The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-06-27

though We reached the place in good time,
had only standing room in n of the en-
frances to the second balcony. While
standing there we remember a CONVERSE
ton held between us and a German baker,
one who talked very broken too, who was
most likely foreign born. When the con-
versation began, hearing his pronunciation,
we thought: well it is strange he is
here, being a German, he most likely is
fond Of beer" However, as we talked on
we found he was not only on the right
side, but that he ~prophesied a speedy VIC
tory for the temperance host. We have
heard other Germans say too, that we
Americans associate them too closely with
beer, and that it is the native born as we'll
as the foreign population who are
equally responsible for the state of
affairs in this country which our
ancestors struggled SO bravely for,
that they, as well as their descendants,
might enjoy liberty. And o, what liberty
politics being bound hand and foot as they
are by this SHANE waters" rulings, as
they term this enemy of brain and soul in
the Congo. on Afric's shores. And
friends, such shame as it brings into homes
that are dear to us. Homes where we had
thought peace and prosperitydwelt Those
who happen to be reading these lines may
say: 0 that is a thread bare plea. Let us
say in reply, thread-bare or not, just these
sad revelations are coming to some of us
every day, and beware lest we invite their
coming by our own indifference to this
question.
We have in mind a little family compos-
ed of father, mother, and two little baby
girls, the elder of which was an especial
pet with US. The father as we have known
him, has been in active business, making
plenty of money, and whom we have often
seen go in and out from his loved ones; a
man, liz short whom we have learned to
look to as one of our best neighbors, since
his young vile and little girl often came
across the street to chat with us, and we
came to like them much, and to feel much
OF interest in their joys and sorrows. But
during all the time of that pleasant inter-
course We had not the slightest idea of
what a vile serpent there was at work sap
ping the JOY out of the life of the dear
young wife and mother. We had no
thought that the tempter had entered
there too, and that all were being dragged
down by this national (think of IT'D rum
hend. But such was the case, and only a
week ago such a revelation as came to
those who had come to be her friends, as
this p oor child wife fed across the street
begging admittance to their home, that
she might be saved from the fury OF her
drunken husband, who had already given
her such a blow, between the eyes, as she
fed out of the door away from him.
This is no fancy sketch, but a sad reality.
les, we admit this is only an everyday
occurrence OF which we may read any time
we would pick up a daily paper and waste
tint re fading such accounts. In short
we ha 20 haannra n rdanaI ~ ax,af 1850.
rences as those, and we seek a national rem
edy, realizing that from whence the cause
OF these degrading scenes come,
there shall the blow for liberation be
struck. However, when these incidents
enter into our very lives, as it were, there
is such a feeling of sadness comes to us,
and we feel a desire enter our heart that
We possessed the wisdom of Solomon and
the strength of Samson, that We might
use our Judgment and force to act and de-
molish these temples ("gin shops'') built
to worse than a heartless God-Bacchus,
How long, . friends, how long will you
sit with folded hands and closed hearts
and allow this monster evil to go on? o,
but You say, we are in sympathy with you.
Would that we might answer you in tones
as strong and as awe inspiring as are the
lements that are flashing and laundering
about us as We rite, The who is not for
US is against u.s., and they whose hands do
not act in this cause nave not had their
hearts touched with the true sympathy
that bears fruit.
What does sympathy avail without any
corresponding work or protection? Sup
pose when that poor, fleeing wife, as she
knocked for admittanoe had been told:
lyon have my sympathy, but l can do you
no good Immediately she would have
known their profession of sympathy was
false, and that they were no friends of
hers. So-what conclusion are we to
draw when our friends tell us:-you have
our sympathy, but our hands have never
been called to this work. Get thee behind
me such sympathy.
Ballots are the most sympathetic ex-
%pressions of interest in this cause that one
can conceive of, and vhen women are fran
chised we will then in reality prove our
selves a sympathetic nation.
To a class of ffty-eight graduates
(twonty-nine OF whom were young LADIES'
at a Philadelphia business college CON-
mencement in 'S8 Ex-Governor James Pol
lock, in his Introductory address, said:
There is one feature of this evenings
commencement exercises that g~ratifies me
very much. We have on this occasion to
graduate not only the young men who
have studied and are about to receive their
diplomas, but we have before us a gradu-
ating class of young women who have also
given their attention, their mind and their
time to preparation for the grand and I'M
portant duties that will devolve upon
them. l am not a communist, but | be-
lieve, my friends, that the hour has ar
rived, under the influence and inspiration
of that grand and best of all books, that
recognizes In humanity a common and a
most enduring life and association-I
believe the hour has arrived when woman
comes to the front to be felt as a power in
this progressive age. She stands before
us all. our peer and equal, intellectually,
socially II morally. While | do not
undervalue my own sex, | believe there is
no association so grand and noble as that
which is founded on woman's rights"
All, thanks, Governor, that is just what we
want all the rest of mankind to believe,
and they are coming to believe it too, and
when ''the right is ours there will be no
more such Original package decisions,
but instead the traffic will DO thrown body
and breeches to the bottom of the sea.
pardon the slang, friend, but it is SO ex-
pressiye sometimes.) Did we hear some
one say this slang is only al output Of
what woman's rights would bring in its
train? Nay, not SO; some of the most
womanly women we have ever met have