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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-09-03

The Philadelphia rumsellers and the
Prohibition party seem to be in accord on
one point-opposition to high license
but the agreement is only seeming, for
when you come to examine motives they
are as wide apart as the poles. The rum
seller is opposed to high license on the
same principle that he is opposed to
low license or any other kind of
license, except the general unrestricted
license TO do as he pleascs, sell as
much rum as he can, to as many as he can
and whenever and wherever he can, and
let the community take care Of the results.
In other words he wants to be let alone.
The Prohibitionist is opposed TO high II
cense on the same principle that he is OPP
posed to low license or the other kind Of
license the rumseller longs for. because lac
believes the state has no right TO do
anything more or anything less with the
run traffic than to crush it out entirely as
the foe of society, Of the state, of morals.
of religion, and Of everything good, and
the promoter Of family and social troubles,
Of disorder, confusion, crime, poverty and
death. He believes that the state has nc
right, for a share Of the profits large OF
small, to enter into partnership with the
rnmseller and protect him in his unholy
trade. He believes it to be bad bushes,
principle, apart from the moral aspect OF
the case, to save at the municipal spigot
by receiving license fees great or small,
while wasting al the bung hole for the sup.
port of paupers, punishment and restraint
Of criminals and general correction of the
evils foisted on the community by the ram
business. And if the organs who arc
cackling over the fact that the rumsellers
Of Philadelphia are raising a fund to fight
high license, and so standing III the same
side of the question as the Prohibitionists,
can get any comfort or consolation out OF
the fact they are welcome TO it.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-09-03

Opinions differ as to whether the Rev.
Mr.. Vibbert did or did not speak harshly
concerning Mr.. Blaine at the Mass Meet
ing last week. We have made it n point
to ask several Republicans who heard both
Mr.. Nibbert's addresses and they said they
heard nothing they could consider abusive.
All the same there are some who, finding
nothing else to urge against the meeting
generally, and requiring some vent for
their spleen against the Prohibitionists and
their cause, have given it out that both
Mr.. Vibbert's and DR.. Graw's utterances
were abusive and dcnunciatory. For our
part we did not think anybody or anything
got much abuse but the rum jug, and there
are some tender-hearted souls who do not
like to hear even that abused very hard,
especially when it stands too close to the
door of THEN own party wigwam. But
how queer it is that papers and people,
who two years ago were flied with rancor
and hate toward the Prohibition party and
their candidates. should now feel so badly
when they imagine that the Prohibition
speakers are giving their party and candi-
dates a hard rap. Was ever mortal man
subjected to such a storm of political abuse
from so-called respectable papers as
John p. St. John received. Our advice to
Prohibition speakers and Prohibitionists
generally is to pursue the even tenor Of
their wav Their mission is NOT 70 nlcaSe
other parties but to advance their own
cause and the old POLITICIANS are not safe
advisers as to the best method. The line
is clearly chalked down. Let the work
men hew to it-let the chips fall where they
will.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-09-03
NAKED TRUTH
SALOON.
JAS. n. LAWRENCE, PROPRIETOR.

