The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-03-02
Written for the MONITOR.
ADVANTAGE of ORGANIZATION.

By Mils. FANNIE H. CARR.
Rather more than fourteen years ago ther'
came mon a band of women in this countr,
that which Hannah Wiiitall Smith tersel,
calls the ''pentecoSt Of temperance, erys
TALKING subsequently, into what our peer
less temperance queen phrases ''the sobel
second thought of the crusade To-day
this asober second thought has "mater!
allied into an association OF women, tht
ike Of which the world has never seen
With a constituency of about 200 900
covering a territory that ranges from the
Atlantic sea board to the Pacific slope, ane
from Canada to the Gulf, embracing forty
different lines Of work, which for breyity
may be ranged under the general heads o.
educational. evangelistie and legal, II
the prosecution Of hitch talent OF bigl
order has been enlisted, and the variety o.
work engaged IN so diversified and com
prchensiye that familiarity with the diverse
departments is a liberal education in IT
self. affecting the great Temperance reform
as no other organization has ever done
and inasmuch as collateral issues have
been taken up by this wonderful assoeia.
lion, there is scarcely question OF social
or moral reform that is not covered by
some one of its numerous lines Of work.
Beside, as the outcome OF this effort, a
Worlds ". G. T. u has been organized,
so that it is no figure ofspeeeh to say that
the White Ribbon movement "belts the
world" But it is not to indicate the truly
phenomenal progress OF the w. &. i. u.
that the above reference is given, but
rather 10 stir others up by citing this s,is
eestive instance. We are told that is
tory is philosophy teaching by example
Now whilst giving due credit to the pety,
energy and intelligence of tho original
crusaders, we believe that it goes without
saving that the exceptional history oil the
White Ribbon movement is due largely te
the fact Of thorough organization. In oui
temperance work from place 10 place W
have seen a great deal of effort lying
around loose, 50 70 speak, and our con
tcntiop is that before rapid advances slial
be made toward the objective point Of al
intelligent temperance reform, viz: the
thorough organization of temperance
workers must needs be effected. ''ln uDior
there is strength has become the meresi
commonplace. We will not ifsnlt the
readers of the MONITOR to ask il they be
lieyc that either OF the dominant parties
can be entrusted with the suppression ol
the traffic Frequently temperance work
crs are accused OF being uuchartable
toward the &. o. p, bnt certainly II IS
perfectly fair to take their OVID statements
concerning their attitude toward proli
bition So far as our knowledge of this is
concerned. they not emily decline making
prohibition 4 distinct issue, bat decline
it in so emphatic manner that only lie
who is SO blind that he won't see can fail
is what are called anti-s saloon Republicans,
bet their attitude toward the temperance
question can never be that OF the party al
large In most comprehensive article,
entitled 'The Saloon in Politics. written
BY Theodore Roosevelt, leading Republi-
can, and published in the Atlantie. the
author, who, by the way, has no utilization
with any temperance organization, showed
most eonclusively that in New York city,
as indeed in many other large cities, the
campaign Of the party of moral ideas,
from the primary all the way to the polls,
was engineered by the saloon element, Sc
that it might truthfnly be said to be oil
the saloon, by the saloon and for the
saloon. Is not the need of an independent
organization emphasized by the fact that
the dominant parties, one Of whom the
''beer barons hold by the waist, and the
other the whislSey ring by the throat, can
never be entrusted with the enforcement
Of prohibition. This would be going
against the grain" in more senses of the
word that one. When keepers of gambling
bells lie awake Of nights to devise meas
nres TO suppress their establishments, and
WITH lsiOUIlttOfS Vi DIVtlftlN ttft tfGlilitdl-
~ Jealous to enforce social purity and dis.
seminate the doctrines of the White Cross
then may we expect parties that are under
the whip ofthe liquor oiigarchy to NANTES;
great zeal in the suppression of the liquor
traffic. The writer received the follow ing
from friend in attendance upon nation,
al convention that nominated a candidate
for President of the United States: ''Ihai
before the nomination was made The com
mittee vi fred 10 The brewers and matters oil
Milwaukee to know il the candidate was
acceptable, and they wired back that he
was. ~ 1t may he that because tie writer
belongs To the sex whose political status
being that Of ''idiots, paurcrs and crimi.
mails. and hence not much can be expected
Of her, but as she heard this there came
upon her such a sense Of the degradation
involved in fact like this, and she
thought That we who boast so loudly ol
the wonderful strides that we have made
as a nation in Christianity and civilization
should hang our heads in shame in lew al
all that is suggested by So hnmiIiaiing .
statement.