The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-25


too transparent. There is no dram-shop at
Millville, Haddonfeld, Vineland and many
other places, and yet travellers are entertained
in these towns as well, if not much better,
than in places where liquor is sold. AS for
the public good" the least that dram-shop
advocates say about that the better.
The country is filed with drunkards, the
product of the dram-shop. What good do
these drunkards do that sober men cannot
do? Will some high license saint tell us -
Temperance Gazette.
There is one element of wrong and of dan
ger, among all the rest in the rum traffic,
which should receive the careful attention of
all candid men. Aside from the effects which
follow the use of intoxicants, upon the physi-
cal, mental and moral faculties of the indi-
vidual; and aside from the misery and degra-
dation which are brought upon him and his
family, and the loss or damage, either direct
or consequential, entailed upon the commun-
ity this element is coming more and more to
the front, and cannot, without great danger,
be ignored or set aside
We mean the inherent spirit of lawlessness,
which surrounds and permeates the whole
system.
This arises from the facts, before men.
toned of evil to the entire nature of the
individual, and to the community. The time
has been, no doubt, when men of excellent
participated in both the traffic in, and use of,
intoxicating liquor; but at the present day, at
least in this enlightened land, there has been
SO much light thrown upon the traffic, and
the evils resulting from it, that before a man
can deliberately enter into it, he must harden
his heart, crush out all the better feelings of
his manhood, and cultivate within himself
the spirit of lawlessness, fostering it, and
keeping it alive, by the inordinate love of
gain.
Lawlessness is not necessarily confined to a
defiance, or violation, of the written code of
law. Statute law is curious thing in its
way. There is hardly law in our land for
the punishment of crime that is not neutral
| lied by some other law, or by some techni-
cality in the mode of its administration and
| these technicalities, the class of persons known
as criminal lawyers know how to manipulate
to the overthrow of justice and right. The
jury system has always been considered as
one of the pillars of our liberties, but recent
developments look as if it had begun to as
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But there is strong spirit which underlies
all law, which is stronger than the law itself.
Our Savior, when asked, (Which is the great
est commandment of all ?" replied -"Thou
shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy
heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy
mind" and, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor
as myself" On these two hang all the law
and the prophets,
This is the true spirit of law to-day, in all
professedly christian countries, as it was then,
or in other words the spirit of right hence
whatever violates that spirit is lawlessness,
and lawlessness in the spirit soon begets the
same in the act.
Now the rum traffic dare not, and cannot
rest upon the spirit of the law, neither dare it,
nor can it rest upon the letter of the law
Both are fagrantly and constantly violated in
its favor, and for its support.
If the law was enforced, it would close up
nine-tenths of the dramshops in this state. 1t
has been shown by the pamphlet published
by the Camden County Alliance, that nearly
all the applications for license in the city of
Camden, for 1883, were signed by persons
whose names were appended to two or more
applications; that the names of persons had
been used without their knowledge or con-
sent, and that the names of persons who died
long before the application was framed, have
also been used to make up the required num-
Der. Thus the charge has been made of per-
jury and forgery, and no reply has been made
to it.
Again, it is common objection to prohib-
tory laws, that under them there will be more
liquor sold than under a license law. This
has been proven to be false in every instance,
but it shows the animus of those who assert
it, and it also shows that the liquor traffic is