right nor polite for the State
to afford legal protection to any traffic or sys-
tom which tends to waste its resources, to cur
rupt social habits and 10 destroy the health
and lives of the people; that the importation,
manufacture and sale of Intoxicating bever-
ages is proven to he inim zeal to the true int Cr-
cSts OF the individual, home. community,
State, and destructive to the order and welfare
of society, and ought, therefore, to be classcd
among crimes, and bC prohibited.
8. In this time of profound peace at home
and abrC ad, the entire separation of the Gem
eral Government from the drink traffic, and
its prohibition in the District of Columbia the
Territories and in all places ana ways oN er
which under the Constitution Congress has
control or power, is political issue OF the
first importance to the peace and prosperity
of the Nation. There can he no stable peace.
and no protection to personal liberty life, or
properly, until secured by National and State
COnstit Htional provisions, enforced BY ade-
qua,e laws.
:. All legitimate industries require the de-
liverancc from taxation and loss which the
LIQUOR traffic imposes upon them, and financial
or other legislation could not accomplish so
much TO increase the production, and cause Il
demand FOR labor, and, as result, for the
comforts of living. as the suppression of this
traffic would bring to thousands of homes as
one OF its blessings.
80 4l,a
and execution Of the laws are through pollti-
cal parties, and we arraign the Republican
party, which has been in continuous power in
the Nation for twenty years, as being false tO
its duty; false TO the lOudly-proClaimcd
principles of equal Justice to all, and special
fnvors to none, and Of protection to the weak
and dependents" inscnsihle to the mischief
which ihc trade in liquor has constantly in
1icted on the industry, trade, commerce and
social happiness Of the people; that the 5,652
distilcricS, 2,S3) brcweries, 1925 places
or sale of these poisonous liquors, in
volying, an annual waste to the Nation
hundred thousand lives, have under
its legislation grown up and been fostcred as a
legitimate source of revenue; that during its
history six Territories have been organized and
five States admitted into the Union, with Con-
stitutiOns provided and approved by Congress
but the prohibition of this dcbasng and de-
structiVc traffic has not been provided for. non
even The people given, nj the time of admission
the power to forbid IL i'm any one of them. Its
: history further shows that not in single in
stance has an original Pr0hibtory law been
enacted in any State controlled by IT, while III
four States so governed laws existing on It's
! advent To power have bern repealed. At its
National Convention in 1872, il declared, as part
of its party faith, that il disapproNes OF Il rc
sort 10 unconstitutional laws for the purpose
| of removing evils by interference with the
right not surrendered by the people tO either
the State or National Government, which, the
author of this plank says, was adopted by INC
: ! Plat form Committee With the full and explicit
understanding that its purpose was the dis
countenancinR OF all so-called Temperance
: | PrOhibitoryl and Sunday laws"
Q. We aTTaign the Democratic party rs un
faithful and unworthy of reliance on this ques
I tion, for, although not clothed with power, hu
> occupying the relation Of an opposition party
during twenty years past, strong in numbers
! and organization, il has allied itself with tho
; liquor-traihckers and become in all states o
the Union their special political defenders, hnt
i'm the National Convention in 1876 rs an arti
Gle of its political faith, declared against pro
hibltion and just laws in restraint ol the trad'
in drink by saying il was opposed 10 what 4
was pleased to call "all sumptuary laws lh'
| National party has been dumb ON this question
TO- Drink trGiiickers having history ana eN
perience, in all ages, Climes and conditions o
men, declaring their business destructive O
) all good finding no support in the iiinc, moral
or reason, appeal To the mtsapptcd law 10
their Justification and intronch themselves be
? hind the evil elements of political parties fO
defense Party tactics and party nertias be
! come the battling forces protecting this evil.
; H. In view of the fOrt going facts and his
tory, we cordially invite all voters, without re
gard to former party affiliations, 10 unite VIII
. us in the use of the ballot for the abolition o
the drink syst EN- under the authority of on
National and state Governments. We nlsp dn
J mnnd, as a right, thar women, having IN
: privileges of citizens in other respects, b
clothed with the ballot fOrtheir protection an'
, as II rightful means for the proper settle
mcnt of the liquor question.
H. To remove the apprehension of SOM
} who nllege that the destruction OF the puhli
: revenue would follow the suppression Of tn
drink trade we confidently point to the cN
, periCnce of Governments abroad and at home
which shows that the thrift and revenue iron
the consumption Of legitimate manufacture
and commerce have so largely followed th
abolition of drink as to fully supply all less o
the liquor tariff.
/ 10. We recognize tho good providence OF A
, mighty God, who has preserved ana prospere
! us as a Nation, ana asking for His spirit I
guide us TO ultimate success, we VIII look 10
, Il, relying ON His omnipntent arm.
NATIONAL COMMITTEE.
10 follpNyinU National Committee an