Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-06-26
NATIONAL PROHIBITION CONyEN.
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NATIONAL PROHIBITION CONvEN.
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The Prohibition National Convention
was held at Cleveland on the 18th, with
142 delegates, representing twelve
States-Arkansas, Connecticut, Iowa,
Massachusetts,, Michigan, Minnesota,
New JERSEY, New York, Ohio, Penn
sylvania, West Virginia and Wiscon-
sin. ssgs E=s fEzE
Neal Dow, of Maine, was nominated
by acclamation for President, and A.
II. Thompson, of Westeryille, Ohio, for
e-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
ment the doctrines of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, submit for the suffrages of all good
citizens the following platform of National re-
forms and measures. In the examination and
discussion of the temperance question it has
been proven and is an accepted truth that alco-
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,
pollutlng 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-
Ders TO unt1mely graves: producing in the
children of many who drink predisposition
to intemperance, insanity and various bodily
and mental diseases, causing diminution of
strength, feebleness of vision, fickleness OF
purpose and premature old age, and produc-
i ing to all future generations deterioTation OF
vidual.
and sale of Intoxicating drinks ministers to
their use and teaches an erroneous and de-
structive sentiment that such use is right;
thus tending to produce and perpetuate the
aforementioned evils.
2. To the home it is equally an enemy, prov
ing the disturber and destroyer of its peace,
earnings of the husband, depriving the de
pendent wife and children of essential food,
clothing and education; bringing into it pro-
family, abuse and violence; setting at naught
the vows of the marriage altar; breaking up
the family, and Sundering the children from
the parents, and thus destroying one of the
most beneficent institutions of our Creator,
and removing the sure foundation for good
3. TO the community it is an enemy produc-
ing decentralization, vice and wiekedness; its
places of sale being often resorts for gaming.
fewdness and debauchery, and hiding-piaces Of
those who prey upon society, counteract1ng
the efficacy of religions effort and Of all means
happiness snd 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 1T is equally an enemy, Leg
a ana and
dependent institutions showing that the man.
ufacture and sale of such beverages is the pro
noting cause of intemperance, crime and
pauperism, and of the demands on public and
private charity, imposing the larger part of
taxation, paralyzing thrift. industry, manu-.
fact,lfes and commercial life, which but for it
would be unnecessary; disturbing the peace
of the streets and highways, filling the prisons
and poor houses, corr rIupting politics, leaisla-
tiOn and the execution of the laws, short tening
lives, diminishing health, industry and pro-
manifesfly unjust, as well as Injurious, to the
community on which it is imposed, and is con-
as violation of the fundamental maxim OF
our common law, to use your own property OF
liberty so as not to injure others.
I 5. 1t is neither right nor polite for the State
to afford legal protection to any traffic or sys.
tenn which tends to waste its resources, to cur.
rupt social habits and to destroy the health
manufacture and sale of Intoxicating bever-
ages is proven to be inimical to the true inter
State, and dest ructivc TO the order and welfare
of society. and ought, therefore, to be classed
n snd M 1e peace at
and abroad, the entire separation of the Gen,
eral Government from the drink traffic, and
Its prohibition in the District of Columbia the
Territories and in all places and ways over
which .(under the Constitution Congress has
first importance to the peace and prosperity
of the Nation. There can be no stable peace
and no protection to personal liberty, G life, & OF
Constitutional provisions, enforced by ade-
quate laws.
| liverance from taxation and loss which the
liquor traffic imposes upon them, and financial
or other legislation could not accomplish sc
much to increase the production, and cause a
demand for labor, and, as a resultrfor the
comforts of living, as the suppression of this
traffic would bring to thousands OF homes az
| 8. The administration of the Government
and executionlof the laws are through politi
H. <z,I ffeaC IH~r no n
| party, which has been in continuous power in
| the Nation for twenty years, as being false tG
principles Of .sequal justice to ali, and specia
II favors to none, and of protection to the veal
and DEPENDENT" insensible to the mischie1
/ Hicted on the industry, trade, commerce and
social happiness of the people; that the 5,65s
distilleries, $3.50 breweries, 175 s66 places ee
" Volsins ing m n ssnnnal waste to the Natior
Of Sl,5O0O coo and the sacrifice of q
i hundred thousand lives, have unde
its legislation grown up and been fostered as .
Legitimate source of revenues; that during it:
sfases into the Unon WITH Com
stitutions provided and approved by Congress
II but the prohibition of this debasing and de
|; even the people given, at the time of admission
L the power to forbid it in any one of them: !ts
history further shows that not in single in
| stance has an original Prohibitory law beer
enacted in any State controlled by it, while II
/ four States SO governed laws existing on it
/
| National Convention in 1872, it declared, as par
| of its party faith, that it disapproveS of re
sort to unconstitutional laws for the Purpos
/ of removing evils by interference with tn
right not surrendered by the people to eithe
/ the State or National Government, which, tn,
the
understanding that Its purpose was eiI the dis
countenancing Of ga al s9-oalied cal &c temperate
8. we arraign the Democratic party as un
faithful and unworthy of reliance on this ques
| occupying the relation of an opposition part
during twenty years past strong 1r NUMBER nun th
/ the Union their special political defenders, an
i in the National Convention in 1876, as an art
6bifion 6if and lust laws rat Of the trad
in drink by saying It was opposed to what
vas pleased to call" all snmPtuary @ m laws. Tn n,
| 10. Drink traffickers having history and ea
perience, in all ages, climes and conditions 9
| all good, finding no support in the Bible, moral
| or reason, appeal to the misappl1ed law fo
hind the evil elements Of political parties fo
| defense. Party tactics and party inertias b.
come the battling forces protecting this evil.
| tory we cordially invite ali voters, without r,
gard to former party afhliations, to unite wit
| us in the use of the ballot for the abolition O
| the drink system under the authority of on
National and State Goyernments. we also q
mand, as a right @ that women omen having having tn
clothed with the ballot for their protection an
| as rightful means for the proper settle
| ment of the liquor question.
4 L. To remove the apprehension of som
| who allcge that the destruction of the publi
revenue would follow the suppression of th
drink trade, we confidently point to the e.
perience of Governments broad and at hoEn
which shows that the thrift and revenue frol
the consumption of legitimate manufacturt
and commerce have so largely followed tn
abolition of drink as to fully supply all loss {
the liquor tariff.
b. We recognize the good providence of A
mighty God, who has preserved and prospere
| us as Nation, and asking for His spirit
| guide US to ultimate success, we will look *
It, relying on His omnipotent arm.
Il NATIONAL COMMITTEE.
The following National Committee was al
pointed: Arkansas, J. L. Palmer, I: b. Ro!
ers; Connecticut, Elisha H. Parker, DIR: E.
Lyon; Minnesota, the Rev. A. Wiley, DIR.
D. Anderson; Iowa, DIR. d. X. Duncal
DR.. ]. B. Morgan; Pennsylvania, Jane
ritt, ]. w. Grosyenor: New Jersey, s. b. RAJ
som, T. Edgar Hunt; Ohio, W. G: Hubbard,
L. Roberts; Massachusetts,, Charles A. Hove
| George F. Clark; Michigan, Rev. John Ru
sell, Prof. j. w. McKeeyer; Wisconsin,, Mr.
C. w. Pinkham, T. D. Stone.
| .-Bulger, in Lexington, KY, know
as the "Funeral Dog" succumbed
old age. When Bulger's master ws
buried, five years ago, the faithful dc
remained at the grave, howled piteousl,
and tried to scratch to the coffin. Afte
ward he followed to the cemetery ever
funeral that passed through the street
and returned from the burial with tt
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