The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-11-06

we crossed the border, stopping not until
we saw the gilt dome of the capital of
Massachusetts glittering like a minaret
from Beacon Hill at Boston. About three
months were spent in that and neighboring
cities, following UP the work of DR.. Rey-
nolds. in organizing red ribbon clubs. At
the close of this campaign, we were en-
abled to add 2 1000 more names. giving rs
a grand total Of over 100, 900.
After a lapse of eight years we return
here and find no blue ribbon club. There
is a dead calm, a sickening silence. telling
too plainly of apathy and lethargy. The
forces are scattered, and the enemy ''occu-
ply the land" y similar fate has over
taken much of the early work in other
places. Why? We aimed at the drinker,
leaving out of sight the seller. We sought
the salvation of the drinker, but did not
attack the license system. We neither ed
ucated the victim nor the masses to a full
and proper understanding of the liquor
traffic. We shuddered at the effect, but
sought no remedy for dcliyerance from the
cause. Well do | r~ecollect seeing dis
played in a saloon window, placards to the
effect that a free glass of whiskcy or beer
would be furnished in exchange for a
pledge or .blue ribbon if presented
by any one entitled to them by virtue OF
having signed the pledge. Weak men are
naturally found in the ranks of dram
drinkers. Many fell into such kind OF
man-traps. The act brought shame and
confusion. Will-power was weakened.
No one knows this better than the saloon
list. Well-meaning p-ersons-many OF them
christians-were shocked at what they saw
and heard. Discouraged, finally Withdrew
their aid. Decentralization ensued. Disin-
and chuckled over it all, and g~leefully
chorused, Il told you So" About this
time | got my eyes opened. by casually
hearing a saloonist say to one of the craft,
Il told you so, old fellow. Knew it
wouldn't last. Bah Guess We know a
thing or two if We didn't study Greek
Why this kind of thing has been goin or
ever since Noah went on that spree. II
these temperance chinners knew as much
as the toddy-slingers, they'd pitch us, shops
and all, into the pit of never-come-to-life-
again. Did you hear about that temper
ance noodle saying something about
couldn't enforce the law ? how they'd have
to have license laws? That's just what
we say, isn't it. old fellow? OF course il
is. Jim, you know my boy Harry, don't
you? He's a daisy if there is one. He
never takes nothing; doesn't drink a drop.
l won't let him, either. I've told every
man in the ''biz'' not to let him have any.
If they do. somebody'll get killed, that
all
This set me thinking. From that day
TO this | have not ceased to strike as hard
blows as | can against the accursed traffic.
We shall go on holding meetings where
ever in the providence of God we may be
called. We shall more than ever make the
pledge a prominent feature in our work,
appealing to the enslaved to come up out
of the "house of bondage" and be redeemed
from the curse of strong drink. But, SC
far as we are able we shall not cease to
agitate, and while in our right hand We
hold the nplifted cross, with our left we
shall try to throttle the enemy with such
means as we possess. Weshall not plug the
hole with a high license joint of stove pipe,
but rather with the solid plug of Prohibi.
tion. We look upon the license system as
the scorpion breeder of sin and prolific
progenitor of all manner Of evil. The
friend Of the liquor traffic may make a
bloodhound OF himself and chase the EN-
shaved with his curses, and fasten his
canine teeth in the quivering flesh of the
fleeing victim, but thank God Almighty ]
never will.
Yes, there are 81 religious bodies in
Erie, but she has about 300 dramshops to
supply her thirsty inhabitants with intox-
icating liquors-one for every 100 persons.
A population OF 80, 900 includes men, wo-
men and children. Suppose that each sa-
loon sells on an average of $40 per day OF
lhtpAibNtlH5 AiIhOI. We navy hIlih-
ing days a million dollars.
Now to make this a matter of greater
personal interest allow me to make AN es-
innate of the amount expended during tine
year in a city like Salem, for liquor. II
she has 20 places where liquor is sold pub
licly, an average of so for each place would
amount in 313 days to $G2, 600. Allowing
five persons to the family there would be,
say 1000 families. For each of these fam
lilies the 362, GOO spent upon liquor would
purchase as follows: 4 tons of coal at 50,
total $40, 600; 3 barrels Of flour at 81 c.
total $21, 600. There would still be left
$21 600 to buy pork, beef, butter, sugar,
coffee and tea and other minor mecessaries.
Who can afford To waste this amount ?
Certainly not the laboring man. Yours
for the war.
+. T. ScoTT.
y drunken father in Lowell, Mass. the
other day, took his baby out in A carriage
on n~reteDSe Of giving IL air and y~iSitin0 A