The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-11

The above words you'll find in a paper
printed in Camden, N. j., called LtqhtninS
| and they are addressed to Prohibition
friends, and | have been thinking some.
He says, "You have had your Prohibition
| or third party for some time, and will you
tell us what practical good you have &C
complished for temperance" | will try.
First, the Lightning is doing more lying
to the square inch than any paper q be-
lieve) in the land. He tells us 1.-THE Re.
publican party has raised the temperance
banner and is going on to glorious vic.
tory" Now it is passing strange that
any one man can contain enough brass and
spleen to give expression to such a senti-
ment as that when he knows, and every
man of half sense knows, it has not a
shadow of truth in it. Lightning knows that
that defunct party is now the pride and
idol of the would-be respectable rum bar
ons who have Slapped the noble life blood
and infused the virus of liquid poison in
that once respectable party. and now the
bosses of the party at their beer con-
crosses pass strong resolutions in favor of
high license and affirm that they can and
do sell more whisky under high than low
license. The high license dodge is quite
too thin to blind the eyes m deceive sem
sible and honest men much longer, be-
cause it is true that fathers and mothers
are thinking as never before on this ques-
ton and are asking themselves which is
the easiest, to have their sons plunged
headlong into a drunkard's grave ana
down to a drunkard's he'll by rum pur-
| chased in a gilde6 saloon at a high price or
in a filthy groggery az low price, and beg
| all parents who may read these lines to
honestly think (as Lightning asks them to
| do) then declare war against all license for
crime, high or low.
Then the local option law that Ligktaing
pirates about so much was only a farce and
a sham, as when it was before the people
to be voted on many Republicans who
beasted land still boast) of their temper
ance principles, worked and voted against
the law. And the law itself was SO
weighted down by technicalities that il
was of no practical use where it was car
| ried, and while the local option law did
not open jug shops, yet it is r that
where it was carried jug shops multiplied
rapidly.
ton party has done is that it has twisted
| the rum DEVILS tail in the Republican
party under the guise of temperance re-
| form. 1t is an old trick of the devils to
! put on white robes where and hen il
| helps most to advance his kingdom, and
never was there a more devilish purpose
than his so-called amalgamated high
license Republican reform. But it is the
last desperate effort of a back, Sudden and
now corrupt party for a little longer hold
on office. The Republican party has
many good men in it vet, but the scum is
on the top and 1t rules the party almost
| supreme. and is bound to rule or ruin, and
it will do the latter, while the honest,
| true men will be compelled to come on,
and unite with the only party that can
or will give us temperance reform, and
that is the vigorous, youthful Prohibition
party, as in it We have no white-washed
pretenders who arc trying to be o tenn
| perance and anti-temperance.