Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-22
PROHIBITION PLATFORM,
Adopted by the National Prohibition
Convention at Cincinnati, June
80, 1899.

Adopted by the National Prohibition
Convention at Cincinnati, June
80, 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
81. 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. al 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
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
\ T.. A
lean politics is undeserving of the sup
port of the people.
-. 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 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.
Il. Tariffs should be levied only as 6
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 bt
raised by levying q burden on what The
people possess instead of upon what
they consume.
80. 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
sc. 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 fol
naturalization should be extended anC
no naturali2ed person should be al
lowed to vote until one year after HI
becomes a 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.
''8. Years of inaction and treachery
on the part of the Republican ant
Democratic parties have resulted il
| the present reign of mob law, and We
demand that every citizen be protected
in the right of trial by constitutions
tribunals.
20. All men should be protected 10y
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.
I'll. sPECULAT1oNs 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 ever
grant just pensions to disabled,veteran:
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 {
| 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 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 Oh
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-
lican and Democratic politics.
| '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