The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-10-10
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EAVESDROPPINGS.

Temperance Fanatic.-''Say, Bill, see
by the Neus the city has placed an in
junction on the firm of Warner, Rhodes
& Co., preventing them from emptying
their Stops where it will pollute the drink
ing water of the city; or, in other words,
taken away their license to supply us with
mixed drinks"
License man-''Yes, so understand, and
they didn't do it moment too soon, either
Why it is just dreadful to think how they
have endangered the health of the people
for half the summer and all the moral sua-
sion used didn't have the least effect; so it
seems emiuently right and proper that the
law should interpose its mandates and
abate the nuisance: The greatest good to
the greatest number you know is sound
doctrine"
T. F.-''Yes | know, Bill, but what
harm do they do? They are engaged in a
perfectly legitimate business and certainly
OF great advantage to our town. Look at
the hundreds and thousands of dollars they
pay out weekly, and just see how our far
mers, and the whole community, in fact,
are benefited by them. Besides that they
have great deal of money invested in the
traffic, and now you want to take away
their rights. | am absolutely astounded at
your assumption"
L. M.-"Yes, but they furnish drink
that makes our people sick and"
T. F.-''Makes people sick? Do you
know of any made sick by it ? does it make
people quarrel and fight? neglect their
families and ultimately damn the souls
alike of those who drink and those who are
under the care of the drinkers?''
L. M.-''No, not that bad, but then it
isn't healthy"
T. F.-"Well, amt Warner, Rhodes &
Co., good fellows and gentlemanly, and
don't they run a model factory? You never
see disorderly men hanging around their
premises under the influence of their toma-
to juice do you ? Beside that, people don't
have to drink the tomato water if they
don choose to; there is plenty of well water
through town: don't be fanatic now and
try to prescribe everybody else Because they
don't think just as you do. Remember W.
X. & Co., pay heavy taxes TO the city and
you have no right to interfere with their
business"
L. M.-''Yes perhaps; but they GER
tainly have not the right to make every
body sick besides that the people have
some rights"
IT. F.-The people; oh yes, the people
have some rights | suppose"
L. M.-"Yes they have and if there was
10 other way of checking the evil, if the
company were deaf to the voice of entreaty
and the people apathetic on the question of
tomato juice, then We can elect majority
of anti-tomato Councilman and the thing
is fixed
T. F.-"Not so fast my friend; what if
the whole community are on one side; the
one man on the other can sometimes do
great deal. Bear in mind no matter how
good the cause there are always traitors to
it. Judas betrayed his Saviour, Benedict
Arnold his country, and there might be
some member of Council who could be
bri-,no, induced to stay away and let the
one man have his way after all. Things
are not always as they seem, by great
majority. Strikes. me there is a certain
man | could mention who has at this mo-
ment, and for some time past,a an injunction
against the prosecution Of his business, and
yet he goes on all the same, and if this
man be allowed to openly defy the law,
why not Warner, Rhodes & Co. as well?
Why not everybody in fact, is what
would like to know. No. no; it's all too
thin; people have no right to say man
shall do this or do that believe in the
good old doctrine of letting everyone do as
they please
l.. M.-"Well then, please to dry up,
will you - Bridgeton Ners.