Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-02
THE pRoHIsI7Io& ISIS.
Their Platform and Their Eicket-s esolu.
tions-Business-Etc

Their Platform and Their Ticket esolu.
tions-Business-Etc
The State Prohibition Convention met
sgain 10 Ssn Ffanci-co Friday. Rev. A. j.
Nelson and six other ministers tered pro-
test against nominating and withdrew, with
several supporters, from the Convention. A
committee was appointed to prepare an
answer to the protest. which was subse-
queptly presented and adopted. Il proved
to re very pronounced papeF. and scored
;he secedsrs as untsuet the cause. as mis-.
4 representing the Convention, etc. The Com.
nit.ee on Platform reported series Of reso.
iu.ions, which were adopted, So follows:
The Piohi 1ition Hous Protection Party of
California, no" in State Convention Assem-.
bled, declares its elf in alliance with the grea.
national organization, having temperance for
| It's hrst organic law ard governing motiv.,
| y In Sympathetic Goa sratioR with all re-
, forms calculated 10 advance the moral ard
material welfare Of all the American people
| First-We declare that our object. aim and
purpose ls to build up political or Saniz ition
that may safely be intrusted with the coniuc'
OF national ali airs, and TO which may be con-
| tided, 10 ali the States and Territories of the
American Union. the political control If ali
| questions Involving the moral and material
| interests of the people,
second-We invits to this work the intalli
| gent, iaw-abidiDg and ordsr-ioyieg men and
women of this State; those who own hs
| property, pay its taxes, are interested 10 tie
| protection and education Of fss youth, in ele
vatipg its moral standards, preserving the
Union OF States, and in developing ard GER
| petuating Christian civilization throughout
| the world.
Tnird-Ws declare that the manufacture,
sale Al d use of alcoholic drinks is the great
| est evil of the country and the age That
the traffic enslaves women and degrades chill
dren dsbases youth and wrecks manhood
| corrupss ballots and Injuries public service
| Ieopl4s prisons and ills insane asyIums:
bree Is paupers and criminals, and thereby
imposes enormous burdens of taxation de-
stroys capital and ruins labor; degrades, irn-
| poyerishes ana destroys our homes, and now
threatens, through organized and criminal
conspitacies, to subvert law and order, So be-
ilsvIns, we declare the cardinal princir les Of
our party to be the prohibition, by cons,i.u-
tional amendment, of the manufacture Of all
alcoholic liquors not demanded for medicinal,
m Mechanical or scientific use, and the regula.
ton by law, under severe penalties, of tie
sale OF alcoholic liquors for such use, aud the
absolute and total prohibition of the sale for
any other purposes.
Fourth-fhe defiant resistance to Law by
the liquor dealers of this State, and their as
| scot ties; their attempted aggressions far the
| destruction Of our most sacred laws and high.
est intsrests, together with the subssrviency
OF the Democratic aod Republican parties to
these law breakers and law defiers, have
! forced upon US an issue of the greatest i'm.
| portauce to the State, which should and must
De met with determined courage and intense
| devotion to the best and highest interests of
| the people. This We are now determined
| fully and theoretically TO do. Ia this we
most earnestly invite the cooperation and
assistance OF every one who desires the best
interests of this State and people.
Ftth-We declare that Sundays an in
| stitutlon so interviewer into our lave, our Gus
TOMS our civilization and the very structure
OF our Government; SO intIicstely and bene-
| tciently connected with our social, busiEess
| and moral life, that we cannot dispense with
| 1t without sacrificing the very best interests Of
the country and the highest welfare of all the
| people. And so believing, we demand the
enactment and enforcement of an intelligent
and rational Sunday law, and especially do
we demand that all saloons or places of busi.
ness where intoxicating drinks Gre now
licensed to be sold or permitted to be sold on
secular days shall be absolutely closed ON
| Sunday.
Sixsh--We emphstically protest against all
State subsidies or other countenarcs to en-.
courage the busiress of making Intoxicating
drinks from grapes, and against approprist.
| Ing public funds for horse-racing at our State
and district fairs.
