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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-11-28
1.-THE SONG OF THE DRINK":

Drink drink. drink
While the sun is rising high,
And drink, drink! drink!
Till the stars are in the sky.
1t is OH to be carried in strife
Away by some barbarous band.
Rather than live ii drunkard's wife
In the midst of this Christian land.
"But what is there fearful in death?
To me il would be relief,
And better far for my little ones
Were their time ON earth but brief
They suffer with pinching cold,
They supperless go to bed.
All me. so much for the fathers drink
And so little for children's bread.
Drink. drink. drink!
The thirst is still the same;
And what does it cost? An aching head,
\ weakened, trembling frame;
\ comfortess home, where covering forms
Shrink from his presence with fear;
\ body debased, polluted soul
And no hope the dark future 10 cheer.
Drink. drink. drink!
Each day, and all day long
To drink. drink. drink.
\ captive fast and strong.
Gin and brandy and rum,
Rum and brandy and gin,
Till the heart is hardened, the reason be
dimmed,
And the conscience scared to sin.
''Oh. but for once again
That welcome voice to hear
That used with kindly words to greet
His wife and children dear.
Smiles and caresses then were ours,
But curses now and blows.
Oh. the bitter life OF drunkard's wife
No one but drunkards wife knows
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-11-28

The Swedesboro Times. last week, comes
out in a double sheet, containing lengthy
history of Swedesboro, with references
to many prominent residents and business
men of the place, and also a sketch of the
recent Centennial exercises of Trinity par
ish Bro. Taylor is entitled to credit for
this stroke of newspaper enterprise, and
the last number should be carefully pre-
served as valuable historical memento.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-11-28

As the train carrying the Democratic
iubiators from Bridgeton, passed about
two miles this side of Elmer, on Saturday
night, some miscreant discharged pistol
at the train, the ball passing directly
through one window and out the opposite
one. No one was hurt but two dttdches OF
the Post narrowly escaped. - dmden Post.
Two attaches of the MONITOR also mar
rowly escaped the same shot by being at
home in bed at Woodstown The Post
should keep an eye ON its EMPLOYEES.
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hAN'r-S L. w iii'Aip
EDITORIAL NO. II.


WARNING TO THE LIQUOR TRADE.
Although the complete returns of the
election are not yet at hand, this much we
Prohibition candidates have received thous-
ands of votes, and with one or two excep-
tions-due allowance being made-the vote
for the cranky st. John throws into the
shade the self-styled workingmen or peo-
pies candidate, the irrepressible Benjamin
F. Butler. 1t reaches a total of over 300
600 votes. A similar strength of the pro-
hibition element was developed by the
votes cast for congressional, state execu-
tive and legislative candidates What of
it? What is that to the liquor trade? 1t
is exactly what the firing of the first can
non of Fort Sumpter, on the 18th of April
1861, was to the United States government
a solemn forcible, defiant declaration of
war, by the simult lneous opening of hos
tilities. There is no hacking out now for
either side. The prohibitionists have
shown at this election that they now are
enlisted for the war to its litter end They
propose to crush the liquor traffic out of
existence, by fair means or foul, and they
have good reasons for being sanguine OF
success. Look at their sweeping victories
in Kansas and Iowa, at their progress in
Missouri, Georgia Tennessee, Kentucky
and Illinois, where local option and high
license prevail, and at their steadily grow
ing strength in dozen other states, such
as Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan,
Minnesota and others. Are you blind ?
Are you deaf? Are you the fools Of whom
the Latin poet said: Qaen DcaS pe,dere
Dolaa prtus dfmentat. Whom God wants
to punish he first makes mad Crazy. 1t
would seem so indeed.
The prohibition flood is now sweop ping
over every state in the union, threatening
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-11-28

We shall await with much interest the
communication from "A Citizen of Piles
grove concerning the action of the Prohi-
bitionists at the late election promised in the
.So,tH Jerseyman next week
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-11-28

When we hear protesting Christian say
that he has voted his last temperance
ticket and will hereafter vote for free rum.
we do marvel greatly and would fam in
ceived his religious training.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-11-28

The Monitor, of Woodstown, N. j., a
four page paper, at 81 year, is one of the
neatest and best made up ON our list and
is unusually able and interesting for a
temperance paper, which generally carry
but one idea-J. s. Democrat.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-11-28
EDITORIAL NO. =
THE ENDURING ISSUE,


