Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-09-27
Prohibition Convention.

At the meeting Of the Prohibition
County Committee in the Reiber building,
Tuesday afternoon, H. S. Daubenspeck
was elected Chairman for the year; Rev. }.
S. Mckee, Sec and J. W. Orr of Bruin,
Treasurer. No nomination was made for
District attorney, but Mr.. Levi Porter OF
Marion twp was nominated for County
Surveyor.
The following resolutions were adopted
We, the representatives of the Prohibi-
ton party of Butler county, in conven-
ton assembled, recognizing Almighty God
as the source of all power and authority IN
civil government, the Lord Jesus Christ as
the ruler of nations, and the Bible as OF
supreme authority in civil affairs, hereby
declare,
l. Our gratitude to God for his blessing
upon the cause We represent, and his
guidance in all the past.
q Our conviction that the liquor prob
lem is the great issue in American politics
to-day, and will so remain until settled,
and settled right.
3. The mission of the Prohibition party
is, to change the attitude of government
toward the liquor traffic, from that OF
sanction and protection, to that of entire
prohibition.
4. While we sympathise with the tenn
perance men in the old parties in their
vain attempts to reform their party or
CARNATIONS and secure practical prohibition
through the old parties, we declare our be-
lief that all such attempts will prove in the
future, as they have in the past, miserable
failures.
5. The sentiment of the citizen in refer
enee to the liquor traffic can only be ex-
pressed at the ballot box.
6. The Prohibition party is the only par
ty that affords to temperance men an
opportunity to vote their convictions on
this subject.
Z. Every vote cast for the candidates of
either of the old parties is virtual endorse
ment of the principle of license.
g. We do not accept the decision of the
voters in the recent amendment election as
final and settlement of the whole ques
tion, inasmuch as majorities cannot make
wrong right.
9. We appeal to those who by their votes
at the recent election recorded themselves
as opposed to all forms of the legalized
traffic, to stand by their vote and record it
again by endorsing the only party that de-
clares against license in all It's forms
TO- We declare for the preservation and
defense of the Sabbath as civil institu-
ton; believing that the cause of Prohibi-
ton and Sabbath preservation stand or fall
together.
IL. We endorse our State platform, and
call the attention OF the labOring classes to
the tenth article which reads: THAT labor
is entitled to full and fair compensation
and projections; that the liquor traffic is the
greatest enemy the wage earners have to
contend with, breeding strife and d;scord
between the employed and employer, con-
suming the hard earned money of the
toilers without refining an equivalent, de-
stroying their homes and in many cases
prodeeing riot and bloodshed I'M settling
such disputes that should be settled by ar
which is the true method of ad-
iusting differences between employer and
employed. Its prohibition will insure bet
ter wages to the employed, larger profits
to the employer. steady work, money in
the pocket, peace, happiness and content
ment in the homes, the surest preventives
of strikes and lockouts."
H. Our naturalization laws should be so
amended as to require longer time and
higher qualifications before a foreigner can
enjoy the rights of citizenship, and that
education and not sex should be made the
test of suffrage.
13. Our public schools should be main
tanned at all hazards, and on non sectarian
basis.
II. other things being equal, the ex-
union soldiers should have the preference
in all appointments under the government.
10. We heartily endorse our candidate
for State Treasurer Mr.. j. II. Johnston,
and pledge our efforts to secure him
large vote.