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PROHIBITION.

PLATFORM.-"The Prohibition party.........declare: That the manufacture.........and sale of alcoholic beverages shall be made public crimes. and punished as such......... Prohibition must be secured through amendments of our national and state constitutions, enforced by ade quate laws.........organization demanded in state and Nation.........any party which supports regulation, license or tax, enters into alliance. with such traffic.........arraign the Republican and Democratic parties for their........favor of the licensed iniquity........ Declare for immediate abolition of the internal revenue system whereby government is deriving support from our greatest vice......... An adequate public revenue being necessary, it may properly be raised by import duties........so reduced that no surplus shall be accumulated in the treasury......taxation shall be removed from.........comforts and necessaries of life, and imposed on such.........as will give protection both to.........employer and......... laborer........ Appointments for all civil offices, chiefly clerical in their duties, should be based upon.........qualifications and not upon party service. The right of suffrage rests on no mere circumstance of race, sex or nationality, and where.........it has been withheld from citizens of suitable age and mentally and morally qualified.........it should be restored.........on educational basis......... Declare for the abolition of polygamy and......... for uniform laws governing marriage and divorce. To prohibiting all combinations of capital to control and increase the cost of products for popular consumption. For the preservation of the Sabbath as a civil institution without oppressing any who religiously observe the same on any.........day of the week. Arbitration is the Christian, wise and economic method of settling national differences, and should.........be applied to the settlement of disputes between........employees and employers; the abolition of the saloon would remove the burden......which now oppresses labor and robs it of its earnings, and would.........promote labor reform......... Invite labor and capital to unite with them........ Monopoly in land is wrong .........and the public land should be reserved for actual settlers......... Men and women should receive equal wages for equal work. Immigration laws should..........prevent the introduction of all convicts........ and of others physically incapacitated for self-support. No person should have the ballot in any state who is not a citizen of the United States...... Prohibition.........the dominant issue......... Invites full party fellowship with all.........agreed........ This party can and will

remove sectional differences and insure the best welfare of our entire land."

UNION LABOR.

PLATFORM.-"Appeal to the people........to aid Union Labor party to repeal.........class legislation......... Oppose land monopoly in every form......... Demand forfeiture of unearned grants.........limitation of land ownership.........corners in land as bad as corners in food.......nonresidents.........should not own land......... Homestead exemption to a limited extent........ Transportation shall be owned by the people, as is the postal system......... National monetary system........without intervention of banks, and loaned to citizens upon land security........ Postal savings banks......... Free coinage of silver......... Demand immediate.........payment of bonded debt, and condemn further issue of interest-bearing bonds......... National, state or municipal....... Arbitration should replace strikes.........contract convict labor should be prohibited.........contract system on public works abolished........hours. of labor reduced.........equal pay for equal work of both sexes........child labor prohibited......... A service pension to every soldier and sailor honorably discharged......... A graduated income tax......... Senators. elected by direct vote......... Enforcement of laws against contract foreign labor......... Exclusion of Chinese......... The right to vote, irrespective of sex......... Paramount issues.........abolition of usury, monopoly and trusts........ Denounce Republican and Democratic parties."

UNITED LABOR.

PLATFORM.-"It declares for the abolition of all taxes on industry and its products, and the taxation of land according to value.........the issue of legal-tender notes without the intervention of banks........government control of railroads and telegraphs..........the reduction of the hours of labor; the prohibition of child labor and convict competition .........sanitary inspection of tenements, factories and mines, and the repeal of 'conspiracy' laws......... Declares for the 'Australian' system of balloting; the simplification of legal procedure, and denounces the Democratic and Republican parties."

AMERICAN.

PLATFORM.-"All law-abiding citizens, native or foreign-born, are political equals......... No state voters who are not United States citi

zens......... All naturalization laws should be repealed......... Alien nonresidents not to own land......... Favor technical schools.........unsectarian education......... English only in the public schools........ Tariff no issue.......... Surplus for national defense........and efficient navy...... Office-holders must be citizens......... After 1898 voters must read and write......... Labor's right to organization, to government arbitration......... Restoration of marine......... No foreign flag displays.... Separation of Church and state.........Church property to be taxed....... Presidential term six years........single term."

remove sectional differences and insure the best welfare of our entire land."

UNION LABOR.

PLATFORM.—“Appeal to the people........to aid Union Labor party to repeal.........class legislation......... Oppose land monopoly in every form......... Demand forfeiture of unearned grants.........limitation of land ownership.........corners in land as bad as corners in food.......nonresidents.........should not own land......... Homestead exemption to a limited extent........ Transportation shall be owned by the people, as is the postal system......... National monetary system........without intervention of banks, and loaned to citizens upon land security......... Postal savings banks......... Free coinage of silver......... Demand immediate.........payment of bonded debt, and condemn further issue of interest-bearing bonds......... National, state or municipal....... Arbitration should replace strikes.........contract convict labor should be prohibited.........contract system on public works abolished........hours of labor reduced.........equal pay for equal work of both sexes.........child labor prohibited......... A service pension to every soldier and sailor honorably discharged......... A graduated income tax......... Senators. elected by direct vote......... Enforcement of laws against contract foreign labor......... Exclusion of Chinese......... The right to vote, irrespective of sex......... Paramount issues.........abolition of usury, monopoly and trusts........ Denounce Republican and Democratic parties."

UNITED LABOR.

PLATFORM. "It declares for the abolition of all taxes on industry and its products, and the taxation of land according to value.........the issue of legal-tender notes without the intervention of banks........government control of railroads and telegraphs..........the reduction of the hours of labor; the prohibition of child labor and convict competition .........sanitary inspection of tenements, factories and mines, and the repeal of 'conspiracy' laws......... Declares for the 'Australian' system of balloting; the simplification of legal procedure, and denounces the Democratic and Republican parties."

AMERICAN.

PLATFORM.-"All law-abiding citizens, native or foreign-born, are political equals........ No state voters who are not United States citi

zens......... All naturalization laws should be repealed......... Alien nonresidents not to own land......... Favor technical schools.........unsectarian education......... English only in the public schools........ Tariff no issue......... Surplus for national defense........and efficient navy.................... Office-holders must be citizens......... After 1898 voters must read and write........ Labor's right to organization, to government arbitration......... Restoration of marine......... No foreign flag displays........ Separation of Church and state......... Church property to be taxed....... Presidential term six years........single term."

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