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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-09-13
Annual convention National W. CIT

The fifteenth anniversary ofthe organiza-
ton of the National W. c. T. L occurs
November next, and its regular annual
convention will be held Nov. S to 12, in the
great auditorium known as Battery p, adj
joining the Exposition building, Chicago.
This auditorium will accommodate 5000
persons, and arrangements are being made
to have it handsomely fitted up. Banners
and other decorations will DC sent home
from the temperance pavilion Of the Paris
Exposition in time for this convention. 1t
is expected that Mrs. Josephine r. Nichols,
now in Paris, and at the head of the expo
sition department of the White Ribbon
movement, will return in time to complete
arrangements for handsome decorations.
Battery B has ample rooms for committees,
the noontide lunch, etc, and was the scene
of tho National Christian Endeavor Socie-
tvs meeting in 1888, and of the grand as
scmbly of the Lutheran church. and many
other historic and notable gatherings.
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about the year 1865" says J. f. San
derson, 81 saw a scene shall never forget
was walking down the main street of
Nashua, N. H., and came in sight of sa-
loon, horrible place from which honest
and sober people turned aside with disgust
aud dismay.
AS drew near the door opened, and I
saw them lead ont boy Of fourteen or
fifteen years. who was drunk, sick and
helpless. Being unable to walk, he sat
down upon the sidewalk, a picture of
wrctchedness and distress. A number of
persons stood around him, laughing at his
pitiabc condition, and cracking their Gus
tomary bar-room jokes. As came nearer,
saw well-dressed bright intelligent
looking lady walking up the street. She
came along apparently very happy and nm
concerned until She was opposite the
saloon, when she cast glance at the help
less creature on the sidewalk, and ex-
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claimed in tones that shall never forget,
%, my poor boy!
1t seemed as il a lifetime of agony was
condensed in that one exclamation, which
marked revelation of such sorrow as she
had never known before. She could not
leave him in his misery and disgrace.
Some of the by-standers helped him up,
and the poor mother led away her drunken
boy.
There are places all around MS where
more boys are poisoned, debauched and
ruined by the accursed cup. Shall this
curse consume forever? Shall mothers
rear children to be devourei by this dragon?
Or shall men and women who fear God
and love righteousness rouse themselves
from their slumbers, and seek to Danish
this dire and bitter evil from the homes
and hearts of men?'-lSelected
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-09-13

Mr. Bradley assume that with high
license for Asbury Park there would be
one less 'rascally druggist selling on the
SLY? II SO, Mr. b. should be undeeelved
at once. Ca this line the New York hide
pendent for this week, in points for Pro-
hibtion, says:
High license is considered 4 step in adj
vance of low license BY many, particularly
by those who do not favor prohibition.
Not few seem to regard it as sort OF
panacea for ali the Ills of intemperance.
1t contempates a considerable advance in
the fees exacted of dealers and is generally
accompanied by harder conditions, severer
restrictions and increased penalties. The
fees range from about $500 to 81, 600 or
more. The theory of the friends of higa
license is that the larger the fee the fewer
the saloons, the more respectable and law
abiding the saloon-keepcrs, and the easier
the enforcement of the law. Those who
pay high fee, it is eontended, will band
themselves together and prevent unlicensed
and unprincipled dealers from engaging in
the traffic. But the result, where high
license has been tried, does not, SO far as
we have been able to learn, support this
conclusion.
Few licensed dealers who have been
long in the business preserve enough con-
science to observe all the requirements of
the law themselves. in one case we have
in mind where the high licensed dealers
notified the unlicensed dealers that unless
they quit selling they would be reported
for prosecution the latter threatened re-
taliation. They reminded the high license
men that they themselves had been violat
Il H.
ing to minors, and by other specific acts,
for all of which the evidence could and
would be furnished The outcome of it
was that the unlicensed places Were not rc-
ported, and the unlicensed dealers were
not molested Experience shows that the
liquor business cannot be expected to
police its own evils. That which produces
and thrives on vice and crime cannot act
as a guardian either of morality or law.
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woman xecas ,he Rauot.

