Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1916-07-20

ed that whatever the technical name
OF his own party should be upon the
| official ballot this year, it would be
known hcnceforth as the Liberal Par
ty of the United States.
Expressing the evidently over
whelming sentiment of the conven-
ton, Chairman Polling assailed the
campaign of Miltaristic Prepared
ness, arraigned the Republican and
Democratic parties alike for what
he alleged to be an eXtravagant
waste of national funds, eulogized
Jane Adams, attacked at length the
activities Of the Navy League. and
after advocating unequivocal loyalty
to the Monroe doctrine, the estab-
lshment of world court of arbitra-
ton, international reciprocity of
trade radical reform in the treat
ment OF immigrants, the develop
ment Of national program for tho
constructive use of the United States
Army in time of peace, and the i'm
mediate enactment by federal stat
ute and amendment of woman's SUI
fraGe and various social reforms, he
concluded his plea with the dictum
that "Prohibtion spells Prepared
ness" and that the hour had come
to change the popular slogan among
temperance forces of National Pro-
hibition in 1920 to the compaign
battle cry "A National Prohibition
President in 1916"
In summing up his outline Of the
party's prospective campaign, which
calls for whirlwind campaign back
ed by a million dollar war fund, with
two million homes reached directly
with Prohibition argument before
November 7th, Mr.. Polling detailed
as the nucleus for the party's ma
tional declaration this year the fol-
lowing. which he termed
"THE HIGH COVENANT" =.
ITO the people of this nation we
pledge ourselves to begin immediate
! ly on election to power an authorized
campaign to establish a world court;
and we further pledge that VIC will
move at once to secure reciprocal
trade arrangements with the conn-
tries from whom we purchase and to
whom we sell.
I'VE will proclaim our construc-
| tive program to secure the practical
brotherhood of the nations And as
we move to stop the slaughter OF
war, remembering the unnnmbered
dead, the unnnmbered unborn cursed
by alcohol, we will Immediately de-
prive the liquor traffic of the use OF
the mails, take from it the protec-
tion of interstate commerce, place
upon it a prohibitive tax, move to
accomplish prohibition amendment
to the Constitution
"And Thus We Will Stop the Greater
Slaughter of Peace"
1--WE pledge ourselves to fortify
the nation, to make her citadel in
pregnable, but to conserve her hu-
man and natural resources with ev-
cry dollar that builds her army and
her fleet. We covenant with the peo-
pie to take private profit out OF
war, and to punish the traitors who
placed rotten armor between our
country's defenders and their Toes.
And we solemnly swear to mako our
preparation, preparation for peace.
harmonized to every ideal OF tho
Democracy whose message must not
fail, for it is the hope message OF tho
world. And we will not forget that
Prohibition spells Preparedness
1--WE go forth to champion the un-
restricted political rights of woman
hood and demanding an ample JUS
tice for little children. And In every
effort made for social justice We viii
remember that the supreme tangible
foe of motherhood, her most bitter
enemy when she asks for the ballot.
and the Judas Iscariot Of her SONS
and daughters, is King Alcohol"