Connecticut western news., 1888-06-06

st2. That such prohibition must be secured through amendments of our national and adequately supported by administrative au- thority, and to this end the organization of the Prohibition party is imperatively demanded in State and nation.
 "3. That any form of license, taxation or regulation of the liquor traffic is contrary to good government; that any party which sup ports 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 Democratic par ties for their persistent attitudein favor of tho licensed inquity, whereby they oppose the de- mand of the people for prohibition, and through open complicity with the liquor cause defeat the enforcement of law
 "4. For the immediate abolition Of the ln- ternal 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 raised by import duties, and by an equitable assessment upon the property and the legitimate business of the country, but import duties should be so re- duccd that no surplus shall be accumulated in the Treasury, and that the burdens of taxation shall be removed from food, clothing, and other comforts and necessaries of life. "6. That civil service appointments for all civil offices, chiefly clerical in their duties, should be based upon moral, intellectual, and physical qualifications, and not upon party
 
 ''7. That the right of suffrage rests on no mere circumstances of race, color, sex, or na- tionaity. and that where, from any cause, it has been held from citizens who arc of suita- ble age and mentally and morally qualified for the exercise of an intelligent ballot, it should be restored by the people through the Legisla- | lures of the several States on such educational | basis as they may deem wise
 ''S. For the abolition of polygamy and the establishment of uniform laws governing mar riage and divorce.
 ''9. For prohibiting all combinations of cap- ital to control and to increase the cost of pro ducts for popular consumption. | "1O. For the preservation and defence of the Sabbath as civil institution without op- pressing any who religiously observe this same | of any other day than the first day of tho week. That arbitration is the Christian, wise and economic method of settling national diff fcrences, and the same method should by ju- dicious legislation, bo applied to the settle ment of disputes between large bodies of en- ployecs and employers; that the abolition of the saloon would remove the burdens, moral , physical, pecuuiary, and social, which now op i press labor, and rob it of it's earnings, and would provo to be the wise and successful way of promoting labor reform, and we invite la Dor and capital to unite with us for the ac- complishment thereof; that monopoly in land ! is a wrong to the people, and the public land should be reserved to actual settlers, and that men and women should receive equal wages for equal work.
 | ell. That our immigration laws should be so enforced to prevent the introduction into our country of all convicts, inmates of de- pendent institutions, and of others physically incapacitatcd for self-support, and that nc person should have the ballot in any State who is not citiz.n of tho United States.
 "Recognizing and declaring that prohibition of the liquor traffic has become tho dominant issue in national politics, we invite 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 sec tional differences, promote national unity, ant insure the best welfare of our native land."
 Tho reading of the platform was greeted with applause, and, as each plank was com pleted, tho paragraph was marked with loud efeara of ulThaks su right .'