Woman needs the ballot TO protect that
which most men opposed to universal sul-
especial sphere, the home. She needs to
protect her husband, and her brothers, and
sons, against the assaults of the drink
mania. She needs to guard her children
turc and art. Never tell me that women
do not need the ballot because they are so
well cherished and protected already.
very much fear there never will be time
when all the good people in this world can
dispense with aay effective weapon against
wrong.-PrQf. W H. CdrruM.
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RUNS BrutallxIng Enecls.

The late Rev. DIR. |. s. Prime ON one oe-
casion said:
'sIntoxicating liquor contains all the
seeds of malice and brutality. Not long
ago. it will be remembered, a Mrs. Janisch
in this city, while under the influence of
drink, took her own child, just old enough
to speak, and placed it on a rcd-hot stove,
and disregarding its pteous cries for mercy
kept it there until it was literally roasted
alive. If the use of Intoxicating liquors
will thus convert mother into demon,
what will it not do? When / think of the
175, 900 places in this country in which men
are permitted by law to sell that which
makes mothers into monsters and converts
fathers into murderers; when | think of
the millions of people this moment i'll our
country writhing in the anguish of hunger,
cold and misery, without cause save this
one cause of all: when | think of the
prisons filled with criminals, and the poor
houses filled with paupers; when | know
that nearly all of this wretchedness might
be assuaged, am filled with wonder that
the people do not rise up in their might
and put an end to the legalized distribution
Of the immediate cause of nearly all this
misery and crime
When we take up the daily papers of
this city and read the accounts of murders
committed under the influence of intoxica-
ting liquors, and the cruelties inflicted on
helpless children by dissipated mothers.
we shudder at the barbarities praetised.
Why, the most savage of the brute creation
will protect their Young and lay down
their lives for them, but the inspiration of
alcohol is fiendish, and puts man below the
wild beast.
These ficndish drinks must be baaished
from onr land; the rum. shops must go.
We can fully agree with the poet Cowper
when he says;
s.see where the Withdrawing grogshop ap
pears,
As the red waves of wretehedness swell,
How il burns ON The edge OF tempestuous
years.
The horrible lighthouse of hell
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-09-13

A Mohammedan guide, while conduct
ing party of white and blue ribboners up
the Egyptian pyramids, said: ''You climb
we'll for English. English people drink
vine; Mohammedans not drink; they are
stronger One of the ladies, pointing to
one, said: "All English people do not
drink wine. We never toncl it. You
watch, and whenever you see this ribbon
you will know that those who wear it are
like you--they do not take winc.' The
guide was delighted, and is now on the
lookout for other good climbers who wear
Temperance badges.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-09-13

The Democratic State Convention met
on Tuesday in Trenton and nominated
Leon Albeit for Governor by reclamation.
The platform reafiirms the declarations of
the National Democratic platform adopted
in st. Louis last year; denounces trusts"
and the corrupt use of money; favors
equal taxation; demands a strict enforce
ment of the law relating TO the employ
ment of children; pledges the party to the
advancement OF the common school sys-
tenn: declares that sin fixing charges for
transportation i'll or through this State
common carriers should not be allowed to
discriminate against the citizens of New
Jersey" and iavors revision OF the cleo
tion laws
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is made. Tie cropping mp of new 6ghters
can't injare it, aud these challenges won't
worry me / shall 90 through with my
six weeks exhibition, and shall pat my
money away carefully and attend to my
political career exclusively. I've had a
lesson, and I'm going to make my life
what it ought to be. This will not be
hard, now that have 50 high an ambition
to live for.
IL sullivan is nominated and elected TO
Congress, Governor Lowrey, of Mississippi,
should be sent there at the same time SO
as the better to illustrate the diversity of
American character, but we hope, as a
people, to be spared the humiliation OF
having to write John l.. Sullivan. NJ. c.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-09-13

