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Prohibition Party Platform,

Prohibition Party Platform.
The Prohibition party of Missouri
met in Moberly last week, and the
following preamble and resolutions
were adopted as the platform of the
Prohibition party Of this state:
The Prohibition party of Missouri,
in convention assembled, solemnly
declares, in the sentiment of the
platform of the National Prohibition
Convention of 1884, that we acknowI-
edge Almighty God as the rightful
sovereign Of all men, by whom all
just powers of government are con-
ferred upon the people, and to whose
laws human enactments should con-
form, as an absolute condition of
peace, prosperity and happiness; and
the existing parties having failed to
embody or express the best moral
conscience and convictions of this
age, in that they dc not enforce ex-
isting statutes, treat with contempt
the petitions of the people and deny
them the free exercise of their
sovereign right to vote upon the
question of amending the constitu-
ton of the state, and have allied them
selves with the liquor traffic, the
common enemy Of the state, the
church and the home.
Therefore-in harmony with the
plans and aims OF the National Pro-
hibition Party-we have organized
the "Prohibition Party of Missouri" "
and make the following declaration
Of principles:
First, That we are pledged to the
abolition by constitutional amend.
ment of the traffic in intoxicating
liquors as a beverage, in all Its forms.
Second, We affirm the inherent
right of voters to vote upon questions
affecting their common veal, and VIC
therefore demand the submission to
the voters of this state of a pro
hibitory constitutional amendment
Third, We demand the enforcement
Of existing laws and arraign the exec
utive and judicial officials of Mis-
souri, for their neglect and refusal te
enforce the laws bearing against tht
liquor traffic, especially the law pro
testing the civil order and religion!
sa nctity of the first day of the week
commonly called Sunday.
Fourth, We stand committed t.
the interests of the public schoo
system of the country and favor tn
introduction as part of the SAM
of systematic scientific Temperance
:. education.
Fifth, We affirm that the wei
being of the lsboring classes is large
ly coincident with the progress O
Prohibition, and that the abolition
of the liquor traffic would 60 fa
towards adjusting the complication
between capital and labor, removing
from the workingman the mos
prolific source of discomfort, ant
turning the large waste into legiti
mate channels, as well as relisvin
the people from the great burden Q
. taxation now imposed upon them b
that traffic.
Sixth, We denounce the practic
, which has become so dangsrousl
;. prevalent in the existing politics
parties Of using money to corrur
and debauch the conscience Of voter
and legislators, and we declare tn
dominance of the saloon influence t
be the chief prolific cause Of thi
;. growing evil, which we pledge ou
influence to abolish.
:, Seventh, We recognize with graf
tude the practical assistance rendere
), in the past, and still being rendered
, by the various temperance organic
tions and influence of the country
- and we, in turn, pledge our suppol
to all measures however originate
'e that promise to hasten and complet
3. the downfall of the liquor traffic
~ Missouri and the United States.