The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-11-20

Your correspondent attended the We'd
nesday evenings lecture and ook a few
briefs as follows:
This eloquent and gifted lady said that
in behalf Of the cause She represented,
that the spirit of charity was needed:
though we may differ in the execution, the
end was all the same; that our best argu-
ments were needed on this, the leading
question and prime issue Of the day.
Therefore let us press it, for its arguments
are founded on reason and common sense.
Opposition is good. we need opposition
and we are getting plenty of it and with
all this opposition we are not to be turned
aside, for we have Il combination of TO-.
600 local unions and an army OF POO, 600
women Notonly have We working power
in the United States and Canada, but in
Europe as well. Great Britain, Germany,
Norway. Denmark, Sweden. South Amer
lea, Australia and in the Islands of the
sea, each of these are welcoming MS with
in their borders.
Ere long we shall claim to be a part of
the worlds W. c. 7. [. We enter every
field open to us, and in orr field every
woman can find a department.
Fourteen states in the United States
have we succeeded ia the enforcement Of
compulsory legislation in the interest OF
OCd1 ViAibli. lotNl anu 4 if-hthi-
ton. 5 81 these states We secured prior t.
the great political campaign of a year ago,
and nine states since the election of tie
same period. Seven colleges have adopted
our text books: we have our schools, oar
Bands of Hope and our Kindergartens, and
our systems in general for the suppression
of evil of every kind.
We are purely unsectarian in our work.
and sectioHalism is not known. There is
neither north nor south with us. and our
labor on the Pacific coast is identical with
that performed on the borders OF the
Atlantic. We have been in Legislative
halls and have been in the halls of Con-
gress. AS TO the strength of oar National
w. C.. I. [. and to oar national influence
thereby. we refer to the standard bearers
Of the nation, namely John q. Whittier,
John b. Cough. Theodore s. Cuyler and
Joseph Cook. 1t may he true that some
of Us have been conservative 1T times. bat
now we are united and blended in effort.
Every Evangelical church denomination
accepts us except the Episeopalians and
the Catholics, aud yet there are connected
with us many Episcopalians, and in New
Orleans some of orr best workers are adj
herents of the Catholic church.
The religious body that gave us the
latest and strongest endorsement was the
General Assembly of the Presbyterian
church. at it's last annual session. held at
Cincinnati, Ohio.
The field which shows the most fruit at
present is the South; 40, 1000 votes Ken
lucky gave in the interest of local option
at its last election. The great need Of the
South to-day is temperance workers and
not politicians. The South is the most
hopeful field we have. We are sur
,1,;roJ 81 &c ,aril aluat,na and ,.parracS ~,
this question; its outlook in that direction
acts as a stimulus to our work, as we ap-
proach nearer home in the North.
History tells us that as Napoleon was in
the midst Of one of his mightiest~ conflicts,
his men cried ''the Alps" Napoleon re-
piled that there were no Alps he could not
cross. and they crossed. So in our great
moral conflict, let there be no Alpine bar
rier to check us in our struggle. When a
woman wills, she wills. and it will be done.
| Shall we go? Yes, it can be done and it
shall be. and brave men will join with us.
High license we object to, for we have too
plainly and too often seen the sad re-
suits of that system. Inlocalities where it
is adopted, crime is just as great. High
license is not true restriction. The danger
of a high licensed den is just as Ubiquitous
as that of a low licensed den. We plead
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poor man has no chance in the traffic, while
the rich man has it all. There is no true
argument nor any true logic in this high
price system. High license is a system of
low policy, while Prohibition is a standard
of high policy. High license is simply a
form between extremes legalized- The
Bible is clear on this point; it says, abstain
from all appearances of evil. 1t also in
structs us that we cannot serve two mas
tiers: we must hate the one and love the
other.
We are a christian people; we pray and
wonder why u prayers are not ansM cred.
We should not pray with lip service only,
but with our hearts and II hands. lis
true that men have appetites and passions,
vet, with all these, we have hope in our
American manhood. You close your
saloons. and you will have less demands for
liquors. Oppose the gilded saloon and the
palatial den. Our public institutions are
filed with young men for which the traffic
is held responsible. Low dens are alb
horred, but respectable dens are sought.
Our beer gardens are clothed with every
attraction possible to draw plants, flow
ers. music. pictures and books are there;
all to entiee, | appeal to you not to make
the traffic a respectable one, but to abhor
the whole thing entirely. This question is
being agitated, and the day Is coming when
the question will be settled. Subdue the
traffic, and its corresponding results will
also be settled.
The pulpit is open; the press is ready;
our daily papers comment on it, and our
legislatures are timid on the approach of
this great unsolved problem.
Constitutional Prohibition is coming, and
we have only to open our eyes to see it.
Let us speed it. Would you give us your
heart and your hand? VIII you not lend
us your efforts? Don't stand alone; come
with us. My influence and your influence
is either for or against. One blow can do
much. We plead, yes, we entreat yon to
be up and battle for life. We want men;
we want hearts, aud when the conflict is
ended and the victory won, q great and i'm
mortal reward awaits MS in the great here
after. MERCER.