Alfred II. Love, President of the Uni
versal Peace Union, urges the W. c. Il. u.
to establish a national annual ''Mothers'
Peace Day." and admirably says in con-
nection with this suggestion "Ours is a
work of provolution, for am not satisfied
with revolution, rolling backward, nor
with evolution, rolling out of; | must
coin word that means rolling forward and
upward. To help hasten this great pro.
volnton of universal reform the ,AIothers'
Peace Day" is warmly advocated.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-09-13

The call for the Democratic primaries
appears this week. Ont of the % places
for holding these primaries only three are
not in hotels or saloons, pleasant fact for
the temperance element of the Democratic
party in Hunterdon county to reflect upon.
We clip the above from an exchange and
pass it around for the inspection of our
Salem county Democrats. 'But we don t
hold our primaries in saloons down this
way" OF course not; don't nominate
Leon Albeit down this way, either, but
the saloon power of upper New Jersey
does, and you ratify it. Now what's the
difference?
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-09-13

In the Public Ledger report of the Penn
sSylvania Prohibition Convention para
graph reads: "Any one could tell at glance
that the convention was made up of highly
intellectual persons. OF course it was,
Mr. ledger, and brains is what counts IN
this year of grace 80. Oh, yes, when it
comes to vote, South Carolina darkey has
as much say as the president of the United
States, but the year through, its the brains
of the country that is leayening the lump of
our body polite. and muscle is nowhere
compared with brains. The fifth rail of
the fence is what holds the panel in place
though the others may have something to
do with holding it up.
With the heart and head both on the
side OF prohibition it will be sure to win.
''The good times coming, though long,
long on the way
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-09-13

Mrs. j. X. Barney, the American W. C.
T. L. Worlds Superintendent of Prison
Work, is going about in Europe visiting
prisons and houses of detention in the line
of her work. She was greatly interested
in the Christian Police Association, aud
hopes to see something Of that kind in
America. She will visit Australia. italy.
Switzerland and Germany, returning by
way Of Paris and London this fall bcrorc
the National w. G. +. L. Convention.
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Now what we want to say is il any OF
our subscribers have articles which they
uesire 10 see III print GA Tue temperance
or nIaca 70 send If IF otbnrs hav c Pi ser.
mons or religious essays which to their
mind should appear in a journal, the re-
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are not tied to Republicanism. Democrat
ism, Prohibitionism, Methodsm, Presby-
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Only.

only a glass III the bar room,
only single glass;
only The lack Of courage,
Only the answer Eyes"
only an evil companion,
Siyly Turing him on;
Only Il "free hearted Charlie
And the fatal work is done.
onIya 'littlc bit tipsy.'
only biood-shot eyes,
Only pleading mother,
Only a wife's surprise:
only an aching forehead
Only a bruised face,
only a broken promise,
onlya deep disgrace.
only Il checrlcss shanty,
Without fire or wood,
And little half-clad children
Wailing and crying for food;
only curses for kisses,
Only sorrow and woe,
only Il drunken father,
only an angry blow.
only weeping children,
only dying wife,
only another promise
Only drunkard's life,
q, the woe and anguish,
What mortal tongue can tell
only glass in bar-room,
only drunkard's hell!
-,ScABgler Sears, in ohio Farmer.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-09-13

