The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-07-29

sands In the land lowers intellectual and
physical vigor; is the chief cause OF
BANKRUPTCY, INSOLVENCY. AND LOSS IN
TRADE;
and, by its corrupting power, endangers
the perpetuity OF our free Institutions
that congress should hereafter exercise Its
undoubted power, and prohibit the manu-.
facture and sale of intoxicating beverages
| in the District OF Columbia, territories OF
the United States, and in all places over
which the government has exclusive juris-
diction; that hereafter no state shall be
admitted into the union until its consti-
tuition shall expressly
PROHIBIT PoLYGAMY
and the manufacture and sale of intoxicat-
ing beverages. We earnestly call the atten-
ton of the laborer and mechanic, the miner
and manufacturer, and ask investigation
of the baneful effects upon labor an indus
try caused by the needless liquor business,
which will be found the robber who lessons
wages and profits; destroyer of the hsppi-
ness and family welfare of the laboring
man, and that labor and all legitimate in
dustry
DEMAND DELIvERANCE FROM THE TAXA
TON
and loss which the traffic imposes, and that
no tariff or other legislation can so health
fully stimulate the production or increase
the demand for capital and labor or
produce so much Of comfort
and content as the suppressing Of this traf-
&c would bring to the laboring man, me-
chanic or employer of labor throughout
our land that the activity and co-opera-
ton of the women of America for the pro-
motion of temperance, has in all the history
of the past been a strength and encourage
ment which we gratefully acknowledge and
the movement for prohibition of the license
traffic by the abolition Of the drink saloon,
THE PURITY OF PURPOSE,
and methods; the earuestness, zeal, intel
ligence and devotion of the mothers and
daughters of the Womsns' Chris
tisn Temperance union has been
eminently blessed by God. Kansas and
Iowa have been given her as sheaves of re-
joicing and the education and arousing of
the public mind for constitutional amend
ment now prevailing, are largely the fruit
of her prayers and lsbors and we rejoice to
have our Christian Woman's union with
us, that as sharing In the labors that shall
bring the abolition of the traffic to the
polls, they shall join in grand praise to
God, from whom all blessings flow, when
the bylaws of our boys and friends shall
be free from the legal drink temptation.
That believing in the civil and political
EQUALITY OF THE SEX,
and that the ballot in the hand of woman
is as right for her protection and would
prove a powerful ally for the abolition of
the drink saloon-the execution of law
the promotion and reforming of civil af-
fairs and the removal of corruption in
public life and believing we can relegate
the practical outworking of this reform to
the discretion of the prohibition party, in
the several states according to the
condition of public sentiment
in those states that gratefully
We acknowledge and praise God for the
presence of His spirit and guiding coun.
sells, and granting the success which has
been vouchssfed in the progress of the tenn
perance reform, and looking TO Him from
whom ail wisdom and help come, we ask
the voters of the United States to make the
principles of the above declaration a rnl.
ing principle in the government of the ma
ton and of the states.
The platform was then read by sections
for action.
The second section was characterized by
the New Jersey delegates as diffuse, mul.
tiferous and unintelligible
The same objection TO il was made by
Smith, of Illinois, who moved to recon-
NIT it for the purpose of having it re-
formed and just in few lines.
Neal, of New York, commended it as
just what was wanted.
Minor, of Massachusetts,, defended the
action of the committee.
The discussion was put an end to by
the previous question. and the second sec
ton was adopted.
Bertram, OF New jersey, meved that
when the platform shall have been adopt
ed il shall be referred to James Black, of
Pennsylvania, Rev. DR.. Minor of Massa-
chusetls, and John Russell, of Michigan.
Agreed TO.
A motion was made to adopt all the re-
naming section OF the platform in bulk,
but suggestion was the made that the
plank In relation to polygsmy was not
sufiei nj. 1t would not do to have a state
constitution prohibit pOlygamy-it should
be prohibited in the national constitution.
lhe clerk having read the remaining Sec
lions OF the platform, motion was made
for the previous question but it was voted
down.
A motion was made TO strike out of the
third section all
PERSONAL ALLUSION
to Mr.. Blaine and Mr.. Logan. This prop
osition |, d to a discussion, In which Hen
~, of IlliEOis, declared his belief that both
Blaine ald Logan were on the republican
ticket because of their action on the liquor
question. The prohibiiionists, lie said,
could face the music and shoot where they
wanted to hit.
Russell, OF Michigan, thought that Blaine
and Logan should be rebuked for asking
the suffrage of the American people under
such circumstances
The question was taken on the motion
to strike out of the third section the per-
sonal allusion 10 Blaine and Logan. 1t
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