The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-05-02

license to few men all the privilege of
swearing and stealing and murder? Now, let
us have
HIGH LICENSE FOR THEFT.
Get ready your excise commissioners We
will have S., 900 or $4,000 high license for
theft We must somehow put down these
small criminals that are stealing door-mats
and postage stamps and chocolate drops.
For high license we will give to a few men
the privilege of running off with $4,000 of
the Newark bank, of watering the stock in a
railroad company, taking $250,000 at one
clip. Now I shall have this license very
high, say $40, 900 for theft, and in that way
we shall put to an end all these sneak thieves
and tuppenny scoundrels and wharf-rats, and
all hail to the million-dollar rascals You
will never put down theft in this country
until you give few people for high license
all the privilege of stealing.
Then there is
THE EVIL OF BLASPHEMY.
Let us for high license, say $4,000,
gather hundred men in these cities, men of
the hottest tempers and the feriest tongue
and the most spiteful against God and de-
cency, and add to them the speaker of the
New Jersey Legislature, whose address to
the legislature last week was so full of oaths
and imprecations that the printers, who never
swear themselves, had to put blanks all
through the speech to show where the oaths
came in. Having gathered this precious
group to do all the blasphemy of the country
at high license, give them full sweep and
then just let us extinguish all these small
swearers, who never have any genius at
swearing, and who always swear on a small
scale, and who never get beyond by
George" or, "my stars" or, "darn it,"
Extirpation for all small swearers. You will
never put down blasphemy in this country
except by high license.
And the sin Of murder. Why, your law
against it is a failure. Murder on Long
Island, murder in Illinois, murder in Penn
sylvania, murder all over. 1t is almost i'm
possible to convict one of the desperadoes.
He proves an abb right away. Or he did it
under emotional insanity. Court-houses full
of sympathizers and when he is cleared the
crowd follow him down the street thinking
he ought to be sent to congress! Your law
against murder is failure Now, we have
got to stop these clumsy assassins who kill
people with car-hooks, and Paris green and
dull knives, and having high license, say
$40. 900 or 500, 900, give to few men the
privilege of genteelly and skillfully and
gracefully putting their victims out of their
worldly misfortunes You will never stop
murder in this country until you put high
license upon it and let few men do all the
killing. But, my friends, all irony aside,
you see that if rumselling is right we all
ought to have the right and if it is wrong,
five million dollars paid down in hard cash
for one license ought to purchase no i'm
munity.
High license is
ANTI COMMON SENSE.
You know very we'll one business has no
right to despoil other businesses. A manu-
facturer-I have the authority for this from
gentleman who sits in this audience-a
manufacturer went down south and estab
lished himself in Georgia. Somebody asked
him why he built his establishment there.
He said, because they voted to have no
license here" That honest manufacturer
knew what you and ought to know, that the
liquor traffic is in antagonism with every other
business. If the millions of dollars which go
into that business went for lawful and health
full styles of business there would come to the
agricultural and manufacturing and CONNER
cial interests of this country boom of pros
perity hundred and fifty per cent. greater
than we have ever had.
THE SUFFERERS.
Oh, that the working people of America
understood that it is time for them by their
votes to keep at home the dwelling pot
house politicians in Albany and Harrisburg,
who vote down prohibition. Do you not know
that if you have 50 as wages now day, you
would have 81 if you have 81 900 salary,
you would have $4,000 if you have $40, 900
income now, you would have $4,000? The
rum traffic puts its clutch this moment upon
the neck of every merchant, mechanic, artist,
and farmer in America. You pay for its dis
tructive work by your honest sweat and by
the deprivation of your households of many
comforts. Oh for an hour of the
MAGNIFICENT COURAGE OF IOWA.
whose legislature few weeks ago passed an
out-and-out prohibition law, and whose goy-
ernor had grace and greatness enough to sign
it. Lead on, o western states, in this glori-
Gus reform. Our own beloved New York
state may be the last to fall into line, but
come she will. After few more thousand
of our homes are despoiled by the rum traffic,
after few more thousand broken hearts,
after few more thousand of the noblest in
tellects of this age are sacrificed, after few
more years the distilleries shall have insulted
the heavens with their uprolling stencil, the
tide will turn, and all good people rising up
will lay hold on the strength of Almighty
God and hurl into the perdition from which
it smoked up this sweltering and putrefying
curse of nations.
ANTI-FACTs.
Yes, have to tell you that this high-license
movement is antagonized by all the demon
strated facts in the case. am amazed to
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