The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-09-03

moral responsibility for the evils which
the liquor system inficts, and is the
only party willing TO be defeated in de-
tense of Prohibition or to triumph
with its triumph.
5. That we deplore the fact that our
remains the partner in
This traffic by issueing permits to sell
in the Territories, District of Columbia
the capitol buildings, in States where
the traffic is prohibited, and to fill its
treasury with the $S0,000,000 revenue
from this polluted source; and we de-
mand that Congress shall, by law, for
bid the issue of such tax receipts or
permits in States, districts of counties
where the liquor traffic is prohibited by
law.
6. That corporations are created to
subserve the public welfare, and should
be held TO a strict compliance with the
objects of their creation and Its sub
lection to the law. That corporation
office seeking and Office
holding monopolists, with the liquor
trading monopolists, now form a triple
alliance in the Republican and Demo
cratic parties for Influencing the exec
utive, legislative and judicial branches
of the Government, dangerous to pub
lie liberty and hostile to the interests
of the people, which calls for courage
Gus and energetic measures for their
subjection.
7. That we favor the enforcement
by laws of section of article II of
our State Constitution which provides
against Dissemination in charges of
facilities for transportation by abate.
ment, drawback or otherwise and
against "any preference in furnishing
cars of motive power by transporta-
tion companies of the State, and we
charge the Republican and Democratic
parties as being false to the people
and favoring corporations by not re-
moving by efficient legislation during
the past twelve years the wrongs and
abuses which this article Of the consti-
tuition was intended to correct.
8. That imported contract and pau.
per labor shsuld be forbidden, and our
immigration laws so changed that while
excluding no nationality, the peace
and security to life and property and
the interests of American industry
should be protected against the intro
duction of the criminal, idlers and vag
rant class of all nations.
9. American labor, skill and capital
employed in agriculture, mining, manu-
factures, commerce and the mechanical
arts should have first consideration
and protection against the competition
of foreign labor and and capital in oul
tariff and other laws. We regard
capital, rightfully employed, as the
friend and helper and not the enemy
of labor, and any oppression or inidel.
ity of either must act to the injury OF
both. The drink saloon, which alb
serbs so much of the wages of labor,
and incites to discomfort, tumult, boy
cottism. anarchism and riot, is the ra-
pacious foe of labor and capital. Tho
suppression of the saloon would do
more for the prosperity of labor and
the security of capital than any other
remedy in the power of legislation
We invite the cooperation of employ
ers and employed to secure the de-
struction of this foe to both. Arbitra.
ton for the just arrangement of diff
ferences arising between employers of
labor and their employees is manly,
Christian method equally applicable to
individuals, corporations, States and
Nations, and should be provided for
by State, National and international
law.
10. That we believe in the Christ
ian Sabbath as an indispensable safe
guard of our cherished institutions,
justified as well by nature and reason
as by religious precept. We demand
the strict enforcement of all laws
against its violation and hold in alb
horence as inimical to the best interests
of the people the so-called Continent
al Sunday That all corporations,
public and private enterprises, and
chief among them the drink traffic, en-
gagged in secularizing the day, are vio-
lators of wholesome laws and robbers
of both health and rest from their de-
pendent employees.
II. We denounce and repudiate
the so-called submission resolution of
the late Republican State Convention
as deceptive, and snare to catch
votes. 1t proclaims an opinion of
Judgment that the Legislature should
adopt measures for submission of an
amendment, but makes no pledge of
the party either favoring prohibition
or to sustain such submission, and it
was 80 declared in the convention and
since by the Republican press. The
position of the National Republican
platform, with the silence and acquies-
ence of the liquor business in Pennsyl-
vania.
12. That the sectional feelings be
tween North and South should be OBJ
liberated, but we despair SO long as the
Democratic and Republican parties
survive to rekindle old jealousies and
revive old memories. We, therefore,
commend the effort to combine North
and South in National Prohibition
party on the one great common cause
of freeing the whole land from the
drink curse.
13. That our present Heterogeneous
laws regulating marriage and divorce
in the social state, are shame TO our
civilization, and we demand National
law conformable TO the divine law and
uniform for all the States, and that all
laws promolive of social purity shall
be strictly enforced,
IA. That disfranchise ment as pun.
ishment for acts of corruption of the
voter, of false counts and false returns
of votes cast at our elections, should
be enacted, We denounce the practice
of party managers, of paying the
taxes Of voters IN order to secure theil
votes. We denounce the PLAZA that to
the victors in elections belong the
spoils of appointment to public office
as unpatriotic, immoral and dangerous
and we denounce ring or boss rule
which administers public affairs on the
spoils system for the emolumeut Of
otiice-holders or for party reputation.
With gratitude TO Almighty God fol
his favors in the past, and in humble
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