The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-04-11
MoodstaMn- Anrila 1871
sRatn.Asks for Information

DEAR MoNIToB:-What means this com-
munication in the ". C. T. U. Department
of the last issue of your-our-paper en-
titled THE Silver Wedding signed
Liberal Christian ?1 such q number of
2???2 regarding that same article have
presented themselves to my mind, and at
this writing We find the matter as much
uusolved as ever. We reason thus: Surely
at this late day, after the temperance re-
form has reached The height and depth il
has in this section of our State. 1t were
foolish to entertain the idea that this COM
munication from Liberal Christian, Ia
based On facts. We rather entertain the
charitable side Of the question and suppose
that it is drawn from a fertile imagination.
SO fertilt indeed that there is something Of
rankness-as Of weeds-in the growth.
Yet, when We reach the end of the article
and find it with the following realism in
the picture, l. e. ELMER, March 81. $780,
cur mind keeps on questioning and argues
thus: Ii Eimer's respectable hotelkeeper
aud his LADY" did celebrate the twenty-
fifth anniversary of their marriage, it only
showed the traditional wiseness OF the SER
pent for mine host to respond to the
proposition as lie did and emphasize the
advisability of inviting only respectable
people, the majority Christians, to give
the house a reputation Satan himself
could not have been more willy in his cal
culations. OF course mine host" (erad.
if We were compelled TO bow to an agent of
Bacehus thus , desired the respectable
people, +" the Christians to be present.
1t were foolish indeed, when we think over
the matter, to suppose he would invite his
victims, whose hsrd-earned cash goes to
enrich his till instead of being used to
properly elothe said victims wives and
daughters that they might be presentable
in appearance for such a grand affair as a
silver wedding"
However, friends, we have in our INN ost
heart more charity for that cunning hotel
keeper than we have for the respectable
people aud the Christians CD who at
tend his silver weddings, as it were, and
vote with and for him on election day.
We were told in a religious meeting not
long since that it was best in some in
stances not to be too charitable, and We
wondered at and in a measure condemned
such advice, but il seems to US that it may
be applied here to these Christian people
Who attend mime hosts silver weddings.
and to the Christians who raise not their
arms against the interests of the rumseller
but clasp hands with him instead.
To Us there seems but one bright oasis
in that dark communication and that is:
IF We can keep those w. c.. It. U. ONE
still" What a glorious doubt the Lib
eral Christian allows his mind to enter
tain here. And well be may entertain such
doubt, foi while the rum fiend is abroad in
the land ~corrupting and defiiing the loved
ones OF the h~earthsrone, those w. G. Z. T..
women will not be still, but will fight on
and on till the rum shackIes that bud the
- a.
thereof have stepped out into a purer SUM-
shine Cbecause they themselves are purer)
and say we are a free people, an eminently
respectable people, and a Christian people.
In closing, dear MONITOR, we must tell
you how we miss ''Jesiah's Scraps and
nov we regret be does not profer us his
''arm chair any more. However the
Scraps and 'arm chair" linger pleas
antly ia our memory and Josiah may
/ quote to himself
E" It's sweet to be remembered,
Ills sad 10 be forgot"
RUTH.
Woodstown, April 8, 1890.