The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-07-16
PROHIBITIONS.

Substance of an address delivered in
Bridgeton, n. j.. before the W. G. T. L.,
on July 9th. BY J. VI. Scott:
We love our brother. We have learned
at the feet of Jesus TO feel His noble passion
for saving men. IN love Of our brother we
fight-tight rum unto the death. We fight
for the man TOO weak to fight fol himself,
for the rum-enchained brother. We will
put it beyond his power of abusing him
self by closing up every saloon in our fair
land; and SO we will bring him to him
self as awakened the prodigal; we will
lead him back to the Father for his kiss of
forgiveness; we viii lead him back to man
hood; we viii lead him out of the low
d%evilhood into which strong drink has
brought him, back into husbandhood, into
fatlerhood, back into noble citizenship,
back over the way by which he will reach
heaven at last; Tor this Woman's Christian
Temperance Union has not only the pur-
pose to kill temptation unto the saving of
a brother, but it helps him back in all ways
of help to his old and nobler self again.
We fight for brokcn-hearted mothers; We
night for blastcd-lived wives; sc fight for
little children. We would save the
mother her son from the rum demon, the
wife her husband, the child it's father, aye
even it's mother, for the trail of the ser
pent is even upon our womanhood. We
fight for unborn generations; we will save
them from awful inherited weaknesses,
from being born unto the drink appetite,
from being bora consumrtiyc and IDIOTS,
from tendency to insanity, from physical
moral and mental weakness down before
which they must be swept into ruin.
We fight as well for pure politics. We
will have one party not dominated by the
saloon; NC Will rave one party that will
not bend the knee to the run baal; we Will
have one party that represents the christian
conscience Of the American people; one
party whose every drop Of blood is loyal to
God and Home and Native Land.
Our purpose appeals to all that is hottest
and bravest IN man. 1t is awakening with
a voice that will have a trumpet power, as
had not the voice of Peter the hermit. who
awakened all Europe to go rescue the tomb
of Jesus from the infidel. Already the
crusade has begun, and orr blessed Christ
will be rescued from the grave of our
drunken brothers heart wherein he lies
wounded and slamed. All what a res
direction is coming, a resurrection of con-
science and manhood and our brothers
noble souls sleeping the death Of a drunk
ard. Truly the glory Of Christ's cross
gathers around our work and makes it
holy as Calvary and mighty as God. We
fight with that enthusiasm and power i'll
our heart which brought Jesus atown the
sad way of the stars TO die for mans re-
demption. We fight unto victory, fer we
fight with God.
And remember our aim-not only to have
temperance laws, but the power to enforce
them; not only tn have a state law, but
a national law. Our aim is national
prohibition, by amendment TO our state
and national constitutions, and this
backed by a party u%neorrupted and ineor-
ruptible by the rum vote, a party whose
very existence will depend upon the abid-
ing death of the rum traffic. And this
being our aim We will moi be led off from
it. There will be no fusion with the old
parties in which we would only succeed in
selling ourselves. Our purpose shall be
clean, our aim clear as a sunbeam. We
will not be cntangled with p~reiudices and
hatreds of old parties. We will have it
that a man can take a morally political
bath and come out clean from the CRIME of
old associations and battles. We will have
our backs full upon the Egypt Of old
parties, and our faces ull-facing our prom
ised land of national prohibition. There
will be no puzzling entanglements; no
questionable alliances. Out and ont against
rum arc we, and we win make it that rum
will be openly ont and out against us. We
will make it that there will be but two
p~arties-two great national parties, ON the
banner of one will be inscribed Rum"
and On the banner of the other ono Rum"
And when that battle line is drawn men
will nave to decide ont and out where they
will stand. There will be no hoodwinking
of their conscienccs; there will be no side
issues casting shadow of mems prejudiees
upon the right. Every man will see and
every man will have to enroll himself under
Satan or under God. The battle may be
severe; it may even be long, but the issue
is sure, Upon Gods banner will the wings
of yicto ry fold.
Yes we can only get and hold national
prohibition by a strong national prohibit
tory party:-that is how we must sci about
achieving our triumph, And in that we
fight for a united country. Fighting
along the line of this noble and ennebling
love of brother, we will reknit the hearts
of North and South. We will SO thrill
the heart of the nation with brotherhood
that no trace of past bitterness will re-
main. We will help on the prophesy Of a
heart-united people which, in pathetic Ian
guage of silence and tear, was spoken over
the grave of the hero who breathed out
his life on Mount MacGrcgor, and above
whose pathetic and powerful dust stood
Southern Johnson and Northern Sheridan,
Southern Buckner and Northern sherman,