West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-09-16
PLAN OF WORK, AND LITER
AZURE.
Report Adopted by the Lake Bluff
COnvOcatiOn.

by Rev. DR.. Bascom, of Wisconsin,
is SO good that we are glad to give
1t to our readers in full.
AS the National Prohibition
party is entering advisedly and dis
tinctly on political work in the
correction of a great social and civil
wrong, we recommend, in the first
place, as a committee on plans, the
completion of close political or
ganization which shall extend over
all portions of these United States.
We recommend the following
permanent committees: A Nation
al committee; a state committee
in each state: county committee
in each county of each state; al
town committee in each town in
each county.
We recommend that these COM
mittees be appointed by National,
Stato, county and town conven-
tions, or by any other method which
is most agreeable to the custom of
those most Immediately concerned
in their formation.
We recommend that the primary
purpose of the organization shall
be the formation in each voting
precinct throughout each state of
club or union, which shall. include
all in that precinct who accept the
principles Of prohibition supported
by political action, and are prepar.
cd to work together in its mainten-
ance, making prohibition a test of
party fealty.
We recommend that it be regard
ed as the special dutyof each high
or committee to extend the organi-
cation of lower committees, to aid
these in their work, and to COM
bine their strength for purpose of
national action.
| We recommend that it be the
special duty of each State COM
mittee, in consultation with the
National committee, and with the
committees of the counties and
towns Immediately interested, to
provide speakers and organizers,
whose direct work it shall be to
present and enforce the principles
of prohibition, and to establish in
every town those primary organi-
cations which are to maintain it.
} We recommend that each OF
these committees shall expend for
purposes of instruction and organi-
ton, such sums as may have been
, raised with express reference to
, each branch of the work, and that
: it be the special duty of the State
committee in each State to order
the method of raising funds in that
, State, so that it may be most effici-
ent and most consistent with the
{ customs of the people.
We recommend that it be regard.
ed IS a special duty of the Nation
al committee to provide directly, or
by a subcommittee, timely publ
, cations as the various phases of
discussion and action shall call for
them.
. While the best literature of each
State, and the wisest methods of
its distribution, can best be deter
mined by the State committee in
each State, the necessity for gen.
eral information, and the exigen-
cies of our National Prohibition
party, in our judgment, call for the
frequent publication by our Ma
tional committee of able leaflets,
meeting the arguments and objec-
tions made against political action,
and serving to establish more wide
ly our political faith.
: We recommend that these leaf
lets should be secured from our
? ablest thinkers and writers, 80 as
to be most timely in their utteran-
ces and most influential in their
effects; and that our dissemina-
tions should, be as widespread as
the funds at command therefor may
allow.
We recommend that the lecture
service of the National Prohibition
party should be extended judicious-
ly, under the supervision of our
National Committee; that no lee
turers should be engaged in any
State not we'll known in said State,