Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1887 — THE WAR ON WHISKY. [ARTICLE]

THE WAR ON WHISKY.

Platform of the Anti-Saloon Republican

Party of New York. [Syracuse (N. Y.) speoial.l The Anti- Saloon Republican State Committee adopted a platform declaring that there is an irrepressible conflict between the liquor traflic and Christian civilization; that the saloon ought to be utterly extirpated, because the proprietors have combined in open war against the American Sabbath; that the compact between brewers and distillers has reached a point where the Republican party must accept the issue and with®“no uncertain sound declare determined hostility to these enemies of good morals and the sacred institutions of our land, or abandon their claims to be a party of law and order, opposed to vice and crime, anarchy and socialism.” The platform points to Pennsylvania as an example of success resulting from a bold stand, and favors prohibition amendments and local option and restriction by taxation.