America's oldest 'third party, the Prohibition Party, has been striving
since 1869 to enhance the freedom and dignity of the individual and to
protect the welfare of the family. We're interested in many problems which
directly impact the home: debt, gambling, job insecurity, trivialized
education, spouse and child abuse, intrusive governmental regulations,
drinking, and more. We're interested in helping people help themselves
by voluntary association in a private enterprise economy. We're
interested in teaching personal responsibility. We're Americans,
original, old, and new, who love our country and what it stands for.
When you vote for the 'lesser of two evils,' that's exactly what you get.
But, when Prohibition Party candidates earn large protest votes, major
party politicians notice. When we join together and vote our consciences,
we do make a difference. If your state election officials do not
recognize the Prohibition Party, then register in another and influence
that party by voting in its primary, but please support the Prohibition
Party with your gifts and vote for Prohibition Party candidates at the
general election.
If you are a reform-minded conservative and a non-drinker, the Prohibition party wants you!
Attractively printed brochures containing the 1996 Prohibition Party platform are available from Action! Prohibitionists, Box 212, Needmore, PA 17238.
Prohibition Party Platforms
The 34th quadrennial convention of the Prohibition National Committee resolved to discontinue publishing The National Statesman.
Our Logo, the Camel
Influential political cartoonist Thomas Nast (1840-1902), he who gave the pachyderm to be the symbol of the Republican Party and the jackass for that of the Democratic Party, also gave the camel to the Prohibition Party. Nast drew for Harper's Weekly during the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
Nast chose the camel to represent the Prohibition Party because, like Prohibitionists generally, camels don't drink very often, and, when they do drink, they drink only water. Originally a dromedary, the symbol was later changed to the Bactrian camel in order not to be associated with the camel logo on Camel Cigarettes.
One of the most vexing disagreements between alcohol prohibitionists and moderationists concerns the use of the word 'wine' in the Bible. Each side quotes its own favorite verses of Scripture to justify its own viewpoint. And taken literally, the King James Version and most other translations do contradict themselves about 'wine.'
The issue can be resolved in one of two ways:
1. People who reject the doctrine of Biblical Inspiration consider the
Bible to be a collection of oral traditions derived from several Middle
Eastern societies. Some of these societies approved of drinking, others
did not. The contradictions among the Bible sources are therefore real
but are of no consequence.
2. People whose faith tells them that the Bible was inspired consider
the contradictions to be only apparent (not real) and explain them away
as errors in interpretation. The word 'wine' in olden times was used indiscriminately
to mean either fresh grape juice or fermented (alcoholic) grape juice.
The context in which the word is used tells the reader which meaning is
appropriate.
American English today uses the word 'cider' in the same way—'cider' can be either fresh apple juice (sweet cider) or fermented apple juice (hard cider). The context in which the word is used tells the reader which meaning to infer.
Two excellent books on the subject of Bible wines are Stephen M. Reynolds "The Biblical Approach to Alcohol" (US Council International Organization of Good Templars, 2926 Cedar Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55407) and Charles Wesley Ewing "The Bible and its Wines" (Prohibition National Committee, Box 2635, Denver, CO 80201).
Professor Reynolds has organized a foundation and charged it with producing
a new Bible translation in which the 'wine paradox' and other contradictory
passages in existing translations are reconciled. This 'purified translation'
is now being published and is available from the Lorine L. Reynolds Foundation,
702 Custis Road, Glenside, PA 19038.
--Editor
National Committee of the Prohibition Party 2007-2011 All actions of the private, invitational meeting of selected Prohibition National Committee members in June of 2003, held at Lakewood, Colorado, were declared null and void by an absolute majority of PNC members, meeting at Fairfield Glade, Tennessee on 5-6 September 2003. Officers
Executive Committee The National Committee of the Prohibition Party designates a nine-member executive committee, which makes any necessary policy decisions between national conventions.
National Committeemen
Each of the 50 states is entitled to two representatives on the National Committee. There are many vacancies in the above list. If you or someone you know would like to fill one of those vacancies, please contact the Prohibition National Committee. Click here to read the By-Laws of the Prohibition National Committee. |
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"Let
us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if
we do not lose heart"
- Galations 6:9(NKJV)