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The Public Weal, June, 1906, p. 1

The Prohibition party stands for justice for labor. It also stands for the death of labor's worst enemy, the liquor traffic, by the only sure method -- immediate total prohibition by a party pledged to enforce it.

The Prohibition party stands for law enforcement. It also stands for the common sense of depriving of state protection and sanction the one most dangerous and powerful lawbreaker of the land -- the legalized liquor traffic. It will not cease its fight on this public enemy until the "trade" is dead.

The Prohibition party stands for the principle that the right of suffrage should depend upon the mental and moral qualifications of the citizen. It also believes that the annihilation of 240,000 saloons, now protected by the United States, would do more than any other single thing to raise the standard of those qualifications and insure clean elections.

The Prohibition party stands for an expert omnipartisan tariff commission that will fix import rates to suit the people and not the trusts. But it also believes that there should be a fixed tariff on all intoxicating liquors that will absolutely stop their importation and a padlock so fixed on every saloon door in America that it cannot sell damnation to the people for a price.

No Republican and no Democratic candidate for legislative or executive office can by any possibility represent the principles of a Prohibitionist. He may be a "good man." He may be a "better man" than his opponent in some respects; but the principles which he represents regarding the greatest of all political questions are principles absolutely contrary to those held by Prohibitionists. And the Prohibitionist who votes for a Democratic candidate or for a Republican candidate, is voting against his own principles - voting that what he believes shall not be adopted as the policy of government.

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