The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-15
..INQUIRER. REPLIES TO REV. n. j..
WRIGHT.

| WRIGHT.
Rev. n. J. Wright in his communication
| to the MONITOR of the LIST inst, contra
diets himself His inconsistency is proven
by his second communication, and both are
nothing if not oracular
He says ''Let us in every case wait until
the old parties have made their nomina-
tions then let us demand from them salts
factory evidence of their purpose in regard
to legal action for the prohibition of the
whskey business, and when driven to 1T,
and not till then. let us stand boldly, indie
pendently for our rights. This may be
good advice, and when temperance men are
thus compelled as they have been, to NOM
mate an independent ticket, they have done
it knowing well at the time, that they could
not elect their candidates. Mr. Wright
advises this course, and then says there is
no fun nor sense in making such nominal
tions. So much for his contradiction.
He advises in his article of the LIST inst, the
very course that has been taken by the Ma
tional Prohibition party, inasmuch as their
nominations were not made until existing
parties, that is the Republican and Demo-
cratic parties, had positively refused to
recognize the claims of the temperance
people" and then in his last article. i'll
forms us what we suspected from the first.
that he has no sympathy with the so
called National movement So much for
his consistency. He says he approves OF
Rev. Mr.. Billiards. position. Mr.. Ballard
said in his recent address i'll the Woods
town NJ +. Church that he was sometimes
alarmed at the progress we were making Ill
the state of New Jersey toward temper
ance legislation. Perhaps this accounts
for his lack of appreciation of the effects of
third party agitation. We think there is
little danger that our legislators will pro-
gress faster than their constituency. They
are accustomed to look too well to the
votes back of them for that If Mr.. Bal
lard's speech is as silvery as indicated by
his praises rung in the MONITOR, his 81
lence upon this subject would be golden.
Those who have been active in the third
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as lacking good sense. A contribution to
the W. c. T. [. department of the MONI-
TOR upon The Attitude of the Church
towards the Temperance Question bears
evidence of being from the pen of a clergy
man, one who assumes to speak for the
whole church, forgetting there is any but
his own particular denomination. He also
speaks like an oracle, telling us what the
primary rule of faith and conscience is.
setting up standard as infallible as that
of the times of Luther and Knox, Fox
and Wesley, and the Puritans of New
England, who hung the Quakers. He says
the church does not concern itself about
the political aspects of the temperance
work. If the church does not we think its
members should.
There are clergymen however equally
as devout learned and experienced
as those to whom we have referr-
ed, who view this third party move
ment in very different light. We
have before us two letters written since the
Pittsburg convention, one from minister
of the gospel III our own state, who like
DR.. Muhlenburg, the founder of the Lu-
theran Church in America. and patriot
of the revolution, believes there is ''time
for preaching and time for fighting and
that his time for fighting has come He
writes lit is a time to fight the good fight
to hight lntemperance, party domination
and time serving professors of temperance
principles The next generation will be
better if it is done manfully. For my own
part | will not acquiesce longer in the
management of the Republican party as it
has been going for some years past. and be
hushed by party lullabys. I will express
my mind, and my fellow men shall hear
what it is. | have suffered already some
persecution for it, and may suffer much
more, but none of these things move me-
We feel that we are right. and intend to
have the courage of our convictions. If
any of my children should ever betake
themselves to that line (Which may the
Lord forbid it shall not be done without
their knowing it is over the protest of an
eamestly-fought battlefield. where their
father fought to save them" A minister
i'll another state writes as follows while
| have no hope that the Prohibition ticket
can be elected, | am glad it has been
made. If the two great political parties
will pay no regard to the wishes of the
temperance people, but prefer to kiss the
dirty feet of the liquor makers and sellers.
| shall feel no sorrow in seeing one or the
other come to grief. If one party be the
better friend of the temperance cause. that
is the party having less reason than the
other for continuing to truckle to
the rum power. Let them learn bv
dearly bought experience, that com
promise with the great evil of our
country and times is not going to nav.
The tariff is a poor dry bone over which
the parties have been growing ever
since can remember 1t is of no impor-
lance compared with the living. ever pres
ent question, shall the liquor cause con-
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