The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-09-10
The Beast will NOT be Hound.

The saloon in nearly all orr cities and
chief towns Is strong enough to carry
every citadel planted against it except
that Of conscience. 1t stands ready to
plunge the dagger to the heart Of any party
that declares against the infamous bust
ness. Ii Is a compact. aggressive and de.
FAINT. and threatens with destruction any
party contemplating hostile legislation
Is it not strange that men Of intelligence
and thought, and Of Christian teachings
| that the fathers. husbands and brothers Of
this land-do not rise mp in Their indigna-
ton aud wrath against this supreme evil,
aud bury it under an avalanche Of ballots
| from beneath which there shall never he
a resurrection2 The saloon interest in
this state is unmasking itself. In the con
y%entions in our large cities it undisguised-
~ reveals its purpose to dominate through
ont New jersey in the interest of the in
famous traffic. When bad men conspire
| against the public welfare, let good men
combine for its promotion and glory Let
the time be FASTENED when the issue in
this country shall be s~quarcly made be-
tween rum and anti-rum: we need have no
fears Of the result then. Tie aroused con
science of the American people is i~rresisti-
bic. If our enlightened Christendom will
not do this good work. then the drunk
ards Molocl will dcvonr our homes and
our children. You say these are strong
words. II is a time for strong words, The
time for moderate ~counsels has passed.
TemporiZing policies will not prevail with
the saloon. We have tried moral s%nasion;
we have tried to melt the hard heart of the
rumseller with the scalding hot tears of
broken-hcarted womanhood and childhood;
we have appealed to him by the homes he
has made dcsolate, by the millions of vic
tins inundated upon his altar; We have
tried mild repression and We have bound
this beast with the cords of low license
and high license; we have thrown destruc-
tive legislation in his way: we have worn
ourselves out with crusades, petitions and
remonstrances-and all of no avail, anil
why? It IS because the state pampers the
beast, fosters and protects the infamous
business, and turns your boy and mine
over to it for destruction.
Can we use moderate words under
these conditions > Talk moderation to
that sorrowing, weeping mother, yonr
next door neighbor, who has seen the
youth and innocence of her home debauch-
ed, and then hurried to the dishonored
grave of the drunkard. If the fathers,
husbands, brothers and sons OF this fair
land will not rise mp and deliver it from
this insufferable iniquity, then woman in
her despair will come to the rescue, and
ayenge The wrongs of the household. She
will train her sons to a nobility greater
than ours, and they will retrieve the dis
honor OF onr long neglect. Coming gen
c%rations will marvel at The history of our
stupidity and shame. A woman's hand
held the pen that wrote the burning words
born Of a woman's head and heart, where
by the heart of the nation was so stirred
against the wrong of human slavery that
We rose in our might and crushed the evil.
a greater slavery than human bondage is
YET to be destroyed. The Christian wo-
men Of this land have been on their knees
by the street side, in the dramshop and at
the feet Of the legislators for a score of
years. God will hear their cry; for more
than ever before will the earth help the
woman whom John saw in the prophetic
vision on Patmos, clothed with the sun,
the moon under her feet, and upon her
head a crow Of twelve stars. The great
dragon casts ont Of his mouth rum as a
flood after the woman, that he may cause
her TO be carried way by the flood: the
earth will open and swallow up the food,
Woman's arms viii nplift the fallen race.
Her prayers and tears will not be in vain.
He who count and treasures mp the tears
Of the oppressed stitch in the heavens and
answers back from the clouds.-Gfn.
Clinton i. Fisk.