Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-03-19
PUT IN THE PLANKS
Prohibitionists Lay Down a
Comprehensive Platform
BUILT TO CATCH THE CRANKS
Delegates Nominated From Each Con-
gressional District to Attend The cin-
sinaau Convenfion--Atjourne


Chairman Russell. After the Rev. DIR.
CIemo nai invoked the divine blessIng,
the delegates proceeded to the business
of the day.
The tellers announced the following
list of the delegates at large elected TO
attend the national convention at Cln-
elnnati: John Russell, samuel Dickie,
Mrs Mary L. Lsthrop. Hon. A. Il. Che
ney, j. h. Johnson, +. IL. Bostwick
Mrs. Marion Baxter, ID. w. Grandon,
Miss kena Mlchaels. DR.. HI. A. Rey-
nolds, Mrs Rachel A. Bailey, Charles
=. Russell. Albert Dodge, James Hus-
ton, James Hamilton. NJ. III. Walker, j.
X. Lang. Is. b. 81. John. Judge Tateum.
r. l.. Brewer, Charles Mosher, l.. L.
White. V. W. Bouee, Rollo X. Bryan,
and Brent Harding.
Ii was decided that each delegate at
large should have the privilege OF man,
ing ms own alternate.
The Hon. A. b. Cheney presented the
report of the committee on resolutions
as follows:
The Party Platform.
The prohibition party of the state of
Mlcnlgan N state convention assembled
do hereby declare as follows:
That III the language OF the New
4 ork Tribune 1t IS impossible to exam
Inc any subject connected with the
progress OF civilization, the physical
we'll beng, the religious condition OF
the masses, without encounterlng the
monstrous evii-the iegallzed hquor
traffic. lt IS at the center OF all social
and political evil. lt paralyzes beneti-
cent energies IN every direction. lt
neutrali5es educational agencies. IL
silences the voice OF religion. IL battles
penal reform. II Is the great obstruc-
ton of political reform. Ii rears aloft
n mass of evily inspired power which at
every salient point threatens social and
national advance, which gives to igno-
rance and vice q greater potency than
intelligence and virtue can command;
which deprives the poor of the advan-
tages OF modern progress; which de-
bauches and degrades millions, brutal
izlng and soldering them below the
plane of healthy savagery and filing
the centers of population with crea-
lures whose condition almost excuses
the immortality which renders them the
enemies and the disgrace of their gen.
Grafton.
Tha. in the language of the
supreme court of the United States,
"the statistics OF every state show a
greater amount of crime and misery
attributable to the use of ardent spirits
obtained at their retail saloons tnan to
any other cause
That IN view of the foregoing facts
We demand that the manufacturer,
tran
auon and sale of aicholic beverages
shall be made public crimes and
adequately punished as such.
No citizen should be denied the
right to vote on account of sex.
The circulating medium of the
country may rgDtly consist of gold
silver and paper. Ii should all be legal
tender and sufficient IN quantity to
meet the demands OF business and
give full opportunity for the employ
ment of labor. No private individual
or corporation should be allowed to
make any profit through using it..
Neither should it be possible tor any
man or combination of men to pro-
duce an artificial scarcity and secure
exhorbitsnt rates of interest.
Demands a Free ballot.
No citizen should be denied the right
to vote.
That all trusts or combinations of
capital for the purpose of controlling
the prices of arucles of necessity or
popular consumption are unjust and
Oppressive and should be prohibited by
law; and tina. we hail with pleasure the
organization of workmen and farmers
and the intelligent and just demands
they make In their resolutions for the
honest toilers and wealth producers;
and we most earnestly invite the CO.
operation of workingmen, farmers and
all class legislation and accomplish
much needed industrial reform.
That the adjustment of the duties on
imports snould be fixed in business
like way by national commission OF
experts and not made the foot ball of
political acTobats. That the amount of
duties levied should not exceed the
necessary expenses of the government
economically administered aud that
the wealth and luxuriss should bear
the burdens aud not food, clothing and
nccesssries OF life.
We favor the most rigid state and
national control of all railroads, ex-
prsss, telegraph aud telephone lines
in the interest of ali the people.
Our immigration laws should be so
revised "a to exclude from our shores
MI diseased, ignorant persons. paupers
aud criminals. The required time OF
residence for naturalization should be
extended and no naturaiized person
phould vote within one year after nat
urslizahon papers are issued
PTohIoition sentiment that viii allow
Itself to be officially mssrepresented Is
mpotent against the liquor traffic.
The prohibition party cannot entertain
my proposition to cooperate with q
reform party that does not antsgonize
lhe ilquOr traffic "a earnestly ss 10 does
Dther monopolies, false finance and
pther vicious legislation. That We de-
piore the increase of large landed es-
lstes aud favor the Isistltution of Indl-
sidusl and corporate ownership Of
band.
a soldier FELT Isa-ty
re was meved and supported that the
resolutions be adopted A. this point
M old soldier an the audience asked II
here vas any part of the resolutions
ghat referred to the old soldiers. he
,sid be mad been told that be was
rather an odd one among them. IN be-
ing a rrosIbstionist. but he ddnt ike
10 ee lonely. seversl delegates assured
she old soldier that they bad been IN
the iste unpleassntness with hin.
A notion TO consider the platform
plank ey plank Vas csrrisd-
p. w. Grsndon moved that the last
plank Of the platform be stricken out
He believed IN the dessrsbIlity OF the
union of the reform forces OF the eoun-