The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-06-30

must be some OvershaoOW1ng Issue
which determines allegiance and
gives a party support.
2. The prohibition Of the liquor
traffic is the supreme question of
our day, because this is the mon
strous evil that strikes at our race
and our government. 1t endan-
gers every institution upon which
our civilization is founded. 1t is
the enemy of good order, of moral
ity, of religion, of God. 1t is the
fountain Of political corruption,
the source of poverty, crime, insan-
ity, disease and death; the parent
of brothels, and gambling dens; the
promoter of social and industrial
disorder, in short the monstrous
crime of our age.
8. This crime is sanctioned, le-
galized and protected by our gov
eminent, and it's suppression means
that the government shall get out
of the Ubiquitous business. I'M
morality and crime legalized, the
fight must be made where the evil
exists. The government must be
reformed. The ballot is the weap-
on and this political instrument
must be welded by electors in the
interest of morality and humanity !;
the political power of moral men
must contest with the same power
held and used by immortality.
4. Trial of prohibitory law has
developed that State prohibition is
the more effective form of local
prohibition, while it has also dem
onstrated that prohibitory enact
ments must be national and op-
posed to the manufacture and inn
portation as we'll as the sale of in
toxicating liquors, in order to be
entirely effective; that there must
be political party administering
the government whose voters are
not sympathizers nor abettors Of
the traffic and whose officers are
sustained by an unconditional par
ty principle committing them to
the doctrine of Prohibition. Fore
ing prohibitory laws in non-part-
isan way upon parties not in SYM
pathy with the principle, and ex-
pecting strict enforcement, is a
proposition of itself sufficient
ly ridiculous without referring
to the folly such experience has al
ready demonstrated.
5. The Prohibition party is a
necessity. No other political organ
ization favors either national or To-
cal prohibition. 1t was organized
to unite the enemies of the liquor
traffic, who though in majority,
have been without power, neutral
izing each other by utilization
with opposing organizations.
6. Moral efforts for the re-
clamation of the drinkers and edu-
cation of the people in the nature
and effects of alcoholic beverages
and total abstinence from their use,
must not be relaxed; and we
heartily approve all organizations
and methods having these objects
in view. Especially in this State
do we commend the work Of the
Woman's Christian Temperance
Union and the Independent Order
of Good Templars. The zeal and
unselfsh devotion displayed by
these organizations in the cause of
temperance and prohibition de-
mand our gratitude and emulation.
7. We favor the enactment
of laws in this State requiring that
Physiology and Hygiene, with spe-
cial reference to the effect of stimu-
lants and narcotics on the human
system, be taught in our public
schools.
s. AS the dissertation of the
Sabbath is alarmingly on the in
crease, manifested in the open bar
and insolent demand of liquor-sell-
for the repeal of Sunday laws in
many parts of the land, as we'll as
in places of business and amuse-
ment: we will use our best endeav-
ors to preserve the sanctity of the
day by precept and example as
we'll as by the power OF the State,
which should be exercised for its