Jas. n. LAWRENCE, PROPRIETOR
ADVERTISEMENT OF An HONEST RUM
SELLER AS IT SHOULD BE.
FRIENDS AND N%EIGHBoRs: Having just
opened a connections shop for the sale OF
Liquid Fire, I embrace this opportunity of
informing you that | have commenced the
business of making
DRUNKARDs, PAUPERs y BEGcAEs
for the sober, industrious and respectable
portion of the community to support. |
shall deal in family spirits, which will in
cite men to deeds of riot, robbery and
blood, and by so doing diminish the com
fort, augment the expenses and cndanGcr
the welfare of the community.
| will undertake, at short notice, for a
small sum, and with great expectations, to
prepare victims for the asylum, poor farm,
prisons and g~allows.
| will furnish an article which will in.
crease fatal accidents, multiply the mum
Der Of distressing diseases, and render
those which are harmless, ineurablr.
will deal in drugs which will deprive
some of life, many of reason, most of
property, and all of peace, which will
cause fathers to become ficnds and wives
widows, children orphans, and all mendi-
cants.
will cause many of the rising genera
tons to grow up in ignorance, and prove a
burden and nuisance to the nation.
- | will cause mothers to forget their
offspring, and cruelty to take the place Of
love.
| will sometimes even corrupt the MINIS
tiers Of religion; obstruct the progress of
gospel, dcfile the purity of the church,
and cause temporal, spiritual and eternal
death; and if any should be 50 impcrtinent
as to ask why | have the audacity 10 bring
such accumulated misery upon the people,
my honest reply is "MoNEy!" The spirit
trade is lucrative, and some protesting
Chsstians give it their cheerful countc-
nance.
have a license, and if | do not bring
those evils upon you somebody else will.
have purchased the right to demolish
the character, destroy the health, shorten
the lives and ruin the souls of thosc who
choose TO honor me with their custom. |
pledge myself to do all | have herein prom
ised. Those Who wish any of the evils
above specified brought upon themselves
or their dearest friends are requested To
meet me at my bar, where | Will for a few
cents furnish them with the certain means
of so DOING hyisttdn Union.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-09-03

lecture. work, before The annual session of tn"
District Lodge, and shall make "A full report OF
the collections ana pledges secured ut The an
n nal session OF District Lodge.
sec. 3. \ complete abstract OF the financial
reports of District Lodge and ofthe Executive
Committee, and a detailed statement of the
work done during the year shall be submitted
TO Grand Lodge by the District Lecturer.
See. 4. All money collected shall he paid to
the District Secretary and entered ON his
books. The d. :. shlti Immediately turn over
such money Ia the District Treasurer, who
shall keep the same and pay ont only on orders
signed by the -. &. L. and u. =
sec. ). The District Secretary and District
Treasurer shall give bonds in such sums as re-
quired, such bonds 10 be approved by the Dis
trict Lodge.
ARTICLE X. MISCELLANEOUS
sec. l.. Offences. This Lodge may put on
trial any OF its officers or memher-, and il
found guilty Of offences charged, they may be
expelled by Il majority vote from said District
Lodge.
sec. >. This Constitution may be altered OF
amended At any regular session of the Grand
Lodge of New jersey.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-09-03

senator Frye Sharply Arraigned by
Hon. John II. Finch.

Hhptts oohh 10
BOSTON, Aug. Colon. john b. Finch
has addressed the follow ing open letter to
Senator Frye:
''You are reported as having said at
IIoulton. Me-: 4 say deliberately that
some Of the Prohibition leaders are ur-
blushing impudent scoundrels, who are
helped by the Democratic party to defeat
the Republican party?' | can hardly be-
lieve you would utter such an impudent,
reckless lie. If you did, of course You
know there is but one of two things for
you to do, viz: name the leaders and pro-
duce proof to sustain your charges, or
stand branded as n slanderer and coward.
! can understand how a man who blindly
follows a leader WHO he admits is 'smirel-
ca. should think all other leaders are of
the same kind; but his thoughts do not
Justify him in attacking my character
without proof to sustain charges. The
truth is that the Republican party has
everywhere as a national party repudiated
prohibition, and in the States where it
favors it as a States rights doctrine, has
not enforced the law if it could gain polit-
ically by not furnishing the drunkard
makers. You claim, and you are right, that
the Democratic party being in power in
Mississippi and other Southern States is
responsible for the violation of election
laws. The Republican party in Maine,
being in power, is responsible for the vio-
lation of the liquor laws of your State.
Look at Portland, Augusta, Bangor and
other cities.
The Republican party being in power,
and having the machinery for the inforc-
men of laws in its hands, is a particeps
criminis with every misunderstanding
outlaw who is allowed to continue his dew
ilish business, You say the Maine annex
of the Republican party is in favor Of pro-
hibition. Then why does not your party
enforce the law in Bangor, Portland. Au-
gnSta, and other cities now? Your party
has ample time before election To take up
some of your dishonored prohibition paper.
You must think the people of Maine are
fools if you think that after your party has
allowed the law to be trampled under foot
in Bangor for years, they will take your
political promises 20 do something with
out any guarantee. You have the power
to guarantee in a limited degree by going
to work now to enforce the law. Why do
you rot arrange to have your speakers
open a crusade in Bangor for the enforce
mcnt of the law ? Why not try 10 redeem
the prohibition character of your party ?
If your party is honest, 10 it now, when
it will cost you the whiskey vote to do it.
"Your assault upon the Prohibition par
ty is simply a trick to cover up the real
issue of the campaign; tiiat is, is the lolit-
zeal party in charge of the State govern
mcnt responsible for its honest admins
tratioa and for the enforcement of the
laws" The argument that the issue is
really between The Republican and Dem
o%eratic parties, and that the Republicans
are better than the Democrats does not
meet the case.
'Thc question is, Shall the prohibitory
law be enforced by the officers elected and
paid to enforce the law
Yours truly,
,JoHN b. FINCH,
Chairman National Prohibition Committee,
August, 1886.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-09-03
whisky.

