New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-08-07
FISK AND BROOKS ACCEPT.
LETTERS TO THE PROHIBITION PARTY.
THE LIQUOR REVENUE TAx-"THE

CONCERNING THE LlQDotN
STATE MUST BE REFORMED"
o,,. .ma q Tho letters of acceptance Of the
National Prohibition party candidates for rreo'ao"' %
vIcc President are made public this afternoon Inc
ro,,er ~ General Clinton d. Fisk candidate Ior f'o''
dent IS dated at seabrIght, N. j., July 20 -" -. 49,
Ing paragraph expresses gratefui sehso VI W. s
conferred upon him by tho Indianapolis ~
formally accepts the nomination. ~ '"'"
part as follows: A., ,s,,,dro,
ar "a NOT cnourn that VIC reform the indvidna''
we muet reform the state Tho policy OF great con'
monvealths of a whole people, must be rchi""o anu
mt in harmony with sound economic prheipos' 10
true CO operation OF industrial ehort' mo e,so"'
ditions of National prosperity and genuine
OF man. So broad demand as this can Do no' ~
but one way It has been well sara a pon'o
form can become fact in government o"'y '"'''s
nolltIcal marty that administers government
Tho National Democratic party In us p'a'ioi'
uters no word in condemnation OF tho greatest io "
the Republc-thc liquor traffic. That party ha'ie
stoadfastly at National conventions maihtaineu ''
ALLEGIANCE to the American saloon, IL was no uis"p
noInment to any one that at st. Louis In 1888 IL re-
affirmed its old position on ths' inc srca'o'
now being debated among men,
Tho first concern OF good government sa'd INC
recent National Republican Convention at chicago -
the virtue and sobrety OF the people ana the purity
the home Revenue, then, Is not Governments chioi
concern whether coming from internal taxaon or iro
a tariff on mportaons and any source OF o'cnuo
which discounts the virtue and sobricty OF the people
and begets impurty In the home, should DO the hrSs
object assaed by every party protesting to seek goou
government while tho revenue derived from snch
source should be the first to be forsworn, not aler
natively for tho sake OF protective tarin, put pos
lively for the sake Of protection dearer ana more Va
than tho tariff can ever yield. Had not LETT the ke
publican party four years ago, should DC compeco
TO leave II now when, after reading the words nave
quoted from a resolution supplemental to but not In
cIudcd IN ifs p,aform and finding In these words my
own idea OF Governments 'chlef concern set forth
search the long platform through In vain 10 ma con-
dcmnaton Of the saloon, or hint OF purpose 10 assam
IT, or any sign of moral consciousness that the saloon
Is a curse and its income too unhoy for the Nation
to share
"Thc Republican party knows to-day and knew at
Chicago in June that the public surplus, which IN
1884 It declared dangerous and then proposed TO re-
duce comes, about 90 per cent OF 1t, from source
more dangerous than the surplus-the liquor franc.
"Wben the greatest Republican statesman declared,
In 1885, that 1t better tax whiskey than farms
and homesteads and shops, he knew, as he ana MS
colleagues know now, that to tax whsKey IS 10 'aA
farms and homesteads and shops-since It Is always
these which pay the taXtha nine-tenths OF the sur
plus represents want in the home, impurity In the
home llfc crime on the street. paralysis in The shop
and an impaired demand for the products OF the
farm These men must know these things, for
these things plain as the multiplication Iaolc
And they realize that the swirl way 10 tuuce
the surplus is TO end the National pohcy or revenue
from liquor; that the right way IS to end 1t by de-
clarng the manufacture impoNation, transportation
and sale thereof public crimes against good govern
ment and by prohibiting and Furnishing them as SUCH
Tho Prohibition partys chief concern IS for me
purity Of the home and the virtue and s0brety OF me
people. 1t asserted this I'm plain ard unmist ahsDle
terms at indianapolis, and It further plainly said that
| the burdens Of taxation should be removed from
food, clothing ard other necessares OF ne II Is 10
day the only avowed and consistent party ally wmch
the homo and labor have for 1t would make the besS-
ngs of homo cheap, and remove altogether Its curses.
| II would bring labor to sObriety and insure employ
| tho farms active to feed IL, and would give to our
whole industrial system the impulse or prosperity
yet known, and never possible I'LL the saloons
| put way. =,
That party is labor's trcs friend which would
| bar the Importation OF paupers from abroad or close
the tariff door of competition to pauperlze fOIeisn m
dUstry and then by liquor system perpetuate the
manufacture of paupers and criminals In our own
whom largely honest labor must support shall bear
with glad ard rcvercnt hands the only party standard
on which IS inscribed For God and Home and Naive
Land the standard OF the only party which Tecog-
frrd His holy day from dcsccrat.On which Is the
guardian Of homes best Interests and defender Of tho
Nation through these. and which, buryfng the dead
past OF sectional strife and bitterness, would build a
living future on the sure basis Of sober manhood and
pure womanhood and untanted youth for all our
united country"
Dr. John A. Brooks, I'm HIS letter accepting the
Vice Presidency after acknowledging the honor
and says that trusts are against wholesome reVl-
! sion Of the tariff Io commends the platform Of the
Prohibition party and concludes by some remarks re-
gardng the sanctity of the home refers to the evil
influence Of saloons indorses suffrage and the
work of women for prohibition. and again thanks the
convention for the honor Of the nomination