The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-12-10
W rittcn for he MoSIToR.
a REVIEW OF THE TEMPERANCE
QUESTION.


We are frequently told that prohibition
and temperance are stale subjects, that
they are worn out and to give MS something
new, etc. If those who make these aSser-
tons only stop to think Of the crimes that
are daily committed by Incorporate peo-
pie, and OF the sad havoc that is made anew
each succeeding day by rum and then
let them say that temperance is
stale subject. Temperance will never be
stale subject until Bacchus is dethroncd
by Prohibition victories, and peace, happi-
ness and sobriety succeed the chaotic reign
of Gambrinus,
Brave soldiers, never sheath your swords
again
While Bacchus boasts warrior in he field:
But let the shout ring loud DER hill and plail
State prohibition: license law repealed
For over one hundred years the well
beaten track Of ''moral suasion'' has been
followed and then came the awakening,
the dawn of the day, to the fact that as
long as we were willing to go on saving
drunkards, without any other action, we
would have plenty to save. And out of
this new light came the thought 'remove
the cause that makes drunkards, . and this
was the birth of the great Prohibition par
ty, born Of the womb OF honor, charity,
truth and christianity, and the new born
babe is new fast growing and has travelled
to every State in the union and built per-
manent residences in several of them and
proposes to have one in every State in the
Union with headquarters at Washington,
D. C., and that at no very distant day.
There is a class of people Who endeavor
to quiet their conscences by saying that a
prohibitory, or any other law. cannot re-
form a man. Such statements as these do
not meet the case at all The law is for
the prevention Of crime by Furnishing Of
Tenders. It is significant fact that the
Ten Commandments are all in the form of
prohibitions, Thou shalt not steal
Thou shalt not kill, etc, and yet men
do kill and steal and break all the COM
mandments and have yet to hear of the
christian man saying they don't pro-
hihit. or ''they'r OF no nse. Remove the
rum traffic, Danish its nnholy presence and
the commandments broken will be very
few, but of course these are 'ianaticar'
arguments and worthy of no notice but
they are truth at least. And you are one
OF the crsahe,s who are always complain
ing of hard times, &c. How can you ex-
pect it to be otherwise when 5000, 900, 600
is the sum yearly spent for rum and 50,
600 060 Tor educational purposes, the drink
bill eating up TIE price OF all the bread
eaten, the clothes worn, the books read and
the churches built. just try the Prohibi-
ton party aud see the prosperity that will
come under its reign.
In Philadelphia We have y combined
capital Of s1S, 600, 600 invested in the dis
tilling OF whishey and tie brewing of beer.
etc. and quite as much mere invested i'll
the wholesale and retail selling Of it. This
total amount of $50, 900 is about
500 for every inhabitant of this city and
this is one of the blacklist Republican
cities in the Unien and yet we are daily
told by the Republicans that they are the
temperance party and we are only aiding
to elect the Democratic or whisky party,
while in New York City tile order of
things is reversed, it being a typical Dem
ocratic city, and | doubt, as EAST as it
is said TO be, it can equal i'll corruptness
the city Of Philadelphia, or outgeneral it
in vice and rum wrecked manhood.
That great political Solomon and Office
seeker JAS G. Blaine, said in speaking of
Hon. Neal Dow, the father of Prohibition,
that he used the ''meanest and dirticst
Democratic street in Maine to circulate his
news" This IS but history repeating it,
self, as the Mayor Of Boston, in describing
his search for Mr.. Garrison, the publisher
Of the Li6erdtor, that was making such
assaults on slavery. said he found it i'll
dirty, obscure hole.
The work before us is no trifling affair
and invites no trilcrs to- assist. What We
have and want is earnest men and women
who will give portion Of their best
thoughts and acts to push forward the
work for ..God and Home and Native
Land AS long as we love the liberty of
sobrety and hate the oppression Of rum
we must contend for its possession. 1t has
been well said that eternal vigilance is
the price Of liberty.
Work, pray, vote and be not discouraged
at apparent failure, but bear in mind
ssW here the van guard rests to-day,
The rear shall tent tomorrow
Jos. f. SwoPE.
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