The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-03-06
To the Prohibitionists of P~iiesgroye
Township.

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Township.
1t was a saying of George Fox, the
founder of the Society Of Friends, that one
good man would shake a neighborhood for
ten miles around. The eminent Quaker no
doubt realized that goodness and earnest
ness were, as originally, nearly the same
thing, and that a good man is always an
earnest man.
One hundred and fifty thousand prohibi-
tionists in the land, by their votes at the
last election, made the politicians feel what
they could or would not reason out, that
prohibition is a national question. If these
one hundred and fifty thousand voters will
earnestly work, they will soon give this
nation such a shaking III m the question
of Temperance and Prohibition, that the
zeal allies will wish for the rocks to hide
Them
Prohibitionists of ~Pilesgrove, the banner
township of Salem county, let us do our
duty. 1t is useless to expect any effective
temperance legislation from either the
Democratic or Republican party. The
rum power has such a grip on both that
neither can do anything for us. The Re
publican Convention at Chicago. in June
last, was plead with as no political conven-
ton ever was implored before, to recognize
the temperance cause. They were not
asked to declare for it further than to put
a plank in their platform in favor of sub
hitting a prohibitory amendment to the
people. The Republican leaders replied
that they could not do it, that it would dis
rupt their party. They acknowledged the
fact that the rum power has a grip upon
them that they amnot get rid of. 1t is the
same in National, State, county and town.
ship organization-Rum is King.
What then is to be done? We say, turn
neither to the right nor to the left,
but adhere as closely to the Prohibition
party as Republicans and Democrats have
in the past to their organizations and in due
season we shall reap the victory. Neal
Dow, the veteran temperance leader with
more than a half century's experience in
l1t n. lIithi tIltiC 10 III Ut
authority on this SUBJECT, says that we have
''at last resorted to the right policy, that of
independent political action, and that the
more rigidly we adhere to and the more
vigorously we pursue that policy, the
sooner we shall win"
I'm union there is strength, and for the
purpose of more effective work, it is pro-
posed that the Prohibitionists of Piles
grove township organize a Prohibition
club. All those who voted for John P.
st. John at the last Presidential election,
and all who are in sympathy with the Pro.
hibition party are requested to meet in the
hall of the W. c. T. I. at Woodstown. on
Friday afternoon, March 9th, 1885, at q
o'clock.
Woodstown. March ,. 1885.
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