The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-08-16
FISK AND BROOKA
Tho Prohibition Candidates for President and
Vice President Write Letters Of Acc eptance.

The Prohibition Candidates for President and
vice President Write Letters Of Acceptance.
The following is a synopsis of Gen. Fisks
letter of acceptance:
Within few years tho temperance reform
has altogether changed front. Temperance
forces no longer face human appetite and
habit alone; they oppose legislation, law, tn.
state and nation. What low creates law
alone con kill. The creatures of law, the
saloon, the liquor traffic, can die only at the
laws executor. It is not enough that we re-
form the individual; we must reform tho
s Ms"h, rhf policy o, Of great common conn
remade and put in harmony with
sound economic principles. So broad q
demand as this can be met in but one way
"A political reform can become a fact in gov.
eminent only through a political party that
administers government. A reform so vast
as this We advocate, involving such radical
changes in state and national policy, is ut
terly dependent for it's agitation and con-
summation on some party agent or force to
give it shape. The national Democratic
party in it's platform utters no word in con-
domination of the greatest foe in the republic
the liquor traffic. In Michigan, in Texas,
in Tennessee and in Oregon so-called non.
have failed through partisan necessity. "The
first concern of good government" says the
recent national convention at Chicago, lis
the virtue and sobriety of the people and the
purity of the home" Revenue, then, Is not
the governments chief concern, whether COM
ing from internal taxation or from a tariff
on importatione, and any source Of revenue
which discounts 'the virtue and sobriety Of
the people" and begets impurity in the home
should be the first object assailed by every
party protesting to seek good governments.
The Republican party knows to-day, and
knew at Chicago in June, that the public
surplus, which in 1884 itleclared dangerous,
s s6d then proposed to reduce, comes5:about
W per cent OF it-from source more danger
GUS than the surplns-the liquor traffic.
The Prohibition party's "chief concern" is
for the purity of the home, and the virtue
and sobriety of the people. shall bear with
glad and reverent hands the only party
standard on which is inscribed, "For God and
Home and Native Land" We con and do
| sue in national politics." and we can and do
'invite to full party fellowship oil who on
this one dominant issue are with US agreed"
John A: Brooks letter accepting the vice
J presidential nomination ON the Prohibition
ticket is as follows:
upon him, he dcnounces in the strongest
terms monopoles and trusts, which he says
are against a wholesome revision of the tar
id. He says the country will hold each Of
the three great political parties to its plat
form and that the platform of the prohibi-
ton party is the wisest of the three. He
does not hesitate to declare that tho surplus
in the treasury is a constant menace to the
business interests of the country. The pros
pect of removing the tax from whisky must
depend altogether upon the purpose intended
to be accomplished by such removal. The
tariff itself pleads q right to existence on the
grounds ofits recognition by the govern
ment and the revenue it pays into the public
treasury. Strike down this defense and IN
outraged public would not long suffer it's con.
tinuancs: The Prohibition party would
strike of the tex that it may the sooner DO
stroy the traffic The purpose of the Re-
publican party in it's repeal of the tax ia to
reduce the revenues that they may not have
Ito surrender any part of our protective sys-
tem." The Prohibitionists would take this
arch criminal out of prison to hang him; Re.
publicans to set him at liberty. Every Chris
tian will approve the motive prompting one
and denounce the other as consumation Of
human selfishness and infamy. A proper
protection Of American labor and the indus
tries of the country commends itself to q
majority OF tho people, but of infinitely of
more Importance is protection to onr homes
He closes with glowing tribute to the
women who hove so long upheld the cause Of
prohibition.
Thomas L. johnson of Eau Claire, Wis.,, fell
asleep week ago and hos slept continuously
since, much to the alarm of his family. He
is about fifty years old and had been in q
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