The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-01
OUR PLATFORM IN FULL.
EVERY PLANK A PRINCIPLE THAT A
PATRIOT CAN STAND ON.

God In Government-The Liquor TRAFFIC a
Moral. Social and Political Evil-Pro-
hibit it-The True Labor Party-Read
and Vote 1t.
Many garbled reports Of our platform
have been published. The following is
correct as adopted by the conventions:
The Prohibition party, In national con-
vention assembled. acknowledging Al
mighty God as the source Of all power in
government, do hereby declare:
First. That the manufacture, importa-
| ton, expectation, transportation and sale
of alcoholic beverages shall be made pub
lie crimes and punished as such.
Second. That such prohibition must be
secured through amendments of our ma
tional and state constitutions enforced by
adequate laws adequately supported by
administrative authority, and to this end
the organization of the Prohibition party
is imperatively demanded in the state and
nation
Third 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
Of tax, enters into alliance with such
traffic and becomes the actual foe of the
states welfare, and that we arraign the
Republican and Democratic parties for
licensed iniquity, whereby they oppose
the demand Of the people for prohibition
and through open completely with the
liquor cause, defeat the enforcement of
the law.
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the internal revenue system, whereby our
national government is deriving support
/ from our greatest national vice.
Fifth. That an adequate public revenue
be raised by impost duties, but
import duties should be SO reduced that
no surplus shall be accumulated in the
! treasury, and that the burdens Of taxa
ton shall be removed from foods, cloth
| ing and other comforts and necessaries of
life, and imposed on such other articles
of import as will give protection both to
the manufacturing employer and the pro-
ducing laborer against the competition of
the world.
Sixth. That civil service appointments
for all civil Offices. chiefly clerical in their
duties should be based upon moral, in
tellectual and physical qualifications. and
not upon party services or party neces-
sity.
Seventh. That the right of suffrage
rests on no 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 men
tally and morally qualified for the exercise
of an intelligent ballet, it should be re
stored by the people through the legisla
lures of the several states, on such educa
tional basis as they may deem wise.
Eighth For the abolition of polygamy
and the establishment of uniform laws
governing marriage and divorce.
Ninth For prohibiting all combina-
tions of capital to control and to increase
the cost of products for popular consump-
ton.
Tenth For the preservation and de-
Tense of the Sabbath as civil institution
without expressing any who religiously
observe the same on any other day than
the first day of the week. That arbitra-
ton is the Christian. wise and economic
method of settling national differences,
and the same methods should, by judi
cious legislation, be applied to the settle
ment of disputes between large bodies of
employees and employers; that the aboli-
| ton of the saloons would remove the bur.
dens, 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 invite labor and capital to
unite with us for the accomplishment
thereof; that monopoly in land is wrong
to the people, and the public land should
DO reserved to actual settlers, and that
men and women should receive equal
wages for equal work.
Eleventh. That our immigration laws
should be so enforced as to prevent the
introduction into our country of all con-
victs, inmates of dependent institutions,
and of those physically incapacited 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 prohibit
ton of the liquor traffic has become the
dominant issue in national politics, we in
vite to full party fellowship all those who,
on this one dominant issue, are with us
agreed in the full belief that this party
can and will remove sectional differences,
promote national unity and insure the best
welfare of our native land.