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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-16

Retreating from the outposts of old-time
argument, based on the inherent inferiority
OF women, our opponents now entrench
themselves in the "knock-down argu-
ment," as | may justly call it, viz: They
that will not fight, neither shall they vote"
But if ever there was a last ditch, this is
the one; for when in all history did any
controversy divide any people along sex
lines? When Eve started a rebellion,
Adam Immediately joined it; when Ananias
falsified the returns. Sapphira followed
him; Deborah had her Barak, and st. Paul
his Phebe; men and women have ''paired
Off in every great movement since the
world began, and always will. BY the
laws of nature and Of God, there can never
be a war between the sexes, save now and
then, in the retirement of the family circle,
a war of words.-Frances y. Willard.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-16

OF the thirty-seven Republican members
of the last House of Assembly thirty-two
were candidates for denominations. TWEEN
ty-four were successful in the district con-
v%entions and came before the people for re-
election. Just fifteen of them were return
ed to the Assembly, and these were almost
all from the temperance districts OF South
Jersey. Eugene Emley, who made the
best Republican speech in the House for
the High License bill, was showed under
in Passaic, where he ran for Senator, while
three new men, all Republicans, were elect
ed in the Republican districts of that coun-
ty. OF the twenty-three Democratic As
semblymen of the last House nineteen ran
again and sixteen were reelected. The
other three were beaten. They were
Messrs. Ludlam and SmalIey, of Cumber-
land, who voted for high license, and Riley,
of Salem, who sat on the fence for four
weeks and finally voted against the Local
Option pill. Except IN Union, Camden,
and Essex counties the Republicans of the
last House who ran again were literally
showed under, one or two small South
Jersey counties excepted. With the excep-
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-16

The average editor, politician or citizen
would probably resent the charge that he
was an anarchist or favored anarchistic ideas
in the slightest degree, and yet the manner
in which the average editor, politician or
citizen discusses the character, peculiarities,
and motives of the head of this Republic
would seem to justify the belief that the
American people as a rule are not afraid or
ashamed to be classed with those of whom
the apostle said ''they are not afraid to
speak evil of dignities." A foreigner, with
anarchistic tendencies, landing on these
shores and reading and listening to the dis
respectful, vulgar, brutal, and altogether
abominable m On President Cleve-
utteranccs have been adorned for the last
few months, might be excused for suppos-
ing that this is a land where people may
in truth think, say, and do as they please.
We venture to say that in no other country
on earth would such indecency be tolerated
by the law. There is hardly a third rate Judge
of a Court of record in the United States of
whom in his official capacity, 4 man would
dare to picture. print or speak such rot as
has been spread broadcast of, and concern
ing President Cleveland. \ process for
contempt and salutary fine or imprison-
ment would be the first thing. 1t is re-
served for the President of 30, 900, 900 of
people to be the butt of the cheap vulgar
wit of the low-liyed political heeler.
What a school of political morals for the
rising generation of voters to learn, to be
sure the lesson set by so-called respect
able newspapers and ought-to-be-respect
able platform speakers.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-16
The W. &. T. u. and PrOhibItionIsts.

The following official declaration of the
National W. G. t. U. expresses what has
always been it's attitude toward its auxil-
iaries "No state union shall be bound by
any principle expoused, or plan devised by
the National w. G. 7. U. except that all
states auxiliary must subscribe to the total
abstinence pledge and to the constitution
of the National Union" There are several
names on the programme of our New York
convention (Oct. 1929 that are not Pro-
hibition party advocates, among them
William Blake, of the New York bar,
author of GLOW to be Strong )" Mrs. Annie
Jenness Miller, of "Dress Reform" cele-
brity Prof. Emma p. Ewing, of Cook
ing School" fame Miss Julia Thomas,
the Hygiene lecturer, and others. The
National w. G. T. U. has certain political
convictions and annually expresses them
by resolution, but its convention is for the
purpose of hearing from its forty nation
al departments Of temperance work under
the heads of preventive, educational,
evangelistic, social and legal, and to plan
its great work for the succeeding year. Wo-
men of all political faiths are with us, but
our resolution to 'lend our influence to the
Prohibition party carries by a majority
up of delegates representing nearly every
state and territory of the United States
Frances T.. Willard.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-16

