The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-01
PROHIBITIONISTS
 ON BROADER PLANE
NOT ONLY DO THEY INSIST ON
 STOPPING WHISKY TRAFFIC,
 BUT THE PLATFORM TAKES UP OTHER NATIONAL QUESTIONS.

Indianapolis, June SO.-The prohibition platform is as follws:
 The prohibition party, in national con- vention assembled at Indianapolis, June 90, 1904, recognizing that the chief end of all government is the establishment of righteousness and justice, and believing in the perpetuation of the high ideals pie and for the people, established by our fathers. makes the following declarations of principles and purposes:
 1. The widely prevailing system of the licensed and legalized sale of alcoholic beverages so injurious to individual in- terests, so inimical to public welfare so destructive to national health, and so subservient to the rights of great masses of our citizenship. that the destruction
 of the traffic is and for years has been the most important question in American politics
 2. We denounce the lack of statesman ship exhibited by the leaders of the dem ocratic and republican parties in their refusal to recognize the paramount i'm portance of this question and the cowar- dice with which the leaders of these par ties have courted the favor of those whose selfish interests are advanced by the continuation and augmentation of the traffic until today the influence of the liquor traffic particularly dominates na- tional, state and local government throughout the nation.
 8. We declare the truth, demonstrated by the experience of half a century, that fra fr which recognize it's right to exist in any form under a system of license or tax or regulation have proved powerless to re- move its evils and useless as checks upon it's growth. while the insignificant public revenues which have accrued therefrom have scared the public conscience against a recognition of it's iniquity.
 A. We call public attention to the fact proved by the experience of more than fifty years that to secure the enactment and enforcement of prohibitory legislation in which alone lies hope of the protec- ton of the people from the liquor traffic, it is necessary that the executive. legisla- tive and judicial branches of the govern ment should be in the hands of political party in harmony, with the prohibition principle and pledged to it's embodiment in law and to the execution of those laws.
 5. We pledge the prohibition party
  wherever given power by the suffrage of the people to the enactment and en- forcement of laws prohibiting the manu- facture. importation and sale of alcoholic beverages.
 6. We declare that there is not another issue of importance before the Ameri- can people today, but that the so-called issues upon which the democratic and re- publican parties seek to divide the cleo toral vote of the country are Tn large mart subterfuges, under the cover of which they wrangle for the spells of of- flee.
 '. Recognizing that the intelligent vot- CTS of the country may properly ask our attitude upon other questions or pubic concern. we declare ourselves in favor of;
 The impartial enforcement of all laws4
 The safeguarding of the peoples right by A rigid application of the principles of justice. to all combinations and organ izations of capital and labor.
 A more intimate relation between the neonle and the government by wise adaptation of the principle of initiative and referendum. ,
 The safeguarding to every citizen m every place under the government of the neonle of the United States of all the rights guaranteed by the laws ana the constitution.
 International arbitration. and we de- clare that our nation should contribute in every manner constant with natlonal dignity to the permanent establishment or peace between all nations.