The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-25

option law was only q farce and a sham,
and was of no practical use where it was
carried, and then he tells us that mot a
single place was licensed for the sale of
strong drink in this county while the local
option law was in force He also says,
True, quart places were opened to test
the binding force of existing laws. but III
every instance the proprietors were indict-
ed for keeping a aisorderly house. First,
it is not strange that there was no license
granted during the short time the law was
in force. but does .'Republican'' mean to
say the local option law closed the jug
shops, because if ne will examine the bill
he will see it did not prohibit the sale of
intoxicants, but simply prohibited the
granting Of license. 1t did not touch nor
disturb the sale of their liquid poison,
hence the beer and whisky men could and
did consent to it, as they knew some pre-
tense to a reform must be given the peo-
pie or else outraged public sentiment
would rise and sweep the blighting curse
of rum from the State. 1t is not strange
that the beer men consented 60 let their
tools in the legislature pass such a decep-
tive bill. Republican knows that that
wonderful reform legislature was very
careful not to disturb the old law granting
the privilege Of selling in quantities OF a
quart or more, not to be drunk on or about
the premises. The beer men saw that the
sale of liquor could be continued under
their local option bill. | call it their tthe
whisky mem bill because | was told by a
Christian nan who helped to originate the
bill that the beer men insisted on it's being
pruned until many of the important fea-
lures of the original bill were cut out. and
when the rum men had rendered the bill
powerless to harm the whisky business
they consented to its passage, rather than
to run the risk of outraging public opin-
ion if no pretense was made to check or
regulate the accursed traffic. Then, to
annul high license or to punish any per-
son or persons for a violation of the law,
the law required that there must be three
separate persons land they must not live
outside the township to be eye witnesses
to the act of violation, ard ii the person
complained of was not found guilty, the
person making the complaint must pay all
costs, thus rendering it practically impos-
sible to punish any vile t~ransgressor of the
Law,
NV Republican friend says his party has
sswithsteod the attack of armed secession
and third party hate" Now il 'sRepnb-
lican has read any he knows that tae Re
publican press, from papers OF a national
reputation down to such filthy, corrupt
county paplrs as the LagAtaing in Camden,
have been venting their spleen and pouring
out all their vials OF wrath ON the Proht-
bition party for the past six years. For a
season we were disposed 10 treat them as
the OK treated the gnat OF his horn, bat
thinking that by their continual noise they
might deceive some who are not aware q
their sham practices, we have concluded
to unearth their deception that the nnwary
may not be deceived.
Now my Republican friend tells us s4ocal
option enforced temperance as far as It y
possible TO enforce Il by Legislative enact