The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-10-12
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editorial columns we feel like taking
Brother MONITOR" by the hand and ex-
claiming you're the stuff" But as that
is such dreadful slang we will endeavor to
express our appreciation of the matter
found, not only in the editorial, but all the
the columns of your excellent paper, in
different language.
Ever since the birth of the MONITOR it
has been to us a most interesting child,
and its weekly visits to us, telling us of
all the happenings in both the business
and political life of your neighborhood,
in such pure, clear and interesting Ian
guage, only exemplifies more fully what a
warm place in the hearts of the people
truthfulness, straightforwardness and fear
lessness gains. Long may you live and
flourish; long after the demon rum is
crushed out of politics and the angel tenn
perance takes its place.
Do you think, Brother MONITOR, that
temperance in her white robes of purity
could step into the old seat in either of the
old political parties, which run has occu-
pied so long, without getting her skirts
wretchedly soiled and polluted in the trail
the Shiny serpent has left therein? No;
nor we don't either. And we are only too
thankful when we think what a seat of
honor the Prohibition party is Offering
this goddess of temperance and liberty.
Men of New Jersey, we would ask you,
where do you intend to help put this be-
loved form-into a seat of purity or foul
ness? From all along the line we think
we hear, no, we're sure we hear the deep,
true voices of our younger brothers an
swering, "God helping us, we will elevate
her to the seat of purity Aye, listen
again. ''Dinna" you hear; ''dinna' you
hear the voices of our older brothers and
fathers answering too, 'i1to the seat of
purify God be praised for this, for to
Him do we give all the glory.
Thursday evening of this week the
Academy of Music was packed from pit to
dome to hear the excellent address de-
livered by the Prohibition nominee for
Vice President. DR.. John A. Brooks, of
Missouri. Philadelphia's cleanest and
most honored daily paper, the Public Led
ger, devotes nearly a whole column of its
space, on Friday morning, to a description
Of the same. It's initial lines read thus:
''There was but little vacant space in the
Academy of Music last night, on the occa-
sion of the Prohibition meeting to ratify
the nomination of Fisk and Brooks. The
galleries, as well as the parquet, were
ALuOHS JHOSS WIN were seat
ed on the stage we notice the names of
Samuel P. Goodwin, DR.. A. A. Rem
baugh, DIR. E. E. Montgomery, Joseph
Brosius, Isaac Roberts, Stephen 3. Twin
ing, Joshua L. Bailey, Hen. S. B. Chase
and a score of others. We will quote, too,
with your permission, what DR.. Brooks
said upon the .Real ISSUE"
''There has been a desperate purpose on
the part of the politicians to do two things:
to keep up the sectional hate and to push
to the front some other question that
would distract the minds of the people and
turn them away from the living questions
OF the hour. The tariff is what they place
before the people"
Mr.. Brooks said that in reality there was
now no issue between the Republican and
Democratic parties. There seemed 70 have
been Immediately after the Chicago IN
v~ention, but since the action of the Senate
in proposing a tariff bill, having precisely
the same purpose in view as that of the
Democratic Congress, he could see no ma
terial difference. Each claimed to endeav-
or to save SIS, 900, 600 a year to the people
in taxes, but the Prohibition party intend
ed to save taxes to the people to the
amount of 81, 900, 900, 900. "All wealth, +"
said he, Consists in land and labor pri-
marily, and labor is as much a part of the
national wealth as land. You may have
all your mines, all your factories, and,
without labor, you are the poorest people
on the face of the earth. Any business
that detracts from the value of land or
labor detracts from the national wealth.
The liquor traffic detracts from the value
of both land and labor"
For a time, dear MONITOR, We bid you
adieu, wishing to be remembered to u
''dear five hundred friends" in Gloucester
and Salem counties.
Very truly, RUTH.
Philadelphia, Oct. G.. 1855.