_... .~ '~ i \„! Lam' _ ~ - - - - -1 ~ -- , - ~ _ ~i --_ -- t`= '--~ ---' -- "DEMON RUM" OTHER NEW JERSEY BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES BY DONALD A. SINCLAIR AVAILABLE FROM VARIOUS PUBLISHERS The first thirty-five years. The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey: a subject-and-author index ... 1925-1960. 1962. 55p. (Genealogical Society of New Jersey.) A bibliography: the Civil War and New Jersey. 1968. 186p. (Available from the compiler.) An index to the Cushing and Sheppard History of Gloucester, Salem, and Cumberland counties. 1975. 272p. (Republished 1985 by the Gloucester County Historical Society.) New Jersey Fourth of July orations: a bibliography. 1988. 64p. (Newark Public Library.) A subject-and-author index to the ... Somerset County Histo- rical Quarterly. 1990. 39p. (Genealogical Society of New Jersey.) New Jersey libraries: a bibliography of their printed catalogs, 1758-1921. 1992. 96p. (New Jersey Library Association.) New Jersey family index: a guide to the genealogical sketches in New Jersey collective sources. 1993 second printing. 80p. (Genealogical Society of New Jersey.) • New Jersey biographical index, covering some 100,000 biog- raphies ... in 237 New Jersey ... collective biographical sources. 1993. 859p. (Genealogical Publishing Company.) • bibliography: the American Revolution and New Jersey. (With Grace W. Schut.) 1995. 765p. (Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University.) New Jersey collective biographical sources: a bibliography. 1995. 104p. (77ze Upland Press with the Newark Public Li- brary.) An index to the magazine New Jersey History. 1996. 254p. (The Upland Press with the Newark Public Library.) New Jersey newspapers and newspaper journalism: a bibliog- raphy. 1996. 140p. (7he Upland Press with the Newark Pub- lic Library.) A Guide to the literature of New Jersey place names. 1996. 48p. (Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University.) "DEMON RUM" A Bibliography of Publications about LIQUOR AND NEW JERSEY 1779-1932 Mostly Controversial Publications Relating to the Liquor Problem temperance addresses, tracts, reports, liquor laws, etc. By DONALD A RLEIGH S INCLAIR NEW BRUNSWICK 1996 RUTGERS SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES FAM ADDIS MAY (THOMPSON) SINCLAIR 1880-1974 long-time member of the W. C. T. U. INTRODUCTION THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY is a record of 449 publications which reflect and define New Jersey's involvement with liquor. In America and elsewhere, alcohol as a drinkable has been of social, economic, medical, and moral interest for generations. During the 19th and early 20th centuries there was much agitation against it, as well as some effort in its defense. The subject of temperance, and total abstinence, was belabored frequently in sermons and lay addresses which sometimes invoked the Bible's authority, pro or con. Many organizations were formed to promote temperance, liquor control, treatment of "inebriates" and, increasingly, prohi- bition. Earliest of these in New Jersey apparently was the Sober Society (1807) of Allentown. Statewide were the New Jersey State Temperance Society (1834) and New Jersey State Temperance Al- liance (1871). There were also state and local affiliates of several national organizations, such as the Sons of Temperance (1846), International Organization of Good Templars (1867), Daughters of Temperance (1840's), and of course the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (1874), which still has a modest existence. Prohibition, as a solution to the liquor problem, was pro- moted vigorously by the Anti-Saloon League of New Jersey, along with church groups and the various temperance societies. Op- posing prohibition were speeches or writings of some prominent Jerseymen, including Dwight W. Morrow, Hiram Maxim, former governors (Griggs, Edwards, Edge, and Stokes), even a few cler- gymen. Also in opposition were many publications of the Manu- facturers and Merchants Association of New Jersey—which was probably a creation of the Newark brewers. During the brief existence of national Prohibition, 1919- 1933, the no-liquor laws were widely violated in New Jersey. De- ii spite conscientious efforts by a few agencies to enforce them, New Jersey was regularly known as a "wet" state. Police and pol- iticians were often corrupt or indifferent, and the general popu- lation was more or less indifferent as well. With little effort at concealment, "speakeasies" operated in large numbers, and rum- runners regularly unloaded their cargos from ships along the Jer- sey shore. This compilation is the product of extensive searching in a dozen well-equipped libraries* and a number of other sources. While the publications described here are both representative and numerous, further such items doubtless exist. It has not been possible to visit all the libraries in the state, and (with a few shining exceptions) mail inquiries addressed to some of them have not been productive. Most have not been answered at all. THE LIBRARIES For all of the separate publications (i.e., except articles, etc.), certain libraries which possess copies are identified by the National Union Catalog coding below. CSmH Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, Cal. CtY Yale University, New Haven, Conn. DLC Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. DNLM U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Md. IU University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill. MH Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. MWA American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass. NHi New-York Historical Society, New York City.