Our Presidents and how we make themMcClure, Alexander K. (Alexander Kelly)
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Our Presidents and how we make them
McClure, Alexander K. (Alexander Kelly)
Presidents -- United States -- Election
1. The legal prohibition in the District of Columbia, the Territories,
and in every other place subject to the laws of Congress, of the
importation, exportation, manufacture, and traffic of all alcoholic
beverages as high crimes against society; an amendment of the national
Constitution to render these prohibitory measures universal and
permanent; and the adoption of treaty stipulations with foreign powers
to prevent the importation and exportation of all alcoholic beverages.
2. The abolition of class legislation and of special privileges in the
Government, and of the adoption of equal suffrage and eligibility to
office without distinction of race, religious creed, property, or sex.
3. The appropriation of the public lands in limited quantities to
actual settlers only; the reduction of the rates of inland and
ocean postage; of telegraphic communication; of railroad and water
transportation and travel to the lowest practicable point by force
of law, wisely and justly framed, with reference not only to the
interests of capital employed, but to the higher claims of the general
good.
4. The suppression by law of lottery and gambling in gold, stocks,
produce, and every form of money and property, and the penal
inhibition of the use of the public mails for advertising schemes of
gambling and lotteries.
5. The abolition of those foul enormities, polygamy and the social
evil, and the protection of purity, peace, and happiness of homes by
ample and efficient legislation.
6. The national observance of the Christian Sabbath, established by
laws prohibiting ordinary labor and business in all departments of
public service and private employment (works of necessity, charity,
and religion excepted) on that day.
7. The establishment by mandatory provisions in national and State
Constitutions, and by all necessary legislation, of a system of free
public schools for the universal and forced education of all the youth
of the land.
8. The free use of the Bible, not as a ground of religious creeds, but
as text-book of the purest morality, the best liberty, and the noblest
literature, in our public schools, that our children may grow up in
its light, and that its spirit and principles may pervade the nation.
9. The separation of the Government in all departments and
institutions, including the public schools and all funds for their
maintenance, from the control of every religious sect or other
association, and the protection alike of all sects by equal laws, with
entire freedom of religious faith and worship.
10. The introduction into all treaties hereafter negotiated with
foreign governments of a provision for the amicable settlement of
international difficulties by arbitration.
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