The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-07-11
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that some new phase of this awful liquor
crime forces itself upon our attention; men
and women, young and old, cultured and ig-
norant alike fall by the power of this mon
ster evil. No man is bold enough to cham
pIon the crime on its merits the men who
plead for the liquor traffic endeavor to show
what it may be; none are foolish enough to
plead for it on the ground of what it now is
High license advocates tell us about the good
time coming, but no John Baptist is heard
John Barleycorn has come. The liquor traf-
fic is an acknowledged evil at the present
time, but golden period is to come where it
shall be regarded as the greatest blessing that
man can enjoy-the s,tnsnuns b0num that sor-
rowing humanity is longing for Practical
men and women are, however, asking, s'What
shall be done to remove the evil as it now ex-
lists Z" We have nothing to do with the DRAM
shop that is to be; the dram-shop as it is to-
day is the thing that we want destroyed. The
dram-shop of to-day is running our men and
boys; great army of them are staggering
under curse that is more than they can
bear. Money, character, business family,
health, all have been swept away by this
cruel demon, while nothing is left to them
but blighted life, a drunkard's grave and
drunkard's hell. We ask thoughtful voters:
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no
physician there? Why, then, is there no
help for these people? If some men are
weak, we who are strong ought to bear their
burdens and SO fulfil the law of Christ. If we
who are sober and strong in our moral man.
hood open, or allow to be opened, traps and
snares by which our weaker brethren are TAX
EN- and destroyed, will not just God hold us
to strict accountability for our wickedness
1t is the duty of the state to protect its SUBJ
jects not to open pitfalls and snares to destroy
them. There is protection for every man,
woman and child against every enemy but the
enemy of strong drink There is also pro-
lection for animals and protection for bust
ness, protection for every person and thing
except our boys and men from the demon of
alcohol. Why is it that class of men who
neither fear God nor regard man are allowed
to curse and destroy the rising manhood of
our nation by the sale of alcoholic poison
If our churches were to lead men to do what
dram-shops lead them to do the people would
rise in arms against the churches and close
them. Why, then, do no. the people close
the dram-shops? We answer,-because the
men who manipulate political parties will not
allow the people to meet the issue squarely
To show the advantage of a first-class hotel
or saloon we state the following fact: In a
pleasant New Jersey town there is a hotel
keeper who maintains an orderly house He
furnishes young men with drawing ROOM"
in which there is an organ, library with
moderately good selections of books, and the
landlords daughters sing, play and read for
the edifcation of the young gentlemen who
pstronize the place. The young men referred
to do not go into the barroom, neither do they
mingle with the baser class who go there.
! When this side entertainment was first in
augurated number of leading citizens
thought that the hotel question was solved
and that from henceforth there would be no
further danger for respectable young men.
But, alas these good citizens have already
found that the more respectable the dramshop
the greater its danger. The young men who
began the drinking habit in the drawing
room have already commenced to patronize
the public bar. Young men who would never
have commenced career of drunkenness in
barroom where the lower classes congregate
have been SHARED by the superior wisdom of
the dramseller, and now their sorrowing
parents are asking What shall be done to
destroy this most dangerous place ?"
Respectable dramshops, so called, prepare
victims for the lowest slums.
Whiskey men keep telling temperance men
to enforce the present laws. They say these
laws would be good enough if enforced. Ad-
hitting this to be true (which we assuredly do
mott what is to be done if the laws cannot be
enforced as is the case in Nyack, N Y. 4?
Elsewhere will be found an account of the I'M
successful effort made against an unlicensed
rumseller. Study, conservative friend, that
little paragraph. There is world of mean
ing in it. When unfaithful jurors ignore
facts and let criminals go scot free, without
rebuke from the court, what is the use of tenn
perance men and order-loving citizens employ
ing detectives and personally investigating