* NN New York Public Library, New York City.* Nj New Jersey State Library, Trenton, N.J.* NjF1Hi Hunterdon County Historical Society, Flemington, N.J. t NjFrHi Monmouth County Historical Association, Freehold, N.J. NjHi New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, N.J.* NjJ Free Public Library, Jersey City, N.J.* NjMo Joint Free Public Library of Morristown and Morris Township, Morristown, N.J. f NjN Free Public Library, Newark, N.J.* 8 NjP Princeton University Library, Princeton, N.J.* NjPT Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, N.J.* NjPat Free Public Library, Paterson, N.J. NjR Rutgers University Library, New Brunswick, N.J.*+ NjRah Rahway Public Library, Rahway, N.J. NjSa1Hi Salem County Historical Society, Salem, N.J. t NjT Free Public Library, Trenton, N.J.* Nj WdHi Gloucester County Historical Society, Woodbury, N.J. t PHC Haverford College, Haverford, Pa. PHi Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. PPStCh Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary, Philadelphia WHi State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. JJF Joseph J. Felcone collection. *Visited and searched by the compiler. -Searched by the librarians in charge. +The NjR holdings, about 230 items, are almost entirely those of the University's Special Collections and University Archives. A PERSONAL DETAIL: The compiler has a special interest in, perhaps affin- ity for, this subject. He was born 1916 in Kansas, where prohibition had existed more or less successfully for thirty-some years, of parents and grandparents who were firm temperance supporters. Both grandfathers, one-time drinkers, had been converted to the cause by the example, and gentle nudging, of their wives. The Pennsylvania father of one is said to have become an excessive drinker following the early death of his wife, and to have shortened his life thereby. He only lived to be 70 but his son, my temperate grandfather, was a sturdy fellow who died reluc- tantly at 98. A consequence of abstemious living, no doubt. E CONTENTS PART I: Contemporary Publications before 1900 numbers 1-302 PART II: Contemporary Publications 1900-1932 numbers 303-413 PART III: Retrospective and Historical Compilations numbers 414-443 PART I Contemporary Publications before 1900 1. ANON. High license fallacies. [n.p., 1889?] 8p. NjR Caption title. On local option. An answer to Warner Miller's article, "High License Justified," in the December [1888] North American (i.e., North American Review). Signed (p.8): Fair Play. 2. ACKER, GEORGE, 1826-1860. Life and confession of Geo. Acker, the murderer of Isaac H. Gordon. The trial, sentence, and an appeal to young men; to which also is added the astounding disclosures of the celebrated chemist, Dr. Cox, on the adulteration of liquors, their poisonous compounds, the tests, etc. ... [N.Y.: Baker & Godwin, printers, 18601 cover-title, 51, [ 1lp. incl. port. (on cover) DLC MH NHi NjR (copy) "Entered according to Act of Congress ... 1860, by Frederick Stone." Caption title: "Trial of George Acker, for the murder of Isaac H. Gor- don, near Montville, in Morris County, N.J., on the 18th day of October, 1859." Letterpress (incl. port., map, and imprint) on covers. "From my lonely cell I submit these, my sober second-thoughts, to the public, hoping that it may avail something for the support of a wife and four children left in poverty, and that it may be a warning to young men to beware of evil associates and of everything that can intoxicate. "—cover. "Astounding disclosures": p.50-51. Signed: Hiram Cox, M.D. Dated Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 3d, 1859. Anti-liquor text. "The honest rumseller's advertisements": p.[521. Anti-liquor parody. This is something of a temperance tract. The trial testimony was full of detail about excessive drinking, and Acker's confession—obviously written for him (he was illiterate) by some temperance activist, probably a min- ister—belabored his resultant alcoholic episodes. 13 14 I. PUBLICATIONS 1779-1899 [ 3-6 ] 3. THE ADVOCATE. A NORTHERN NEW JERSEY TEMPERANCE WEEKLY. Paterson, N.J., 1890?- weekly. NjR (v.2, no.45, June 14, 1892, imperf.) "Official organ of the Sons of Temperance, Paterson, N.J." 4. THE ALARM BELL. Paterson, N.J. weekly. v.1, no.1-9. July 4-Sept. 1851, May-Oct. 1852. NjPat From William Nelson sale Illustrated Catalogue of New Jersey Memora- bilia, etc. (1915), no.971: "The Alarm Bell; Vol. I. Nos. 1-9, inclusive. Alfred Gibbs Campbell, Editor and Proprietor ... Said to be all ever issued. A monthly journal devoted to the suppression of Rum and Slavery, published for the modest sum of twenty-five cents per annum. The initial number ap- peared on July 4, 1851, followed by issues in August and September of that year, and May, June, July, August, September, and October of 1852.