The election is over, the smoke of the
battle is disappearing; and as the atmos-
phere clears up, we can see standing forth
i'll glazing prominence, one representative
and distinctive fact, which it becomes the
friends of personal liberty to heed and
keep prominently in mind. This fact is
that there is National Prohibition party
organized in this country, which is bent
upon carrying forward the temperance agi-
tation to the bitter end. The party which
voted for st. John for president means
business" 1t is enlisted for the war; and
the fluctuations of presidential campaigns
are mere subsidiary incidents in its grand
crusade 1t has enlisted i'll its behalf sew
eral great religious organizations with their
Sunday schools and their attendant swarm
of fanatics, and while the more conserva-
tive of these organizations stand firm
against the inroads OF frenZied agitation
with their powerful discipline constitute a
great political power Outside of the Dem
ocratc and Republican parties, and to a
certain extent independent of either, this
party of Prohibition looms up like a cloud
in the horizon of personal liberty. Whether
it shall assimilate the Republican party to
itself, or proceed regardless thereof, is a
question for the future to decide; but the
| principle of Prohibition has a distinctive
organized embodiment. and is now and
henceforth political entity, which cannot
in the future be blmked or lodged.
Let it then be understood that the battle
for freedom and right ON the part of those
who desire to uphold personal liberty in
this land, has just fairly opened. The
issues are clearly made Prescription
stands defiant, claiming to WELD the scep-
tire over mems conscienccs, over their
thoughts, over their tastes, over their III
comings and outgoings-in word, claim
ing all that, and even more than the
Roundhead Puritans of Engla claimed
in that era of fanaticism whose wave of
frenzy swept to destruction republic
founded with the best of intentions, and
left IL corrupt monarchy in its place.
There can be in this war no middle
ground. Parties must adapt themselves
to the situation, and stand or fall as they
enlist in the cause of liberty or oppression.
There may or may not be a reimbursement
of political lines; but there can be no re-
adjustment of the issue
We counsel our friends to stand firm
fait
great people, ever ready to do justice;
with faith in our form of government, and
our constitutions, statutes. and courts.
Standing thus firm. and prepared to do all
that becomes good citizens to defend and
maintain our rights, we shall not fail.
But, while you trust in God" keep your
powder dry.
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OF INTEREST TO JUSTICES.
4 Bill 10 be Introduced I'm the Next
Legislature Affecting Them.

Benjamin NJ. Braker ESD, Assembly
man from the Second district of Camden
Co., will, it is understood, endeavor to
have a bill passed at the next meeting of
the Legislature compelling Justices of the
Peace who are in the future elected in that
county, to pass an examination before a
person qualified to make such an inquiry,
and if any candidate fail to pass the same
satisfactorily his commission shall be with
held from him.
Such law would meet with the ap-
proval of those 'Squires who endeavor to
make the position of Justice of the
Peace one of honor, integrity and justice.
and would in the future dampen the ardor
of those persons who run for the position
and have not the slightest idea of law, and
in some cases bring discredt on the name
of the magistrate. Mr. Braker will no
doubt be seconded in his endeavors by f.
A. Armstrong, Esq, and Captain Jewett,
and it is probable the matter will become a
law this winter There is also a move
ment on foot to do away with the pro-
miscuous electing of these justices, and as
soon as the terms of the present dispensers
of justice expire, there shall be only one
justice elected and hold the position at the
same time in each ward and township in
county
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-11-28

We have received from our valued friend
and contributor, Rev. J. G.. Crate a com
muncation on the political situation, which
will appear next week.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-11-28

Read in another column our Premium
Offer of a Waterbury watch to old and new
subscribers. Nothing like it has ever be-
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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-11-28

"Talaposa'' is the way our local Demo-
cracy spelled it on their transparency. -
Star Of tie Cape.
Transparency is the way the Star Of
the Cape spelled it in the copy they sent to
our office.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-11-28

There have been many things said and
done during the past week or two that the
doors and sayers will no doubt seek place
for repentance of before they die.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-11-28

How coy and comfortable it has been to
sit by the stove or the hearth, or in any
well-warmod room during the last few
nights and days while the weather was
below the freezing point outside. These
are the times to think Of the people who
have no coal for either stove or CRATE.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-11-28

