The Penn's Grove record., 1888-06-09
PRaHIRIIION PLATFORM.

Ali1 ftAA l"A@
al convention at indianapolis last week
nominated Clinton b. Fisk, of New
Jersey, for President, and John A.
Brooks, of Missouri, for Vice-Presideht.
The platform OF whiciIthese candidates
ask the votes of the people is as follows:
The Prohibition party, in national
o ention assembled, acknowledging
Almighty God as the source OF all pow
er in government, do merely declare:
a. That the manufacture, importa-
ton, expectation, transportation and
sale of alcoholic beverages shall be made
public crimes, and punished as such.
o. That such prohibition must be
secured through amendments of our ma
tional and State Constitutions, enfor-
ccd by adequate laws adequately sup
ported by administrative authority; and
to this end the organization ofthe Pro-
hibition party is ~imperatively demand
ed in State and nation.
~ That any form of license, taxa
ton or regulation of the liquor traffic is
contrary to good government; that any
party which supports regulation license
or tax enters into alliance with such
traffic and becomes the actual foe Of
| the States welfare; and that We arraign
the Republican and DemOc ratio parties
for persistent attitude in favor of the
liquor license iniquity, whereby they
| oppose the demand of the people for
prohibition. and, through open compile
ity with the liquor cause, defeat the
enforcement of the law.
Al For the immediate abolition of
the internal revenue system, whereby
our National Government is deriving
support from our greatest national
vice.
(5.) That an adequate public revenue
being necessary, it may properly be rails
ed by import duties and byan equitable
assessment upon the property and the
legitimate business of the country, but
import duties should be so reduced that
no surplus shall be accumulated in the
Treasury, and that the burden of tax
alton shall De removed from food, cloth
ing and other comforts and accessories
of life.
10y That civil service appointments
for all civil officers chiefly clerical in
their duties should be based upon NOR
al. intellectual and physical qualitica
tons, and not upon party services or
| party necessity.
az That the right of suffrage rests
on mere circumstance of race, color,
sex or nationality, and that where from
| any cause it has been held from citizens
who are of suitable age and mentally
and morally qualified for the exercise
of an intelligent ballot it should be re-
stored by the people through the Legis-
lnt,,rup .f SIn cn,n.,1 Stnt.. ~, r,,nI
educational basis as they may deem
wise.
g. For the abolition of polygany and
She establishment of uniform laws gov
ering marriages and divorce.
IT, For prohibiting all combinations
of capital to control and to increase the
cost of products for popular consump-
ton.
(l0j For the preservation and defense
of the Sabbath as ii civil institution
without depressing any who religi0usly
observe the same ON any other day than
the first day of the week. That arbitra-
tion is the Christian and sound econo-
mic method of settling differences, and
the same method should. by judicious
legislation, be applied to the settlement
of disputes between large bodies of
employees and employers; that the aboli-
ton of the saloon would remov the
bardens--moral physical, pecuniary
and social-which now Cypress labor
and rob it of its earnings, and would
prove TO be the wise and successful way
of promoting labor reform, and we in
vite labor and capital to unite with us
for the accomplishment thereof; that
monopoly in land is "A wrong to the peo-
Pile, and the public land should be re-
served to actual settlers, and that men
and women should receive equal wages
for equal work,
(ll) That our immigration laws
should be 50 enforced as to prevent
the introduction into Il country of
all cOnvicts, inmates of dependent in
sritutiuns and OF others physically in
capacitated for self support, and that
no person should have the ballot in any
State who is not a citizen Of the United
States.
Recognizing and declaring that pro-
hibition of the liquor traffic has become
the dominant issue in national politics,
We i"vi = !" full party fellowship al!
hose who. on this one dominant issue,
ate with - It reed in the full belief
that ti'- "ly can and will remove
- g." fl r"iceS, promote national
una 81, l., m" The best Welfare of OuT