There is not II saloon in fifty in this
city where you can get a pure drink OF
whisky. | will make it stronger. Forty
out Of every fifty liquor dealers are
selling whisky which is neither more nor
less than poison. | would not drink il, sir.
| would not ALLOW a good dog 10 drink it. "
This remark was made by a reputable
wholesale liquor man to a reporter Of the
Press lately. He is ready, &c says, to sub
stantiate his statements by proof that can
not be denied.
"You do not mean to say that ] cannot
ger good whisky in a fine saloon where
am charged twenty-five cents a glass ?" in
CURED ii bystander in amazement.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-09-03

81 will make no distinction between hne
saloons and the holes in the wall. They
all handle about the same kind of goods.
The cheap saloons may Use a little more
water in their whisky, but it contains no
more poison than that which you purchase
IN a saloon where oil paintings adorn the
walls and high-priced mirrors set off to an
advantage fancy bar fixings. 1t Is all the
same. Fancy saloons must make plenty
of money in order to meet their expenses.
"A law should be passed prohibiting the
rcctifieation that makes five barrels of
whisky ont of one. Some whisky is put
through a certain process whereby a large
quantity of fusel oil is taken out. This
whisky is purchased by rectiiers, who will
draw perhaps all ont of a barrel bnt five
gallons. fill it mp with cologne spirits, 4
large percentage of which is fusel oil, and
then add drugs 10 give it the proper color
and taste. | was in the rectifying room of
a wholesale house a few days ago. | saw
the eompounder put several ounces of car
bolic acid in a barrel of stuff he had COM
pounded and called whisky. This was. lie
said, for the purpose of giving it a bead,
make it sparkle, sharp, biting. y barrel
of this whiskey contains enough fusel oil
to kill a ~halE-dozen men. I would just as
willingly take a small dose of poison as
drink a glass of it. Step into a saloon and
take a glass OF this vile stuff and you will
feel the evil results before yon cross the
threshold. 1t acts directly upon the brain,
and is keenly felt throughout the system.
Men who drink any amount of it become
wild, lost to their better judgment and
reason, and are scarcely responsible for what
they do. Besides they are being slowly
poisoned to death. Young men are stunt
ed in their vigorous growth, and the en-
ergics of older men wasted. A law which
allows men to mix mp poison and sell it
simply for the purpose of making money
should be repealed. This whiskey often
finds its way into sick chambers, and the
results can be imagined.
can old liquor man stated to me a short
time ago that he could not hold his trade
and handle pure goods, and in order to
meet the demands for cheap whiskey he
had been compelled to adnlterate. These
statements | am ready to prove. Show
me a man who adulterates his whiskey,
and | will show yon one that will not
drink flat which he sells to others. -
PttsbHrg Press.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-09-03

