The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-10-17
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The Lion and Lamb sHade Friends.

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The Lion and Lamb sTade Friends.
The recent session of the State Liquor
Dealers Association, which met at
Orange, n. j., passed by unanimous vote
some resolutions that foIeshadow their pur-
pose on the line oflegislation. First, they
gravely assert that their business and call
ing is honest, legitimate and respectable,
and complain that they are oppressed and
demand protection at the hands of the law
makers, and they demand that the law
shall be SO changed as to legalize the sale
of intoxicants on the Sabbath day. Now
these are the demands OF the rum bafons
in this State, and yet, strange to say, null
tiplied thousands of professed Christians
are following their lead and helping them
TO destroy our most sacred institutions.
One OF the old parties is practically for
free rum, while the other stands for high
license, and of the two evils The latter is
the worst. First, because it has been
proved repeatedly that where high license
has been tried, that " lille the first effect
of such a law lessened the number Of
licensed houses the ''speak-easies'' more
than made up for them, and thus between
the two kinds of houses the traffic has been
enlarged and its power to populate hell
fearfully intensified. Then the liquor and
beer men, among the larger dealers, are
almost a unit in favor of high license, and
they say Is soon as they have time To adj
just themselves to the new order of things
they will make and sell more liquor under
the high license system thar low. Then
while the State grants license, high or low.
for the b~lighting curse, it puts itself into
co-partnership with the soul destroying
business, which practice, If continued,
is sure to destroy both state and nation.
The noble Christian women of this State
wen before the legislature last winter in
the city of Trenton with a petition con-
tanning the names of 10, 900 of our best cit
liens, many of whom were among our most
thrifty business men, leading physicians and
prominent c%lergymen, Gall legal voters,
and they pied as only mothers can plead
for children that that body would grant
us a Law making it the duty Of all cur
puolic schools to teach the youth Of the
State the evil effects of alcohol on the
human system, and they said mo" with
an emphasis. Nov almost every question
proposed by one OF the old parties last
winter in the legislature was opposed by
the other until the Hygiene bill was pro-
posed, but IN that they were agreed and
united their forces to kill it in its incep-
ton. Thu lion and the lamb were made
the best Of friends Ia order to throttle a
bill which, if made into a law, would be
SO damaging to the accursed business.
The 4, GOO, 900 children IN the public
schools of our State cannot be protected
from the curse of rum that is dragging So
600 of our Ioble boys down to q drunk
ards grave and a deeper hell annually.
Almost everything that swims, runs or
flies can have protection at the hands of
our lawmakers, but our boys can have
none for the simple reason that il will les
sen the number of the rumseller's Gus
toners. It is strange, yet true, that many
thousands of professed Christians will con-
tinue with such parties through party
prejudice. or because of a vague hope of
some petty office, and yet for these friVol-
GUS reasons they barter away the charao
ter and life of their sons. What answer
will or can such persons give for their
stewardship? If such contracted views of
duty are not given up. our most cherished
Institutions, for which our fathers gave
their lives to win and perpetuate, will soon
be among the things hat were, and our
sons, in larger numbers than at present,
will be among the old rum sots and on the
straight road TO d~runkard's graves.
AZ TIC AtyA All lAN "a aNiC maui
friends and united their murky wisdom in
framing an election law to disfrauchise
many Of our most honest and conscientious
citizens, while all old sots, the illiterate
and foreigners just landed, with nc knowl-
edge of or sympathy for our institutions,
but because they are ready 10 vote for and
are in sympathy with one of the two old
parties, (and so far as safety is concerned
it matters not which it Isl, they are made
welcome to the right Of franchise, many
of whom are bought up like SO many pigs
for a gill of rum. Aud another reason for
such Acknowledgement is the fact that the
men who vote en- the line of conscience
and temperance cannot be bought at any
price.
Consistency thou art a jewel" bat
this effort to muzzle intelligen. righteous
ness and to enthrone ignorant or deyilish
rascality will miscarry, and instead of
helping the run power viii assist il its
destruction, as decent, thoughtful meu are
leaving both of the old parties and uniting
their fortunes with the only party that
stands for temperance. A CITIZEN.