The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-07-20
Written for the MONITOR.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING. MY
BROTHER?


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and school conducted largely on the prin-
ciple of object teaching. Among other
points that the teacher eourteously gave
me was this: that when a specially dull
child came into the school she impressed
upon the little folks how nice it would be
il, say Johnnie, was to get head, and that
how they all could help this by not teasing
him, but helping him in such ways as she
should suggest. She said they almost in
variably took kindly to the suggestion
and once started in this direction they
really became intensely interested that
Johnnie (let rs call the dull seholar)
should succeed. / thought in this con-
n~eetion Of the words Of Holy Writ, ssand
a little child shall lead them" Surely
children of larger growth might well take
lessons from the example Of the little ones.
Suppose in politics, (using the term in its
pure scnse) as ''the science of govern
ment," it was the practice, as it now is the
theory, TO edo the greatest good to the
greatest number would not ono of the
first things an honest statesman would do
be to forever prohibit the manufacture and
sale of an article, as a beverage, which, in
its effect upon this nation, high authority
tells us is more disastrous thar t'war. pes
thence and famine combined Temper
ance workers are accused of being men
and women Of one idea. and that they ex-
aggerate the evil flowing from strong
drink. The above statement, concerning
tie dire effects of alcohol upon the pros
perity ola nation, was not made by a tenn
perance ''crank," but on the other hand
by one, himself a brewer and who had ex-
eeptional advantages of knowing of what
be spoke, Sir Folwell Buxton, and whose
saying was emphatically reafirmed by the
able and far-seeing statesman, VIM. T.
Gladstone. Our contention is that il the
statement ofthese illustrious men be true
and not mere sentiment, it would be sim
ply impossible to exaggerate the import
anee OF the issue involved in this '~'every-
body's war For example take either one
of the scourges referred to and what an
awakening OF TIE American people at the
first signs of the coming evil. Some Of us
remember when Fort Sumpter was fired
upon, what an uprising of the North en-
sued. Small need to spur men and women
up to patriotic eRdeavor. On the other
hand the brakes in many instances had to
be applied to keep people from needlessly
c.f,a r.1arfr3r their ca ayrtI 1nl cnhctanoa
There are pictures in the memories OF some
of us of the devotion of men and women in
those days that tried mems souls that
can never be erased. Mothers cheerfully
that marked the Spartan mother. No sac
riice of blood. treasure or ability, in any
direction, was considered too great to put
upon the altar of country. And who does
not k~nowhow grandly the nation has re-
sponded, not to the cries of famine in our
land, but that she has heard the appeal
from across the ocean and eheerfnlly load
ed vessels with breadstuffs for the famish-
ing. And has any legend or story Of other
days of men and women's devotion TO the
sufferers by pestilence surpassed those of
a comparatively recent period. when men
and women willingly offered themselves as
physicians and nurses to stay the ravages
of disease. And yet more's the pity there
is 4 foe in our land that high authority as
sures us combines ia itself elements Of
national disaster greater than all three of
the scourges just referred to. and as a
vivid contrast to the interest manifested in
dealing with the other evils, there seems
to be, to a large extent. an apathy that
seems almost incredible. We are no pes
simiSt and gladly chronicle the fact that
never before has there been 50 extended
an interest upon the subject Of temperance
as at the present, bat eenceding this. it is
still true that there are numbers in our
midst who, to nse their WI expression,
take no stock in temperance. In the ma
ture Of the case We would not turn to the
saloon keepers family or circle Of friends
for recruits in this ''everybody's war"
but is it not in the eternal fitness of things
to expect assistance from the reputable and
church-going portion of the community?
Shall q heather ruler say, Il am a man
and hence cannot afford to be Indifferent
to anything thai concerns my brother
shall another heather potentate say Il
will not take a cent Of revenue that comes
from the vices of my people" and Chris
tians, ia the closing decades of this oil
drous nineteenth century, remain apatbetie
concerning this modern sum Of all viii
lainies-the legalized liquor traffic. Shall
the nation rise as one man at the first en-
croachment of a foreign foe and yet allow
an enemy, eating its very ~vitals, remain
unmolested within its borders. When
with clarified vision one looks at the topics
OF the day how insignificant appear the
question of tariff or free trade. the issue
of the dominant parties, as compared with
the protection of our homes. How much
more important to protect our boys than
the wool on the sleeps back.
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| know OF several people. whose cases were
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