The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-11-28

The result accomplished in the late cleo
ton does not prove the folly of third party
men. On the contrary, it proves their
wisdom. Men seldom cry out unless they
are hurt If the hurt received by the Re
publican party is equal to their expressions
of wrath, they have been greatly damaged.
Why Prohibitionists should be 50 bitterly
denounced we cannot comprehend. Have
we not the right to organize political
party if we wish to? We are.stronger now
than the Free Soil party was in 1852. No
one will deny that the men who belonged
to the Free Soil party had just as much
right to exercise their privileges as citizens
as the men who belonged to the other
parties; and yet partisans in other parties
denounced them as disturbers of the public
peace The SUCCESSORS of Free Sellers OPP
pose Prohibtionists as bitterly as Wings
and Democrats opposed Free Sellers thirty
years ago. May not the men who fight us
now learn something by reading up the his
tory of their own party? Did abuse and
persecution retard the growth of the Anti
slavery party? Rather did it not add
heroic men to its ranks? Do the men who
oppose Prohibitionists by abuse expect to
break up the Prohibition party i'll this way?
Persecution and unmanly opposition only
strengthen the organization thus assaulted.
Our movement has not gone backward,
and it will not go backward We expect
to raise our own money and fight our own
battles. The threats that we will be
spurned from the Legislature, and that
our petitions will be thrown under the
table does not alarm us We are accus-
toned to that kind of treatment. We are
further threatened with free rum i'll Mill
Vile, Haddonfeld and other places. If the
threat means anything it means that these
people never did favor Prohibition but
that they always did favor free rum and
only pretended to be favorable to Prohibi-
ton for the purpose of securing our
votes.
Free rum does not frighten us for the
following reasons: First, free rum will
hasten the day of Prohibition, as pro
slavery encroachments FASTENED the day of
abolition. Second, there is no difference
between free rum and taxed rum as far as
the effects are concerned. Third, Prohi-
bitionists will not be harmed by free rum
more than the people who liberate the rum
monster. Fourth, rumselling is either a
curse or blessing. If it is a curse, what
may the people think of a party that through
spite will bring curse on all citizens be
cause it hates a few? If rumsellmg is a
blessing let all restrictions be taken away.
1t is also affirmed that Prohibition is
virtually dead for decade of years.
If Prohibition Is a corpse we predict
that it will create as much CONSERVATION
among it's enemies as was created by the
uprising of corpse at an Irish wake in
Brooklyn some years ago. The uprising
of the dead Irishman in the twinkling OF
an eve, and the uprising of this Prohibition
corpse will accomplish the same work
among politicians.
Let it be understood once for all that
Prohibitionists have but one object in view
and that is the overthrow of the liquor
traffic We are not seeking office, neither
are we seeking legislation for our own
particular good. We are seeking the well
fare of all the people. -1empeganc Gazette
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