Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1895-01-08
NATIONAL PLATFORM
OF the Prohibition Party, Adopted at Gin
cinnati, Ohio, Jsne 80, 1892.

OF the Prohibition Party, Adopted at Gin
| cinnati, Ohio, Jsne 80, 1892.
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 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
ization, the arch enemy OF popular
government and public nuisance. IL
| is the citadel of the forces that corrupt
politics, promote poverty and crime
degrade the Nations home life, thwarf
the will of the people and deliver oul
country into the hands of rapacious
class interests. All laws that, under
the guise of regulation, legalize and
protect this traffic, or make the Gov.
eminent share in it's ill-gotten gains
are ''vicious in principle and powerless
as remedy" We declare anew fol
| the entire suppression of the manufac
ture, sale, importation, expectation and
transportation of alcoholic liquors as g
beverage by Federal and State legisla
ton. The full powers of Government
should be exerted to secure this result
No party that fails to recognize the
dominant nature of this issue in Amer.
lean politics deserves the support 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.
81 The money of the country should
consist of gold, silver, and paper, and
| be issued by the general Government
only, and in sufficient quantity to meet
the demands of business and give full
opportunity for the employment of la
Dor To this end an increase in the
volume of money is demanded, Nc
individual or corporation should be al
lowed to make any profit through its is
sue. 1t should be made legal tender
for the payment of all debts, public
and private. Its volume should be fix
ed at a definite sum per capita, and
made to increase with our increase in
population.
AZ Tariff should be levied only as g
defense against foreign governments
which levy tariff upon, or bar out oul
products from their markets, revenue
being Incidental. The residue of mean.
necessary to an economical admins
tration of the Government should bt
raised by levying the burden on wha
the people possess, instead of upon wha
they consume. ~
(5j Railroad, telegraph, and Other
public corporations should be CONTROL
ed by the Government in the interest
of the people, and no higher charge:
allowed than necessary to give fair in
terest on the capital actually invested
(6) Foreign immigration has become
a burden upon industry, one OF the fac
tors in depressing wages and-eausint
discomfort; therefore, our immigration
laws should be revised and strictly en-
forced. The time of residence for nat
uralization should be extended, and NJ
naturalized person should be allowed
to vote until one year after he becomes
a citizen.
ca Nonresident aliens should no
be allowed to acquire land in this coun
| try. and we favor the limitation of in
| diyidual and corporate ownership O
land. All unearned grants of lands tt
railroad companies or other corpora
tions should be reclaimed.
81 Years of ipaction and treacher,
on the part of the Republican ant
Democratic parties have resulted il
the present reign of mob law, and W,
demand that every citizen be protect
ed in the right of trial by constitution
al tribunals.
(9)All men should be protected b!
law in their right to one day of rest il
seven.
QO) Arbitration is the wisest and mos
economical and humane method of set
Ting national differences.
I'D Speculations in margins, tn,
cornering of grain, money and prod
4 ucts, and the formation of pools, trusts
and denominations for the arbitrary ad
vancement of prices should be sup
pressed.
/ l12) We pledge that the Prohibition
Party, if elected to power, will evel
grant just pensions to disabled veter
ans of the Union army and navy, theil
widows and orphans.
Q3) We stand unequivocally for the
American public school and opposed
to any appropriation of public moneys
for sectarian schools. We declare thai
only by united support of such com
mon schools, taught In the English Ian
guage, can we hope to become and re
main homogeneous and harmonious
people.
Q4) We arraign the Republican ane
Democratic parties as false to the stand
ards reared by their founders; as faith
less to the principles of the illustrious
leaders of the past to whom they de
homage with the lips, as recreant te
the higher law, which is as infexible IL
political affairs 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