The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-05-02
HIGH LICENSE, THE MONOPOLY
OF ABOMINATION.
Dr. Talmages Sermon, Preached Sunday Morning,
April 6, 1884.

April 6, 1884.
SIT is not lawful to put them into the treasury,
because it is the price of blood."-MATT. 27:6
The First Potters Fyeld-The Liquor Traffic
To be Restrained Controlled, or Stopped-Ef-
tects of Making Monopoty--To Make the 1rdt-
fc Respectable-The Rash rather than the Car
b,t,acLe-High License Anti-American-Di scrina-
nation of Cldsses-The Half-Lodf Ptea-Ap-
piled TO other Matters-A Half Bridge-Com-
1ronaise acith all Ldao- Bredkers-High License
for Theft-For Btasphemy-For M,u'der-Anti-
Common Sense Why a Manufact,oe, acent to
Georgia-THR Courage of Ioocd-Fdattue OF
Hiqh License in Nebraska-High License a Flag
of T-uce-FIght the Battle out Victory Ger
tain
For fifteen dollars Judas Iscariot had sold
Christ. Under thrust of conscience or in
disgust that he had not made more lucrative
thing out of it, he pitches the rafting shek-
els on the pavement What to do with the
conscience money, is the question. Some
say, "Put it into the treasury" Others say,
'It isn't right to do that, because we have
always had an understanding that blood mon
ey or a revenue obtained by the sale of human
life must not be used for governmental or re-
ligious purposes" So they decide to take
the money and purchase place to bury pau
pers picking out rough and useless piece of
ground all covered over with the broken ware
of an adjoining pottery, they set apart
THE FIRST PoTTER's FIELD.
So you see the relations of my text when it
says, sit is not lawful to put them into the
treasury, because it is the price of blood"
We are at point in reformatory move
ments in this country where it is proposed to
restrain or stop the traffic in ardent spirits by
compelling the merchant thereof to pay a
large sum, say $500 or 81, 600 as Incense.
1t is said that this will have tendency to
close up all the small drinkeries which curse
our cities, and only few men can afford to
sell intoxicating drink. This
MONEY RAISED BY HIGH LICENSE.
will help support the poorhouses, where there
are widows and orphans sent there by the dis
sipations of husbands and fathers. Don't
you see? This high tax will help support
the prisons in which men are incarcerated for
committing crimes while drunk. Don't you
see? This high tax will help support the
court of oyer and terminer, whose Judges,
and attorneys, and constables, and juries, and
police stations, and court rooms find their
chief employment in the arraignment, trial,
and condemnation of those who offend the
law while in state of insobrlety Don't you
see? How any man or woman IN favor OF
the great temperance reform can be SO
hoodwinked as not to understand that thus
high license movement is the surrender of all
the temperance reformation for which good
men and women have been struggling for the
last sixty years, is to me an amazement that
eclipses everything.
Ny subject is, :" High License, the Monop-
oily of Abomination" Do you realize, as by
mathematical demonstration, that the
ONE RESULT
of this high license movement, and the one
result of the closing of small establishments
if that were the resultant the opening of a
few large establishments, will be to make
rum-selling and drinking highly respec-
table? These drinkeries in Brooklyn and
New York are SO disgusting that man will
not risk his reputation by going in them;
and if young man should be found coming out
from one of those low establishments he would