The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-05-08

der anu theft. fl caunot be wholly exter-
minated. but like them it can lie outlawed
by government and society and that Is
what Ve ask with reference 10 it.
n ATTITUDE or THE PUBLIC
toward the li5uortraffic IS. it has the power
10 put this fire ont. and don care to do it.
You've been told So often that it can be
outlawed. Now. one assertion is as good
as another. and I assert most positively
that if the public cared 10 outlaw it, it
would be outlawed. Suppose every right
eous man felt toward liquor selling as all
Of us feel toward men who strike women;
suppose every kind, good. humane man
felt toward the man who would sell poison
10 orr boys and make them drunk, as all
Of as feel toward the man who would beat
a horse-do you not think that there would
be a mighty uproar in the city Of New
York tomorrow, which would cause every
liquor-dealer 90 close his place in terror
and ia the end reduce the liquor business
to the basis Of every other odious immor-
ality2
'-Qae Of your writers says in the last
number Of tie Ccatury that whenever the
people really want a thing the politicians
make haste to give it to them. That IS
true. And whenever you complain that
You are not given law to prohibit this bad
thing. you may be sure that you are not
asking for it in the right way. The public
is at fault. With it rests the response
bilities for the attitude Of the law on this
matter. You, my friends. form a part Of
That public. To you as individuals. ! say
that it IS your duty TO show BY every
means in your power that you have no
share in tue publie's consent to the liquor
traffic. Show whenever and however yol
can that you despise it, that you are deter
mined to help kill it. Then. 50 far as you
Individually are concerned, your hands and
hearts viii be clean.
The great public does confessedly CON
sent 10 the liquor traffic. The great public
allows a few ward politicians to nominate
candidates fer the Legislature and then
votes to send them there in order that they
may put on the statute books laws con-
senting 10 the murder Of 1000 persons an
nually, to tie orphanage Of 200, 600 child
rem annually. and 10 the annual destrue-
ton Of 81 400. 600, 600. The great public
approves the policy Of the State in taking
a part Of the profits and paying all the ex-
penses Of the traffic. This great public has
plenty Of time to nurse party fervor, but
no time At all 10 think Of God and human
ny.
PARTY INTOLERANCE sTRoseLY con
DEAINED.
Ny friends, I viii tell you a fact that
one day viii be heard Will amazement and
inoredulty. During the past few months
l have heard any number of good. upright.
honorable. even philanthropic men-yes,
ministers Of the Gospel. too-pour ont
mere wrath and Indignation and whitening
scorn againss sincere, conscientious, disin-
terested well-wi shers Of temperance than
they ever poured out against intemperance
in all their lives. I have seen them froth-
ing at the mouth, almost swearing in their
impotent fury. de~nouncing. shrieking dia-
tribes at good men, noble. brave and de-
voted men who did no wrong except that
they tried in d signal manner TO emphasize
their horror Of the attitude OF society in
consenting to the liquor traffic aud to get
as far away from tins attitude as possible.
What does this 20 to show Simply that
some of the best men among US, unbalanc-
ed in their calmer judgment by that mania
which We call party blindness, are not
ashamed to place themselves in the atti-
tude Of alliance with those who. as a mat
ter of principle and belief consent to the
liquor traffic. rather than in the attitude Of
alliance with those who from their hearts
abhor it. Applause
4 know that some of our good men are
mad. And am glad. G4aughter.) am
glad TO know that this temperance cause
has grown big enough 10 be able to make
people mad. cloud Applause.) | feel
like raising three cheers. And it will con
tinue to grow. The time is coming when
there viii not be a journal in New York or
Philadelphia but viii he heart and soul n
our side. This conserving public win be
enlightened by degrees. We a n exactly
tell the momen Of success. but it is CON-
inc