A Comprehensive Platform.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 13, 1912:
    The platform of the Prohibition Party, adopted by the National Convention at Atlantic City, is a model of its kind. Besides its denunciation of the traffic in alcoholic drink, which is as strong as befits the subject, it has planks favoring female suffrage, uniform marriage and divorce laws, direct elections of Senators, a single term of six years for the President, settlement of all international disputes by arbitration, the initiative, referendum, and recall, a Federal income tax, a Federal inheritance tax, the abolition of child labor, the suppression of polygamy and all immorality, "and other features."
    The "other features," of course, are the prohibition of vaccination and vivisection, and the acceptance by the Government of the Baconian authorship of Shakespeare's plays. These "features" are needed to round out the platform, and we must assume that they were overlooked by the reporters. Thus completed, no declaration of political and moral principles could be stronger or more inspiriting. The Prohibitionists have outdone the Socialists in the platform matter, and they have made the declarations of the two old parties seem piffling. Col. Roosevelt must look to his laurels.