Texas Almanac and State Industrial Guide for 1911 with Map Page: 45
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THE TEXAS ALMANAC. 45
Texas, in convention at Dallas, August
9, 1910:
1. We favor the submission by the
Legislature of the State of Texas to
the voters of Texas of a constitutional
amendment forever prohibiting the
manufacture, importation, exportation
and sale of all alcoholic beverages in
the State of Texas.
2. We favor the enactment by our
National Congress of a law prohibiting
the interstate traffic in alcoholic liquors
now permitted by the Federal Govern-
ment in those States and Territories
which have declared for State or local
prohibition.
3. We favor the enactment of a
law affording the people of the State
the privilege of the initiative, refer-
endum and recall of public officers who
fail to perform their official obligations.
4. We believe that the public roads
are arteries to commerce and prosperity
vital to the public welfare. We there-
fore advocate such policy in the build-
ing and maintenancec of good roads as
will stop the present wasteful and
futile methods and provide permanent
and durable highways.
5. We favor the payment of salaries
to all public officers and that all fees
and fines be turned into the public
treasuries for the benefit of the tax-
payers.
6. If elected to power, we promise
to abolish all unnecessary offices and
exercise the strictest economy in the
conduct of the State affairs.
7. We favor laws allowing the peo-
ple to determine whether they shall
own and control public utilities.
8. We favor the enactment of wise
laws for the abolition and prevention
of child labor.
9. We favor laws that will insure
to labor a fair share of the wealth it
helps to create, safe and sanitary con-
ditions for labor and such hours as will
insure time for culture and recreation,
and we believe that all disputes be-
tween capital and labor should be set-
tled by arbitration.
10. While rejoicing at the senti-
ment in favor of prohibition that has
been engendered by local option or no
license victories, we contend that the
-experience of forty years in fighting
the liquor traffic has demonstrated
that local option and county option are
not a final settlement of the liquor
problem and the only way to se-
cure effective prohibition is to elect
Prohibiton party men to office and that
it is the duty of every Prohibitionist
to use all his energy and resources to
secure National as well as State pro-
hibition through a party pledged
thereto.
11. We favor the amendment of
the present State election law so as
to allow each political party to choose
its own method of nominating con-
didates and selecting time of conven-
tions, subject only to such regulations
as shall guard against fraud.12. In view of the fact that the
Democratic and Republican parties in
Texas and throughout the nation are
hopelessly aligned with the liquor traf-
fic, we declare it as our conviction that
the only way to secure effective pro-
hibition is to elect Prohibitionists
to office, and this can be done only by
the concentration in one political party
of all of the enemies of the saloon.
13. We declare that the policy of
the present Legislature in refusing to
submit a prohibition amendment to the
people was not only a subversion of
the plain instructions that these rep-
resentatives received from the State
convention, but was a palpable out-
rage against popular government.
14. We declare that the only fair
and open-handed method for believers
in prohibition to adopt is to align them-
selves together in the Prohibition
party, both in State and nation. In
view of the platforms and policies of
both the Republican and Democratic
parties, there can really be no such
thing as a prohibition Democrat or a
prohibition Republican. The Repub-
lican party of Texas having placed in
its platform an out-and-out declara-
tion against the prohibition of the
liquor traffic, aligns that party logically
with the National Republican party,
which has betrayed the prohibition
cause in every State of the Union in
which it has attained to power The
disregard by a Democratic Legislature
of the instructions of its own party,
and the nomination of a saloon advo-
cate by the Democrats of Texas for
Governor of this State, together with
the attitude of that party as an ally of
the saloon, both in Texas and through-
out the entire United States, renders it
impossible for a man who in conscience
opposes the saloon to longer vote with
either of these two parties, which are
dominated, officered, manned and con-
trolled by the subsidized emissaries
and attorneys of the liquor traffic.
15. Believing profoundly that the
settlement of the liquor question is the
greatest issue now before the Ameri-
can people, and believing further that
there is absolutely no hope for the
ultimate prohibition of the liquor traf-
fic through either of the old political
parties of this country, we invite into
the ranks of the Prohibition party
every patriot who is on this issue
with us agreed.
16. When there are two or more
offices of the same kind to be filled by
the voters of any county, district or
precinct we believe that the place sys-
tem should be abolished and that those
receiving the highest vote should be
declared elected.
Socialist Platform.
Following is the text of the Socialist
platform adopted in convention at Cor-
pus Christi, August 9, 1910:
The Socialist party of Texas re-
affirms its allegiance to the principles
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