The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-08-02

vote. Experience shows that any,
party not openly opposed to the
| traffic will engage in competition; will
court favor of the criminal classes; will
barter away the public morals, the purity
OF the ballot, and every trust and object
| of good Government for party success,
and patriots and good citizens should
| find In this practice sufficient case for
immediate withdrawal from all connec-
ton with this party. That we favor re-
| forms in all the administration of the
! Government, in the abolition of all sine
cures, useless offices and officers in the
election by the people of the
| Post-masters and all officers of thd
Government instead of leaving their APP
| pointment to the President; that compe.
tency, honesty and sonriety are essential
qualifications for holding civil office, and
we oppose the removal of such persons
for mere administrative offenses, except
SO far as 1t may be absolutely necessary
to secure effectiveness to the vital issues,
on which the general administration of
the Government has entrusted to a par
ty; that the collection of revenues from
alcoholic liquors and tobacco
should be abolished, that the customs
duties should be levied for
the support OF the Government, econom-
ically administered, and when SO levied
the fostering of American labor manu-
facturers aud Industries should be con-
stantiy held in view; that the public
land should be held for homes for the
people and not for gifts to cor.
porations or to be held in large
bodies for speculation upon the needs
of actual sett ers that all money, CO. In
and paper, shall be made, issued and
regulated by the General Government,
and shall be a legal tender for all debts
public and private; that grateful care
aud support should be given to our
soldiers and sailors, their dependent
widows aud orphans, disabled in the SER
vice of the country; that we repudiate
as un-Amercan, contrary to and SUBJ
versive of the principles of the Declare
ton of Independence, from which our
government has grown to be a gov
eminent of 55,000,000 of people and
a recognized power among the nations,
that any person or people shall or may be
excluded from residence or citizenship
with ali others who may desire the bene
fits which our Institutions confer on the
oppressed of all nations; that while shere
are important reforms demanded for the
purity of administration and the welfare
of the people, their Importance sinks into
inSfgniticance when compared with
the reform of the drink traffic, which
annually wastes $50, 200, 900 OF the wealth
created by toll and thrift and draes
down thousand OF families from comfort
to poverty, which fills jails, peniten-
tiaries, insane asylums, hospitals, and
institutions for dependency, which del
stroy health, saps industry, and causes
loss of life and property to thousands lie
g the land; lowers intellectual and physl'
| I,,II. In nd Nf 4 hs
artisan, the chief cause of bankruptcy
and in loss in trade, and by it's
corruptng power endangers the per-
petuity of our free Institutions. That
Congress should exercise its undoubted
power and prohibit the manufacture and
sale of intoxicating beverages in the Dis
trict of Col .kssbia, the Territories of the
United States, in all places over which
the Government has exclusive jurisdic.
ton. That hereafter no State shall be
admitted into the Union until its
constitution shall expressly pro-
hibit polygamy and the manufacture
and sale of Intoxicating beverages. We
earnestly call the attention of the laborer
and mechanic, the miner and manufac-
turer, and ask Investigation of the
, baneful effects upon labor and industry
, caused by the needless liquor business,
which will be found the robber who les
/ sens wages and profit, the destroyer OF the
happiness aud family welfare OF
the Iaboring man, and that labor
and all legitimate Industries
; demands the suppression of this traffic.
, How much of comfort the suppressing
this traffic would bring to the laboring
man, mechanic or employer of labor
| throughout our land! That the activity
) and cooperation of the women of Amerl-
l ca for the promotion of temperance, has,
in all the history of the past, been a
t strength and encouragement which we
4 gratefully acknowledge and record. Ia
5 the Tater anu present phase of the move
1 ment for the prohibition of the license
: traffic by the abolition of the drinking
] saloon, the purity of purpose and meth
r cd, the earnestness, zeal, Intelligence
! and devotion of the mothers and daugh'
r tiers of the Women's Christian Temper
ance Union has been eminent
= and Iowa have given theil
: "sheave of rejoicing" and the education
Q and arousing of the public mind and q
q demand for constitutional amendment
d Is now prevailing. These are largely the
r fruit of her prayers and labors, and VIZ
( rejoice to have our Christian womel
r unite with US and sharing in labor tina
= shall bring the abolition of the traffic Il
) the polls.
t A motion was agreed to, making tn
q name Of the party
"THE PROHIBITION PARITY"
and after the consideration of bushes
; of a routine character, the Convention
at 5:25 p. M, took recess until eigh
y o'clock.
Evening Session.