Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-10-27
PROHIBITION PLATFORM,
Adopted by the National Prohibition
Convention ut Cincinnati, June
40. 1928.


Adopted by the National Prohibition
Convention ut Cincinnati, June
30. 1898.
The Prohibition party, In National
Convention assembled, acknowledging
Almighty God as the source of all true
government, and His law as the stand
ard to which all human enactments
must conform to secure the blessings OF
peace and prosperity, presents the fol
lowing declaration of principles:
81. The liquor traffic is foe to civili-
ton, the arch enemy of popular gov
eminent and public nuisance. 1t is
the citadel of the forces that corrupt
politics, promote poverty and crime
degrade the Nations homo life, thwart
the will of the people and deliver our
country into the lands of rapacious
class interests. All laws that, under
the guise of regulation, legalizc and
protect this traffic or mako the Govern
ment share in rs ill-gotten gains, are
vicious in principle and powerless rs
remedy
"We declare anew for the entire sup
preston of the manufacture, sale, I'M
portation, expectation and transporta-
ton of alcoholic liquors as beverage,
| by Federal and State legislation, and
the full powers of the Government
should be exerted to secure this result.
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dominant nature OF this issue in Amor
lean politics is undeserving of the sup
port of the people.
80. No citizen should he dcniel the
right to vote on account of sex, and
equal labor should receive equal wages
without regard to soX.
.. The money of the country should
be gold, silver and paper, and be issued
by the General Government only, and
| in sufficient quantities to meet the dc
mands of business and give full oppor
tunity for the employment of labor
| To this end an increase in the volume
! of money is demanded, and no individ
ual or corporation should be allowed
| to make any profit through it's issue
| It should be made a legal tender fol
the payment of all debts, public an6
private It's volume should be fixed al
definite sum per capita, and made
to increase with our increase in popu
| lation.
81 Tariffs should be levied only as {
defense against foreign Government.
which put tariffs upon or bar our pro
ducts from their markets, revenue
being incidental. The residue of mean.
/ tN m economical DIM N / CT bro
ton of the government should bt
raised by levying a burden on what the
people possess instead of upon wha'
| they consume.
-. Railroad. telegraph and othel
public corporations should be CONTROL
ed by the government, in the interes
of the people, and no higher charges
allowed than necessary to give fair in
terest on the capital actually invested
''6. Foreign immigration has become
a burden upon industry, one of the fac
tors in depressing wages and causing
discomfort; therefore, our immigration
laws should be revised and strictly en-
forced. The time OF residence 70
naturalization should be extended ant
no naturalized person should be al
lowed to vote until one year after h
becomes a citizen.
81. Nonresident aliens should no
be allowed to acquire land in thi
country, and we favor the limitation o
individual and corporate ownership o
land. All unearned grants of lands t.
railroad companies or other corpora
tons should be reclaimed.
''9. Years of inaction and PREACHER.
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Democratic parties have resulted il
the present reign of mob law, and w
demand that every citizen be protected
tribunals.
40. All men should be protected b,
law in their right to one days rest il
seven.
40. Arbitration is the wisest an,
most economical and humane methot
of settling national differences.
al. sPECULATIoNs IN MARGINS,
the cornering of grain, money and pro
ducts, and the formation of pools, trust
and combinations for the arbitrary ad
vancement and reduction of price
should be suppressed.
"12. We pledge that the Prohibition
party, if elected to power, will eve
grant just pensions to disabled.veteran
of the Union army and their widow
and orphans.
"13. We are unequivocally for TIL
I public schools, and opposed to any ap
preparation of public moneys for secta
rian schools we declare that only b,
the united support of such common
schools, taught in the English language
can we hope to become and remain
homogeneous and harmonious people
IA We arraign the Republican ant
Democratic parties as false to tn
standard reared by their founders, a!
faithless to the principles of the illus
trious leaders of the past, to whom the.
do homage with the lips; as recrean
to the higher law whichis as inflexibl
in political association as in persona
life, and as no longer embodying tn
aspirations of the American people o
| inviting the confidence of enlightened
progressive patriotism. Their protes
against the admission of moral issues
/ into politics is confession of thei
own moral degeneracy. The declare
ton of an eminent authority that mu
nicipal misrule is the one conspicuou
failure of American politics, follows o.
a natural course of such degeneracy
and is true alike of cities under Repub
lican and Democratic politics.
1.-THE tariff issue, as represented il
the Democratic Mills bill and the Re
publican Mckinley bill, is no Longer
| treated by them as an issue upon grea