The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-18
From the Temperance Gazette.

From the Temperance Gazette.
Jersey City has been greatly annoyed by
the influx of roughs on Sunday. On last Sab
bath thirty-two of these unwelcome visitors
from New York city were captured and jailed.
A town on Long Island, however, was not SO
successful in its efforts to rid itself of Sabbath
desecrators who made it absolutely unsafe for
ladies or children to venture on the streets
while their drunken orgies were in progress.
A determined effort was made to arrest the
brawlers A number of ex-polcemen were
imported from Brooklyn and large party of
citizens joined in to make things lively for the
law-breakers. But they failed signally. In
fact one saloon keeper threatened to have
the law-enforcing citizens arrested for act
ing without proper authority.
The fact is demonstrated every day that the
only way to successfully solve the liquor
question is to abolish the traffic itself. Give
rumseller the authority to sell on week
days, and he will sell on Sunday and election
days, in spite of all you can do This is
common history Give the rumseller the
right to sell rum to man, and he will sell to
the first minor that comes along, if he wants
to do so.
When you find some way to regulate gun
powder, SO that it will 60 off easy, then it
will be time enough to talk about regulating
rum and rumsellers.
Rum is consuming fire that feeds on viz
| tue and nourishes vice
The people of several towns in Gloucester
county have tried to prevent the court from
granting licenses to dramsellers in their re-
spective neighborhoods, but all to no pur-
pose. A new plan has been agreed upon,
that is to starve the dramshops to death.
Dramsellers who have obtained license to sell
liquor in Mullica Hill, Hurfville and Will
Jamestown know very well that the people are
opposed to the liquor business, still these
men remain to spread the curse of drunken
ness far and wide. The people will do what
the courts have refused to do, they will close
these dramshops by the starvation process.
In almost every town of west Jersey dram
shops can be closed in this way. Let the
supplies be cut off and dramsellers will go.
The best way to stop crime is to regulate it.
Prohibiting crime is failure. The daily pa
pers are filed with accounts of crime. Regu-
lation is what we want Let us have say $500
for stealing and $4,000 for murder. ALI
better class of criminals. To use the language
of member of the present assembly even
"houses of ill-fame may be regulated to adj
vantage" 1t is necessary to have criminals
always with us, therefore let us regulate
them.
The British army in India boasts of II, 600
abstainers from intoxicating drinks, who are
admitted to be better soldiers. and freer from
disease than their companions in arms who
indulge in the flowing bowl Such Boosting
is surely not in vain, and this item contains a
fact well worth the study of those who have
the good order, efficiency, and preservation of
our army in hand.
! Northern New Jersey is stirred on the tenn
perance question as it never was before. Re-
form clubs are being formed in almost every
city, Women's Christian Temperance Unions
are springing up, and other temperance organ
izations are receiving fresh recruits daily.
At this rate up Jersey will soon cease to be
the rum mems stronghold.
Prohibition in New York. The bill pro-
hibiting the manufacture of oleomargarine
passed the New York Senate on Tuesday.
The penalties range from 500 to $500.
What foolishness to prohibit oleomargarine.
Why not regulate it under high license law
Surely oleomargarine is not as dangerous or
harmful as alcohol.