Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1905-09-01

Its adherontS, JnOuSn @M2$A
slow to learn, have not a 1l
withstanding a Las
learned the lesson, that
the party structure must ZV
be built like any other,
viz. from the foundation
upward instead of from ~
the capstOne downward.
In other words, that the minor c,.df offlees t,es
must be captured, and in SO doing the
people of the voting precincts must oe
educated, and that this will lay. the foun-
aation e.aus !, for the capture OF the higher Oh
DoUBLED ITS VOTE IN TWO CAM
PAlGNS.
Other interesting Facts, More or less
Unfamiliar, about the Prohibition
Party.
In the last two presidential elections,
instead of rapidly diminishing vote,
predicted by politicians who cared lit
tie and knew less about it's thorough
state and national organization, the
official figures show that the Prohibi-
ton party has made more than 100
per cent gain over it's vote in 1896.
Nearly 500 Prohibitionists have been
elected on straight Prohibition party
tickets in thirteen different states.
Three Prohibitionists were elected by
their party to the 1905 legislature OF
Illinois. Venango county, Pa, now
has nearly 300 Prohibition party can
didates in office alone.
There is no "off year" for the Pro-
hibitionist. He is preaching his poll
tics and canvassing for recruits from
the end of one presidential .quadren-
mum straight through to the next
The Prohibitionists circulate broad
cast throughout the country every
wear more than 1000 tons OF leaflet
and periodical literature, packed with
argument and information relative to
their party's principles.
The Prohibition party's national vote
in 1904 for Silas G. Swallow for pres1-
dent was 258,787 and the state casting
the largest vote was Illinois, with 34,-
ITO. Nearly 100 weekly newspapers
of local, state and national circulation
now heartily support the issues OF that
PARTY. Nearly all the church press in
the country are friendly to it's dom1-
nant principles, and a rapidly 1ncreas-
ing number of Independent papers ed
itorially acknowledge the truth OF It's
issues.
The Party's Issues.
What does the Prohibition party
stand for? Here, in brief, is the ma
tional platform to which it is bound
until 1908:
The destruction of the license system,
the most important question IN American
politics. 49,,
prohibiting and abolishing the manufac-
ture importation, transportation ana SAFE
of alcoholic beverages
The impartial enforcement OF az az !aM.
The safeguarding of the peoples rights
by rigid application OF the prlnclpies Oh
Justice to ali combinations and organlza-
tions of capital and labor.
right of suffrage should depend upon the
mental and moral qualifications OF the
citizen ~.
people and the government by a wise ap-
plication of the principle OF the lnltla-
tive and referendum.
by their own personal influence. The
call is now to every Prohibitionist in
America to go out and preach the
principles of Prohibition, not on the
platform nor from the pulpit, nor the
public desk, but each to his next-door
neighbor, to his bosom friend, his
classmate at college, his shopmate in
the factory, his fellow clerk in the
store, his comrade at the club or his
business partner or patron in the Of
flee. That is the need of the hour.
Let us pray to God, not for eloquence
or the arts of oratOry so much as Tor
the power to use the influence we
each of us possess with the one or the
ones nearest at hand who are most
susceptible to that Influence, and then
in Gods name win them and hold them
fast. There is no other highway to
Victory.