The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-01

lnOlnaS V. tdtOr, VI jersey Slty, WIN
led the opposition of the submission to the
prohibitory amendment to vote of the
people in the House of Assembly, last
winter, has recently declared for prohibit
ton. The Comden Courier thus editorially
| speaks of him and his work:
New jerseys new apostle of temperance,
the brilliant Gator, is doing good work
in various parts of the State, and we hope
he will be an effective instrument in doing
still more for the cause of morality and so
briefly. Wherever he goes, great crowds
| flock to hear his eloquent and convincing
utterances, and attentively listen to the i'm
FASHIONED words Of truth, which, by long
years of experience, he is qualified to pro-
nounce. In Railway his efforts met with
the greatest success, and the result of a
series of temperance meetings, the head
front of which was Mr.. Gator, seems to
have cleared, for a time at least, the moral
atmosphere of the town. The shutting up
of about three fourths Of the Railway liquor
saloons within the past two months is suf-
VI tuC SVOu iCouits outdiuCu.
At the last session of the Union county
Grand Jury, after the temperance move
ment had gotten fully under way, not a
single case from Railway was presented,
tory Of the place. There may not be any
thing SO very remarkable in this, but it is
worth noticing, when all instance of this
sort occurs, because of the proof it furnishes
that rum drinking is the great breeder of
crime. The contrast between the condition
of affairs in Railway and in many other
cities of the State is great, and nowhere so
noticeable as in Jersey City, the home of
Mr.. Gator. Prosecutor Winfield, Of Hud-
son county, stated that at the last term in
that county, scarcely any case had come be-
fore the court which was not traceable di-
rectly to rum drinking. This will not be
wondered at when it is remembered that
Jersey City alone has ] $50 licensed saloons.
Every application for the license of sa-
loon in the cities Of this State, over the sig
natures of a number of freeholders, states
that the public good requires that the
license be granted. Now, is this true, or
is it false? In a great majority of the
eases it is bold, ridiculous lie, and the
persons who make it know it to be lie
yet they make it, all the same. They, for
the most part, really sign these applications
because they are importuned to do SO, or
are under obligations to the parties who
want the licenses, or are i'm some way in
terested i'll the business. They do not sign
them honestly, nor for the reasons alleged
and they know it. To how much consid-
Grafton are these applications then entitled?
Very little for, in most cases, the signers
eitheristultify themselves, or are some such
frauds as those who, i'll Atlantic City, have
been recommending applications when not
legally qualified to do 50. Like all great
questions, that Of temperance will meet
with difficulties but, as Mr.. Gator says,
THE welfare of the community, the conser-
walton of law and order, the prevention of
crime, the saving of the wages of the work.
mgman, the protection of women and chill
drcn from abuse, privation, neglect and dis
grace, all demand that it shall PREVAIL
and prevail it will, sooner or later
THE MONITOR was started as the organ
of the Womcn's Christian Temperance
Union, of Woodstown, to afford them a
means Of communication with the people
on the subject of temperance. A short ex-
4
was room and a demand here for a paper
with wider scope, and that more influ- |
ence would be excrted by paper COM
mending itself to a larger class Of readers,
than by one circulating exclusively among
people. Consequently The |
Monitor Publishing Company was organ
lied, the business control of the paper |
placed in their hands, and it is brought out |
in its improved form with a wider field ofuse-
fulness, but the Temperance department
under sole control of the W. c. T. U. will |
remain as matter of right, permanent
weekly feature of the paper, and this ar
is made without any fear of
giving our readers surfeit of any one sub
ject, nor do we apprehend that there will
be any necessity for our resorting to the
rum shop or the whiskey ring for matter
for publication to counterfeit the baleful
influence of what the women may publish
in their department. We think the wives
and mothers of Woodstown may be trusted
to speak to our people on the subject in
which they have above all others an inter
est and that their teachings will require
no antidote at our hands. With their work
we are in hearty accord and sympathy, and
in The MONITOR they will at all times
have champion. ,
ui FAITHFUL SERVANT.
When man is elected to political office
BY either political party, he becomes the
servant of the whole people, irrespective of
party and for what ever good qualities he