The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-02-03
Eeonom,s ya,ne ors.nnan nire.

The political economy of onr nation has
been written for nearly all commodities
that the people use except spirituous and
malt liquors. lust where it is most need
ed, it is not applied. Where there is the
most waste. there is no saving. Protec-
ton does not protect. These are the SIM
pie facts. Death to our citizens is the
product of the saloon, and the death rate
Increases, but no political economist puts
human life into his account.
The Womans Christian Temperance
Union, in some states, has put this new
doctrine Gf economy into the common
schools; but the universities and dominant
political parties are as dead to it as Napo-
Icons tomb. This useless waste ofhunlan
life, like Napoleon's wars, goes ON regard
less ofhuman woe. The saloon tlourishes,
while its violent hand is laid on our best
grain and haman life only to waste and
levoHr.
Human life is counted a cheap thing
our grains by millions of bushels are con
verted into beer and rum to strew orr
towns and cities with The dead just as
powder, shot and she'll were made to de-
stroy men on the battle fields Of the South;
but no law is made to decrease the death
rate or to protect us from this fearful de-
strnction Of life or waste of grain.
The New York TrtJune's editorial says,
''Mr. Blaine review Of the Presidents
message is his plea for an economic science
distinctively American. The magnitude
of the Union, he remarks, and the i'm
menslty Of its internal trade require nf0
polHical economy" True; and very much
trucr than Mr.. Blaine supposed. ne'c
political oc0R0nQ to control tie immensely
of our internal trade is needed, but vastly
more to protect us from the immensely of
the internal trade in alcohol than it is to
protect us from the entertainments of
European manufacturers.
If some protection against the low prices
Of manufactured articles across the SEA is
sound policy, then protection, within oar
own borders, of human life and grain that
supports human life, is 4 so.tnder policy.
Here is place for Mr.. BIane's ne1e DoiH
icai economg He does not even intimate
that the saloon is one of the necessities
This is out Of his range, ii would be out of
order, aud disturb the equilibrium Of
things, if he had said this, but here IS the
fact if human life is to I've protected IN this
land then we must silence the batteries in
the saloons and spike the guns in the dis
tilcres. We must have political eeoao-
my to protect hnman life.
The political economy of to-day leaves
orr politicians and statesmen uucducatod
at a vital point, hence they do not meet the
great moral question in the interests Of hu
manly or public order for the safely Of
the family or the welfare of the nation.
1t is this, we have no article III our politi-
cal creed that touches The saloon, unicss ii
may be to foster it, by permitting the viper
to coil itself around the body polite; for a
little revenue We give il place, power, aud
influence
The nations hand strokes the viper into
life and permits it TO shed the blood Of
eighty Thousand OF our citizons every year.
The viper breeds criminals; we shut them
up in prisons, bat give the viper Tie largest
liberty. The viper breeds paapers: we put
them in almshouses, and feed the viper on
our best grain. The viper breeds anarch-
lists; we hang them till they are dead bat
let the viper go scot free. with the prestige
of victory. The viper breeds disorder and
riots; we pay Officers to suppress the tnr-
bulent spirits he has stung to madness
bnt instruct the officers not 30 touch the
viper. This is our list Of Inconsistencies
We have protection against wares OF
Englshn,en, Frenchmen, Germans, Ital-
ians, aud every foreign power, bat So
feed and foster viper. He has n free
trade to poison the ballot boS aud by waste
to increase The price of bread. We protect
a viper to weaken publie conscience and
breed every crime in the catalogue, but,
alas, alas, We have No projections against
the viper Heaven help us; whittier are
we drifting? Every man is prolessedly
guaranteed the "inaIcnabc right 10 life,
liberty, and the pursuit Of happiness. - bat
our protection IS a farce, We have a irayes-
ty Of liberty, aud moclerg for happiness.