The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-10-15
Written for the McNtroR.
a MONSTER PROHIBITION NETTING.

to enthuse the coolest temperament. From
pit TO dome" the Academy of Music, the
largest building in the city, was packed
with All eminently intelligent and apprs-
ciatiye audience. No more emphatic OBJ
jeet lesson confuting the common asser-
ton that temperance has been set back
twenty years could have been given than
that furnished on the above occasion. The
entire affair was r~efreshingly unique. The
programme was opened by reyereat and
Hundred" from an electrical organ. The
arrival Of young campaigners with badges,
flags and music formed u most interesting
feature. We found our mother heart
specially touched as we looked into the
bright, youthful faces and remembered
how many young lives had been indian
gered, if not ruined, by campaigning FOR
the dominant parties, and felt TO thank
God that at last there was a political or
ganization for which our boys could work
to their hearts content, where not only
there was no danger of drinking habits
being incurred. but en- the contrary, sem
timents Of hostility to the liquor traffic
and its environments materially advanced.
Beside these young men there WAS quite
a delegation from the Cadets Of Temperance
who, with their attractive uniform, hand
some banners, ETC.. formed quite an i'm
portant addition. The main speakers
were tie Hon. CLas. Wolfe, candidate for
Governor of Pennsylvania, and the Rev.
John. Palmer, a young colored man OF
marked ability aud Prohibition candi-
date for eongressman-at-large in Pennsyl-
vania. Mr.. Wolfe, for years an active
Republican, is thoroughly posted
and especially with the record of the @. q.
p. in its relation to the liquor question.
Mr.. Wolfe is naturally 4 fluent speaker.
added to which he has the confidence that
m from experience. He dealt sledge
hammer blows whilst review ing the atti
tide OF the party of moral ideas toward
to-day's living issue, showing by the
stubborn logic of facts" the controlling
part played by the beer Congress and the
whisky ring in State and National affairs,
and that whatever may be said concerning
the taking of temperance into politics, one
thing is morally certain that the saloon is
now and has been for years enlrenched i'll
the same. The sseold facts" as they say
in law, not only revealed the fearful truth
that they were entrenched in politics, but
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under the whip of the beer barons and the
whiskey ring. lie referred to the recent
ntteranccs Of the liquor league in Pennsyl-
vania, lin convention assenibled) Of the
large amount of money raised for the de-
feat oftemperanee measures and for the cleo
ton ofmen pledged 10 sustain their interests
and for their Experimentation should
either Of the parties place men in the field
uufriendly to their measures. The entire
speech was a strong logical presentation of
the imperative need of a party committed
To prohibition. Loud cries for Palmer
were heard at the conclusion Of Mr..
Wolfe's speech. Mr.. Palmer is certainly
a most magnetic speaker. Beside being
specially fluent, he is qnite witty. These,
together with his inimitable way Of pre-
things, brought down the house"
again and again. lie reviewed the attitude
of the Republican party toward his race
and vehemently disclaimed their plea hat
they were the instruments Of the black
mans freedom. He showed that the war
was undertaken for the p~erpetuation of
Union and not primarily for the abolition
of the slave, that this was an after
thought, brought about by the DIVINITY
shapes our ends, rough llew them as
we will, and after alludlng to the obse-
.quiousness OF the colored man to the Re
publican party, he alluded with great
feeling to tie fact that Prohibitionists were
the first to obliterate the color line
and place 4 colored man in the
field as a candidate for office. The
peroration of his address was one graad
torrent OF eloquenee. specially as be alluded
to the fall Of Richmond, and the brave
and noble part the colored troops had sus-
tanned IL the engagement, and in thoughts
breathed and words that burned,
he showed the Imperative need of the men
of his race cnlisting in tins $50 APPLY caIled)
War" As we listened to
the hearty applause, as we looked at The
sea of upturned races, as we observed the
personnel of the house, (the specially in
telligent and thoughtful character of the
same,) as sail and snndry'' of these fea-
lures came before us we felt like uniting
in the prayer Of the cid colored man at the
the South, where the Prohibition vote had
increased ten-fold since the Presidential
election. .'Lord, if this is the kind Of
set back twenty years gives the cause,
suppose you set it back the next time
forty years ?" Timely and graceful recog-
milton of the important services rendered
to Prohibition by the white ribboncrs''
freely given, (thc least ~allusion TO the
w. c. T. L. bringing down the house
The meeting did not adjourn until long
after eleven o'clock, when it was sug-
gested that the men present parade down
Chestnut street in a body. Certainly the
object lesson presented by this immense
body of men, many of whom were our
best citizens, would successfully refute the
assertion so glibly made that the Prohibi-