Seventh-We ara in favor Of the universal
and enforced education of the youth of the
State, including instruction in regard to the
effect OF alcohol upon the human system, with
ample provision for the supper. of an ade.
| quate and efficient system Of free public
schools, and that the State shall furnish
| MN liza in IL
OF price, to such as are unable to buy them.
and to all others at the c5st prics of their pro.
duction; and that We are opposed to sec.
tartan education in our free schools, and TO
! the appropriation to denominational orga.i-
ITations Of the public school moneys.
E,yash-We believe that railroad corpora
tions and c,I,,spies are subject to the con
troll of general law, and to such enac:msnts
manied by reason I their peculiar relations
to the pensral nnbIi, We wo1ld compel il
and its owners to bsF It's aad their just pco-
portion of the burde's OF government. We
would compel them p pay taxes upon their
property at the same relative valuation that
is placed upon ali otbs. property, and, in all
respects. we would t,ea. railroad owners and
railroads with impsrtialit, ana justice: We
are opposed to all unjust discrimination II
fares and freight
Ninth-The hydraulic mlner has no right,
in the pursuit of his impo,ta,s and legitimate
industry, to ibjurs the propfty OF his agri-
cultural neighbor, or to deposit aus cs1ritus In
such places that by operates OF natural
causes 1t may then, or a. come 'nrnra time,
be carried where it will injure land, hiI nsVi;
gable streams, or interfere with the o'ys ana
harbors of our coast. 1t is the duty OF the
miner engaged in gravel sluicinL q 80 I'M
pound mis- debris-hoid it in arrest-tEas Such
injuries may not occur, and to this end We
insist that proper legislation should be had
and the decisions of our Courts enforce.
Ienth-We believe that the Stat, should
assume control OF the water suppl Lor mi
eating purposes, and provide at or. eJ suit
able legislation for the equitable distribution
| of the same
Eleventh-Ws reeosnizs thu noble services
OF woman in the Temperate reform, and 10
every e,evatirg, purifying. Renehcient work
! affecting the interest Of our lace, and we be-
lieye that enlightened patriotism and many
courage demand the assertion at this time
that woman is entitled of rigrs to the privil-
| eyes of the elective franchise ; and SO beiisv
| Ing, IN the interest of the ten lperancs cause,
| In the interest of our Common humanity, tor
| the safety of our homes. and the protection
| OF our free institutions now threatened, we
shall insist upon such amend nenes to exist
ing laws as shall fully aud fore yer enfrsnchise
the women of our Country,
The following resolution. which was adopt.
ed, brought n q " arm deba.e
Resolred That we hail with ole, 'sure the cultiFa
ton OF the grape 10 this So e. ohsf1nS our PEG
pie a most r'-.-- Aealthful ano lremunarat.ye oc-
cI:,,aviO4. and an incalcuiabe cd ineXhaustible
mine of wealth for centuries to com An unlimited
market will always be found for all the raisins
sirups canned fruit and fresh that the State
produce. We are a.suraI Pom own ex.
perience far, and from the past history and the
present condition of the people, who have prosti.
tuted the luscious grape to the vile uses Of drunken
ness, that the wine and brandy manufacture is the
most degrading, demorazing d,epraving and pau.
perizing business which has ever cursed the world
We point for the truth of this g. the utter ignor.
ance, poverty, drunkenness AMI / raj ruin which
has enshrouded Spain, Portugal Italy, Sicily,
Greece, Hungary and the wine dis It's Of Switzer-
land to the vice, turbulenc, drunkt. ness insanity
and suicides of France and 10 the rapid degenera-
tion of its people We point to the 4 ct that only
one half of the young OF France atc physically
fit for military duty when they arrive sH legal age.
We deoodnee the promises Of wealth fro \ the pro-
duction Of wine as entirely baseless and q e.
A resolution was adopted sstting t that
the loss to the States revenue through prohi-
bitten would be more than compensated for
through the dininut:on Of taxes for the Fup-
port of criminals and psupers, who will dis.
appear with the success of prohibition. I
Nominations were then proceeded With,