As the matter now stands the democrats
own the whole earth of New Jersey. They
have the Governor, both branches of the
Legislature and the Judiciary, and if there
is anything they haven't got, it is some
small article that was taken in over night.
But that isn't all, they mean to stay and
how do you suppose they are going about
it? Well, in the first place, they mean 10
divide the Prohibition vote, get enough
Republicans to vote the Prohibition ticket
to insure the defeat of the Republican
nominee for Governor and the election of
Albeit. That's the way they have figured
on the former At the first blush it looks
real political business all the same. But
is it? If all the Prohibitionists were in the
Republican ranks it would be a real smart
trick, but they are not, not by large
number Taking the State over it has
been found that nearly half of the Prohi-
bition vote belongs or did belong to the
Democratic party, and there is big proba-
bility that the over subserviency of the
latter to the rum interest will permanently
lose them all these and great many more
who at best are now mere hangers-on. So
you see its ia boomerang sword that cuts
both ways. Seven State Senators are to be
elected this fall and to insure the Legisla-
ture as it now stands, the Democrats must
elect -four of the above seven. To show how
easy or hard this task may be | will give
the seven counties representing the seven
retiring Senators:
Atlantic county represented by John &.
Gardiner, Rep.-Republican say nil re-
turn Rep; Democrats say isiN.
Bergen County represented by Senator
Bogart Dem.-Republican say may re-
turn Rep; Democrats say not.
Cumberland county, represented by SEN
ator Baker, Dem.-Republicans say ecill re-
turn Rep: Democrats says not.
Hudson county represented by Senator
Edwards, Dem.-Republicans say not re-
turn a Rep; Democrats say yes.
Mercer county represented by Senator
Rae, Rep. Republican say aoN return
Rep; Democrats say not.
Morris county represented by Senator
Werts, Dem.-Republican say not elect
Rep; Democrats say Yes.
Ocean county represented by Senator
Cranmer, Rep; Republicans say acW return
Rep; Democrats say not.
As the Democrats had majority of but
one in the Senate last fall, it is clear that
they will have to reflect all of the retiring
Senators or new ones in their place.
Looking over the table it will be seen
that there is but slight margin for gain on
either side, taking their own estimate for
it. The Republican claim is that four of
the new Senators to be elected will surely
be of their political household, with one,
Bogart of Bergen, probable, and their
opponents allow them but one of the en-
tire number as sure, viz, Gardiner of At
lantic. On the other hand the Democrats
say they will elect their men from Bergen,
Hudson, Mercer, Morris, Ocean and prob
ably Cumberland. All this from both
sides and yet looking over the field care
fully and making fair allowance for the
extravagant claims of both sides 1t really
looks like a question to be decided at the
ballot box by the merest political accident.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-09-13
YEAR BEFORE LAST

We bought and sold few cases
of the LESTER BOOTS. made at
Binghampton, New York. They gave
such general satisfaction that we
quadrupled our order last year, and
this season We have already made
arrangements with the maker for a
much larger supply. All who have
had them want them again, and not
only them, but they send us new
customers, and SO it goes. 1T is
THE BEST BOOT MADE. We
have yet TO hear the first complaint.
but on the contrary all speak well of
them. They COST NO MORE
THAN OTHER MAKES, and you
may as we'll have the best. Don't
forget us when you want TO buy.
Our Ladies Genuine Pebble Goat
Button Shoe, with worked Button
Holes, at sI.a5 is a daisy. See
sample pair in the window, or go in
side and inspect. All kinds of shoes
for Ladies, Misses and Children,
also Boys and Men. Low prices
for good goods.
f. B. HUMPHREYS,
Woodstown. N. l.
New Store Under the Opera House,
]. NELSON CURRY. in Charge.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-09-13

If the Republicans are the real A No. l
Prohibitionists of the State, let them on
Tuesday next, nominate George La Monte
for Governor, and endorse the Prohibition
platform and the thing is done. Nothing
easier gentlemen ''Do we hear the motion
seconded9f
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-09-13

AS the Voice put it, there's no use Of
the Ohio Democracy mounting about sump-
tnary legislation, &c. Why not, blast
out 1--WE want free rum That's what it
looks like anyway, and probably about
what is meant.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-09-13

The Republicans of Iowa have just de-
clared in public convention that .Prohibi-
ton has become the settled policy of the
State and now were waiting to hear
from Trenton. n J., on Tuesday next.
We shall have our ear to the ground on
the above date, brethren.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-09-13

The woman Who lives with mau three
hundred. and sixty-fye days in year is
not going to be degraded to any alarming
extent by voting with him on the three
hundred and sixty-fifth. Topeka CAPITAL.
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: hereby given that persons desiring the
/ situation of Steward OF the Salem Comfy
Aimshousc for the ensuing year are requested
To make application tn the Beard of Trustees
~ The next meeting, on tho first Manrinv in
November, 1851. Candidates Tor the pnSition
must make application III writing, and iut-
nish reference as 10 their capabiiiIy,
sept6-9t }. Is, GREER, JR., secy.
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PUBLIC SALE OF
Real and Personal Property!
WILL. be sold at public vendne ON
Saturday, September ID, 50.

