Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-07-12
ANOTHER REPUBLICAN BOLTS.
Rev. DIR. Cuyler Against Free Whisky and
for Tariff Reform.

Rev. DIR. Cuyler Agaiost Free Whisky and
for Tariff Reform.
NEW YORK, July 11.-In the New York
Erangelist, Rev. DR.. Theodore L. Cuyler,
of Brooklyn, President of the American
Temperance Association, gives his opionion
Of the Republican platform. DR.. Cuyler'a
letter G. includes al follows:
II claim the privilege, as an old d-fashion-
ed Lincolnite Republican, to enter my earn
est protest against its reactionsry ''plank"
on the most controEerted question Of the
hour. In 1884 the Republican Convention
wisely declared in favor of the revision of
the tariff and the reduction of the enor-
nous and dangerous surplus. But this
years Convention has strangely declared
in favor Of the practical maintenance of
the present exhorbitant and oppressive
war tariff, and in order to provide against
the accumulation of surplus it suggests o
repeal of the taxes on whisky and tobacco.
Instead of taking off the burdens from
many necessaries Of life, it wsuld give rs
free pipes and free whisky!
''Six months ago Mr.. Blaine, in his 30.
called message from Paris, very ssgacious-
" said: I would not advise the repeal Of
the whisky tax. There is moral side TO
it. To cheaper the price of whisky is to
increase its consumption enormously.
There would be no sense in urging the re-
form wrought by high license in many
Gkat &c kha Nak,,N Il n ant IL
izes the good effect by making whisky
within reach Of everyone at twenty cents
q gallon. It would destroy high license at
once in all the States Very true, Mr..
Blaine; and it would bring In q carnival
of Beelzebub and Bacchus all over the
land.
81 am not the only dissentient against
the extreme high tariff heresies of the late
Convention. Many OF the most powerful
Republican journals are protesting against
them. and such staunch and thoughtful
Republicans as ex-Mayor Seth Low, and
DIR. Storrs and many others of our Brook
lyn citizens are in open revolt against
them. Dr.. Storrs said to me yesterday
that, as he could not turn Democrat, he
should initiate Sambo in the story and
take to the woods.' If all Of us Republi-
cans who are opposed to free trade and
free whisky, and yet are strenuously in
favor of reducing the present outrageously
oppressive tariff, should follow the exam
pie of DR.. Storrs, the woods will be
pretty full by next November. The i'm
mense surplus in the national Treasury
is fraught with increasing evils and dan
gers There is growing discomfort among
the intelligent working classes with high
taxes on the necessaries of life. The many
are now burdened for the benefit Of the
few. 1t is in the power of the Rspubli-
cans in the present Congress 10 correct i'm
medistely many of the unjust features of
this odious "war tariff" if they will set
resolutely about it. They will nOtralize
the happy effect Of that pronunciamento
in favor Of free whisky. They will pre-
vent a political cyclone that will
gather volume as the season
rolls on. This is question that
deeply concerns both the financial stability
and public morality of the nation. For
party politics in the narrow sense I care
but little; for principles that alone can
make parties effective for the public veal
I care great deal. Thirty years ago
used my tongue and pen zealously for the
Republican party in it's early conflicts
with the monster Of chattel slavery. Its
name and fame are dear to me; and trust
that it may not become itself enslayed to
the reactionary rule Of those who would
build up monopolies at the expense of the
great mass of the people. As this is a
question of absorbing interest, and touches
great moral issues, do not hesitate to dis
cuss il in these columns"