Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-07-21
PROHIBITION PLATFORM,
Convention at Cincinnati, June
80, 1899.

I kOhNi anu AllD low o. th0 oAtHh'
ard to which all human enactments
must conform to secure the blessings of
peace and prosperity, presents the fol
/ lowing declaration of principles
Il. 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
class interests. All laws that, under
/ the guise of regulation, legalize and
/ protect this traffic or make the Govern
ment share in its ill-gotten gains, are
/ vicious in principle and powerless 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 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.
-. 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 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 a burden on what the
people 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
allowed than necessary to give fair in
terest on the capital actually invested.
IS. Foreign immigration has become
a 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 aud
no naturaiized person should be al
lowed to vote until one year after he
becomes a citizen.
~. 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
tons should be reclaimed.
IS. 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.
20. All men should be protected by
law in their right to one days rest III
seven.
80. Arbitration is the wisest and
most economical and humane method
of settling national differences.
I'll. 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 disabled veterans
iof the Union army and their widows
and orphans.
"13. We are unequivocally for the
public schools, and opposed to any APP
propriation 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 ;
homogeneous and harmonious people
IA. We arraign the Republican anC
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 recrean
to the higher law which is as infiexibl'
in political association as in persona
life. and as no longer embodying thu
aspirations of the American people o.
inviting the confidence of enlightened
progressive patriotism. Their profess
against the admission of moral issues
into politics is a confession of thei
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.
aThe tariff issue, as represented il
the Democratic Mills bill and the Re
publican Mckinley bill, is no longe
treated by them as an issue upon grea
and divergent principles of government
but as mere catering to different sec
tional and class interests. The attemp
i'm many States to wrest the Australian
ballot system from its true purpos'
. 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 70
the vote of the liquor power and sub
serviency to the money power has re
suited in placing these powers in tn
position of practical arbitrators of tn