AZ the residence of the subscriber, on East
real ANA personal property:
Three desirable building lots, situate on.East
depth.
one frame ice. house, (new) iGxai, with II
feet posts, well built OF hcmlocb lumber one
ice cream factory, liNSO
Fouf shoats, lot of growing corn and pota-
loes, by The row; lot of hay and Hitter. coal.
lirwood boards aud siding sci heavy single
harness, cutivatof, garden tools, ice hooks.
together with n lot of miscellaneous house
hold goods, and other articles moi mentioned
sale IN begin at o'clock. ConaitpnsA nj sale.
FRANK G.. MOUNT.
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1t seems odd to hear John l.. Sullivan's
nomination for Congress gravely discussed.
A pugilist, a noted prize fighter, a man
brought up in the slums, a criminal under
indictment and liable to Imprisonment.
poses as prospective nominee for Con-
gress. Well, this would be startling any
where outside of the United States, and
even here has rather an ugly look. Still,
we believe John has some good points-we
really do. His conduct while on trial at
Mississippi developed some manly attrib-
utes of his outside the so-called manly art.
We half believe sometimes that John is
not so black as painted, his opportuni-
ties and early surroundings considered.
Morrisey was a pugilist, and a New
York Congressman. and Morrisey is said
to have made very good representative
albeit, we believe he had ten-fold the vices
and not halfthe virtues of Sullivan. Still. it
would seem pitiful.
If in whole city fun"
No better selection could be made for
member of Congress than prize fighter
with the record of John r. Sullivan.
Sullivan, who is now in New York city
with his father and brother Nike, appears
deeply serious since the death of his
mother. The other day, in referring to it,
he said
don't want to talk about it much. |
can only say that do not feel like living
as have done up to now. You know how
Oh nd / T o1roa
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-09-13

Standard. No matter # all about Browns
baby swallowing its own head, and it
happened at Pig Alley, right in Elmer,
the Salem people, big and little, will of
course be pleased to read it and the Elmer
people can get it from the Standard. Then
comes the temperance crank-and he has an
ism He wants to tell the people of Elmer,
through the Elmer Times. that there is
danger ahead for the boys and young men
of the place, who frequent saloon on Mad
Calf lane. .'To the bad with you, is the
answer, chats temperance ism and will
be properly looked after at the party head
quarters-the Sunbeam office, Salem. !"
Then another reader of the Times has an
ISM He has just returned from the horse
fair at Bridgeton and saw the racing but
wasn't so mad over that as the fact that
men talked boss, laughed boss, yelled boss,
eat, drank and slept boss, and so now he
is thoroughly hostile to the whole affair,
or fair, and wants TO tell the readers of the
Times all about it. Did he? Well we
should assume not Rather guess Sam
would point to the door and refer him to
that prince of authorities on boss, Meow
an, of the Bridgeton Pioneer. And so it
goes. An over modest man timidly pre-
sents few short verses, spring poem
perhaps, for publication in the Times 1t
is an ism, and he is told that those lines
ought, and of right should be directed to
that excessively modest individual, J. Ben
ington Elfreth, of the Melville Transcript.
Another has an ism on "What | know
about raising tomatoes on my back lot at
Elmer,a and in a little time he is on his
way to lay the matter before that luminous
authority Oh agriculture, and horny-fistcd
granger, j. Newlin, of the Millyille Repub-
lican. And so Sam waves off the isms
right and left, caring fifty nine times more
about litter of seven-legged pigs, and a
litter of ''tf' advertisements, than all the
isms out. Well, well, Sam.