The Governors of each of the Colonial
States viii meet in Philadelphia on Sep
TENDER II to arrange forthc Tooth amniver-
sary Of the adoption of the Constitution of
the United States, which occurs on the
same date of the following year. The
gathering is in response To a resolution
passed 10y the Legislature Of this State in
June. The meeting will be called to order
on August II, 1887, at Carpenters Hall,
and then Will adjourn to independence
Hall ON the day following. An old-time
barbecue will be given in the Park on Sun
day.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-09-03

The center of the great earthquake of
Tuesday night appears to have been under
Charleston, South Carolina, and that city
was the principal sufferer from its effects.
Dispatches from the fated city say
that the City Hall, lIibernian Hall, the
main Station House. st. Michael's and st.
Phillips churches, many other public
buildings, and fully two thirds OF the dwell
ings in the city were wrecked. 1t is csti-
mated that between thirty and forty persons
were killed, and more than one hundred
were injured. The loss Of property is es-
timated at from eight TO ten millions ofdol-
lars. The shocks were repeated at inter
uals during Tuesday night and Wednesday
but the destruction was all accomplished
by the first shock, at 9.55 p. M. on Tues
day night, AT 11.50 Wednesday night
another shock, more violent that any since
the first couvulSion, threw down several
houses. The people are campcd in the
streets and public squares, and there is
already great suffering among Them from
exposure and want of food.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-09-03

The Liah0 Democrat publishes the adyer-
tisement which We reprint below. On
first reading it we judged it to be either a
hoax or a temperance agitator's ingenious
attempt to produce a temperance agitation.
But, sending for information to a sub
scriber of the MristiaH Uaion at Boise
City, where this advertisement appears,
we are assured that it is Il genuine adyer-
tisement of a genuine liquor saloon. There
is a mystery about this naked truth adj
vertisement which we do not pretend to
solve. But it certainly is the truth un-
adorned. This is, We believe, the first case
in which the ChristiaH Union has ever pub
lishcd an advertisement on its editorial
pages. And this one is published without
charge;
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-09-03


The argument is now advanced and has re-
ceiyed judicial recognition in the courts in
some of the Western States that prohibition
ofthe liquortrafic is unconstitutional unless
the prohibitory statutes provide for com
pcnsation to manufacturers and dealers in
intoxicants for the loss they will sustain by
the closing up of their business. That is
to say, if man has an extensive brew
cry in New Jersey and by the pas
sage of a prohibitory law he is com
PEELED to close his business, the state
should pay him the value of his plant and
possibly further compensate him for the
further loss of the profit he might realize
if allowed to continue the business for an
indefinite time longer. II this doctrine
should be sustained by the courts
of last resort and acted upon, we be-
lieve that the State would in the end be
the gamer, after paying full damages for
deprecated property, in the increased
prosperity Of her people under Il well en-
forced prohibitory law. But we do not
deem the position tenable. 1t is true that
private property can not be taken for pub
lie uses without compensation, but that is
not what prohibition seeks to do. The
public will have no use for the property Of
the rum seller or the rum maker. 1t will
still belong TO them and can be controlled
by them and devoted to other and better
uses. Prohibition is not on the line OF
depriying men Of the ownership OF their
property and condeming it for the use OF
others, but on the line Of the general police
powers of the State to suppress and abOl-
ish that which is detrimental 10 the phys
ical and moral health of the community
This lies at the foundation Of the prohi-
bition movement, that the rum traffic is a
public curse, inimical to the general wei
fare, sapping the foundation Of social pros
perity. The traffic has grown to its pres
ent dimensions in the face Of this senti.
ment and idea, and in the teeth. of constant
menace in the shape of license and Other
restrictive laws and with full notice OF
the rights Of the people at any time tc
wipe the whole business out OF existence.
The traffic has no vested right as against
the higher right Of social protection and
municipal well-being. Damages inCeed. We
think the claim for damages lies on The
other side and if the liquor makers and
dealers were called upon TO make good the
losses which their business has cntailcd
upon individuals and communities, fol
which, morally, they are responsible, il
would much nearer reach the equities OF
the case.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-09-03

