Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-10-13
PROHIBITION PLATFORM,
s5,,,ed bv the National Prohibition
Convention at Cincinnati, june
30 1909.

Adopted b. the National Prohibition
Convention at Cincinnati. June
so. 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:
~. The liquor traffic is foe to civil
ton. the arch enemy of popular gov
eminent and a public nuisance. 1t is
the citadel of the forces that corrupt
politics, promote poverty f'Fs4 crime,
degrade the Nations home life, thwart
the will of the peopl" 9l-l-l..ir22sS~ ~
country into the lands OF rapacious
class interests. III LAYS hat. under
the gyIise Of regulation. !cgalizo and
protect this traffic ormake theG )ycrn-
ment share in its ill-gotten gains. are
vicious in principle and pc"orlcss as
a remedy
1--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 II secure this result.
Any party that fails to recognize the
dominant nature of this issue III Amer
lean politics is undcsarying of the sup
port of the people.
-. No citizen should be 1aliel the
right to vote on account Of sex. AMI
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 in the volume
of money is demanded, and no indiyid-
ual or corporation should be allowed
to make any profit through its issue.
1t should be made legal tender for
the payment of all debts, public and
private. It's volume should be fixed at
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 leyying a burdcn on what the
fpeople possess instead of upon what
they consume.
-. Railroad, telegraph and other
public corporations should be CONTROL
ed by the government, in the interest
of the people, and no higher charges
E allowed than necessary to give fair in
terest on the capital actually invested
''6. 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 anl 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
e becomes a citizen.
{ ~. Nonresident aliens should 40,
q be allowed to acquire land in this
f country, and we favor the limitation OF
q individual and corporate ownership OF
land. All unearned grants of lands to
I railroad companies or other corpora
tions should be reclaimed.
l 80. 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.
e 10. All men should be protected by
law in their right to one days rest in
: seven.
2 $40 Arbitration is the wisest and
, most economical and humane method
= of settling national differences.
e I'll. sPECULATIoNS IN MARGINS,
: the cornering OF grain, money and pro
, ducts, and the formation Of pools, trusts
and combinations for the arbitrary adj
) vancement and reduction of prices
should be suppressed.
"l2 We pledge that the Prohibition
&. party, if elected to power, will ever
grant just pensions to disabled veterans
t of the Union army and their widows
and orphans.
"13. We are unequivocally for the
e public schools, and opposed to any ap-
preparation of public moneys for secta-
2 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.
/, al. We arraign the Republican and
, 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 inflexible
in political association as in personal
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 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
natural course of such degeneracy.
and is true alike of cities under Repub-
4 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
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