Bro Patterson, of the Camden Courier,
charges us with dispensing democratic
doctrine, pure and unadulterated, in our
last issue. We fear he looks at us with
jaundiced eyes. VIII he kindly point out
to us which of our utterances he considers
Democratic i'll a partisan sense? And in
what paragraph we have 'jubilated' over
the defeat of Mr.. Blaine and the Repnb-
lican party? And why, being a Proh-
manifest any sorrow over the defeat of a
party that refused the w. G. T. L. re-
spectful hearing in their National Con-
vention with the poor after-excuse that
Prohibition was not a National question,
and whose candidate afterward refused to
vote for Prohibition in his own State,
where it was not National question, for
fear of antagoniZing the Rum vote in his
party? We are not Republican organ
like the Courier, and we certainly have
not catered to the Democracy. We are
only what the C0urier calls us--a Prohibi-
ton paper, claiming the right to comment
on parties or candidates as we see them in
their relations to the cause of Prohibition,
whether our views please the politicians of
the Courier school or not.
The Philadelphia Press seems to think
the following of sufficient value to find
place in its columns. Yet members of the
party of which the Press is an acknowledged
and prominent organ seem to think the
MONITOR is abusive
THE PROHIBITION GUITEAU.
1T is known to few said a Pittsburg
divine to representative of the Critic,
that Daniels, the Prohibition candidate
Guiteau. Rev. Sheridan Guiteau was her
father; he was a Presbyterian clergyman,
and for number of years was secretary of
the Bible Society in Baltimore, Md. 1t
was then and there that Mr.. Daniels first
became acquainted with his future wife,
whose maiden name bears such frightful
record of crime against the nation i'll the
assassination of Garfield. Il cannot say"
proceeded the divine, whether she was
related to Charles Guiteau-but there is
such recalling sameness Of their names
that it has moved me to speak of it at this
.juncture. The bullet of a Guiteau killed
one Republican president and Mr.. Daniels,
the Prohibition vice presidential candidate
and husband of "a Miss Guiteau, helped to
lay out another Republican president.
The coincidence in name may not be signifi-
cant, but still, viewed in the light of Gar
fields death through Guiteau and the de-
feat of Blaine through the Prohibition party,
one of whose candidates was the husband
of a Guiteau they who are fond of the quaint
and mysterious will find food for thought,
and many will be the differences that the
owlish wisdom of wonder-loving people
will draw therefrom. A Guiteau fatefully
and fearfully was connected with the two
caamities of the Republican party
PdtsbafQ Critic
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-11-28

The executive committee of the New
Jersey State Temperance Alliance, will
meet in Trenton on Tuesday, November
25th, at II A. NJ. All members of the
committee are urged to be present. The
meeting will be held at % East State
street in the rooms of the w. c. T. [.
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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-11-28

DEAR SISTERS OF THE LOCAL UNIONS:
The Champion is the representative pa
per of the beer, wine and spirit trade of
the United States. 1t is also the official
organ of the s'Liquor Dealers and Manu-
facturers State Protective Association of
Illinois, Its editor and publisher is Paul
Schuster, noted German beer champion.
This paper was established in 1918 and
goes weekly to the brewers and wholesale
and retail liquor dealers of nearly six hun
dred cities and towns in twenty-five states.
Upon its title page are the following mot
toes: 'Use lite arine for yotr st0machs
sake, " Ole apostle PtuO. Constitutional,
personal and eira liberty" .Noproht5ttion,
no sumptuary lates' 1t gives as the clief
plank in its platform, Cat the head of its
columns, this: 1--WE demand for the man
ufacturer and dealer in beer, wine and
alcoholic spirits, the same protection and
other branch of industry and commerce in
every state of our union" This paper is
printed in German and English and is
widely read.
Immediately after election, when it was
known that the st. John and Daniel voters
would probably aggregate 100000, the
following remarkable editorials appeared
in this whisky paper. Let every white
ribbon woman read them carefully. If
they do not have ''tonic effect" | mistake
the temper of the hour. With sharp criti-
cisms coming to us on every side from
those we love, and denunciations from an
enraged partisan press, it will be of great
service to us if we ponder well, and to our
cause if we circulate carefully, these re-
markable admissions from the dragon
power against which we have so long con-
tended. When the liquor dealers find the
same principles that are embodied in reso-
buttons of conferences and snyods written
into election returns, they take the alarm
and not till then. Shall the children of
light be less wise than the children of this
world? Brave hearts of the w. c. T. T.,
read these editorials from the liquor deal
er's CHAMPION in your local unions; if pos
sible, secure their publication by the local
press; send them to your pastors and church
leaders that they may lay these things to
heart. Stay all your souls steadily upon
the God of battles in this day of strife.
| Yours for the conflict,
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-11-28

Readers of newspaper are very apt to
confound the editorial department with the
part devoted to communications and con-
slider both alike as representing the opin-
ions of the paper. This is an error. A
newspaper is no more responsible for what
a correspondent may say than for what an
advertiser may say, and can no more be
considered as endorsing the one than the
other. A partisan newspaper will gener-
ally refuse to admit any communication
tending to influence the reader against the
side the paper is on. but the MONITOR be-
ing an independent sheet welcomes to its
columns correspondence on all sides with
the simple requirement that it be not per-
sonal in its nature or immoral in its ten
dency, and that it be of some present inter
est to the people on earth at the time it is
published
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-11-28

