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

Republican Answered.

Mr.. EDIToR:-I see in the last issue of
your very excellent paper that "a Repnb-
lican' has been wonderfully stirred up by
what Subscriber, said the previous
week. Now my Republican friend has
used SO much verbiage in his answer, and
yet he has not unsettled one of stSubscrib-
er's'' facts, nor established one OF the
bold assertions made by Lightning, that it
is very difficult to find anything toanswer.
But / will answer the few points he makes
and state some more facts.
Quoting what Liqhtninq said, namely:
s.The Republican party has raised the
temperance banner and is going on to gIor-
ious victory, lie says: GLOW be gets brass
and spleen ont of a fact stated is beyond
our knowledge of mental chemistry" /
answer by saying the assertion going on
to glorious victory is not true but false,
because it is only by their works that we
can possibly know them. IL his high
license is OF any value why don't he give
us some proof of its worth. | called it q
farce and proved it such by saving sswhen
it was before the people to be voted on
many Republicans who boasted Of their
temperance principles worked and voted
against the law, and men who voted for
the bill under the party lash in the legis-
lature, voted against it when before the
people for adoption. Now if that is not a
farce and a cheat will Republican tell
us what it is. I said where the law was
adopted jug shops increased, and that
my Republican friend comedies. My friend
knows his party has adopted high license
as its means to be used for temperance re-
form, and | now say ! will prove to any
reasonable, unbiased man that it is a dis
NAL failure. My Republican friend knows
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rumsellers are in favor of high license be-
cause they know if it should decrease the
number OF saloons it would increase the
sales of those able to pay the fee and there
by concentrate the capital in the hands of
a smaller number Of persons who can and
will nse a part of it to corrupt legislation;
as one man in New York not long since
boosted that he had spent 500, 600 to buy
up the legislature of the State.
And the Brooks law of Pennsylvania,
of which the Republicans boast SO much.
is a failure, as close observers tell us that
evidence is rapidly multiplying. which in
dictates that the law is being evaded by an
enormous increase of unlicensed saloons
and bottling establishments. Then the
practical results of the high license curse
are so bad that ex-AIayor ii. w. Hardy, of
Nebraska, says: High License does in
crease the number of unlicensed drinking
places So much by way of proof for
my Republican friend, as he asks for proof.
Mr.. Hardy was a warm advocate of high
license until he discovered it was worth
less as a check to the whisky business.
In Nebraska every liquor seller is COM
PEELED to pay A license of 81, 900 for the
privilege of preparing candidates for hell.
And they say Omaha, the chief city Of the
State, is the most feariully rum cursed
city of the nation. In 1888 the arrests in
Omaha City averaged one for every ten of
the population. a higher average than is
found in any other city on the continent, |