DECLARATION OF POLITICAL PRINCIPLES

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXXII, Issue 5708, 8 January 1876, Page 2 (Supplement)

DECLARATION OF POLITICAL PRINCIPLES

I. That it is neither right noi politic tor the State to afford legal pioteetum .uul j sanction to anj tiaflic 01 system that tends . to increase unine. to waste the national resources, to corrupt the social habits, and to dest>oy the health and lives ot the people. II. TliTlt the traihe in intoxicating hquois, as common beveiages, is inimical to the true interests of individuals, and dcstiucthc of the order and welfare of society, and ought, therefore, to be prohibited III. That the lustoiy and lesults of all , past legislation, in n'sjaid to the lujiior traffic, abnndanth pio\c that it is impos- ' sible, satisfactorily, to hunt or regulate a system so essentially mischevous m its tendencies. IV. That no consideration of prn ate gain > or public revenue can justify the upholding of a system so utterly viong in principle, suicidal in policy, and disastrous in results, as the traffic in intoxicating liquors. V. That the legislative piohibition of the liquor traffic is perfectly compatible a\ ith | rational liberty, and with all the claims of i justice and hgitiinate commeico. VI. That the legislative suppie&sion of the liquor traihc would be highly conducive to the development of a piogressive civilisation. VII That, using above cla^, sectarian, 01 [ party considerations, all good i lti/cus should ( conilmu 1 toiuocuic auenaclmcut, piohilntmg thesale of intoxioatingbeM'i.i;;v-, \itouling most cllicient aid m leiuov uil; tin appalling evil o c uitoiupoiaine