If there ever was night the whole year
round when our people had a right to ex-
pect to find the street lamps lighted, it
was last Sunday night. The weather all
day promised dark and rainy night, but
it simply did not suit somebody's arrange
ments or convenience to light the lamps
and persons called abroad stumbled through
mud and water as best as they could. In
the centre of the town private citizen,
who pays his share of tax to keep the
Borough lamps lighted, had two lamps
burning as usual, while the public lamps
for which he and others pay tax were left
unlighted, If this were the first time
since the Borough authorities commenced
the farce of not providing for the wants of
the people it might pass unnoticed or be
ascrbed to accident, but it is frequent
occurrence Meanwhile the Borough tax
rate is 10 cts on the 800. all the same.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-11-28

1t begins to look as though the Board of
Freeholders had an elephant of colossal
proportions on their hands in the new Iron
Bridge over Salem creek. We are assured
by one of the members of the board that
we need look for no reduction of taxes this
year as the Bridge will probably cost, be-
fore it is through with, at least $50, 000
The board have got into a snarl with the
contractor involving question of change
in the contract to the amount of about
$1,000 in the very beginning. All the same
Salem must have its bridge if we have to
sell ont all the rest of the county to get it,
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-11-28

40 the TTouhoithOhiSts Oh New Jersey.
There has been desire expressed by
several prominent Prohibitionists of this
State that the executive committee call
general conference of all the friends of the
cause at Trenton, on or about the tenth of
December, to perfect plans Of work and
the more complete organization of the
State; and also to extend our greetings to
John p. st. John, our standard bearer in
in the late campaign, for his manly utter
ances in which he announces his deter
mination to continue this warfare on
the liquor traffic as long as he lives and
the flag of our country waves its pro
tecting folds over a legalized dram-shop;
and also to pledge him our finn deter
mnation to stand by him while his
enemies, maddened by political defeat, are
burning him in effigy.
The committee is willing to call such
conference if the friends of the cause gen
orally desire it, To ascertain this we re-
guest all who are willing to sign such
call and will attend such conference
if called, to send their names to the Sec
rotary immediately. As soon as the com
mittee is assured that there is general
demand for such conference, they will
publ the call designating the place and
time of holding il.
X. BINGHAM, Chairman Elk. Com,
IL. ID. OPDYKE, Sec'y, Railway, n. j.
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-08-13
At7Sanllrla DazettR.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST IL.

Four DAYS IN A CELLAR.-The Paris Soar
relates the following strange story AT
the beginning of the month a Polish Jew
left Russia for Paris in order to attend his
brothers wedding. On arriving alta station
ia he neighborhood ofthe capital the trav.
eler was asked for his ticket. He was to-
tally ignorant of French and the employe of
Russian, and after q time the latter, losing
patience, Knocked him about, handcufied
him and imprisoned him in dark and I'll
thy cellar, where he was detained four days
without food. A rope was put around his
neck, buckets of water were emptled on him
and on the day Of the national fete sqnlbs
were let off in his face. At length the may
or of the place, getting wind OF the affair,
paid the Jew visit in company with man
who spoke Russian, and after short con-
versation, during which his brothers ad-
dress was ascertained, a telegram was sent
off and he was released. This(says the Sotr)
is the story told by the Jews brother, who
has naturally appealed to the authorities.
The .Soir adds that NJ. Clement, the police
Magistrate, was to see the Jew, who cannot
leave his bed, with view to commencing
an investigation"
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APPOINTMENTS.

HDoRs. STATE Dem. EXECUTIVE Con-,
WAERESToN, Va, July 2S, ISL
Correspondents of the secretary OF the state
Democratic Executive and Central Committees
will address him, until August 1lth. ut warren
ton, Va; after that date, at Alexandria.
The following appointments are announced LOT
Hon. John Goode, Electoral Large:
Craig Saturday August 16 tnoon>
Smyth. Monday August Is.
Giles Tuesday August 19.
aAccomac, Monday August %.
Unless otherwise indicated these appointments
are all made for county seats Other announce
ments' will follow as soon as they can be arranged
1t is hoped that the officials of the party organ
izatioli in every county will ut once get their
committees in working order: will arrange Tor
ratification meetings, flag raisings precinct clubs
&C, and everything incident TO Il vigorous can
vsss: and will report regularly to this office.
Fl. SHEPHERD. Secretary.
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