Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-10-06
PROHIBITION PLATFORM,
Ado,,ed nv the National Prohibition
Convention vt Cincinnati, June
40 1892.


80, 1892.
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 oil
peace and prosperity, presents the fol
lowing declaration of principles
II. The liquor traffic is a foe to civil
ton. the arch enemy of popular gov
ernment and public nuisance. 1t Is
the citadel of the forces that corrupt
politics, promote poverty and crime,
degrade the Natian's home 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 make the Govern
ment share in its ill-gotten gains, are
vicious in principle and powerless as
a remedy
ave declare anew for the entire sup
preston of the manufacture, sale, I'M
portation, expectation and transporta-
ton of alcoholic liquors as a beverage,
by Federal and State legislation. and
the full powers of the Government
should be exerted to secure this result.
ANY party that fails to recognize the
dominant nature of this issue IN Amer
lean politics is undcServing OF the sup
port of the people.
80. No citizen should be denie1 the
right to vote on account of sex, and
equal labor should receive equal wages,
without regard to sex.
%. 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 de
mands of business and give full oppor.
tunity for the employment of labor
To this end an increase i'll the volume
of money is demanded, and no individ-
ual or corporation should be allowed
to make any profit through its issue
1t should be made a legal tender for
the payment of all debts, public and
private. It's volume should be fixed at
a definite sum per capita, and made
to increase with our increase in popu
lation.
~. Tariffs should be levied only as &
defense against foreign Governments
which put tariffs upon or bar our pro
ducts from their markets, revenue
being incidental. The residue of means
necessary to an economical administra
! ton of the government should be
raised by levying burden on what the
| people possess instead of upon what
| they consume.
50 Railroad. telegraph and Other
public corporations should be controll
ed by the government, in the interest
of the people, and no higher charges
allowed than necessary to give fair in
terest on the capital actually invested
rs. Foreign immigration has become
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 fol
naturalization should be extended anC
no naturalized person should be al
lowed to vote until one year after h
becomes citizen.
~. Nonresident aliens should no
be allowed to acquire land i'll thi'
country, and we favor the limitation o
individual and corporate ownership o
land. All unearned grants of lands tC
railroad companies or other corpora
tons should be reclaimed.
IS. Years of inactiOn and treachery
ON the part of the Republican anC
| Democratic parties have resulted i'll
the present reign of mob law, and We
demand that every citizen be protected
in the right of trial by constitutions
! tribunals.
80. All men should be protected by
law in their right to one days rest il
seven.
40. Arbitration is the wisest ant
most economical and humane method
of settling national differences.
gil. sPECULATIoNs IN MARGINS,
the cornering of grain, money and pro
| ducts, and the formation of pools, trusts
and combinations for the arbitrary ad
vancement and reduction of price!
should be suppressed.
so. We pledge that the Prohibition
party, if elected TO power, will eyel
grant Just pensions to disabled veteran!
of the Union army and their widows
and orphans.
alb. We are unequivocally for the
public schools, and opposed to any APP
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 l
homogeneous and harmonious people
IA. We arraign the Republican ant
Democratic parties as false to the
standard reared by their founders, as
faithless to the principles of the illus
trious leaders of the past, to whom they
do homage with the lips; as recreant
/ to the higher law which is as infiexiblt
in political association as in persona
life, and as no longer embodying the
aspirations of the American people OF
inviting the confidence of enlightened
progressive patriotism. Their protest
against the admission of moral issues
| into politics is a confession of theil
own moral degeneracy. The declara
ton of an eminent authority that mu
nicipal misrule is the one conspicuous
| failure of American politics, follows as
a natural course of such degeneraey
and is true alike of cities under Repub.
lican and Democratic politics.
1.-THE tariff issue. as represented in
| the Democratic Mills bill and the Re
publican Mckinley bill, is no longer
treated by them as an issue upon great
and divergent principles OF government,
but as q mere catering to different sec