The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-08

The Burlington County Temperance ALI
ance has unanimously resolved to abandon
that organization and cast its lot with the
prohibition party. The latter will hold a
Convention at Mount Holly in September
to nominate country ticket and candidate
for Congress.
There is this much to be said of the
Prohibitionists who assembled i'll National
Convention at Pittsburg They constituted
a most unselfsh body OF men and women ;
they We're not i'll quest of custom houses,
post-offices, or other forms of political
flesh-pots; they earnestly believed in what
can be said of some other conventions.
1t is to be admitted that the temperance
people are more nearly united in their
ideas than heretofore. and are striking
direct. The issue now raised-that of
national constitutional prohibition-is sure
to be pressed to conclusion. The demand
that Congress shall submit such resolu-
ton is one that cannot be justly denied.
The people have the right to pass on their
fundamental law whenever a reasonable
number shall demand it. And while the
Presidential year is not the time when they
can command a full vote, nevertheless it
will be wise for the next Congress to grant
the demand. Submitted to the people,
separately from the great national election,
this issue can be passed upon on its own
merits. At all events it will be agitated
with increasing vehemence until the result
is reached. The old anti-slavery spirit is
creeping into it.-Ecening Gu.
The above from a pronounced political
paper is certainly significant concession
and more than we had counted on so soon,
and is valuable as showing the respect the
Prohibition Party is commanding by its late
National Convention its Platform the
determined stand it is taking in the coming
striking in the hearts of the old pol tical
parties.
Rev. 4. f. Ballard. Vice President of the
New Jersey Temperance Alliance in last
weeks Temperance G0zette in reference to
independent political action upon the Tenn
perance question says that every one is to be
fully persuaded i'll his own mind, neither if
he declines is he the better or if he accepts
is he the worse. Norman is an intelligent tenn
perance man to-day who does not believe in
some kind of political action Temperance
sentiment may not start that way but the in
exorable rules politicallogic force it always
into that path. He may believe that tenn
perance party ought to be constructed on
platform of its own, pure and simple, and
work its way until either it has the force i'm
itself to elect its own candidates, and make
its own issue, or compel one of the other
great political parties to put it in their plat
form as the price of success. On the other
hand he may believe that political action
should be formed ON the basis that it will de-
mand help from either party in the state
assembly districts that will give it, and the
temperance men assist either side as the case
may be- without being put to the alternative
ofdeserting his olden party every time. But
he is expected to believe something poll
tically and to put that belief into active ex-
crcise if he counts much in the battle for the
cause. The writer in the past has stood with
the Alliance on this latter aspect of the issue
and SO far as he can see stands there yet,
though how soon the march of events will
compel changes he is unable to tell''