The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-12-28
Written for the MosIToR-
remnnranen Friends Take Notiee.

Temperance Friends Take Soffee.
OF the sixty-three men recently elected
to the municipal Offices of New York
city. sixteen are liquor dealers, fourteen
are lawyers. fourteen pTofessed politicians
and one is a brewer, and the Cturehmdn
New York; reports that ''thc municipal
officers just nos elected for the metropolis
are without exception Romanists.
Tie great metropolis of our country is
consequently in the hands Of Roman Cath
olies, : thing which has never happened be-
fore. and TIE Pacific CSan Francisco asks,
WAS this a happening, chance eoinci-
dence, or was it one ofthe important moves
for the capture of this great nation? The
combination OF Romanists with the first
classes Neutrality-suspicious. dealers, etc.,
will be noticed Is this significant? If
these all should combine in our country
their power would be very great. II that
power should come to rule the nation then
down goes the Republic. We could never
remain free and self governing with such
elements dominating. While we honor
the Catholics who have come out 50 nobly
in the fight Of the home against the saloon.
We must unite in the strongest bonds to
check the grasping power which the holy
mother church. as a body has always
shown, especially if she, in her desire to
possess this land of promise, forgets her
holy character and unites with that equally
grasping and most deadly foe-the saloon
Tie Pdcifc bids us at the close to ''nrte the
facts Of the hour-the very diverse classes
who are working so lovingly together
Aye note them well. With anarchy seat
ed in Chicago, copying our W. c. I. |.
this far. by holding Sunday schools to in
still their principles, ruinous to our gov
eminent and to the safety of our homes,
made still more deadly by the place of
teaching, within beer saloons, where all
that is vile and unclean seems to thrive.
Turn then to Boston and note the strug-
gle there upon the part of the Catholics,
and all over a history, which told too
truly few facts in their past history.
Remember the saying of the Catholic
priest, give me the child until twelve. and
you can have the man In the face of all
this, can pure, educated American women,
having the best interests of their country
at heart loving it as virgin soil where
Heavens grandest truths are free to be
taught, hang back longer saying, eve are
not needed at the polls.'' win our w. c.
T. L. longer forget to value this great fran
chise department of theirs? And refuse to
push it earnestly? Is not suffrage, indie
pendent of sex and established upon an
educational basis, the true suffrage? the
only one worthy of great republic such
as ours claims to be?
The holy Christmas time is on us-the
radiance OF the Star of Bethlehem yet floods
the earth, though near two thousand years
are gone, and within this radiance shines
out Christ's sisters, whom He came to
emancipatc from centuries cf slavery and
injustice. And stree He did come to
emancipatc us, why do we still cling to the
chains He came to deliver US from? Since
the deluge He has given us one-half the
earth, why do We not demand it as our
right sin His name" Not for the good
Of a." but for the great broad eve"
which includes the nation, the whole earth
indeed We owe this much to Him, and
through Him TO poor. struggling human
ity.
LAURA NJ. LIPPIHcoTT PASeoAsT.
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