The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-10-24
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Some friend has been kind enough to
send me copies of the Philadelphia Press
with articles marked, hoping, | suppose, to
show me the error of my way and how
am deceived when working and voting for
st. John and Prohibition, instead of Blaine
and the Republican party. Let me say to
my friend that am a regular subscriber
for the Press and read both sides of this
question, and | hope he honestly does the
same This instance has led me to this
communication.
Do these Republicans suppose for a
moment that this 0utbu,st on the line of in
dependent action has come up in night
"a one-sided show, a one idea-sprlng in
great consideration
There has been Prohibition party
in the country during three national cam
paigns past, but its waves scarcely touched
little impression on the nation. During
this time, however, agitation has been go
ing on---we have been doing our work in
our own way-testing and probing, hope
ing and praying that the Republican party,
true to it's promises, would bring us to vic
tory. But after the treatment last fall in
our own State, and the silent contempt at
Chicago, is it any wonder there is such a
tidal wave to independent political
action?
know it is said we are fanatical. blind
men of one idea, ETC., but is it not true that
many of our leaders in this conflict are men
of broad intellect, men of experience, men
who have given their life to the cause often
perance-studied every movement? These
are are not one-sided men, but men of con
viction and. nerveas well disability. Soft can
be said of our women. But who are these
crying out against us-claiming that they
know much better how to conduct this
temperance campaign-and that the pres
ent policy and method will throw the
cause fifty years into the wilderness? |
say, who are these Why, in almost every
instance, they are men who have necer
been active, indeed have taken scarcely any
part in temperance work Most OF them
do not even take temperance paper-not
interest enough to read mp on the subject.
But like the Philadelphia Press, and other
sheets which have never done anything to
support the cause of Prohibition, they cry
nightly when their cause, the Republican
party, is likely to get hurt. These men
(many of them) claim to be temperance
men; no doubt they are personally, but
they are more Republican. A man that is
not awake to the fact that the evils of in
temperance against the temperance cause
are of greater Importance than all other
issues or even greater than the Republi-
can party, is not leader for the cause.
Whom shall we choose for our leaders in
this moral issue? Shall it be these temper
ance Republicans, temperance Repudtteon
newspapers, who know nothing of the tenn
perance work only as they have looked ON
who are ready to sacrifice temperance for
RepIblcanism, but never Republicanism
for Temperance? or shall we choose those
men who have studied and worked, sacri-
feed and stood, when towards fled; men
who will surrender all for God and right,
and die rather than bow to the wrong; men
whose heart and brain, pure and true,
have led us SO nobly thus far? God has
chosen our path, and we will walk in it.
G. r. Garrison IN Temperance Gazette