The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-06-11
Standing Treat.

One of the most absurd OF all foolish Gus
toms is that of inviting a crowd of friends
OF strangers to walk up to the barand take
something at my expense Men do not
buy other things useful and ornamental,
III this way; why should they make an ex-
certion in favor of this poisonous draught,
which Is, the cause of most of the crimes
which curse the land and fill the communi-
ty with poverty, mourning and woe ?
Some one has sensibly said:
Now, boys, if you want to be generous
and treat each other, why not select some
other place besides the liquor shop? Sup
pose. as you 60 by the post office, you re-
mark 4 say, my dear fellow, come in and
take some stamps p These stamps will
cost you no more than drinks all around.
Or go to the habcrdasher's and say: Boys,
come in and take box of collars Walk
up to Il groccr's. free and generous, and say,
What kind of coffee will you have?' Why
not treat 10 groceries by the pound as well
as liquors by the glass Or take your com
radcs to the cutters and say, I'll stand a
good pocket knife all around. This would
be thought queer way of showing friend
ship but would it. not be better than to
offer to friends Il maddcning, poisonous,
deadly draught?
Suppose man should keep a den of rat
tlesnakes and allow men to come i'll and be
bitten at ten cents a bite, would it be IA SEN
sble thing for a man to invite all his
friends in to be bitten at his expense? Is
it worth our while to run the risk of turn
ing our friends into brutes, maniacs and
murderers and their homes into bells of
troubles and distress, by giving them
something TO drink at my expense. -
AT first it biteth like a serpent and
stingeth like an adder - Youaa Reaper.
The best temperance lecture ever dcly-
cred fell from the lips of little child in
Coyin9ton, Kentucky, the child of a re-
formed man. Father" said she care
you always going to wear that blue rib
bon ."
II hope 50 my dear, : was his reply.
so do |, = said the little one.
why do you hope SOP" asked her
father.
because Eve never had 50 many straw
berries in my life as Eve had since you
signed the pledge and put on that blue
ribbon
Men who are not feeding the saloon
L. 4,
their own.
Canon Farrar says that Cruikshank, the
artist, offered one hundred pounds for proof
of a violent crime committed by a total alb
stainer and that the money remains I'M
claimed to this day.
a legend says that the devil gave her
NIT the choice of three great vices, one of
which was drunkenness. The hermit chose
this rs being the least sinful. He became
drunk and then committed the other Two.
And it still remains fact that a man is
capable Of any crime, however revolving.
when under the Influence of liquor.
Recently man died at tavern that he
had long frequontcd ncglceting his family,
The tavern keeper sent his wife word that
he was dead and inquired her will She
replied in life he was with you--he gave
you his money, and drank your liquor,
which now undoubtedly caused his death;
now leave him with you to bury.
Men wonder why the temperance cause,
aite: many years of agitation, has not ac-
conplshcd more. They are blind to the
great truth that all great rcformations have
moved at first like glacier, by inches, bat
AT last like an avalanche. We are fast liy-
ing toward the end Events are culmina-