One hundred and twenty-five dollars per
lecture and expenses, seems like a large
sum for the Republican National Commit
tee to agree to pay that sharp-tongued
relic of medieval times, Anna Dickinson,
for a series of thirty campaign stump
speeches, with the additional bonus of
$3.50 if she succeeded in eleeting Harrison.
Our Jealous Republican critics who lifted
their hands in holy horror because John
P. st. John was paid $50 a speech, out of
which he paid his own expenses and con-
tributed literally beside to the work of the
w. c. 7. T., will probably join in a yigor-
Gus protest against such a display of pa
triotism for revenue as TIE gentle Anna
has been guilty of, and the National Com
mittee has connived az. Furthermore,
Anna received pay for the fifteen speeches
she didn't make as well as for the fifteen
she did make, and she modestly claims
that she elected Harrison and Morton and
now wants the other $3.50, and has sued
the committee for it, too.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-16
..AlI the Rights I WANT

No woman ever had upon their souls re-
sponsibilities so sacred as those who have
already received in any degree the power
to vote. Behind them stand the poor wage
workers, waiting for that potent weapon;
the drunkard's wife, into whose life more
tortures enter than words would dare to
tell; but these must wait, forsooth, because
women who have the ballot do not vote.
Arise, We women who are at ease IN
Zion; hear my voice, ye careless daughters;
who knoweth if We be come into the king
dom for such a time as this p"
Dc not be guilty of judging all the world
by your W individual standard, and thus
saying, 81 have all the rights | want but
in Christ's name be intent to give to those
in want their rights, by grandly using
yours.-Frances u. Willard.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-16

AT our old stand at the corner you
may expect to find IS good an as
sortment as at any other store in
South Jersey. We don't particu-
larly need to take profits into con-
sideration-if we don't want o
therefore we can sell on close mar
gins, and we work cheap on all
our goods. You're always sure of
lair treatment, truthful representa-
ton and just and equitable returns
for your money. Come and see US.
Seventy-6ve pieces of Floor Oil
Cloths, from l to ~ yards wide.
bou hit last June and been stored
away to get the paint seasoned and
hardened. All qualities, all prices.
No such variety at any store in
South Jersey, go where you will.
Fifty pairs of colorcd blankets,
per pair. They weigh Obs
and are well secured. Made forthe
government service and cost s2.Io
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-16

We heard a good deal the lastfew months
about the wages of the laboring man and
the Importance Of e%lecting Republican can
kept mp. And the laboring men, many of
them, caught IN and lost lots of days
work in the aggregate during the cam
paign in whooping it up. We will venture
President IIa=rison's term, for all politics
will have to do with it, will have no more
loose change to jingle in his pocket than
he had the day before election this year,
'SS.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-16

ton of Riley, not a single Democratic of the
last House who voted against high license
failed to secure a reelection. The liquor
men struck hard, and they seem to have
struck altogether. They narrowly failed
to defeat w. S. Leaning for Senator in
Cape May, who voted with his party in the
House, and William H. Carter for Senator
in Burlington, who advocated high license
in tie Senate.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-16
The GaIiows anathe BALLOT.


0ldCc oIceuN says.
1.-THE Duke of Argyll, whom | remember
once to have seen superbly oyershadowcd
by his magnificent mother-ln-law, the
Duchess of Sutherland, though himself a
fair specimen Of progressive manhood, is
sternly conservative ~womanward. In a
lecture, some twenty years ago, be was gra-
cious enough to deliver before amechanics'
institute, he said "A woman has no right
to appear upon a platform except when she
is about to be hung; then it is unavoidable
This smart saying caused great hilarity
among his grace's audience, a little wit
from a nobleman going a great way. |
used to quote that sentence in a lecture |
was bold enough to deliver from many a
platform, and it always brought a laugh
at woman's expense-but then, again, my
comment on it, though not particularly
smart, never failed to bring generous ap-
plause, and this comment was The free
dom Of the scatfold, the CHASTITY equality of
the gallows, SO g~raciously accorded to wo-
mar by the Duke of Argyll, is not enough.
Give her a fair swing at life as well as at
death let her have a voice at least in the
selection of the men who make and admin
lister the laws under which woman may be
taxed, divorced, deprived of her children,
imprisoned, tried and hung That was
my sentiment twenty years g it is mine
to-day, and | propose to stand by it.
Would vote if I could? Yea, verify"
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-16

