The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-10-24
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The temperance sentiment is slowly but
surely growing. in and about our village.
Growing faster than our village. and will
soon leave it and the leaders of the old DO
litical parties away in the rear if there ism t
soon great awakening to the dominant
question Of the hour" as Rev James Rog-
ers, from Elmer, termed the Prohibition
question-and rightly. too-on last Thurs
day evening i'll the Town Hall, where he
addressed large audience of gentlemen.
ladies, and boys if you please. Howev-
er, let us add girls too and let us say
the boys and girls of this nation are not to
be despised on have sticks poked at them,
because they are going to achieve more for
God and humanity in the near future than
the boys have ever done in the past-allow-
ing that the boys of the past (0ffer Mey be-
cdoe meR) have accomplished noble things,
and things which this great nation of ours
will always be proud of But the Prohibit
ton party has a still nobler purpose III
view. 1t is going to crush out and stamp
forever from our land that which sinks man
lower than the brute. The day is coming,
we repeat, and is not far distant, either
And now let us state that the audience
which listened to Mr.. Rogers on Thursday
evening was composed of rather more than
zone hundred and fifty" we think, as was
stated in one of our local papers of Glou-
cester county, of the audience which listened
to Rev. G. f. Garrison's Prohibition talk
i'll the same hall, two weeks previous. Ev-
cry one of Mr.. Rogers audience was held
as if by magic to the excellent address he
gave us. He is surely doing a great and
noble work.
We love Prohibition because it is prohi-
bition, and prohibition means so much that
will tend to elevate men and men s
thoughts and actions. In regard to the po-
litical clubs that are being formed through
ont the country, we have this much to say:
We like to see the boys out on parade
almost as well as anybody, if it were not
for the great fear that they will be drawn
into some of the many dens of destruction
that are tolerated under this-shall | say
it?-infernal license system, which both of
the great political parties of to-day seem
perfectly willing to uphold. If +he leaders
who are Fostering the boys to join these
clubs would and could be made to stand
responsible for every boy who is led astray
and enticed to begin to lead wrong life.
while attending these parades (Which they
are expected to attend, of course) we think
that they would shrink back aghast, un-
willing to bear the awful results. traced
back to the joining of these parades, where
the rum is just as free as though we were
not living under protective tariff system.
Some have the power, we are happy to say,
to resist these temptations: but there are
weaker ones who have not that power, and
who is to stand responsible for the downfall
of these?
Drunken men. some of them not much
more than boys, are seen staggering through
our streets, an appalling sght-the belch-
ings up of the jug shop" it is naturally
supposed, of this village. All, Heaven pity
the village and the people dwelling there
in, when such thing as jug sh ,p enters
their midst! Somebody's boys are going
to be its Victims for sat last it biteth like
a serpent and stingeth like an adder. Are
you, and y0u not afraid lest your boy
should be one of its victims?
That dear old lodge of Good Templars is
doing a good work, and a work that this
village will some day be proud Off it is
not now. 1t is raising the fallen, and keep
ing the boys and girls from falling. Its
membership steadily increases, its meetings
are always interesting to those who are in
terested and always well attended. Come
and join with us; it will not hurt you, but
will do yon good We expect to initiate
two into our order from your borough, on
Saturday evening next.
The Band Boys gave us some most ac-
ceptable music, the evening Of Mr.. Rogers
address, and we are proud of the good feel
ing existing between them and our Order
of Good Templars. x*#
100 1884