The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-10-29
DO o BELIEVE:
The woman's Temperance Crusade.
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! believe it was divine guidance which
brought them Immediately before the
traffic, to arouse the worlds attention 10
that crime.
believe this impulse crystallized only
to be directed in organized effort against
the traffic, and for the rescue of it's victims.
believe organization has not quenched
the spirit of the crusade. On the contrary,
it has kept it girded and ready to arise and
do Nv batsoever the master saith"
| believe devoted, organized effort has
brought women to know, the spirit Of
truth also attesting, that the disposition Of
the liquor crime rests so far on the ballot
that without it their labor is futile.
! believe, and history ~at:ests, that the
ballot has no permanent power without a
political organization back of it to main
tain its decisions.
efforts sinking as in quicksands because
there is no support for them, staltily them
selves by ignoring the only means through
which they can secure success.
| believe, since the liquor traffic is en-
irenciled in the two leading political par
ties, and its welfare is vital to their exist
ence, that neither Of them can cease to pro-
tect and %perpetuate 1t in the future as in
the past.
! believe, therefore, that it is illogical
and discourteous to plead with these par
lies to adopt measures fatal to their own
life.
believe, since there can be no perma-
neuce TO temperance efforts unless they
result in political party organization, and
that without it the desolations OF the liquor
traffic must abound more and more. there
fore.
| believe the highest wisdom indicates
that women should arise quickly and give
all their conseerated energies 10 the up
bnilding of a political party pledged to
give the liquor traffic no quarter as the de-
stroyer of our homes.
believe in this tie soul Of the crusade
is advancing ia a higher. aud if possible,
more womanly procedure than when i'm
pressively bowed in the streets before the
traffic.
believe it is the divinely imposed duty
and sacred privilege Of women to plead
with discretion and meckness of wisdom
With those who represent them al the bal
lot box, and who will not face the subject
because of prejudice, the bands of party
utilization, and old animosities. so that they
may calmly behold and obey the truth.
| believe a large class are thus hiding
from their own conscience aud the voice Of
God.
believe the celebrations of politicians,
continued now for many years, ito make
more public sentiment, . is a device OF the
arch deceiyer to divert the people, that
party bands may continue to enfield and
protect the dreadful evil for their own in
terests.
believe God has put before mon an en-
tirely different mode Of action in the scrip
lures by declaring a law to people who had
no sentiment and enforcing it Tor their
good by a political party. (See Jewish
History,)
| believe there has for long years been a
deep sea of sentiment, which has been stag
mating through the restraining power OF
perverted politics, and that a political party
alone under God, can, like the angel of the
pool in the scriptures, stir this siagnating
sea of sentiment for the healing OF the peo-
pie.
| believe it is a fallacy which tends 10
perpetuate the traffic, that a party which
abandons the traffic in one state will do it
in another. Political parties do not pro-
fess to have 2 conscience and will adept
only that which they believe will win. Ii
temperance will win, they accept it. Ii
liquor will win, they must accept it or fail.
believe, since every vote given to the
two leading political parties adds strength
to the liquor traffic, Tins perpetuating and
neutralizing the efforts made by women
against it, they cannot be too pronounced
in their advocacy of a third party, but with
Il fa~ithfulness and gentleness born of the
truth, remind men that the voice of God
same bundle with the destroyer. Thou
shalt utterly and forever forsake it."
believe III SO doing they should diseoun-
tenance all personalities, and with simple
ity and godly sincerity, represent the
heavenly spirit Of the crusade, which Was
not loud, neither behaved itself unseemly.
Holding all mems reputation sacred. they
must insist upon principles alone, thus
gently rebuking the debasiug personal
havoc which so often disgraees and defiles
the country. 1t is known and history re-
cords, that a man Of comparatively pure
character may represent destructive ideas
and send them ON their awful errand,
while a man Of contrary character may be
pledged to the right and will ensure it, il
sustained therein by a party organization.
! believe, that as God hath said, that
rigl. teousness shall cover the earth as
the waters cover the sea, and the deiiverer
came that al should come out from under
bondage, politics shall also be redeemed
and taken from the hands Of the prince OF
this world, and given into the hands Of
our Lord and His Carist.
| believe the touch offs wonSsn as God
| shows her how, with one hand ON this
potent agency and the other on God for the