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

find it has increased the number of its saloons
and the daily cases of drunkenness Other
cities in Iowa have tried it with similar re-
suit"
1t was tried in Nebraska, thousand-dollar
license, under what was called the Slocum
law. A prominent citizen was asked as to
what he thought had been the effect of that
high license. His reply was ''You ask, has
high license diminished drunkenness? Not
in the slightest degree. Drunkenness is stead
lily on the increase This vice, as all other
vices which government fosters grows con-
tinuously High license, as far as diminish
ing drunkenness is concerned, does nothing
of the kind Mark this we'll I would re-
peat in thunderous tones, if | could, does
nothing of the kind Gambling consequent
upon high license has fearfully increased
The saloon keeper must in many cases have a
gambling annex in order to make his business
pay profit under the high license system.
This vice is making rapid progress through
out the state and much of this increase is d.
rectly traceable to high license"
High license tried again and again and yet
here we, in the state of New York, are SO stul-
tifying ourselves as to propose that the farce
be re-enacted. The hardest blow the temper
ance reformation has had in this century has
been in the fact that some reformers have
halted under the delusion of this high-license
movement. You know what it is. It is the
white flag of truce sent out from Alcoholism
to Prohibition to make the battle pause long
enough to get the army of decanters and dem
Johns better organized. Away with that flag
of truce, or | will fire on it. Between these
two armies there can be
NO TRUCE.
On the one side are God and sobriety and
the best interests of the world, and on the
other side is the sworn enemy of all righteous
ness, and either rum must be defeated or the
church of God and civilization. What are
you trying to compromise with Oh, this
black destroying archangel of all diabolism,
putting one wing to the Pacific, putting the
other wing to the Atlantic coast, its filthy
claws clutching into the torn and bleeding
heart-strings of the nation as it cries out,
GLOW long, o Lord, how long?" Compro-
mise with it You had better compromise
with the panther in his jungle, with the
cyclone in its flight, with an Egyptian plague
as it blotches an empire, with Apollyon, for
whom this evil is recruiting officer, quarter
master and COMMANDMENT chief.
Oh, my friends, let us
FIGHT THIS BATTLE OUT
on the old line, for victory is coming as surely
falsehood is false, and truth is truth, and God
is God. Can it be that you are so deaf that
you cannot hear in the distance the rumbling
of the oncoming chariots of victory? Three
hundred and twenty thousand votes at the
last election in Ohio for prohibition. Kansas
on the right side. Iowa on the right side.
Alabama and Georgia soon to be on the right
ride Fifteen Legislatures of the United
States now, or this last winter, discussing the
temperance question. Two hundred and
forty-six of the townships of Massachusetts
out of two hundred and ffty-six proclaimed
for no license. In all the state of Maine not
one signboard out announcing the sale of
strong drink, SO that if in any place it is sold
it is pronounced crime. In our own mon
opoly- ridden New York Legislature few
weeks ago we came within three votes of hay
ing the choice of prohibition given to the
people. The liquor traffic is SO panic struck
that it is now at Washington trying to
get the constitution altered, so that prohibit
tory laws, if passed, as they will be passed all
over the land, can be pronounced unconstitu-
tional. A few days ago the congress of the
United States demolished the bonded whis-
key bill by one hundred and eighty-six votes
to eighty-three although the liquor traffic had
expended 800, 900 to bug spectGcles through
which our rulers might see things in the right
light.
Oh, 1 tell the politicians of America, tell
the leaders of our beautiful Republican party
and of our glorious Democracy that the tenn
perance movement is going to hold
THE BALANCE OF POWER
in this country, and decide who shall be the
mayors, and the governors, and the congress
men, and the presidents. l expect to live to
see a president of the United States elected
on a prohibition platform. Better get off the
track before the morning express train comes
down with the women's temperance societies,
and the Sons of Temperance, and the Good
Samaritans, and the Good Templars, and the
long train of christians and philanthropists
and reformers. Clear the track, The cow
catcher will be all piled up with smashed de-
canters, and the slaves of beer barrels, and
the splinters of high-license platforms, and
the rails with people who sat on the
fence, and all the Vaccinations and briberies
and outrages of all christendom. The time
will come when there will be only ten de-
canters left, and they will be set up at the
end of an alley like ten pins, and some re-
former will take the round ball of prohibition
and he will give one roll, but it will be ten
strike.
Ny friends, this subject looked at from the
side of worldly reform is so bright; but looked
at from the side of christian reform is
ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN.
God is going to destroy drunkenness. Is
there man sitting or standing in this assem-
bly, who doubts that God is stronger than
the devil?
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