The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-02-27
MOUNT Amy. N. j., Feb. &c, 1884.

True american.
MOUNT AIRY, N. j., Feb. &c, 1884.
Temperance and Common Sense DEAR
MADAM:-Of course it is contrary to the
rules of war to fire on fallen enemy,
but to the conqueror belongs the last shot.
We have examined madam's carefully
prepared Sunday School pic mic address,
in the hope of finding something new,
but it's the same old coarse, encountered,
haraDgue Of evasiye absurdities as usual,
and full of cringing for sympathy, and
while our lawmakers are hammering
away at Local Option bill, she carefully
evades that question altogether, which to
say the least, leaves the Council in very
bad fix. When it becomes expedient for
governments or councils to seize private
property, it should be paid for. Her
slap-oyer about the army drunk is fair
mirror of her insincerity and evasiveness.
We stated the army got drunk not to APP
plaud thing to be deplored, but simply
to prove total prohibition impossible,
and instead of meeting it squarely, she
slobbers over it like small snake trying
to swallow large toad, and what does all
her squirting and soldering amount too ?
Why simply little fanatic fool food and
nothing more.
We hope everybody knows by this
time that Lambertville pays nearly seven
thousand dollars county tax per annum.
We see it paraded in the paper nearly
every week Well let's see, she wants
about seven to ten thousand dollars worth
of law protection to feed her small dog
lawyers, six thousand for bridges, sew
enty.two dollars for elections, and she
costs candidates many thousands more,
besides many other small drawbacks too
numerous to mention, and we vote to an
mex her to New Hope.
Madam says she don't believe prohibit
tory laws will usher in the Millennium
with a suddenness to startle anybody.
The scales begin to peel and il she will
but continue the search, she will find that
more handsomely vanished, nice young
men, are lured away by the bottle behind
the door, than- captiyated in fashionable,
well-regulated hotels. Tom aud Dick are
all right, but Harry is a bad boy, and all
the jackson reins you can put upon him
will do no good.
Now to lay all jokes aside, is not the
Bible large enough to occupy the pulpit
and If not, why notP We believe it is
right and proper to preach temperance
and practice moderation in all things, but
the temperance cause under fanatic rlle
is made political question, and one too,
that neither of the great parties dare load
up, and do not the signs of the times indi-
cate trouble, and is there not very per-
ceptible commotion in the church through
casion of it?
Recently the Rev. Mr.. Blank, of Blank,
announced special meeting of tho
church, to be held in the chapel on GER
tain evening and stated that no cider
would be provided to enliven the ocea-
sion. A little mirror of little incident
upon which any such reflections were I'M
called for, especially from the pulpit but
Madam, no doubt, will complain that we
are again leading her into the wilderness,
on forty years ramble, through sinuosi.
ties, unsurmountable to one so weak, but
it can't be helped. Oppression provokes
opposition and the liquor men of the
country are organizing and true friends
of temperance are becoming alarmed. In
New York City they claim to be able to
control one hundred thousand votes and
il so a thorough whiskey city government
may oe looked for. Whether we look at
things double or single, or by the thou
sands, we try to look at them in a COM
mon sense light as they occur and accept
the situation and do the best we can re-
gardless of any clique or clan, aud if our
say SO would do the business, we would
cheerfully Danish the hankering appetite
for rum from the human family, as did
St. Patrick the snakes and toads from
Ireland, but we do not possess the charm.
Take some glucose in yonr coffee, Madam.
Pass.