Wichita eagle., 1889-09-21


at any time by the president or by the
| executive committee. Those present at
| such meeting shall constitute a quorum
Art y. Finances and all other matters
| not otherwise delegated shall be in charge
OF the executive committee, who shall APP
point such subcommittee as may be nee
airy.
Art VI. Bylaws shall be made by the
executive committee from time to time as
may be necessary.
Art VII. Amendments to this conSIitu-
lions may be made by majority vote at any
| regular called meeting of the association,
or by a two-thirds vote Of those pres
ent at a regularly called meeting OF the
executive committee.
Second, the officers which were as fol-
flows:
President-Hon. C. F. Coffin, Wichita.
Recording secretary-Rev. S. B. Flem-
ing, Wichita.
Corresponding secretary - Rev. j. A.
Bright, Abilene.
Treasurer-A. W. Lewis, Wichita.
Vice Presidents-Bishop Vail, Episcopal
church, Topeka: Bishop Ninde, II. E.
church, Topeka Rev. L. T, Dornblazer.
Lutheran church, Topeka; Rev. J. f.
Drake, Congregational church, Emporia
Rev. James White d. D., L. p church,
Arkansas City; Hon. Ed. Russell, Presby-
terian church, Lawrence; Prof. p. B. Lee,
United Brethren, Ottawa; Prof Ward,
Baptist, Ottawa; ChancellorH. w. Everest,
Wichita; K. L. Staufer, Abilene.
Executive committee-Rev. Mr.. Bachtel.
German Lutheran; Prof Atwater, Dis
ciDles; Rev. II. c. Marshall, United Pres
byterian; Rev. S. L. Hamilton, Presbyter-
ian; Mr. S. II. Reynolds, Baptist; Rev. S.
T. Milliken, Congregational; ReY. D. r.
Steiner United Brethren.
At $3.50 the addresses were then
taken up and Professor Atwater,
of Garfield University, was call.
ed to speak on the subject of Sunday
newspapers" The speaker then in few
Introductory remarks treated the subject.
He plunged at once to the heat of his
speech, and said that Sunday newspapers
were not necessary to the welfare and
health Of all classes of people. Continuing
the professor said there was a cry to put
down the Monday newspapers, as they
were the ones that were made on Sunday,
and not the paper issued on Sunday. He
then treated the matter in a one-sided
way speaking of the evils which are con
nected with Sunday newspapers. He then
commenced to illustrate his speech and
used the lunatIc asy.ums, etc, to show
that the inmates of these institutions had
simply came there through an IN
usual amount Of work. Return
ing to his theme the professor said
that a paper which was issued each day of
the week was not simply a seven-day pa
per but was paper which ran 365 days in
the year, and then without rest repeated
the operation. He then spoke of the mis-
sion in the world of newspapers and their
employees He said newspaper was an
educator and the men who filled the posi-
tons of writers on newspapers were teach
ers in the stricteSt sense of the word,
Steering away from the title of the ad-
dress the speaker rounded up all other
classes of professions and trades which
were run to certain extent on the Sab
bath, and then told his hearers the harm
which was done to the community by this
class of Sunday workers.
Short speeches were made by Rev. j. W.
Love and others on the above subject
At 4:30 Rev. W. ]. Tull, of this city, ad-
dressed the convention on THE Working
man and the Sabbath" The speech of
Mr.. TulI was short, pithy and full Of illus
trations. Several short speeches were then
made and the convention adjourned until
730 o'clock p. m.
EVENING SESSION.
The devotional exercises began promptly
at 7:30 and at Rev. WILDER +. Crafts, of
New York, field secretary of the American
Sabbath union, addressed the large audi
ence on the american Civil Sabbath"
Mr.. Crafts was introduced in warm and
eulogistic speech by Chairman Fleming.
Following is Rev. Crafts speech;
1.-THE American Sabbath union, which
represent, stands for this American Sab
bath-the golden mean between the Puri-
tan Sabbath on one extreme and the con-
tInental Sunday on the other.
THE AMERICAN SABBATH UNION
is a union of true Americans of all sections
to sentinel the American Sabbath. BY
true Americans | mean Americans in
lean, real Instantaneous. In
this sense the Irish Immigrant
who said he had concluded to take Amer
lea for his native land, could have done SO.
On the other side. some who were born
Americans have apoStalized by adopting
the foreign saloon and its Slamese twin,
the foreign holiday Sunday. Apart from
patriot should reject the continental SUI
day as the holiday of despotism.' So
Hallam, the great philosopher of history
calls it, bidding US note that the depots of
Europe have studiously cultivated love
of Sunday pastimes TO keep the people
quiet under political businesses; that IS,
the holiday Sunday which is offered to Us
by continentals as the very insigme of per-
sonal liberty, is rather its substitute, the
tinsel bauble which shrewd mOnarchs
have given to the adult infants of the con-
tinent in place o5 the ballot of self-govern-
ment. There is no instance Of stable,
long continued popular government where
the people have kept themselves in per-
petual infancy by devotins their only day
of leisure to Sunday dissipation and its
twin, Sunday toll. Who would be sur
prised tomorrow that France of the holl- /
day Sunday. had thrown away
her Republicanism as spoiled
child throws away toy
The only ism a man needs TO make him
defend the American Sabbath is patriot
ism Those who make the most frantic
protest against any change in the Ameri !
can constitution are foremost in efforts TO /;
overthrow this chief American instltu- |
ton. American institutions are the very !
roots of the American constitution and |
the American Sabbath Is the very tap root /
of them all. supplying the people with the /
mental and moral vitality neces- !
sary TO self government.
No paper that seeks TO uproot the Amer /
lean Sabbath has the right TO put the word /
American in its name. The so-called /
American Sentinel Is As surely un-Amerl- /
can as the German Sentinel Of the liquor |
traffic. with which it stood in opposition !
to our sunday laws at the Sunday rest
hearing in Washington, and with which IL |
opposes even the Sunday closing OF /
saloons, except III prohibition towns that /
Close. on all DAYS