The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-11-21
The Christian Temperanee Union.


Concerning the workings of this
order, aud it's manifest tendency to in
terfere in politics, the Globe-Democrat
of yesterday says:
1t is greatly To be regretted that the
Women'S Christian Temperance Union
is trittering away its strength and
compromising its reputation by run
ming after false gods. The record
which 1t has made in the sensible and
conscientious promot on OF temperance
reform is TOO precious to be wantonIy
dlScredited by acts of manifest folly
and insincerIty. But the indications
are that 1t has entered upon policy of
reckleSsnesSwhich must soon put an end
to its usefuInes, if not to its existence
1t has deliberately repudiated its ORR
ginal theory and purpose, and assumed
the character of a political machine,
and sworn enemy of the republican
party. That is TO say, it is no more
willing to work for temperance on
Christian lines and according-to meth
DDS commanding the respect and SYM
pathy of all good people, but proposes
now to divert its energy to kind of a
work in which appeals to passion and
prejudice will take the place of wiser
and cleaner service. The proceedings
of its recent convention at Chicago
were signaliZed by tt Q gravest offenses
against reason, justice and moral pro-
priety: and the conclusion can not be
avoided that is is bent upon making it.
self tail TO the third party kite at
any sacrifice of dignity and consis-
tency.
The country had looked for better
things from this organization to which
it has given SO much admiration, en-
enlargement and practical assistance.
fINhnT.sa 90 hot hnr.
was one agency of reform, at least.
which could not be swerved from it's
appointed course as IA strictly moral
affair; but it seems that such conf
dence was misplaced. The poison of
fanatiClsm has permeated the concern
to such an extent that it is no longer
equal even to the task of preserving a
reasonable appearance of that excel
lence which has heretofore won public
praise and favor. That arrant hypo-
critic and notorious fraud, John Il. st.
John, has been accepted as its highest
ideal of moral worth, while it malign-
antly denOunceS such man as Levi
p. Morton. Surely the madness of
decentralization could go no further
than that. A society that can scorn
and insult the honored vice president
IF the United States in one breath.
and in the next grant homage to an in
uINIuidl WHOS0 utIlO Is naClOndI
stencil. has reached point where its
enemies and not its friends have most
cause TO give it cOuntenance and take
stock iii its future. Those members
who withdrew from the body which
thus violated the obligations of COM
mon honesty and prUpriety in the in
terest of a scheme of political guerriI-
laiSm did the correct and cummendable
thing. They went out under "A storm
of Kisses, to be sure; but tn It was bet
ter than staying where Christian cour-
tesies and graces were superseded by
the temper and tactics of a democratic
primary. The sober judgment of an
Intelligent public Will be on their side.
They were informed in effect that the
union had ceased to be nOn-partlsan,
I'D had discarded the principles of its
previous history; and there was moth
ing left for them TO do but to take their
departure. 1t remains to be seen how
rapidly the process of disintegration
will shorten the days of an institution
which has plainly forfeited the virtue
that was alike its claim to honor and
its basis of strength and success.