The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-03-20

The temperance enterprise is designed.
i'll the providence of God. to cover
ground enough to reach legislatures.
y great many facts have been proved
by these who are in the service Of
science. but they are not pertinent
to this iSsue-not at all. Temperance
is a practical question. For instance. in
is our common schools. We spend just
under half a million of dollars annually on
our public schools, If | r~ecollect right,
we spend three-fifths of all II taxes: and,
when a stranger comes from a far country,
the only thing we have to show him is II
schools. Well. now. those schools tpar-
don me if | am not exact in my statistics;
| am exact enough for all practical pur-
poses)-those schools educate twenty
three thousand young minds and hearts
breed them up step by step to be useful,
worthy. and orderly citizens-breed them
up to Sobriety. integrity, and Christianity.
Four hundred and fifty thousand dollars is
the cost, and the heart. the anxiety. and
the vigilance of the city are the means.
Side by side with that fundamentally are
three thousand grogshops. which the
mayor and aldermen of Boston are elected
not to see. Those grogshops. by the sta
%tistics, not of a temperance body, but of
the chief of police IAN official of the city
which ignores temperance taking the aver
age of twenty years, show this fact: That
the same number of adult men. twenty
two or three thousand. are sent to the poor
house. and to the Jail from the direct inlu-
ence of intemperance in the same amount
of time that the schools are educating
twenty-three thousand boys and girls: so
that with one hand the city brings up to
Gods light. and with the other dashes
down into darkness. the same number of
souls. Well, now, the Christianity of the
city says. Can't that be stopped? Are we
obliged to sit and fold our hands in the
presence of such an evil? Has ii man a
right, under any idea of government. to
open, because he OWN "A lot. a pitfall for
his fellow-men The right Of "a man to
vi tilaiH aiSC uiIuti biS Wv 1pOl IL Ull-
disputed: but prohibition does not touch
that right. Prohibition only says: When
YOU throw open that door. aud invite the
passer-by To drink. and when two hun
drcd years of experience have proved that
by 50 t,oing you double my taxes and make
it dangerous for my child to tread those
streets. | have a right to say whether you
Shall open that door or not. | don't care
whether you sell him poison or food; /
don care whether you sell linn alcohol or
roast beef-it does not matter; all | know
is that. if you undertake to sell him some
thing that doubles my taxes. and that
makes my passage through the streets
more dangerous, you double this crime,
and | have the right to Interfere There
is where | get my right; and if any grog-
seller can stand here and show in the face
Of an intelligent people that he has the
right, under any idea of domestic govern
ment, to tileh from my pocket and to make
my passage through the streets unsafe in
order that he may coin other mems sins
into his gold, let him try it.-Ectract Of an
address by Wendell Phillips before tie Na-
toaol temperance Society.
The National Temperance Society has re-