Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-29
PROHIBITION PLATFORM,
Adopted by the National Prohibition
Convention mt Cincinnati, June
10 1902

convention nv ihfihhitaaif 'Nh'
30. 1899.
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
II. The liquor traffic is a foe to civil
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 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 illgotten gains. are
vicious in principle and powerlcss as
a remedy
I'VE declare anew for the entire sup
preston of the manufacture. sale, i'm
portation, expectation and Transports
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.
Any party that fails to recognize the
dominant nature of this issue i'll Amer
lean politics is undeserving of the sup
port of the people.
-. No citizen should be dcaicl the
right to vote on account of sex. and
/ equal labor should receive equal wages
without regard to sex.
| 3. 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 in the volume
( of money is demanded, and no individ
ual or corporation should be allowed
to make any profit through it's issue
1t should be made legal tender foi
! the payment of all debts, public anC
private. It's volume should be fixed al
a definite sum per capita. and made
W lllti tttNC WIN p'Ai lElNi N'i''N IL toRt
lation.
II. 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!
necessary to an economical adminiStra
ton of the government should bt
raised by leyying a burden on what Thu
people possess instead of upon Wha
they consume.
-. Railroad, telegraph and othe
public corporations should be CONTROL
ed by the government. i'll the intCreS
of the people, and no higher charge
allowed than necessary to give fair i'll
terest on the capital actually invested
SIS. Foreign immigration has become
burden upon industry, one of the fac
tors III depressing wages and causin!
discomfort: therefore. our immigration
laws should be revised and strictly en-
forced. The time of residence fo
naturalization should be extended ant
no naturaliZed person should be al
lowed to vote until one year after ht
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 t.
railroad companies or other corpora
tions should be reclaimed.
IS. Years of inaction and PREACHER!
on the part of the Republican anC
Democratic parties have resulted il
the present reign of mob law, and WI
demand that every citizen be protcctcC
in the right of trial by constitutions
tribunals
20. All men should be protected b.
law in their right to one days rest il
seven.
40. Arbitration is the wisest anC
most economical and humane methoC
of settling national differences.
I'll. 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 TIN
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
al. We arraign the Republican ant
Democratic parties as false to thu
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, which is as infleXibl'
in political association as in persona
life, and as no longer embodying TIN
aspirations of the American people o.
inviting the confidence of enlightened
progressive patriotism. Their protes
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 a.
a natural course of such degeneracy
and is true alike of cities under Repub
lican and Democratic politics.
''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 great
and divergent principles of government
but as mere catering to different sec