The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-01-23

voted for St. John. A night or two after, X.
K. X. was posted ON his loon with a warning
that he must at once leave town, which
falling to do, he was mobbed. This story,
coupled with others of boycotting and burn
ing in effigy which come from many direc-
lions, would suggest that badges should be
in large demand inscribed with this device:
"Moral suasion for the man who drinks,
Ku Klux suasion for the man who thinks"
Let good citizens blush at the suggestion
of such a sentiment gaining way in our free
country.
And now that petitions are to go up to
our Legislature for a state constabulary to
help our citizens in their desperate resis-
lance Of the lawless. how earnestly ought
honest and sober legislators to put their
energies to work for this end. If all good
men in the Legislature will look to the
rights of the sober and industrious. and
shut their eyes to any promotion which
may come to them from pleasing the
whisky rings. help will be secured. Would
that they might write this motto on their
banners:
Legal suasion for the statute breaker.
Conscience suasion for the statute maker.
Let not it seem unbecoming for ministers
of grace to urge these appeals law. If
the writer had not the consciousness of
doing all i'll his power to reclaim the poor
drunkard, and to bring the holy persuasion
of the gospel to turn him from his sin, he
would not speak of the other and indispen-
sable step of legal ~suasion. All honor to
an eminent ecclesiaStic for strong true
words recently uttered. The Catholic pre-
late sees no more clearly than some Protes-
tants. In his recent speech on local option,
Cardinal Manning insists that the people
have a right to be heard at the ballot box
as to whether they will be taxed and tyran-
nized and robbed by these mel who live by
the misery and ruin of their fellows. And
after impeaching the liquor traffic for high
crimes and misdemeanors, he says, Il
know of only one remedy, and it is this,
that the public shall have the power of
saying, "1Hese pu6ic houses shall nat come
aAlong as; ne aciU nat hore Hem." Trans
late the phrase public houses into its
American equivalent, dram shops, and the
Cardinal demands exactly what the great
prohibitory movement in this country is
urging. Let us welcome such words of
strong conviction from whatsoever quarter
they may come.
"Prison suasion for the statute-breaker,h
u nm urAr1c rIi.b wa do not l;Eo ~ "a 10
upon our pen, desiring so much rather that
such would turn from their sin and forsake
it. We would like a better thing-that
their drink should be arrested and sent to
prison. A few weeks ago, while in Port
land, on invitation from the sheriff, we
went with Mr.. Moody and several others,
to witness the working of the Maine Law.
We saw in a large room, the floor covered
with casks and demiiohns and bottles.
The constable said, II will go with you,
and let you find, if you can, any place
where liquor is sold in this city. You will
find plenty of shops with bottles displayed,
filled with apparent liquor. But this is
only colored water, exhibited to throw con-
Tempt on tne law, a)lu make the pubic
think it is not enforced. Bat the real
liquor challenge you to find openly sold"
Pointing to the floor, he said, There are
the seizures of our detectives. who are at
work all the time to discover secreted
liquors; and at the end of the week we
have an execution, knocking out the heads
of the casks, and pouring the contents into
the gutter And Mr.. Moody, lifting up
his hands IN establishment, said, Il have
been in many cities, at home and abroad,
and have constantly seen drunkards taken
up and carried to Jail; but this is the first
city | have found where they arrest the
drink, and put it in jail and execute it."
Courage, temperance workers. This
looks as though a prohibitory law could
be enforced. But all four lines of our
breyiary must be worked together. And
with charity towards all, and with malice
towards none, let us labor shoulder to
shoulder, each on such line as he can best
occupy.
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