"Would | vote? Bless your heart |
do vote every year, as by the laws of Mas
sachusetts | am allowed to vote for School
Committee. 1t is but a crumb from The
loaf, the whole of which belongs to me.
Nevertheless, | bravely deposit my beg
carly and pauperizcd vote, and then, like
Oliver Twist, reach up my hand for more"
Hilary A. LiDermore.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-16
Rev. IGeDer Newton on suffrage.
Rev. IIeber Newton says:

Rev. Heber Newton says:
"Woman as a citizen will compel the
State to a higher function than that of
merely policing property. She will police
manhood and womanhood. She will make
rulers what Plato dreamed of their being
the guardians Of society The preserva-
tion of morals will be as much to the State
as the protection of vested rights now is.
Woman's voice will be lifted resolutely
against that browning barbarism of civili-
Zation-war. She who suffers most from
its horrors; whose whole nature revolts
against such a crime; whose very physical
feebleness indisposes her to the brutal ar
bitration of the sword, will use her new
found power to end this wickedness and
folly under which Europe groans to-day.
Woman will carry her religious nature into
the State, not to establish a State religion
tho last new religio-political 'fad'-but
to keep alive within the body of its laws
and institutions the spirit of essential re-
ligion, which will make the State the con-
science of the people.
MAN has fashioned the true form of the
State in our own free, self-goyerning de-
mocracy. Let woman breathe within it
the true spirit, and we shall see a city of
God coming down out of heaven upon
earth"
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-16

DR.. Brooks native county-Jackson
county, Missouri-swelled the St. John
vote of GS to over 700 for Fisk and Brooks,
while Gen. Harrison home-Marion coun-
ty, Indiana, & a majority for Cleve-
land and Thurman.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-16

Prohibition is bigger than any man who
advocates it. Men may catch on to the
new party, or they may leave it, but the
question is there and will have Il party
back of it all the same.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-16

Mrs. Hannah j. Bailey, of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, is a very busy
woman. She carries on a very extensive
wholesale and retail store in Portland, Me-,
a large farm at Winthrop, in the same State
and a factory in New Jersey, employing
altogether over $50 men, but she keeps the
details of all these interests under her own
control and supervision.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-16

Warner Miller, voting for and applaud
ing in the Methodist conference the senti-
ment that license in any form was sin, and
as Il candidate for Governor whooping it
up for high license in the State OF New
York. was one of the homogeneous specta-
cles OF the season Just closed.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-16

The uproar and turmoil attendant upon
a Presidential campaign, which has been
upon the country since the early days of
summer, has at last subsijed. Questions
of tariff and free trade, of imports aud ex-
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-16
DEPARTMENT OF THE ". c. 7. u,
OF W~OODSTOWN, N. j.

OFFICERS OF THE SALEM COUNTY woMAN's CHRIST
IAN TEMPERANCE UNION:
Pres, Mrs. REBEccA p. PATTERSON, Salem.
Cor. Sec, Mrs. IL. \. CAwLEY W oodstown.
Rec. Sec, Mrs. o.. j. CROFT, PennsgroVe.
Treas, Mrs. MAGGIE CRIsPGN, SharptoWn,
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-16

To Clinton b. Fisk, Seabright.
You owe it to yourself and others to see
the ". j. Press man at your earliest pos
sible moment and fix things up with him.
He is in a state of mind which no one else
can asSuage.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-16

OFFICERS Y. w. c. Y. o., w~ooDsTowN:
President, Miss JOSEPHINE M"ACALTIoNER
Cor. Secretary, Miss Lulu WRIGHT.
Rec. Secretary, MISS MARY ANNA COLES.
Treasurer Mrs. W. HARRY SMITH.
Time of meeting W. c. n. L. Thursday after
loon at 3 O'Clock.
Time of meeting Y. w. c. T. o.. Monday
evening at 7.30 O'Clock.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-16
AT THE
New Store under the Opera House

