The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-08-02

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what the party at the back of the platform
means to do. The current value of COM
mercial paper in the financial world, as we
all know, depends upon its endorser, and
so party with any declaration of princi
pies, no matter what, is of very little oil
no value unless backing up those principles
by consistent action. In this view of the
matter the Prohibitionists have infinitely
the advantage of the Republican party.
Republican Maine don't enforce the Maine
law as it should, although it is enforced a
correspondents from that section would
have MS believe. Republican Rhode Island
simply brought the cause into contempt,
and other Republican districts of country
have done no better by prohibition. In
some parts of the land the Republicans ap-
pear willing to give prohibition chance,
are willing to incorporate it in their plat
form. are willing to move for the adoption
of local option laws, are willing to demand
the vote on a constitutional amendment in
it's favor, even, but here they stop. Viz
tually they say, task us to do anything
you choose in the way of resolutions, &C.,
but for goodness sake don't expect any
real earnest work in its enforcement"
Jefferson once said that "the execution
of law was more important than framing
it," but evidently it don't strike our friends
the Republicans that way. But what good
a Prohibition plank, or any other mean
ingless plank, in party platform? To
promise prohibition before election and
afterward say ooh, We were just in fun
about that. We knew the prohibition
laws couldn't be enforced, but simply
made the promise to fill in a blank" or
something of the kind, is meanness of the
most contemplate order. The help of the
Republican party to push in this great re-
form of prohibition is greatly to be de-
sired, but better do without it, better push
along with 'the corporal's guard of Prohi-
bitionists," as put by one Of the organs
lately, than to be clogged with weak
kneed, cant be enforced" army of camp
followers. Better, every time. What is
wanted In this fight is a loaded to- the muz-
zle set of men, call them what you may,
who mean no child's play in this matter,
but are in for war to its finish.
70 say that the law in respect to prohi-
bition can't be enforced is a cowardly ad-
mission that law is not of and for the peo-
pie, but so much of it, at least, as applies to
prohibition, for the monopolist rum seller
The ''cant be enforced" plea is cant of
the worst kind, and standing invitation
to the lawloss rum seller to violate the law i.
There is a fellow in upper New Jersey
whose name is Henry Stiles. or was last
week, (his name now, we believe, is Den
mis-, or something to that effect, who, pre-
sumably, didn't believe the law could be
enforced in his case. Why or how should
it? How should they find violator of law
way up in the glades of Randolph township,
N. J., and if found how were they to en-
force the penalties of the law against him,
we suppose i, what old Stiles evolved in
his brain as he kept churning out, day by
day, his Illicit health destroyer, rum. But
Uncle Sam was interested in this case and
there was some revenue, too, that the pc
cunious Uncle Sam was losing IN the deal,
and so he sent some two or three pimps
and informers way up in Morris county to
cause the old man Stiles to perjure himself
and then take his living away from him.
If Stiles then labored under the hallucina-
ton that the law can't be enforced and
that public sentiment is not at the back of
it, he can turn the matter over in his mind,
now that he has abundant leisure in his
new quarters, and think ont another soln-
ton to it,
SO it is easy enough to enforce the law
after all, if there is only party at the
back of it, and to such Of our Republican
friends as believe to the contrary we would
respectfully submit the case of the lugu-
brous, -prohibitionist, Henry Stiles,
at his summer retreat at Morristown Jail.