The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-07-19

hibition paper like the H0me Hsitor, which
you quoted a week or two since. The
plan Of the Prohibitionists in the past, il
has seemed to me, is to down the g. 0. p.
every time, let them do or say what they
choose or make whatever advances possible
on the temperance line. But I'm not GO
ing to debate this now. 1t would require
too much time and space. | know what
you claim. You say the Republicans are
an army Of pretenders, that they don't
mean what they say and are only after
votes, and that the Democrats are out and
out for run and don't deceive anybody.
Bat we'll waive all that at the present.
What l. want to do is to congratulate you
on the disposition shown to be only fair 10
us, that is all. That was a very GOOD re-
joinder of the Mem Era, in reply to an edi-
torial of yours published in last weeks
MONITOR from a Prohibition standpoint
but it isn't fair.
Many ardent Republicans desire prohibit
ton and would be willing to nave it come
through. the Prohibition party if they be-
lieved it possible, nay, even would accept
it through the Democratic party, if it
could be had in no other way. But they
don't believe 1t likely, | might even say
possible, to come in any other way than
through the Republican party, and there
is just where you Prohibitionists blunder.
\ GU believe that the Republicans want to
use the Prohibitionists for their own pur-
poses, when their object is to use the Re-
publican party to secure prohibition. The
Prohibitionists say we can't secure power
without the rum vote, and then in the
same breath advise every temperance voter
to knife US for asking them to help us Sc
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anything be more illogical? Certainly the
Republican party are not such fools as to
say ''well. | know you will all vote against
us, and the rum men will all vote against
US, but at the same time we are going to
secure prohibition for YOU. AS the AeW
Era truly iDtimates, a party can do moth
ing without the power to do with, and yet
our temperance friends AVE abused us
more for daring to say what we would
do, had Wa the power, than they have the
Democrats, who are openly and defiantly
their enemies, Now | think it time we
understood each other. If the Prohibit
tionists can get along without the help of
tie Republican party it may be wise for
them to do so, but even allowing the lead
efs of the Republican party to be as bad as
charged, and the Prohibition party to be
as good as claimed by their leaders, how
long do You think the rank and file of the
Republican party would stand the duplic-
ity oftheir leaders when it was discovered
they were playing double, as you say they
are, and how long after the Prohibitionists
came in power do you think it would be
before they, too, would discover s'the ways
that are dark of the old parties and then
what would you make by raising up a new
party to do the work which one already
rosa.l -. .-1 r-1l, - l10 A. a ,1asr,
man with only commonplace ideas, it
seems to me that you folks, the Prohibit
~tionists, should try to make it possible,
and not only possible but profitable, for
the Republican party, or any other party,
to cut the rum vote and depend on the
temperance votes for their support. That
would be going over into the enemies
country to fight and burning the bridges
behind them. That's what the Trenton
State Gazette, Fineland Independent, Wood
bury Constitution, Asbury Park journal,
Salem Standard, and a host of other Re
publican papers right here at home pro-
pose, and which you foolishly, as it seems
to me, oppose.
| think the friends of prohibition in all
parties should understand each other better
than that. | think we should see each other
eye to eye and compel, by a union of pur-
pose and action, the Republican party to
do as they profess, if not already SO doing,
and be honest for prohibition, and this can
never be done, in my Judgment, by throw
ing sticks and mud at each other, but only
by fighting our common enemy, the rum
power, let it be entrenched behind the
democratic, or any other party. | know
all your points, know just how you feel
toward us Republicans and ~sympathize