New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-01-24
ANNA DICKINSON IN WASHINGTON
"FOR YOUR OWN SAKE"

"FOR YOUR OWN SAKE"
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1G.-Miss Anna Dickinson
delivered this CITY, few evenings since her new lee
ture For Your Own Sake" greatly changed and I'M
proved since first delivery IN NewIork last Autumn
Although the evening stormy one, and the streets
as muddy Washington streets can be IN heavy RAM
the audience gathered large and fashionable one
showed Itself Ia warm sympathy WIN 'ho Io'
turer and her theme
Miss Dickinson was elegantly attred every one ASKS
what a woman any public occasloD) III a Paris
costume OF brown silk and velvet, with diamond ana
ruby ornaments and with wide, soft point applique lace
gathered at wrists and throat
The lecture itself is a plea for the best and highest
the noblest aud most generous life to be lived by ind
yiduals and by people for our own sake. Miss
Dickinson begins by referring the discussion on the
yIrginus ease and Cuban affairs which has been
agitatng the nation, and of which she has heard much
in her ourneyings across the country from appoint
men to another What had struck r most forebly aud
painfully this discussion was the eagerness eAnDted
by almost every class among us to make inns dis
turbance pretext for annexing Cuba-fOr adding and
adding unjusty, territorial possessions, regard
less the fact that both the injustice OF snc seizure
and the fatal weakness, ignorance, and brutality oil 50
large an additional population, warned US sighn-
canty for sake as nation, to let the lslahd
alone The lecturer found it almost incOmprehensiDe
that we who had lately passed through the horrors
and Of whose rect hau so aieS pauSeu
by the myriad graves OF our dead in inevitable and
sorrowfuI civil conflict. should blinded 10y the Bengal
light which men call glory speak OF war, especially
war OF unjust conquest, excellent OF III any way de
sirabe.
Miss Dickinson went on to speak OF the thirst for
wealth which seems to possess the average American
and IN which 20 many men sacrifice all that makes life
worth living starving brain and heart, losing inc JOY OF
home scarcely acquainted with his own children,
ssiI the glory and the beauty of spiritual life OF
tgptnq afr
entity carried out She dcplcred TINS love OF gam as
at,1n aharactcristc showing that il was at the
OF our enormous municipal aud railroad and govern,
ment cOTruptions Referring 70 the shameless ana
shonld be the heritage wealth OF future generations
she When strong men steal from strong men Ii
crime but when strong men steal from children II Is
an infany Wien we stand idly by and millions put
in the hands Of "a few men, the whole country Is
peope need 10 above the selfish pursuit OF wealth
aud position the fuhlment OF their social ana pOit
obligations, and to comprehend that the only sod
foundation for "A nations prosperity Is the essential
truth OF Christianity the brotherhood OF all United 10
ing 1t is not for US TO say, looking down upon
the ignorance, the suffering me pGyery' 3ne VICE tne
with which have naught TO do Least
tons rest upon the ballot, and whose legislation
must depend upon the l9elilgrnee anu ,nq Gc
and Germany had taught us three years ago. tod OF tne
degradation and ignorance which she had lately wit
eitsens gave statistics showing that it costs hut s.
year to keep hoy in reform school, while ittakes $3.50
PenIeuary she proved that If the universal brother
hood were not acknowledged by us in all needfu sym
final ruin ana misery which our neglect OF the vicious
and perishing masses would bring upon as ana she H.
Illustrated this by most Startling ana SURFING example
drawn from the records OF real life.
After a close personal application Of her theme an
earnest urging upon and TO live the noblest
life for their own sakes the heart and mind and
spirit Miss Dickinson closed with description OF her
ascent OF Pixies Peak and Of the wonderful sunrise
which re awarded tho tolls of the journey. shall not
spoil her pcroration by attempting TO quote II from
memory recall alone the closing sentence IN which
she reminds us that hun alone who climbs the noun
tam top the glory OF God is revealed" VERIrAs.