Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-03

peared most Interested were q Few young
misses of from 13 to 10 years who appa-
rently drank in every word that fell from
the orators lips upon n subject which is
not usually discussed in the presence of
the adolescent of either sex.
Archbishop Ireland made the opening
prayer and the principal address. He said
in parti The highest evidence of civiliza-
tion, and the truest evidence of Christiani-
ty, is social purity of life and the freedom
OF the human being from animallsm. The
religion of Christ is complete triumph of
the spiritual over the animal man. After
dwelling on the purity of Christ's immacu-
late birth and the further fact OF his own
virginity, the archbishop proceeded to Ella
borate on the sanctity of marriage, with a
hard side-slap at the div orce courts.
THE superiority of Chri stianity over any
other civilization" " he biid. Lies in the hon
ored and honorable position of the Chris
tian woman. Under the civilization of
Greece and Rome woman was but chat
tel-the toy of passion. 1t was Christian
ity that lifted her to Il position of equality
with her husband" He next paid his re-
spects to that class of pessimists who de-
clare that because evil always has been evil
always will be. He did not say that
through this congress and the federated So
cieties ali sin would be obliterated, but
held that evil ebbed and flowed according
as barriers We're raised up or let down.
Popular literature with immoral tendeu-
cies, novels with Stygian stencil, week
ly papers teeming with salaciousness, the
atrical posters which to the young are
practical objects in lasciviousness were each
in turn denounced as means used by the
common enemy to worst social purity.
"The STAGE said the archbishop, "that
agency that might be used for such noble,
elevating and instructive purposes, is too
often by INSCRIPTIONS and reckless mana
gers made to pander to the lowest and
basest passions.2
A paper by Mrs. Ballington Booth (who
had been i'll and could not read her paper
HERSELF was read by a handsome Salvation
lassie Adjutant Nickery In the paper
Mrs. Booth recited the efforts of the Saliva
tion Army TO raise the lost women from
vice and despair The slum workers of
the army had heard the heart breaking
stories of women and girls in the dives,
and they know the extent of the evil.
The overcrowded tenement houses are
fruitful causes of impurity.
Papers We're also read Dy Baron de Wat
teville, Frau Fischer Lette, DR.. Elizabeth
Blackwell, Rev. ". L. Sabine, Rev. A. II.
Lewis, Rev. A. B. Blackwell, Rev. B. F.
DeCosta, Mrs. J. Ellen Foster and Elbridge
T. Gerry.
The Eclectic physicians put in
the day discussing materia medica, and
one paper by DR.. kunze, of New York,
discussed the use of insects as medicine,
claiming for them valuable properties.
The Homeopaths witnessed surgical
clinic in which the subjects wers hogs and
the place the stock yards. In other words
they watched the process of making pork
out OF pig at Armour's Later the doctors
went on with their discussions on diseases
and remedies therefor
The Trouble Over Awards.
The foreign commissioners have received
the report of the committee that met John
Boyd Thacher co discuss the awards row.
This committee received assurances from
Thacher that the jury system would be
adopted when demanded. The foreigners
then addressed letter to Director General
Davis saving that they would consent to