The Philadelphia papers are having a
picnic these dog days. The Times is max
ing the Mayor and his s%ubordinates wish
they Ind never been born. The Press,
locking around to offset the Times, pitched
on the warrant brokers. The NORTH amer
icaR has had a monkey and parrot time
with Postmaster IIarrity, and the NeTs
has kicked the everlasting insides ont OF a
bogus insurance company. It's cold day
when a Philadelphia editor don't have
something to do.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-09-03

A report issued by the Bureau of Eduea-
tion last week contains the following data
relating to New Jersey: Number of teach
ers in the State, Oh males and 1854 fe-
males: total. 3,505.-School age in New
Jersey, from five to eighteen years; school
population, 343,S9i; number enrolled in
the public schools, 209, 526; average daily
attendance, 1862; duration of school
term, 1872 days. Expenditure for salaries
of teachers each year, 81, 71G, 052; total ex-
penditure. 50, 142, $50. Number of col
leges in New Jersey, 4; average number of
students. us; value of buildings and
grounds, s. 1910, 600.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-09-03

The organs seem to be settling down to
the conviction that the Prohibitionists
won't listen TO any proposition for trading
off in Assembly districts for an endorse
ment of their Gnbernatorial candidate by
the Republican Convention. Which is just
about the size of it. What the other parties
do for prohibition must be done for love of
the cause and not for money or trade.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-09-03

500, 600 is the sun the Philadelphia
rumscllers have designated to be raised
with which to fight high license. It's a
big sum of money, but We have no doubt
the rumsellers have got it. 1t represents a
good many hard days work Of the hard
listed laboring man. ~squandered over the
rumseller's bar. 1t represents a good many
pairs of shoes barefooted children ought to
have had, but didp't get because father
drinks" 1t represents a good many days
of bending over the waslitub by poor wo-
men, compelled to labor for the support Of
families whose natural head and protector
was incapacitated from labor thrOughdrink
Not all of it came from these sources, to
be surc-but a great deal Of it-a great
deal too much of it. And the rumscllers
have no difficulty in sparing a portion OF it
in influencing legislation for the perpetuity
of their traffic, which has so many abuad-
AM sources of revenue. The Prohibitions
lists are endeayoring TO turn these hundreds
of thousands of dollars ZACH into the law
full channels where they will bring to the
families of the people and the homes OF
the land comforts and l~uxuries instead oi
suffering and deprivation.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-09-03

The name of r. Henry Holme, of salem,
is prominently mentioned in connection
with the nomination of a Prohibition cam
didate for Assembly, who will be chosen at
the convention in the Opera House here
next Wednesday.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-09-03

John w. Newlin, Miilville; Hon. f. A.
Armstrong, Sinnickson Chew, Camden,
and A. s. Barber, Jr., of Woodbury., are
the delegates selected from the First Dis
trict to attend the anti-saloon Republican
convention, to be held in Chicago, Sept.
18th. 1886.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-09-03
CONVERSATIONAL Convention.

The Prohibition convention Of the First
congressional district will meet in Temper
ance hall, 131 Federal street, Camden. ON
September 4th, at II O'Clock a. NJ.
WIN, W. CARTER.
Chmn. of last Convention.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-09-03

At a meeting Of the Democratic State
Committee held last week, it was decided
to hold the Convention to nominate can
didate for Governor on Wednesday, the
23d of September.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-09-03

The young nan who casts his first ballot.
The old man who will probably east his
last ballot
The father, whose example will be fol
lowed by his son.
The father who wants TO protect his
daughter from the curse of being married
TO a drinking man.
The total abstainer who does not need
saloons.
The drinking man who feels the tempt
ing power of saloons.
The moderate drinker who may become
a drunkard if the saloons continue.
The rich man whose taxes are greatly
increased by saloons.
The poor man who is compelled to sup
port an army Of worthless m,n because
they are rum-sellerS.
The patriot who loves his country.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-09-03

Fully 20, GOO men and women are expect
ed to turn out in the grand labor parade in
Newark next Monday, Tor over II, 900
badges have already been distributed and
from.