Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-04
A MORAL BR0ADSIDE.
Many Organizations Unite in Urging
Sunday Closing Upon =
THE WORLDS FAIR COMMISSION.
Arguments, Moral, Religious, Economical
and Humanitarian.
LADY MANAGERS IN JOINT SESSION

CHICAGO, Sept. Especial committees
of the Worlds Fair Directory have ap-
proved the Director Generals nomination
of L. W. Robinson for Chief of the De-
partment of Machinery; j. M. Samuel, of
the Department of Horticulture, and II. S.
Peabody, of the Department of Arts. The
action of the Committee on Agriculture in
indorsing Mr.. Samuel was a general sur
prise. 1t had been given out unoficially
that Mr.. Samuel would never receive fav-
orable consideration.
The National Columbian Commission re-
assembled at 10 o'clock this morning. A
resolution was passed inviting the Board of
Lady Managers to be present and sit with
the National Commission during the pre-
sentation of the memorial of American Sab
bath Union for the closing of the Exposi-
tion on Sundays.
Commissioner White, of New Mexico,
offered resolution declaring that no men,
Der of Commission should accept any pay
for his services in any official capacity,
either in connection with the Commission
or the Illinois corporation conducting the
fair, except as provided in the act of Con-
gress creating the Commission. On motion
of Commissioner <De Young the resolution
was laid on the table and a motion to re.
consider this action was laid on the table.
THE SABBATARIANs ENTER.
The members of the Sabbath Union ar
rived shortly before 11:30, and were shortly
afterward followed by the Board of Lady
Managers. Col Elliott F. Shepard, as
President of the organization, presented the
memorial of the Union praying for the
close of thief air on Sunday He, also, as
President of the sabbath Observance Com
mittee of the General Assembly of the Pres
byterian Church, presented a petition of
that body to the same end. He likewise
read a telegram from Archbishop Ireland of
St. Paul, giving his acquiescence in the
moveheht and the resolution in favor of
closing lhe fair on the sabbath day passed
by the Farmers Alliance convention at
Ocala.
Colonel Shepard then introduced Rev.
Sylvester Scoville, President of Wooster
historic review Of Sabbath legislation and
Sabbath observance and their effects on the
nation socially and commercially. The
Sabbath was, he said, peculiarly inwrought
in the structure of the American nation. 1t
was settled by Sabbath observers, and the
Sabbath had always been relgiously OBJ
served by their descendants.
GENERAL HoWARD'S ARGUMENT.
General o. o. Howard was next introduced
and presented the question from the patri-
otto point of view, quoting from Washing
ton lincoln, Grant, Mcclellan and President
Harrison to show how the great soldiers and
statesman of the nation respected the Sab
bath in their official capacity. Rev. I. A
Fernley, of Philadelphia, then laid before
n netltlOn
the Fair on Sunday, containing nearly 5OO-
900 names. He spoke of the closing of Phila-
delphia Exposition of 1876 as being salts
factory in its results to the management
Alexander s. Maitland, of Brooklyn, urged
that Sunday laws were not founded on
religion, but on the rights of man; that no
nation could remain permanently free with
out a day of rest.
Hon. Thomas S. Coffin, of Iowa, represent
ing the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen,
presented the subject on behalf of that Or
ganization and of wage workers in general.
Z. F. Cragin, of Chicago, spoke of the sub
ject in relation to the other expositions.
Rev. Francis L. Patton, President OF
Princeton University, then presented. the
question from the Biblical point of view He
said he had no doubt of the commercial sue
cess of the Exposition, but the most I'M
portant point in success was the moral one.
THE MORAL SIDE OF IT.
The ten commandments were the high
water mark of morality, and, If the nation
and the fair should yield obedience to the
fourth commandment. they would be in a
fair way to obey the other nine. The es-
sence of civilization, according to Matthew
Arnold, was righteousness. Therefore, if
this Exposition would make for civilization,
it'must make for righteousness.
Rev. DR.. ID. S. Henson, of Chicago, spoke of
the most profitable way to spend Sunday.
Mrs. r. L. Carse presented petition from
10000 members of the Womans Christian
Temperance Union, and after a few words
OF thanks from Colonel Shepard, the Com
mission took a recess.
Before going before the National Commits
sion to-day, the delegates from the Ameri- |
can Sabbath Union met in the Auditorium.
A request for a hearing by the Board of
Lady Managers was framed, but this was
rendered unnecessary by the subsequent
joint session of the two bodies to hear the
Unions memorial.
The Board of Lady Managers met this
morning. An invitation to join the National
Commission in listening to the Sunday clos
ing memorial of the Sabbath Union WAS ac-
cepted, as was also an invitation to be pho
tographed in a group. Miss Lucy Stone was
presented and delivered an address urging
the Board to use its influence in behalf of
Woman suffrage.