The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-10-22
TIE MONITOR
DIR. GIG. l.. TAYLOR. OF Bito0kLYN-
LEAVES THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.


10 tie Prestleat IF he Yoaaq Mn's Prohi5t
ton Cub 81 Kings Goaatg.
Enclosed fad my application for mem
bership in your Club and cash for The fees.
Those who have known my work in tie
temperance cause for thirty years need No
explanation Of my course in this step,
Those who baye know me as a republican
may need a word. Istumpcd The vicinity
of my then home in Fulton County, Ohio,
for Fremont in the ''Tree Soil campaign
of 1856, when / was barely twenfy-one and
50 I believe in young men, and mean to
stay one of them. | was delegate to the
convention that organized the Republican
party in thai county. | have fought under
the grand old party Of moral ideas in
all its glorious battles ever since. as ny
great-grandfather fought under Washing
ton through the Revolution anti as his
grandfather fought King Philip for the
salvation Of infant New England. But
not the fcalping Indian. nor the oppressive
Brit,n, no thc the pro-slayery rebellion,
nor all Of them combined, were 80 danger
ous a foe to America and mankind as is
the rum colossus Of to-day. New England
was saved, independence was sscnred. the
Union was saved. The next waf IS to ave
America as a whole from the Gorgan rum.
And now | am in for that campaign. with
seven generations Of fighting blooa hot in
one. This step is the logical result Of my
antecedents. hereditary and personal, I was
born an abolitionist ard pFohibitionist. and
mean to make my calling and election
snre" for both. | have been Tor thirty
years doing my level best" 20 help raise
the prohibition tide. and HOW J don't IN
tend to be left Oh the bar by my own tide
And | believe that the tide is come, and
no ''neap tide. either. but nights spring
tide a regular earthquake wave Of
translation, that IS going to bring the
whole ocean OF the moral power Of America
laundering down upon The dram shop, TO
sweep it where Noai's ~neighLots went IN
the deluge. throw 10 one at any old
parry. Rum has a mortgage on botl and
it is a run fight. All that l loved in the
republican doctrine | take with ne
into the new prohibition camp, and As to
the rest. | read, .'and death and hell were
cast into the lake oil fire. As to all the good
in both the old parties | can say: u be-
lieve in the resurrection OF the dead" If
any ask me: 'In what body DO they come? ~
my answer is: The resurrection body Of
the noulese elements Of American political
life. the great, uew. patriotic PARTY of
America. the Prohibition party. / want
no resurrection body fpolitic) right away.
/ saw the glorious uprising Of tie anti
slavery revolution. I know the look of
THAT thing, and Of THIS. and | knoB that
nov We are intae heasieg swell %ofanother.
a FAR more glorious. revolution. Like
Patrick Henry. s4 Let ii come. l
repeat it. sirs, let it come. From this
day | sia-. an;N with Mr.. Hoaey, Mine
eyes have seen the glory Of tile coming Of
the Lord.
belong to Ills army, aud I'm not 60
ing 10 b. foand struggling, or skuIkins
like E5op's bat. till I know Which side
shall win, I know thai already, with
Fabcr:
'fhat right j. right since cod IS tod.
aud right the day must win.
r. danBt woaid b- dizioyatty
Ia llter would be sin
Yours for the victory.
GHa. LaSsrNG TAYIoG.