The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-01-27
W ritten tor tbe MONITOR.
HIGII-TONED INEBRIATEs.

anee advocates defend high license, or, as
style it "the regulation Of the traffic, and
as this age pre-eminently demands demon
stration. thought an object lesson taken
from personal experience might not be
amiss. IF one well authenticated fact be
worth tons of mere theory, so to speak; Ifs
in the prosecution of this reform We are
after What lawyers call the "cold truth. .
then, upon the homely principle of the
proof Of the pudding being in the eating,
we shall demand demonstration concerning
the beneficial effects of high license. In
the pursuit Of temperance work the writer
has been brought in contact with a num-
Der of what, for want of a better term, she
has called heightened inebriates, or, to
use a scFiptural word, f'drunkards. :" Tho
limitations OF this article preclude de
tails. Suffice it to say that from the lips
has become painfully aware that in high
social circles there are men who would
resent as foul insult the charge that they
are drunkards and yet whose lives are un-
der the power of this terrible thraldom
Not long since your correspondent was en-
gagged to spend Sabbath at certain town,
filling the pulpit morning and evening.
After the morning service she was impor-
tuned by venerable father in Israel to
visit his wife, too sick to attend the ser
vice. Complying with the request she
found woman over three-seore and ten
completely prostr ted. and when inquiry
was made as to the cause, she related with
broken sobs and face quiyering with emo
ton that her only child, a man past
fifty, himself father of family, was fast
filling a drunkard's grave. Investigation
revealed the fact that so adroitiy had the
sprees been managed, and that he was such
an expert in coneealing his ordinary pota-
tions, that comparatively few outside Of
his immediate circle knew Of his terrible
bondage On coming home | Immediately
pnt in train a series of endeavors which,
with Gods blessing, resulted in his re-
formation, and yet. for anght that | know.
he has never heard my name nor has any
know ledge of the part was privileged to
play in bringing about so glorious result.
But enough Of that. A few days since |
was approached by ''mother in Israel
concerning her youngest son who was fast
becoming slave to strong drink. Yield
ing to her Importantly | visited his wife to
see what could be done. and sneh story as
heard. Only twenty-five years of age,
married five years, but she said, with tears
choking her voice, sit seems as though
am woman of fifty" If dared tell the
details of this case it would be enough to
arouse all who are apathetic to do what in
them lies to remove this colossal hindrance
to domestic happiness Ny object in citing
these two instances (merely samples from
hosts Of others) is to show that both of
these subjects of King Alcohol belonged to
a class socially far above the patronage OF
the corner groggery. Substantially they
saw what another said in the presence OF
the writer, when l drink, drink as a
gentleman; hence always 60 to such and
such places men naming the palaiial
saloons of the place. My point is that the
sorrow, the disgrace, the sin which affect |
ed the lives not only of those two drinkers |
themselves, but quite number of people |
connected with them by the ties of blood, |
business, etc, was Just as poignant, just |
As cruel (althongh the liquor was bought |
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able to pay any amount Of license the au-
thorities may require as though it had |
been bought at the low GROCERY. When
will the community see through this fall |
Iaey Of high lieense2 When We remember
that after the passage of the high license
bin 10 Pennsylvania the ministers passed |
resolutions of appreciation aud even sung
the doxology concerning what they demon
mated glorious victory, how we long for
some gift Of voice or pen to awaken slum-
berng church and community to the real
for this hydra-headed evil. Ii
son of one of these ministers, erazed with
Hauor bought at heightened saloon,
would inflict a blow upon one Of his fell
lows, ending in death. it would be small
mitigation of parental anguish to know
that the liquor that ininriated him was
purchased at a high-tencd saloon. As the
young wife alluded to told me that she
never slept on Saturday night, her has-
band never coming home until about six
o'clock Sunday morning, can the most
credulous imagine that AS hour after hour
passes and she, utterly unable 20 sleep,
fingers for the morning, that her anguish
is ass Jagged by the thought, well. at auy
rate, my husband gets his liquor at high
toned saloon" Surely with such suggest
i've facts before us. do We not see that Tar
better would it be to close the palatial sa-
loon. (heeanse Satan is never so dangerous
as when coming as an angel OF light, than
the low doggeries--Ex Chancellor Crosby
to the contrary notw outstanding.
A girl wrote TO her lovsr, Now. George,
lou't You fdIe TO be at the singing school