The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-07-17

It is really sad. the way many Of our peo-
pie have 81 speaking Of our lookup and its
occupants, As though it were credit tothe
place. and " hen a poor victim, Overnaster-
I'd and unnamed by rum, is captured and
dragged there ii were 4 fine joke and a
great feat on the part Of our authorities,
whereas il IS singing disgrace to a
place. for It's necessity is solely oecasinned
by rum, and the process Of Incarceration
tie most htHmiliating thing conceivable on
the part OF all concerned.
The poor victim has done wrong and is
not only to be pitied but 10 be punished,
and richly deserves it; but he is very far
from being the only or chief offender
Had he not been tempted ne would not
have fallen: and shall the tempted alone be
Inundated and made to suffer and the
tempter go scot-free?
Our authorities may 90 on arrestiDg and
locking mp new and old offenders every
Saturday night and every night till the
close OF the century, and never meet the
case and he no nearer the end than at the
first and do nothing heroic; III is like
throwing all the powers Of our government
against a lone tribe Of Indians;J but let
them now make a strike for the chief in
.stigat0r aud offender in the case and beard
the rumseller in his den and lock up for
ever his power to tempt and min his poor
victims. and they will strike at the root Of
the evil and be doing something heroic
and worthy Of men and deserve immor-
taIity. Bnt these past efforts are puerile
and eowardly and unworthy Of men.
1t is said on our streets and in our houses
that never has our village witnessed such
disgraeeful scenes as were enacted here on
the night of our late national celebration.
Men and boys, white and colored, were filled
and crazed with rum and ready and eager for
fight and even riot; and some of our sober
citizens feared what might be the result.
Councils and constables and good citi-
zens and churches aud clergymen must
soon take stand on this great and gigan-
tic evil. and be men and not mummies,
and master it, or it will master MS, and
while we are proudly celebrating our ma
tional Independence We shall really be the
yeriest and most abject slaves on earth,
slaves to the rum power.
And how about the thirteen freeholders
who signed the sellers application for
LICENSE. Can they be witnesses 10 these
repeated disgracefuI scenes in our village,
and then honestly testify that our public
house i, well kept and its bar needed ''for
the public good 2" 4 second sober thought
must convince any sane man that 1t is the
veriest perjury. Yineland and Millyile,
Grimnell and Greeley, where no liquor is
sold, give the lie to all such testimony, and
ought to put TO the blush all places 80 be-
nighted and blinded as not to see their
own true good.
We need radical reformation here. We
need Temperance Luther to rise in his
might and stir the public conscience so
that every voter would rather his right
hand should lose its cunning than ever be
guilty of signing his name to any such
bare-faced falsehoOd, and our Mayor
Council and order-loying citizens gen
orally be made to see the grand demands
Of the hour, and rise To a manly and heroic
discharge of duty.