At our new store under the Opera
House we have this week opened
$4,000 worth of suits and overcoats.
You can get your boys a good warm
overcoat for $3.50. Mems Raritan
Chinchilla Beaver %overcoats, warn
but not burthensome, $500. Black
Corkscrew ~overcoats, all-wool face,
$500. Skating jackets made of
heavy beaver cloth, cut double
breasted and lined with flannel, just
the thing for knock-about, sS.75.
Knit jackets from 75c to $3.50.
Everything needed for men and
boys, and at prices lower than else
where in this county.
Never in our history as merchants
have we been SO we'll prepared to
take care of ourselves and our Gus
toners on BOOTS and SHOES as
we arc at this present time. We
placed our orders early in the sea-
son when the work-people were not
hurried, and the consequence is that
we have a BETTER, LARGER and
CHEAPER stock than ever before.
We own now and have in possess
sion over Fifty Cases of Mems and
Boys Boots-all kinds, all prices.
The celebrated Z. S. Reeve boots
as low as S2.25. You all know this
make of goods. Mr.. Reeve is a
conscientious man and don't put his
name on anything that is not worthy
oft. We are the only agents for
the Lester Boot. We sold these
largely last year and have not had
a single complaint, though we have
taken great pains to make inqliry
Of those we sold them to. The uni
versal verdict is hat there are none
better. We can give you good bar
gains in boots and you do yourself
injustice if you fail to take a look at
our stock. We don't care so much
for profits as we do to sell the
goods.
In Ladies and Childrcn's wear
and goods adapted to their wants
we are quite as fortunate as on
Mems and Boys goods. While we
have all desirable makes and grades
in Children's and Womcn's wear
we would especially call attention to
our French Kid, hand-wclt, extern
sion sole, common-scnsc heel, but
ton boots for Ladies at s.. It's the
neatest made, neatest fitting, easiest
wearing and most dressy shoe for
the money that we have ever been
able to offer.
All kinds Mems and Boys Hats.
Five cases lately received. Every
thing in Mems wear and Boys wear.
Also the largest stock of Clothing
this county at our well-known,
popular low prices.
New purchase children's two
piece suits, S2.25 upwards.
IS doz, Mems Mcdicated Scarlet
Shirts, with Drawers to match. The
best by far that we have ever offered
for the money.
Fifteen doz. new purchase Mems
Knit Jackets, from the lowest at 90
cents to the finest seamless all wool
$3.50. No stock in these parts
to equal it IN variety.
i. b. HUMpnKEys
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-16

We wonder if high license and local
option will be made a caucus measure by
our Republican brethren at Trenton next
winter.
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There should have been no Prohibition
vote. Had there been none, the local OPP
ton law would have been safe, but now
we fear it's overthrow, and a delu2e OF
rum and whisky coming down from the
north over these Republican plains OF
southern New Jersey. Thence the crowd
ing of our almshouses and our jails. Then
an increase of Gloucester riots and MUIR
der and a still greater Dissertation of the
Sabbath day throughout our cities. Gen.
Fisk and men of the Prohibition party are
you not responsible for these almost GER
tain results ~. j.. Press.
Had there been none, the local option
law would never have been passed. You
can set this down as the frozen truth. If
the local option law has the effect to avert
the threatened deluge over these 'Rep1b-
lican plains of southern New Jersey, the
fact ought to be at once made known. The
State has been pretty well deluged in the
past, and we are glad to see that the Press
admits what has heretofore too often been
whistled down the wind as a temperance
fanatic spook, that the business results i'll
the crowding of our almshouses and our
iails; in riot, murder and Sabbath desecra-
ton. Beyond the refusal of licenses to
sell by small measure, however, we fail to
see just where the local option law inter-
feres very much with the traffic. This
sham profession Of solicitude for the safety
of the local option law is wearing very
thin. 1t is not the law SO much as the
United States Senatorship that is wearing
at the vitals of our Republican friends.
The law was passed to help capture this
State for the Republicans this fall. Had the
Prohibitionists come over in a body to that
party it would have been a Republican
victory, and the Prohib's might have gone
to grass. AS the most of them chose to
stand by their principles, they are now too
bad to live. We have no fear for the safety
of the local option law, and if the people of
Camden county really want to put n stop
to Gloucester riots and murder they
have lots of law ready to their hands to do
it. Bro. Chew might set the initiative in
enforcing it.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-16

