The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-03-14

among the people-union of action.
Efforts must be unremitting. We must be
willing to do for the good of fallen humanity
as much as liquor dealers do for gain. Our
interest in the cause must be as strong as
their interest for themselves. Our interest in
the salvation of men from the devil of in
temperance must be as great as their interest
in money making. Unless we are willing to
work as hard as they work, there is little
hope, for they will worry us out and in time
leave us in worse condition than if we had
not entered into the arena at all.
We must do two kinds of work at the same
time. We must not only endeavor to shut up
the liquor places, but we must provide other
that the majority of the supporters of the
liquor places belong to the poorer classes
whose homes are not comfortable. Many
families are compelled to live in a couple of
rooms, and when the poor want change they
have no place to go to. Aside from the
question of drink, where can they find as
pleasant places as are offered by the liquor
saloons. If we shut them out of these places
what have we to offer instead? Nothing
whatever. There is not reading room in
Jersey City. There is no alternative for
these people, They must either stay at home
or walk the streets, or go to some place of
amusement, or they must visit drinking
places. They cannot visit them unless they
drink. hope it will not be long before you
will have an opportunity to contribute to the
establishment of reading rooms and coffee
houses, in our midst.
Nor is the work accomplished when liquor
places are shut up and reading rooms estab-
lished.
The homes of the poor must be improved
co will ha for 70 m
from their homes to find a pleasant place
where they can spend few moments in the
evening. t
Drunkenness makes home wretched and a
wretched home drives to drunkenness. In
the recent Investigations into the condition of
the homes of the poor of London, it was
found that the sGualid condition of their
homes fostered intemperance as much as in
temperance made the homes of the poor
squalid. We might as well go at this thing
with true idea of what is to be done. We
must not only remove liquor saloons and
beer shops, but we must also remove the de-
mand for them I believe temperance
cause can be truly and permanently success
full only as you build up with one hand
while you pull down with the other hand AS
liquor saloons are destroyed you must supply
their places with reading rooms and coffee
houses. You must seek the improvement OF
the homes of the poor. Holding meetings
and making speeches is necessary and bene-
fetal. By them you create public sentiment
and bring wildly before the public the great
and dangerous evil which is in our midst.
But that is only the beginning. That is only
the preparatory step. Then commences the
hard work which is to be the permanent i'm
preston. The temperance sentiment is in
creasing. The demand that the liquor power
shall be restrained is growing nationwide
and flowing onward with the strength of
Niagara
May the righteous zeal and holy purpose to
save the fathers and sons of the nation from
the slavery of drink, be directed by divine
wisdom to the adoption of wisest plans for
the restraint and suppression of the greatest
curse of industry and the greatest enemy of
the church