The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-10-29

II we have the motive of doing but a lit
tie work, Il work that the legal sanction Of
the traffic will undo almost as fast as we
can do it. Give us the motive of complete
suppression to work for; the legal power
with which to work for il, and the might
of money shall not outweigh the love of
brother. You have heard Of the famous
drinking horn which the god Thor under
took to drink dry; and with all his pow
ess he failed, because the end of the horn
to put down the liquor traffic by license is
attempting Thor's impossible feat, With
this traffic fed from the sea of legal sane
ton, we can never drain and waste its IL
quid of hell. Some of you arc in favor of
license. Well, leu your boy be brought
home a beast some night, the boy who rest
ed as a divine beauty III your arms, for
whom you thanked God, the boy you have
prayed for and love better than your life,
the boy you expect to see become a noble
man, the boy Oh whose strong arm you ex-
pect to lean when you become old, in whose
pure and loving heart you have dreamed of
nesting when age IS beginning to turn you
back intochildhood again, let that boy come
home the victim of the saloon, and see lift
does not make you a Prohibitionist, If it
does not, then you are not worthy of that
boy. You are deserving all the heart
break and ruin he will yet bring upon you,
| vote to put temptation in the way of my
boy. vote to open a mouth of hell in my
town, and then pray God not to lead my
boy into temptation, when have led temp
tation TO him! | pray God to keep my boy
from going to hell, when | ave brought
hell to him. Do you think God will an
swer, can answer, such prayers as that =?
Nay! your own hand is set to the murder
of your boy. A Brooklyn father was a
moderate drinker. He advocated it. Ills
voice was lifted against prohibition fanat-
les. Wine was on his table. But one
night his boy was brought home stabbed
by q friend stabbed while they were both
drunk! That father met with an i~nstanta-
HCptis ClIdiSc Il val 40 L dul uitb with
when the sheaved arrows of light smote
him down on his way to Damascus. 1t may
be so with You, my brother. God save yon
from having to be convicted by such an
argument as that. Or, as some one else
has said, when you think yon are all safe
with your sons, or you have no sons, then
the devil will pack off on you a drunken
son-in-law. And truly you would rather
have a shiny SNAKE about your neck and the
neck of your girl, the sparkling laughter
of many Il glad day, the purest hope that
ever blessed your life, than to have her lie
in the embrace of a drunken brute. | have
a little daughter, II laughing, pure little
girl, like a dream of paradise opening upon
me with the benedictions of God. Rather
than TO see her grow to the fate of marry
ing a drunken husband | would see her
dead at my feet to -night, aye, mine own
hand could scarce be kept from striking her
down in mercy and love. But license and
enforce license, you say! Yes, make
drunken men with your own hand, and
with your own hand get them for sons-in-
law! And when you feel the slime and the
fang in your heart, remember that your
own hand, through license, dealt your own
heart that blow.
Sow a license, reap drunkards-drunken
sons, drunken sons-in-law-ayeeven drunk
en- daughters, drunken neighbors-how
I,o1o. - 70 en- a,rn tIny,, non - t1anca
moral .'tarns dark as a murderer's eye"
drunken voters. drunken law makers, II
reap drunken, worthless fools everywhere.
Sow a license and reap paupers, bias
pnemers, wife-Deaters, insanity, murder
ers, devils. And whoever is legalizing
drink, this is the kind of harvest he is sow
ing. From an oak an acorn. Sow a drink,
reap a %drunkard. Sow rum, reap misery.
Sow beer, reap tear. Sow rum, to ruin
come. Sow ale, a death-dealing gale. Sow
wine, and kissing serpents round you
Irvine. Sow brandy, with death handy.
Sow old rye. reap blear eyei BY Jersey
lightning, hell's hold lightning. Sow a Ii
cense, reap loafers.
Read here what licensing means as its
Interpretation falls from the lips of a CHI
cage Judge. Judge Reading says in sem
sencing a liquor dealer: by the law you
may sell liquor TO men and women if they
will buy. You have given your bond and
you have paid for your license to sell to
them, and no one has a right to modest you
in your legal business. No matter what
the consequences may be; no matter what
poverty and destitution may be produced
by your selling according to law you have
paid your money for this privilege, and you
are licensed to pursue you calling. No
matter what families are distracted and
rendered miserable; no matter what wives
are treated with violence; no matter what
children starve or mourn over the degrade
ton of a parent-your business is legalized
and no one may interfere with you for it.
No matter what mother may agonize over
the loss of a son, or sister blush at the
shame of a brother, you have a right to dis
regard them all and pursue your legal call
ine-you are licensed. You may fit up
Your lawful place Of business in the most
enticing and captivating form; You may
furnish it with the most costly equipment
for your own lawful trade; you may fur
nish it with the allurements of amuscments;