The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-07-06
The Platform,
A synopsis of the platform adopted

SI,OUO were TedllZeu IN q lew ulu uteS.
The Platform.
A synopsis of the platform adopted
is as follows:
The national prohibition party, in con-
vention represented at Chicago. June q
and %. 1900, acknowledge Almighty God
as the supreme source of all just govern
ment. realizing that this republic was
founded upon Christian principles and can
endure only as 1t embodies justice and
righteousness, and asserting that all au-
thority should seek the best good of all
the governed. to this end wisely prohibit
ing what is wrong and permitting only
what is right, hereby records and pro-
claims:
Definition of Party.
We declare that there is no principle now
advocated, by any other party, which could
be made fact in government with such be-
neficent moral and material results as the
principle of prohibition, applied to the bev-
erage liquor traffic, that the national in
terest could be promoted in no other way
so surely and widely as by its assertion,
through national policy and the coopera-
ton therein of every state, forbidding the
manufacture, sale, expectation, importa-
ton and transportation of intoxicating
liquors for beverage purposes; that we
stand for this as the only principle, pro-
posed by any party anywhere, for the set
tlement of a question greater and graver
than any other before the American peo-
pie, involving more profoundly than any
other their moral future, and financial wei
fare; and that all the patriotic citizenship
of this country. agreed upon this prin-
ciple, however much disagreement there
may be to minor considerations and is
sues. should stand together at the ballot
box from this time forward, until prohibit
ton is the established law of the United
States, with party in power to enforce 1t
and to insure its moral and material bpne-
fits.
The Issue Presented.
The platform continues: 1--WE reaffirm
as true indisputably the declaration of
William Window when secretary of the
treasury in the cabinet of President Ar
thur, that, considered socially, financially,
politically or morally. the licensed liquor
traffic is or ought to be the Overwhelming
issue in American politics and that the
destruction of this iniquity stands next on
the calendar of the worlds progress. We
hold that the existence of our party pre-
sents this issue squarely to the American
people. and lays upon them the responsible
ity of choice between liquor parties, DOM
mated by distillers and brewers, with their
policy of saloon perpetuation breeding
waste wickednesS, woe. pauperism, taxa
ton, corruption and crime, and our one party
of patriotic and moral principle, with pol
icy which defends 1t from domination by
corrupt bosses and which ENSURES 1t for
ever against the blighting control of sa-
loon politics.
I'VE face with sorrow. shame and fear,
the awful fact that this liquor traffic has a
grip on opr government. municipal, state
and national, through the revenue system
and saloon sovereignty, which no other
party dares to dispute: grip which domin-
ates the party now in power, from caucus
to congress, from policeman to president,
from the rum shop to the white house, a
grip which compels the chief executive to
consent that law should be nullified in be-
half of the brewer, that the canteen shall
curse our army, and spread intemperance
across the seas, and that our flag shall
wave as the symbol of partnership, at home
and abroad, between this government and
the men who defy and define it for their
own profit and gain.
The President Arraigned.
1--WE charge upon President Mckinley,
who was elected to his high Office by ap-
peals to Christian sentiment and patriotism
almost unprecedented, and by a combina-
ton of moral influences never before seen
in this country, that. by mis- conspicuous
example as wine drinker at public ban
Quets, and as wine-serving host in the
white house, he has done more to encour-
age the liquor business, to demoraliZe the
temperance habits of young men, and to
bring Christian practices and require
ments into disrepute, than any other presi-
dent this republic has had. We further
charge upon President Mckinley respon-
sibility for the army canIeen, with all it's
dire brood of disease. immortality, sin and
death. in this country, in Cuba, in Porto
Rico and the Philippines: and We insist