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the right and power to carry our flag
across the seas and to conquer and an
mex new territory. should admit its lack
or power to prohibit the American saloon
on subJugated soil, or should openly con-
TESS itself subject to liquor sovereignty
under that flag We are Inundated. ex-
asperated and gTieved by the evidence
painfully abundant that this administra-
ton policy OF expansion is bearing SO
rapidly it's fruits of drunkenness, in
sanity and crime under the dollhouse
sun Of the tropics and when the presi-
dent Of the first Philippines commission
says It. was unfortunate that I'VE in
troduced and established the saloon there
to corrupt the natives and to exhibit the
vices of our race.
We charge the inhumanity and UNI
Christianity of this act upon the admin
1stratiOn of William Mckinley ard upon
the party which elected and would per
petuate the same.
s. We declare that the only policy
which the government of the United
States can OF right estAof sh as t. the
liquor traffic under the national cOGsti-
tuition in any territory under military or
civil control Of that government, is the
policy of prohibitions; that to establish
justice, secure domestic tranquility, pro-
vide for the common defense, promote
the general welfare and insure the bless
ingS of liberty to ourselves and our pos
terity, as the constitution provides, the
liquor traffic must neither be sanctioned
nor tolerated and that the revenue poll
cy, which makes our government d part
ner with distilierS and brewers and bar
keepers is a disgrace to our civilization.
an outrage upon humanity and crime
against God.
We condemn the present administra-
ton at Washington because it has repeal
ed the prOhibitOry laws in Alaska, and
has given over the partly civilized tribes
there to be the prey of the American grog
shop; and because it has entered upon Il
license policy in cur new possessions by
Incorporating the sale in the recent act
Of n n
government of the Hawaiian islands.
We call general attention to the fearful
fact that expectation Of liquors from tn
United States TO the Philippine Islands
increased from 1897 in 1893 to 1851 1873 IN
the first ten months Of the tiscaf year
ending June l, 1900; and that while our
expectation of liquors to Cuba never
reached $4,000 year, previous to Ameri-
can occupation of that island, and our eX
ports of such liquors to Cuba. during the
fiscal year of 1859, reached the sum OF
1929, 655.
CALL TO MORAL CITIZENSHIP
6. One great religious body Che Bap-
tists) having truly declared Of IN. qu r
traffic that it has no defensib,c right to
exist that it can never be reformed and
that il stands condemned by it's UPRIGHT
eous fruits as a thing un-Christian, IN
American and perilious utterly to- every
interest in life" another great rel!gi us
body Ghe Methodists) having as truly as
serted and reiterated that no po.iti al
party has a right TO expect nor should
receive, the votes Of Christian men 50
long as it stands committed to the license
system or refuses to put itself on record
in an attitude of open hostility 10 the
salOCn;" other great religious bodies haV
ing made similar deliverances in language
plain and unequiVOcal as to the iiquCr
traffic and the duty OF Christian citizen
ship in opposition thereto; and the fact
being plain and undeniable that the Dem
Ocratic party stands for license, the Sa-
loon and the Canteen, while the RepUb-
nAI1cV a
ton stands for the canteen, the saloon
and revenue therefrom. we declare our
selves justified in expecting that Chris
tan voters everywhere shall cease Chair
completely with the liquor curse by re-
fusing to uphold a liquor party, and
shall unite themselves with the only
party which upholds the prohibition pol
icy, and which for nearly thirty years
! has been the faithful defender OF the
| church, the state, the home and the
school, against the saloon, its eXplndels
ard perpetrators, their actual and persis-
| tent foe.
The platform was received with the
widest enthusiasm Every sentence In
| condemnation Of President Mckinley was
greeted with shouts of approval and cries
of 'Hit him again" the delegates stand
ing on their chairs and yelling themselves
hoarse.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE PLANK.
81 have another resolution recommended
/ by the committee on resolutions" said
| Prof. Hopkins. He then read the follow
| ing:
"Resolved That it is the sense OF this
convention that the right Of ballot should
not be denied a citizen on account Of
sex"
1t was admitted that, leaving the WON
! an suffrage plank cut of the platform
was GistastefuI to many delegates, and
when Mrs. Beauchamp, presilCnt of the
| w. c. T. T.. of Kentucky, took the plat
form to advocate an equal suffrage plank
she was wildly applauded. a picture Of