The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-06-25

Templars, and other societies which have
done true service in enlisting recruits for
this army, and in preventing early habits
of intemperance. We might as a nation,
hope for a more speedy removal of this
great evil, could we educate and guide our
own youth: but with the ever steady in
flux of the lower classes from Europe. who
bring their ignorance and vice with them
out of sympathy with moral reforms, in
sisting that here they may and will do as
they pleasc-thc problem becomes a most
p%erplexing one. They do not know that
owing to the dryaess Of our climate and
other natural causes, as well as the de-
terioration Of liquors, it is far more dan
gerous to indulge themselves thus in Amer
lea than in their native country. Nor do
they perceive that the nervous temperament
of onr people must sooner succumb to the
deadly effects of alcohol.
The chief hope lies i'll education and iii
the raising of public sentiment, and this
work devolving npon the more intelligent
classes, must be aggressive, yet marked by
patience and forbcaranee. 1t is only by
comparing oar progress OF to-day with that
of forty years age, that we can realize its
advance, and know that the increased in
terest in the Temperance question is a re-
suit of the efforts Of those early workers.
The National Temperance Society and its
publishing house can show Il twenty-ycars
record of active service. At its origin we
find 325 delegates assembling from %
states, and representing every temperance
organization as well as all religious de
nominations. It's purpose was two fold
to circulate sound literature on the sub
ject, and to carry on home missionary
work, Its excellent president VIM. L.
Dodge, was succeeded by Theo. L. Guyler,
and under such leadership we need not
wonder that its basis is total abstinence
for the individual and prohibition for tile
State.
This organization, like the Sons Of Ten
pcranco, has found a wide field among the
colored population OF the South, and sys-
tematic instruction by lectures and litera-
ture has effected many good results. The
ministers have also been appealed to. in
order to enlist their influence in the work.
But orr ebrother III black in his new
found liberty. has not learned that strong
drink may yet master him: and remember
ing that in the cid days Of slavery, he was
denied liquor and education, as a natural
consequence he now ~reioiccs in both.
OF more recent Temperance work. it is
not necessary TO refer to here. or to recount
the honored names of those who still are
in the heat Of the battle. We all know
how Neal Dow won the prohibition law in
Maine, and that other States have followed:
how Senator Blair, of New Hampshire,
has advocated in Congress a prohibitory
amendment; how a host of able workers
are not dauntcd by the magnitude of the
opposing forces.
Noman's aid is a new feature; but now
that she begins to realize her position and
her ability to help, her Union" is present
ing a formidable array ever to the liquor
party. While it only remains to be seen
whether her courage and talent shall so
stimulate the temperance canse, that a
great stride will mark the present decade;
and America in this question also shall
yet decide for the right.-X p n. in
Tcgmdnt02rH Guide.