New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-27
DR. HULDAH GUMS ADDRESS
SOCIETY FOR POLITICAL STUDY DIS
CUsSES TOM PAINE.
.-,,r ,ce or REAsoS' WOULD HAVE ESCAPED
PULPIT v1TUPERATION HAD IT APPEARED
A HUNDRED YEARS LATER


pr-r.pIr vrTuPERATIoN HAD IT APPEARED
A HUNDRED YEARS LATER
r,a Society for Political Study held its regular
.seklv meeting yesterday afternoon az NO ~ west
,,,.v-l,gbth-st Some business was transacted be-
,ors tse reading OF the paper and among other
,binrs motion was made and carried to the effect
,,s, any member who should refuse 20 take the
o,a,r IN the call Of the president when the society
went into Committee Of the Whole. should be hned
., cents the same 20 be collected Immediately oy
the treasurer
Thomas Paine the subjec, under considera-
ton. and the paper was furnished by Dr. Huldah
Gunn. Il was most interesting one. and contaihe1
large amount Of information that is unfamiliar
,o- the most part even educated persons DR..
Gum called special attention TO Palnes advanced
views regarding women, and in closing she sal1:
why should bigotry and prejudice combine to ron
our school children Of the right 10 know sometnins
abou, this great and glorious man.
The discussion following the pape' was paIuci-
mated in BY Mrs Lille Devereux Blake. the Rev
Phebe Haraford. the Rev. Antoinette Brown
blackwell Mrs Bates Miss America Phillips and
Mrs T. ST John Gaffney
Dr Gum said she hoped the discussion would no;
turn on Paine's religion. II was his statesman
ship with which they We're concerned. but Mrs.
Blake said IT. was impossible 70 account for Paine
career without taking his religion into account
There Is no doubt" said Mrs Blake. that II
was nothing but his theological views that pre-
vented the recognition of his services TO his couh-
Try II he had only held his tongue. Ike Jefferson
and Franklin ne would now be regarded as one
Of the greatest spirits of the Revolution. He SUI
fered for being ahead OF his time and we ought 10
svnpathize with him. FOR @e are niue III tHc
same boat We not prosecuted, IL IS ute, out
some Of our friends look upon US with plying
regret even for coming this little CLUB
Mrs Uanaford expressed as her opinion that hdu
s"The Age of Reason been written hundred years
later IL would not have been the cause OF so mucn
"nulpit 1ituperation." Mrs. Hanaford admitted
that until she was at least forty she shared me
popular opinion with regard 10 Paine. Ihen she
read some OF his works. and was amazed 10 nhu
them so different from what she had expected.
Mrs Bates said she had often heard people quot
ing from Common Sense" without the ledst lueE
that they were doing but laboring under me DC
huston that the expressions OF which they Were
availing themselves were 10 be found somewhere
in the Scriptures. a. - p,oroo
BEFORE the meeting adjourned Mrs. Fay Pierce
arose and said she would like to make an announce
ment for the benefit of any of the memi,ers WHO
were interested In Mr.. Low. Mrs Hanaford SAID
the Council had decided that nothing regafdlhE
The campaign could be brought up in the club ana
Mrs Blake added that if Seth Low were Drousht
in Henry George. General Tracy; PADDY , 1leason
and others would have 10 be admitted. iioWeNNcI.
Mrs Pierce distributed Municipal League clIGuiai1
10 the members they went out ana nearly an
took them