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Pacific Press Publishing Company · New York · October 23, 1890

FromThe American Sentinel, Vol. 5, No. 42

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NON-PARTISAN TEMPERANCE WORK.

Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, President of the Non-Partisan Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, of Iowa, spoke in Central Music Hall, Sunday, October 5, on the history of the temperance movement in this country, the principles on which it is now based, and the relation of the organization which she represents to that reform. She gave this, among other reasons, why the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union could not be partisan, that the organization was born of the Church, nourished by the Church, and could not consistently unite, as a body, with any political party any more than could the Church.
In the course of her address, she had occasion to refer to majorities, in the following words, which show that she does not accept the prevalent idea of the infallibility of majorities: “Majorities when right are magnificent, but when wrong are dreadful.”
Her address was characterized by a spirit of Christian fairness and honest conviction born of truth.