The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-22
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"How TO WIN"


chow TO WIN"
Under the above title Bro. Snyder attempts
to point out the royal road to successful pro-
hibition. am a little puzzled to know what
he wants us to do. Either he is puzzled or /
am. Evidently his vision is not clear He
only 'sees trees as men walking" He be-
lieyes the liquor traffic is the source of I'm
told evils" He is in favor of its destruction
So far, all right. But he is in doubt about
the best mode of its overthrow. Here we
differ I am not in doubt He is not care
full about the means" I am. I want no
more dilatory, halfway methods. Will separ-
ate political, or, what is the same, third
party" action-do it. He says not. Others
think it will am of that opinion. Will it /?
He asks when and where such action has ever
Influenced prohibitory legislation There
has been such action in several of the states,
and there have been prohibitory measures en-
acted. To what extent separate party action
has driven the parties to duty in this direc-
ton, it is difficult to determine. Judging
from the influence of separate action in this
state the last two years, we are inclined to be-
lieve it has not been inconsiderable. 1t can
not be questioned but that the independent
action of the Prohibitionists of this state for
interest, and made deeper impression upon
party managers and politicians than any
thing that had been done in the ten previous
years. I have facts to demonstrate this, but
will not note them here.
So long as the party leaders could help the
temperance voters in their parties with prom
ises never to be kept. or by now and then
giving them suitable candidate to pacify
them, they felt safe, but when they saw a
deliberate and absolute sundering of party
relations, and union of these rebels into a
compact organized body acting together as
one man, they knew it meant mischief for
them. They knew the old cry so potent here
tofore, The party is in danger" would no
longer awaken an echo. 1.-THE party is in
danger" That is just what they wanted to
be true. They would not have left the party
if it was worth saving. Just here Bro. Snyd-
er is in trouble again. He fears some of
the Prohibitionists are so angry with the
parties they have left that they care more
about seeing them crippled than about the
success of prohibition He has got this
mixed somewhat When he gets the expe-
rience thorough Prohibitionist has had he
will understand this attitude toward the old
parties better. When man gets righteously
''angry with the party he has left left be-
cause it loved rum more than temperance and
favored rumsellers more than Prohibitionists,
then. aud not till then, is he independent
enough to do his part toward making sue
cess of prohibition" Until he comes out
from among them, they have a mortgage on
him, by which they can hold him. Until he
is entirely separated and by his opposition
cripples them, he will have bases and preju-
dices; the party managers will appeal to on
the day of election and capture him even
Will Dyohi ha1 1Ofc bots Tic
prejudices will overpower his conscience
and better judgment A Prohibitionist don't
amount to much in this battle while the old
leaven of party is in him. Satan comes and finds
this in him, and the result can be easily fore
told. This is the reason so many temperance
men are unreliable This is the reason politi-
clans and the enemies of prohibition can so
fully trust the temperance voter to wheel into
line when the battle comes on. And so long
as they see this folly, at which they laugh and
over which they gloat, they will not give US
what we ask, and who can blame them? 1t
is utter folly to ask them to commit suicide,
which they would do, if they would adopt
the prohibition plank and expect temperance
votes enough to come out from the opposite
party to make up what would be lost by its
adoption.
AS Bro S. has not said anything bad about
IuG OlO LOt CNCn iAAtSO bAdt tACy
have refused us prohibition, we suspect he
has "joined affinity with" one of these
Ahabs Is it the dear old Republican party ?
Are we to understand he wants us to wait in
an unorganized condition until his party is
regenerated and decides to champion the
prohibition cause? Have we not been wait
ing, hoping, praying, and even threatening
long enough? Some of us have a notion to
try something else. If we fail in the attempt
we won't be any worse off than we now are.
We have nothing to lose, and may gain.
Our brother, with many others, exhorts us
to be as wise as our enemies who never resort
to separate party action. Why do they not
Because they have about every thing their
own way. We are the under dog. They
control both parties, dictate their policy,
nominate their candidates. We must secede
and organize or be whipped every time. Cir
cumstances alter cases. Reverse the condi-
tons. Put the parties under the control of
temperance men, and you will see independ-
ent action and third party with a wonderful
unanimity, and not a rumseller or sympa-
thzer outside of its lines. They are not polit-
icians nor do they care for party when their
interests are imperilled. If temperance
voters were as wide awake, and unprejudiced,