The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-28

any other person. on any premises used
for military purposes by the United states
was, and is. as explicit an act Of prohibi-
ton as the English language can frame;
we declare our solemn belief that the 1T
torney general Of the United States, in his
Interpretation Of the law, and the secre-
tary of war in his acceptance of that in
depreciation and his refusal TO enforce the
law, were, and are, guilty OF reasonable
notification thereof. and that President
Mckinley, through his assent to and in
dorsement of such Interpretation and re-
fusal on the part of the officials appointed
by and responsible to him. shares RESPONSE
bility in their guilt: and we record our
conviction that a new and serious peril
confronts our country In the fact that its
President. at the behest of the beer power,
dares and does abrogate a law in Con-
gress. through s~ubordinates. removable at
and thus virtually confesses that laws are
to be administered, or to be nullihed In the
interest of a law-defying business. by an
administration under mortgage ~ such
business for support.
w deplore the fact that an admins
tration of this Republic claiming the right
and power to carry our flag across the seas
and to conquer and annex new territory
should admit its lack of power TO prohibit
the American saloon on subjugated soil or
should openly confess itself subject to the
liquor sovereignty under that flag. We are
Inundated, exasperated and grieved by the
evidence painfully abundant that this adj
ministratfOn's policy of expansion is bear
ing so rapidly its fruits OF drunkenness, in
sanity and crime under the dollhouse sun
of the tropics. and when the president OF
the first Philippine commission says IL was
unfortunate that We introduced and estab-
lished the saloon there TO corrupt the
natives and to exhibit the vices of our race.
We charge the inhumanity and unchristian-
iy of this act upon the administration OF
William Mckinley and upon the party
which elected and would p~erpetuate the
same.
W. declare that the only policy which
the government of the United States can of
right establish as to the liquor traffic under
the national Constitution upon any territory
under the military or civil control of that
government is the policy of prohibition;
that to establish justice, secure domestic
tranquility, provide for the common de-
Tense, promote the general welfare and in
sure the blessings of liberty to ourselves
and our posterity' as the Constitution pro-
vides the liquor rahic must neither be
sanctioned nor tolerated, and that the reve-
nue. policy, which makes our government
a partner with distillers and brewers and
DdFkeeperS, Is "A QlSgTdCe 10 our ClN1llZd-
ton, an outrage upon humanity and a crime
against God.
I'VE condemn the present administration
at Washington because IL has repealed 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 IL has entered upon a license pol
icy In our new possessions by Incorporating
the same in the recent act of Congress in
the code of laws for the government of the
Hawaiian islands.
I'VE call attention to the fearful fact that
expectation of liquors from the United
States TO the Philippines increased from
1897 IN 1898 to 1857 19s in the first ten months
of the fiscal year ending June /, 1900. and
that while our expectation of liquors to
Cuba never reached $4,000 a year previous
to American occupation of that island our
exports OF such liquors to Cuba during the
fiscal year of 1899 reached the sum of $685.
$50.
XXX
One great religious body (the Baptists)
having truly declared of the liquor traffic
that 1t has no defensible right to exist,
that ii can never be reformed, and that
1t stands condemned by its ~unrighteous
fruits as a thing unchristian, un-American
and perilous utterly to every interest in
life;' another great religious body (the
Methodists) having as truly asserted and
reiterated that no political party has a
right to expect. nor should 1t receive the
votes of Christian men so long as IL stands
committed to the license system or re-
fuses to put itself on record in an atti-
ture of opinion hostile TO the saloon;' other
great religious bodies having made SINH
lar deliverances, I'm language plain and
unequivocal as to the LIQUOR traffic and
the duty of Christian citizenship In opposi-
ton thereto; and the fact being plain and
ylndQniahle that the DQmOcraffp marty
stands for license, the saloon and the cam
teen, while the Republican party, in policy
and administration, stands for the an
teen, the saloon and revenue therefrom,
We declare ourselves justified in expecting
that Christian voters everywhere shall
cease their completely with the liquor curse
by refusing to uphold a liquor party, and
shall unite themselves with the only party
which upholds the prohibition policy 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 expanders and perpetrators, their
actual and persistent foe.
I'VE insist that no differences of be-
lief as to any other question or concern
or government should stand in the way of
such a union of moral and Christian citi-
zenship as we hereby invite. for the speedy
settlement of this paramount moral, in
dustrial, financial and political issue which
our party presents; and we refrain from
declaring ourselves upon all minor mat
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exist. that hereby We may offer to the
American people a platform that all can
stand upon who desire TO see sober cit
izenship actually sovereign over the allied
hosts OF evil, sin and crime in q govern
ment of the people. by the people and for
the people.
I'VE declare that there are but two real
parties to-day concerning the liquor traffic
--perpetuationists and prohibitionists, and
that patriotism. Christianity and every in
terest of genuine republicanism and of pure
democracy, besides the loyal demands of
our common humanity require the speedy
union In one solid phalanx at the ballot
box of all who oppose the liquor traffic's
p~erpetuation. and who covet endurance for
this Republic"
The platfrom was received with the wild
est enthusiasm. Every sentence in con-
demnation of President Mckinley was
greeted with shouts of approval and cries
of Hit him again. the delegates standing
on their chairs and yelling themselves
hoarse.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE QUESTION.
at have another resolution recommended
by the committee on resolutions" said Pro-
lessor Hopkins. He then read the follow
ing:
Resolved. That it Is the sense of this
convention that the right of ballot shall not
be denied any citizen on account of sex"
Ii was evident that leaving the woman
suffrage plank out of the platform was dis
tasteful to many delegates. and when Mrs.
Beauchamp, president Of the w. c. T. u.
of Kentucky took the plafform m advocate