The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-07-25

Baptist church in the evening
Rev. j. D. RANDOLPH of the Daretown
Presbyterian church will preach his farewell
sermon on Sunday next.
Temperance Gazette.
parties to publish their principles on the
liquor traffic as it will arouse all the antag
onism of the rum power against the party
taking such ground.
The liquor men are not fools; they know
Just where political parties stand on the
question of prohibition and it is folly for any
party to think of deceiving them.
We may add just here also that the time
has gone by when Prohibitionists can be de-
ceived They will not vote for men whose
position on the liquor question is uncertain.
1t has been hard struggle for some of us to
break away from the old parties, but the bat
tie has been fought and we find ourselves
squarely on the side of prohibition.
The duty of good citizens is to vote their
the courage of their convictions. We fully
recognize the fact that it is not an easy thing
for man to abandon the party with which he
has been identified for a lifetime, and yet if a
party outlives the principles that gave it birth
one of two things is inevitable; either the party
must adopt principles in harmony with the
progressive ideas of its thinking men, or lose
its following. The principles that gave the
Republican party its birth and caused it to
grow SO vigorously, won their place in the ma
TONS history and have crystalized themselves
into itsl life and glory Slavery is dead it sleeps
in a dishonored grave; no political trumpet
shall ever awaken it to life again. The work
of reconstruction is ended; the bloody shirt
is buried; good men, north and south, can
shake hands over the dark chasm. In the
march of events other great questions have
come to the front and they must be met we
cannot brush them aside, neither can we ig-
more them. Political conventions may ig-
more these issues, but living issues cannot be
smothered or buried.
Truth crushed to earth will rise again
The eternal years of God are hers.
The great principle lying at the foundation
of all political reforms is the prohibition of
the manufacture and sale of intoxicating
liquor. This is the master evil, it is the soul
of all that is debasing, depraving, destructive
and satanic. Every crime committed by
human beings Or devils finds congenial home
in the dram shop, and no criminal is SO low
and lewd but that he is good enough to stand
in the high places of this incarnation of all
wickedness.
Between the two great parties there is sub
stantially no difference. The only avowed
issue is the tariff question: and on this each
party tries to show ''what difference there
should be 'twixt tweedledum and tweedledee. "
Both parties appear to regard the question of
prohibition as of no consequence whatever
they bid for the votes of free traders, pro-
tectionists, Greenbackers, dynamiters, wool
growers, in short all classes of citizens except
temperance men. Why do they ignore tenn
perance men ? 1t is not because they esteem
these people more highly than they do tenn
perance men; it is because these people cote |
their principles and politicians know it, while |
temperance men heretofore have talked, |
worked and prayed for temperance three hun
bred and sixty-four days in the year and then
have voted the same ballot that rumsellers have
voted on election day. The hour has come
for temperance men to add another day to /
their creed, and that day is election day It.
may be said our vote will be small and the |
majorities will be against us. The majorities /
were against the anti-slavery men forty years
ago; the majorities were against John Wes-
ley; the majorities were against Martin Luth-
er, and the majorities were against Jesus !
Christ. Majorities against God will never
prevail. If God is against the liquor traffic |
it must go down. Are there any rum men SO
blinded by the devil as to say that God is on
their side? 81 He that committeth sin is of
the devil" Does the rumseller commit SIM |
or does he not? Rumsellers are against God
and God is against them.
We propose to stand with God ON this liv-
ing question. Others, like the Gibeonites Of
old NAV cling tn old issues which are like