The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-03-21
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and starved monkeys to gather the pennies.
These political tipstaves paint their masks
with issues about the tariff, babblings con-
corning democracy and republicanism, while
inwardly they are whited sepulchres, filed
with dead mems bones. They do brawl at
the hustings and call the intellectual drivel-
ing political agitation, when in fact, it rises
no higher than coterie of straws mutually
admiring each other. They deal in lodges,
tricks legerdenain and kind of ward politi-
cal witchcraft Their meetings may be
ikened to a gathering of oriental witches for
continuation. They surround the cauldron
and circle about with unspeakable griInaces
and gyrations till the pot is hot, and then the
most dexterous juggler calls a halt and with
solemn air says
Round about the cauldron go;
In the poisoned entrails throw.
Toad that under cold stone.
Days and nights hast thirty-one,
SHELTERED venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i the charmed pot.
Then he jumps jubilant and says, How is
that for constable! Ought I not to get
a large share of the Temperance vote? the
liquor vote is pledged to me-
The would-be alderman then takes a hand,
and says:
- Fillet OF finny snake.
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog.
Wool of bat and tongue of dog.
Adders fork and blind worms sting"
and then, with a mein of successful sorcery.
says, You see now, what an alderman can
do. I combine the whiskey and temperance
vote. l am Republican, very temperate,
and have large following. The bosses have
promised me-
Gentlemen, it is this politico-whiskey con-
Il,n+ H.
will not permit vent enough through the
machinery to allow popular expression at
the ballot box on the most vital question of
the times, to wit, the question of licensing
the sale of intoxicants.
The people have asked the drill masters,
the rum commissioned politicians, to let them
vote on this question. The ring masters of
the circus say, no; we shall antagoniZe the
whiskey vote. Some of US have struck: we
have determined not to be the underlings of
the devil with a party mask on, any longer
We say no license! 1t is the whole of poll
tics with Us, the pool of all our issues. High
tariff, a nimble piper set up to beguile the
honest voters into signing certificates of re-
spectability to the rum-inspired and incompe-
tent Office holder Civil service reform, bah
Protect US from licensed dram traps, and
the national tariff will take care of itself.
Protect us from the whitewashed respect
ability which license gives to rum mongering,
and labor will help itself Protect us from
legalized rum dynamite, and the revenues
which support jails viii be appropriate funds
to improve the streets the schools, the water
supply. LOCALIZED rum legalizes wife-beat-
ing, mania-a- potu, and nine-tenths of the
catalogue of miseries that flesh is heir to. Take
the law support out from under the nefarious
traffic and let it stand on the same founda-
tions that traffic in hydrophobia would have.
Strip the business of the sugar coating of
responsibility that the license system gives it,
and let it stand naked on its merits Let
this fiendish idol stand alone on the perspec-
tive of the public consciousness and few,
very few, my fellow citizens, could be found
mean enough to do trespect; but on the con-
trary, public indignation would command it
to be put out of sight.
We are told that we are making political
issue. Those who made alcoholic commerce
legal made the issue. We have been slow,
too slow, to take up the gage of battle. The
moment statute was made to license tip
pling machine, there the verify and unfulness
of that law was put upon trial. 1t then be-
came political question. May the people
be forgiven for not shaking the nefarious
license system out of the statute book long
ago. The license system is the issue. Don't
question is license or no license. The politi-
cal muffiers will try to suppress the principle
in its distinctiveness. The principle is no
hcense-no advantage for alcohol over small
pox. 1t is political principle. principle.
A principle of government. To make it
effectual we must avow our purpose. We
must put our hands upon the licensing power
the municipal government. We must take
the fort
Political enemies are those who are not
with u.s. There is a class of simpering,
squeamish politicians in the old parties who
say vote for me; am as good temperance
man as Bingham.
1t is not men; it is principle, and to oper-
ate principle we must use our own men and
vote for the men on the anti-hcense ticket
To magnify the prineiple-to yitalize the
principle. we must vote the solid anti-license
ticket If we suffer our vote to be merged
or drowned in other parties, we shall not
know our strength. We shall be continually
tainted by the politicians that we are no
people-we talk and sentimentalize but we
don't vote We must have our anti-hcense
recruits mustered in and thoroughly enrolled,
modified for any form of service that may
be necessary to vanquish our inscriptions
foe; close up SO as to prevent ambuscades
and surprises, anticipate every form of battle
known to savages and the civilized.
Constant balloting-defeat is victory only
keep right on voting, and let the political
buskins that fight under the rum drill butt
their brains out against the thick bosses of
the Almighty's buckler.