St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-25

| in the election by the p0Stof1lce officers OF
| the government, instead of appointment by
| the president; that competency, honesty
and sebriety are essential qualifications for
holding civil Office, and we oppose the re-
moval of such persons for mere administra-
tive offices, except so far as it may be abso-
lutely necessary to secure effectiveness to
this vital issue of which the general admin
istration of the government has entrusted to
| party.
That the collection of revenues from alco-
holic liquors and tobacco should be abolish
| ed, as the vices of men and not q proper sub
ject for taxation. That a revenue for custom
| duties should be levied for the support of the
government economically administered, and
when so levied the fostering of American
labor, manufactures and industries should
constantly be held in view.
| That the public land should be held for
| homes for the people and not for gifts for
corporations, and not be held in large bodies
for speculation upon the needs of actual
| settlers.
| That all the money, coin and paper, shall
be made, issued and regulated by the gen
eral government, and shall be a legal tender
for all debts public and private.
| That grateful care and support should be
given to our soldiers and sailors, and their
| dependent widows and orphans, disabled in
the service of the country.
| That we repudiate as un-American, con-
trary to, and subseryient OF, the principles of
the Declaration Of Independence from which
our government has grown to be the govern
ment of fifty-fve million of people, and
recognized power among the nations, that
any person or people shall or may be exclu-
ded from residence or citizenship with all
| others who may desire the benefits of the in
stitutions we confer upon the oppressed of
all nations.
| That while there are important reforms
and demand for purity of administration and
the welfare of the people, their importance
sink into insignificance when compared to
the reform of the drink traffic, which annu-
ally waste $500, ,000,0 900 of the wealth created
| by toll and thrift, and drag down thousands
of families from comfort to poverty, which
| fills the jails, penitentiaries, insane asylums,
hospitals and institutions Of dependency;
destroys health, saps the industry, and loss
of life and property to thousands, In our land.
It lowers the intellectual and physical vigor,
dulls the cunning hand of the artizan, the
chief cause of bankruptcy, insolvency and
and loss of trade, and by its corruptlng power
endangers the perpetuity of free institutions.
That congress should exercise its un-
doubted power. and prohibit the manufac-
ture and sale of intoxicating beverages in the
District of Columbia the territories of the
United States, in all places over which the
| government has exclusive jurisdiction.
That hereafter no state shall be admitted
into the Union unless its constitution shall
expressly prohibit polygamy and the manu-
facture and sale Of Intoxicating beverages.
We earnestly call attention of the laborer,
mechanic, miner and manufactur, and ask an
| investigation Of the baneful effects upon labor
and industry caused by the needless
| liquor business, which will be found the rob-
Der who lessers wages and profits, the
destroyer of the happiness and family well
fare of the laboring man, and that labor and
all legitimate industry demand deliverance
| from the taxation and loss which this traf-
fic compasses, and that no tariff or other
legislation can so healthily stimulate pro-
ducton or increase demand for capital and
labor, or produce so much of comfort and
content as the suprressing OF this traffic
would bring to the laboring man, mechanic
Oh employer of labor throughout our land.
That the activity and cooperation of the
women of America, for the promotion of
temperance, has in all the history of the past
been strength and encouragement, which
we gatefully acknowledge and record in the
| later phase and present phase of the move
ment for the prohibition Of the license traffic
by the abolition of drinking saloons The
purity of purpose and method, the earnest
ness, zeal, intelligence and devotion of the
Womans Christian Temperance Union,
has been blessed by God. Kansas and Iowa
have beeE given her as sheayes of rejoicing,
and the education and arousing of the, public
mind, and the demands for a constitutional
amendment now prevailing are largely the
fruit of her labors and prayers; and We re-
joice to have our Christian women unite
with US, that in sharing with us the labor
that shall bring the abolition to the polls, she
shall join in a grand Praise God from
whom all blessings flow" whereby, under
the law, our boys and friends shall be free
from legal drink temptation.
That believing in the civil and political
equality of the sexes, and that the, ballot in
the hands of woman as right for her pro-
lection, would prove powerful ally for the
abolition of the drinking saloon, the execu-
ton Of the law, the promotion Of reform in
civil affairs, and the removal OF corruption in
public life; and believing we relegate the
practical out-working of this reform to the
discretion of the prohibition party in the sew
era states, according to the condition of
public sentiment in those states,
that gratefully we acknowledge and praise
God for the presence of His spirit, counsels
and granting the success which has been
vouchsafed in the progress Of the temperance
reform, and looking to Him, from whom all
wisdom and help comes, we ask the voters OF
the United States to make the principles OF
the above declaration ruling principle in
the government of the nation and Of the
states.
After the adoption of the platform the con-
yention, at $3.50, took recess until 8 O'Clock
this evening.