President, Mrs. ANNE f. SoUpER.
Cor. Secretary, Mrs. j. W. HUMPHREYS.
Recording Secretary, Mrs. II. a. CAwLEY,
Treasurer, Mrs. DAN WARE,
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ports, of trusts and monopolies, OF work
inomen and manufacturers, have been be-
fore the people, argued at every street cor
ner, discussed (?) on thousands of plat
| forms. and filled the columns of countless
organs. As election drew nigh the fever
increased. The country was lost or saved
twice in every twenty-four hours accord
ing to the different and huctuating pros
poets of this or that party. The eventful
day came at last when, according to the
politicians, the veal or woe of this country
for 4 generation was to be settled; when it
was to be decided whether the laboring
man, the bone and siuew of the country,
was to receive a reasonable recompense for
his toll or be ''ground down to the level of
the Lauper laborers of Europe" The day
passed, the political pot after due boiling
was lifted off and an examination of it's
contents discloses the fact that all the
questions agitated during the campaign,
tariff or free trade, protection or pauper-
ism. revenue reform and Mills bill, pension
vetoes or back pay, have now simmered
down to thls one overshadowing issue,
s'Who shall have the post Offices" For
this the cheering, the p%arading, the ha-
ranguing, the betting, the chin music,
the quarrelling and general be-devil-
ment of the campaign. The labor
ing man and the tariff, and the campaign
torch and all the other properties of a po-
litical canvass may now lie on the shelf
till needed to fire the popular heart in an
other four years, while the country turns
It's attention to the great question of who
shall stand at the receipt of customs and
who shall have the privilege of writing 2.
M. after his name. This is American pol
itics, from one point of view.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-16

woopsrowN, FRIDAY. NovnMBr l6, 1sss.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-05-17
DriRlMnnh.

Yesterday was beautiful and pleasant
day. Old Sol Shone out with all his magnif-
icont splondor, and the littlo dwindling cot
ton seemed to take on nm oily appearance,
nbout the first It hos had this spring.
Farmers are too busy now to read the
nows.
We had tho pleasure of listening TO two
we'll directed sermons at Bluff Spring school
house, delivered by Rev. j. N. Marshal, q
young brother from Dripping Springs, He
certainly proaehes religion that takes care
of the soul and gives the evidence that
Christianity hos a supernatural foundation.
Oh, for more such young mon all over this
vast country, to rise up and fearlessly advo-
cate tho truth to the wandering prodigals;
for it seems there has mover been time of
moro neod of religious reformation-judg-
ing from the actions and conduct Of come of
tho young people oil over this country. Thoy
elmost despiso parental advice, and are
drifting to eternal ruin: md whilo we up
prooiato some of the compliments of your
D. 8. correspondent, yet wo think that on
An average the babos nre VOL cared for. It
is tho young mon that need encouragement
in place OF treating thom lik. Gomo of our
rnen who have boon elected TO Office troat
their constituents, by giving thon Tho tip
end Of the left hand whom thoy should have
hearty shake OF tho right. The rise or
fall of this country Eosts with tho young
men.
While We gro TO politician our mind nat
urnlly drifts into politics. Wo think tins
democratic party il now taking tho right
course ard with such mon rs Cleveland for
president and Ross for governor of Texas
We ought to DO Satisfied.
Why did tho Times full 60 comment on
that Iron Clad mortgage? In he afraid OF
exploding balloon or losing the tail Of his
kite If he is opposed to Che T. A2 Let him
change the namo OF tho little sheet.
We havo always heard OF Carter's oats,
but mover hoard Of Horizons till recently.
HooUs PoCUs.