The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-18


school house, the church and the home,
rather than the Jail? OF course not all the
residents OF Gloucester City are response
bic for the periodical outbreaks of rowdy-
ism. and murders even, that is becoming
a part of the history of the place. but then
they are obliged 10 bear their share, and
more thar their share, too. of the odium.
In hearing argument OH some license
applications before his honor Law Judge
Hoagland, at the late term of the Cum
berland County Court, a little Democratic
lawyer ON the liquor side improved the OPP
portunity to fire off quite a political iusil-
lade in defence of the sumptnary attitude
of the demijohn party on the liquor qnes-
| ton. The petition before the court was
for the licensing of an inn or hotel at
Dividing Creek. where no license is at
present granted. The license petition was
| signed by seventeen applicants of the Tom
Dick and Harry class, hunted up from the
near and remote parts Of the township,
while a remonstrance on the other side,
against the licensing Of the hotel, COM
nrised niue-tenths of the inhabitants of the
little place in which the hotel building Is
located. 1t was shown in court that a
licensed inn for the accommodation of the
travelling public for that place was not a
necessity; that all visitors TO the town
were amply provided for without a licensed
house, and that much better peace and
order maintained IN the town when no
license was granted than when otherH Use.
1t was further shown that the applicant for
keeper of the inn did not come under the
strict construction and intent of the law as
"a reputed temperance man. and that
within q year or so quite a disturbance had
occurred at the hosiery now run as an
unlicensed house.
All his and more was proved to the
damage of the would-be host of a licensed
hole at Dividing Creek, but the funny part
came in when the attorney for the defense
(every petitioner who comes into court for
license 10 sell rum is regarded as a sort of
a criminal and is put oil the defense) got
off his little Democratic piece. Posing in
a sort of spread eagle style lie tumbled
to the old chestnut racket about bringing
sentiment into court and said There are
men on the streets to-day who draw down
the corners of their month and dry up
the Christian charity in their souls when
considering an application for license, =
which paragraph, picked up from an old
and well-known anthor and slightly trans
| posed, we conclude, he regards as utterly
unsentimental and hard pan horse sense.
Then he assumed another and quite a
practical role. Shaking himself up and
wiring the index finger Of the left hand in
the direction of solemn-appearing Judge
| Hoagland, he sawed the air with his dex-
Ter arm and wanted to know what the
protesting Dividing Checkers were about
the voters of the township and call for a
special election, at which they could swing
the license petition So high as to take
away all appetite for keeping a hotel al
luo pldCc ny 1uS ppis' VI u y tht lC
monstrance and balderdash brought into
court over a license petition. A most ex.
cellent law he declared was the Werts'
bill, which gave practical temperance mer
the opportunity to do practical temperance
work in a common sense way.
There was something dangerously neal
applause when the little barrister put il
that way, as the sympathy Of the audience
(the kind usually brought ont at license
court) was evidently of the ''s~peak-easy'
kind. and the few fanatics" present even
had no demurrer to this one logical point
in the speakers address. However. the
effect of this double breaster'' of the lit
tie liquor lawyer was all spoiled when il
is remembered that there has been ne
licensed house at Dividing Creek recently
and no application for one anticipated
until too late to put the legal machines il
operation. 1t was evidently to start NJ
the political buzz saw when made, and il
consequence it was u n petition, sam
signers, sans election, sans law and san,
everything but the lively little Democratic
speech at the court house.