The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-05-09

and its friends in the last issue of the W000s-
toaon Register AS much as the editor of the
latter may desire it, we do not propose to
manage THE MONITOR to suit his wishes
The n-attendance of temperance people
from Woodstown at the recent meeting OF the
Salem County Temperance Alliance is attrib-
uted to the friends of The MONITOR. If so,
how did it happen that there were several
other places in the county that were not rep
resented !? and how did it come to pass that
he who claims to be the great temperance
champion, the editor of the Register, did not
put in an appearance He certainly was not
under their baleful influence. And why did
he not urge, through the columns of his pa
per, the attendance of others? Has it ever
been his habit to attend these meetings, and
did he ever become SO deeply interested in
the cause of temperance, until he began to
abuse the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of Woodstown SO recently organized
Does any one recall word he has said IN
favor of temperance, except when he has
taken occasion to find fault with those he
calls his enemies? He claims that his paper
is in favor of temperance AS an illustration
of its temperance tone we note the Saloon
Keepers Prayer" published in its columns
not long ago. thing SO rebellious to common
sense and christian decency, the very SAVIOR
of which smelled rank of nastiness and ri
baldry. Also his praise of the Woodstown
House, always its champion-making obei-
sance to "mine host, as he is fond of styling
its proprietor-his defense of the same in his
Justification of this proprietor's trial in the
Salem court, and his repeated abuse of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
The reference to the publication of the
Temperance Gazette and the Qui Wee has
nothing whatever to do with The MONITOR
or the temperance people of Woodstown,
who had nothing to do with either. This
matter is merely dragged in to assist him in
venting his spleen upon The MONITOR which
has never asked and does not desire any
favors at his hands. He says he wished this
paper in its outset Godspeed The only
notice his paper ever gave THE MONITOR was
of the character Pope speaks of in his epistle
to DR.. Arbuthnot as "Damning with faint
praise"
The attempt to break him down. as he
terms it, by the communication of OK" to
the Salem Standard, and g Fair Play to the
Temperance Gazette, was defense against
his ungentlemanly attack upon the ladies of
the Womans Christian Temperance Union,
and a reply to his falsfcations in regard to
the trial of the proprietor of the Woodstown
House at Salem year ago last October, when
Judge Reed said that had the case come be-
fore him on an indictment by the grand jury
there was sufficient evidence to convict.
These articles were unanswerable. He never
attempted to answer them, but was exceed
ingly anxious to ascertain who the author of
the article in the Gazette was, that he might
go for him, F." as he expressed it. This ap-
pears to be invariably his rule, to go for
the author and not the article although he
is extremely averse to personalities, when
used by others.
The temperance column in the tStanc1ord
was contracted IOr before lHE MONITOR was
established. An agreement was entered into
by member of the Womans Christian Tenn
perance Union on her own responsibility (the
Union having no knowledge of the transac-
tom, and that paper, for a specified time,
and at the expiration of that time there was
no further need of it, as there was then
newspaper in Woodstown, through which
members of the Union could communicate
Temperance contributions viz The MONITOR
1t is well known that the Register closed it's
columns against the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union, and that they were driven
elsewhere The MONITOR was the result.
| The Register further says that " a personal
enemy, as we have every reason to suppose
since, urged one to send in a lot of abuse for
publication, &C." We know nothing of this
further than to say that our knowledge of the
editor of the Register calls to mind the saying
of Shakespeare, that +" trifes light as air are
to the jealous combinations strong as proofs
of holy writ"
1t also says that " the malicious purpose of
our enemies came out soon in attacks upon
the borough, ETC." We understand by this
that any criticism of the borough manage
ment is an attack upon the editor of the
Register. This is something new to us. The