West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-12-09
WEST VIRGINIA FREEMAN
HANDS OFF!
mr.. Cuyler and the National
W. c. I. u.

mart of some of the officers of the
National Temperance Society to
hedge in with the so-called non
nartisan CD element which has
lately obtruded itself upon the
Temperance movement, 1t is note
worthy that while the above
Society has maintained a mon
partisan" attitude during all the
eighteen years in which the Prohi-
bition party has been growing to
its present proportions, latterly it
has shown anti-partisan tendencies
and its organ has not been totally
impartial. No fears have been ex-
pressed of possible neglect of moral
agencies, while the radical leaders
of this great reform have been
agitating Prohibition through
local option or State Constitutional
methods in almost every State in
the Union. Of late, however, symp-
toms are seen of a desire to rival
the non-partisan % League, and
attempts have been made to dis
criminate against the Prohibition
party and decry its adherents
and its modus 0perandi. This has
been noticeable in the utterances
of Rev. T. L. Cuyler in the Hono9-
letie Review and Evangelist, in which
the Doctor seems more anxious to
depreciate the efforts OF legal
8uaSioni8ts than to instruct the
moral sentiment which he is so
DESTROYS of securing. His late
article on "Woman's Part in the
Temperance Reform" is specially
odious and is marked by gross
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. founded on
wrong interences, which if pur-
posed are criminal, and if by mis-
take, should be speedily retracted.
Were these misstatements made
by plain DIR. Cuyler, they would
simply receive the respect which
they deserve as emanating from
such high and worthy temper
ance worker, but coming from the
H President Of the National Temper
a1ce Society, these assertions will
have still more weight, and should
be quickl y and thorough ly correct
ed. Dr., Cuyler is naturally DESTROYS
of making his administration a
success, sees possible danger of
competition in the -parti-
san" League (deluded MANI, and
in his efforts to ward off OBJECTIONS,
is trying, not very adroitly, to
hedge in with those hitherto senti-
mentalists who have just found
breath to cry out "Anathema" on
those who would take Temperance
into politics" 1t might be well
for DR.. Cuyler to glance over the
u list of Prohibitionists who consti-
tute the heart, brains and muscle
i OF the Society he heads, and con-
slider whether it would be wise to
rebuke them for the sake of the
support he might'derive from men
81 OF the "non-partis4n" class.
u In view of the fact that the
work of the National Temperance
Society tor years past has been in
the line of legal eWas5on, that their
most popular and salable publ
cations are those which treat of
the economic and political phases
OF the drink question, DR.. Cuyler's
cntlclsm of the noble w. C. I. U.
Is most presumptuous and un-
deserved. He would have his
readers believe that the w. G. T.
u was simply moral organization,
until the passage of the Phila-
uelph1a resolution endorsing the
only party which dares to avouch
Ihelr own Prohibition principles
and that this action created sudden
s'rlte, aud transmogrifed this
4aS'emolage of sanity women into
a oedIam Of political ogresses,
eh2me on such gross perveraion of
"a Let US glance at the grand organi-
ZatIon which DR., Cuyler dares to
8cnslclze, Ever since 1883 they
nave borne the brunt of the strife
!of temperance laws throughout
NIhe North. To these noble women
o the National Temperance
sGclety appealed again and again,
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