The Monitor., 1891-03-27

southern New Jersey it has not, we be-
lieve, single saving quality, and was not
so intended. The one purpose and intent
of the excise Law as put upon the necks ot
the citizens of New Jersey, is to secure for
the Democratic party of the State the sup
port of the liquor men aud cater to those
| who dominate its politics. It was clear
surrender to the rum barons of the patty
whose servants they are.
| By this law the Governor, on application
| of 100 voters OF a county, may appoint an
/ excise board of three persous, whose duty
| it is to attend to all matters pertaining to
the sale of rum in the county. lie migf
appoint as commissioners for this purpose
| men noted for sobriety, virtue, temperance
aud e, cry other good quality of heart aud
head but what OF ii? They are there TO
give licenses t. sell rum, and are obliged
to do it. Licenses of some kind and at some
price are to he granted anyhow, whether it
be ia prohibition cumberland or rum-riddeD
Gloucester, and they, the commissioners,
are tie men to do It, On application Of
100 scalawag voters, such as may be found
in any toy nslip or assembly district OF he
State, to say nothing of a whole county,
| the franchise of people is to be taken
| from them, and that, too, by party mat
| in the past has been such sticklers for the
rights of the whole people; party that
inyeiehs against the tyranny of Car
Reed and the marplots, as they say, of the
late Republican House OF Representatives
at Washington, uho engineered the in
| famous force bill
| Such imbecility of party leaders ano
| hypocrisy among the rum Democrats Of
| to-day is enough to make an honest mem
| Der of the raIty hide his face in shame,
enough even to cause that stirling AID in
corruptible old Democrat, Andrew Jack
son. to turn over in his grave, If the thing
were possible. The application Of this
| law, its framers say. is or rather was, in
tended principally for such districts as
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but it is no such thing. Lying rascals are
| they, every one of them, who imagine they
can fool the people By such pretence.
| What the law as intended for. and where
it was designed to apply. was for such
local option districts as is comprised in
southern New Jersey where practical pro-
hibition now prevails, and they are now
thanks to a Democratic legislature able
| to grant licenses without let or hindrance.
| This is the most audacious and outrage
| GUS stab at the " i'll of the citizens, as ex-
| pressed at the ballot, the people have yet
had at the hands of tie boss rum power
at Trenton. Wise legislation is suppose d
to be iu the interest of the people, IN the
promotion of virtue and suppression OF
vice. to make it as hard to do rong and
as easy to do right as possible, but the
Democrats of the last legislature have ex-
actly reversed this order Of things. If our
State solons really wished to advance the
public good and look to the interests oi
the best people in the State, Why didn't
they make the signature 1000 or even a
mai piity of all the voters of a county.
necessary to the appointment of all excise
give the rum men all they could ask? Why
did they enact the farce, anyway, of le
quiring 100 voters to secure an excise com
mission for the county, when they could
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seller to demand license at any time OF
his own conditions, and oblige some super
seryice.blc tool tf the ium party in ,ht
Democratic ranks to grant it nstanter
II there was any blood Ill them, blooo
Of the old Jackson Democracy why ddn'
they labor to make the commission elect
i've, so that the people corld have Whacl
at them, instead of putting the whole bust
ness into the hands of the saloon men,
friend ID advocate, Gov. Albeit? No
the whole business was direct stab attht
liberties of the people OF New jersey, ant
the people are fools, and worse than fools
il they dout speedily resent it and bring
about day of reckoning, " 18th 20 days o
grace thrown in.
The gerrymander Of the State. too, il
most Infamous, but might have been con
doned had they only legislated portion
of the northern Democracy OF New Jerse!
over to New York-not the best rt, bu
the rum part. Seriously. we think til,
time has now come whtn a union of al
good men Of whatever party affiliatiJn
whether Democrat, Republican or Pro;i
biton, be formed to down the rum party
of this State and put its government into
the hands of honest men, men represent
ing something widely different from The
Democracy of New Jersey in this year O
our Lord '91.
washington EeIter.
| (From our regu uIar corre5pondent.l