Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-07-14
PROHIBITION PLATFORM,
Adopted by the National Prohibition
Convention at Cincinnati, June
40 Ia02


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 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
! the guise of regulation, legalize and
protect this traffic or make the Govern
ment share in it's ill-gotten gains, are
vicious in principle and powerless as
remedy
''We declare anew for the entire sup
preston of the manufacture, sale, inn
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 undeserving of the sup
port of the people.
80 No citizen should be denied 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 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 a
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.
-. 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.
SO. 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 for
naturalization should be extended and
no naturalized person should be al
lowed to vote until one year after he
becomes citizen.
81. Nonresident aliens should not
be allowed to acquire land in this
country, and we favor the limitation of
individual and corporate ownership of
land. All unearned grants of lands to
railroad companies or other corpora
tions should be reclaimed.
"S. Years of inaction and treachery
on the part of the Republican and
Democratic parties have resulted in
The present reign of mob law, and we
demand that every citizen be protected
in the right of trial by constitutional
tribunals.
80. All men should be protected by
law in their right to one days rest in
seven.
$40 Arbitration is the wisest and
most economical and humane method
of settling national differences.
III. 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 prices
should be suppressed.
"12. We pledge that the Prohibition
party, if elected to power, will ever
grant just pensions to disabledveterans
of the Union army and their widows
and orphans.
"13. We are unequivocally for the
public schools, and opposed to any APP
preparation of public moneys for secta-
rian schools; we declare that only by
the united support of such common
schools, taught in the English language,
can we hope to become and remain a
homogeneous and harmonious people.
"14, We arraign the Republican and
D6IuOCTdOIC pditIco do ldloC w phO
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 infieSible
in political association as in personal
life. and as no longer embodying the
aspirations of the american people or
inviting the confidence of enlightened,
progressive patriotism. Their protest
against the admission of moral issues
into politics is confession of their
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 degeneracy,
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 mere catering to different sec
tional and class interests. The attempt
in many States to wrest the Australian
ballot system from its true purpose
and to so deform it as to render it ex-
| tremely difficult for new parties to ex-
ercise the rights of suffrage is
AN OUTRAGE UPON POPULAR GOVERNMENT.
The competition of both the parties for
the vote of the liquor power and sub
serviency to the money power has re-
suited in placing these powers in the