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ag those who have devoted years
ling and comforting the more un-
nate sisters who have given way
man weaknesses and have become
= outcasts, were scattered mum.
,er of laymen and clergymen who, too,
ave identified themselves with the
work. The delegates come from every
ection of the country to register a
rotest against the adoption OF laws
'sr.1y of the states which would
s-.-se vice by licensing it. The
cation of these men and women
va crowd of interested spectators
tuesday mornings session, which
IN with the reading of paper by
w. I. Sabine, d. d., of New York,
Social Vice and National Decay"
Cause of Decay In Nations.
held that social vice and national decay
. to each other MS parent and child. 1T
Il repeatedly proved itself so in history, and
had been demonstrated by scientific lnvestl-
alton And q nation Is only an aggregate OF
Individuals. He drew attention to tho
DOM Of Babylon, which veracious historians
escribed as sunk in immortality. After citing
10 decay Of Greece and Rome and other even
Turkey with Its harems, and France
iheFfks vast proportion OF illegitimate
Supery He compared the awful state
Core Sandwich islands. where the native
upulation had decreased by disease
,ropagated by immortality from $4,000
1923 to 10000 In 1890, with that Of our
haste and moral Anglo Saxon ancestors. He
closed by declaring that until the double
standard Of morality which condones in man
what 1t damns in women Is destroyed and .
'sbat toning up In moral ideas and standard
mes to pervado all our communities, there
little hope for social purity
Mrs Julia Ward Howe, who was to
we made an address upon moral
Iuity Between the Sexes" was not
Die to be present, but her paper was
.ad by President Powell. In it Mrs
owe said:
Strength of Nations In the Home.
The relations OF sex are either the crown
society or its ruin; they either build the
ito upon sound and true foundation, or
~ set up fantastic structures upon quick
nd, which speedily become yawntns chasmS
loss and misery.
Families are the wealth OF states. and tho
,al family life is one which We Americans
,'ecially necd to cultivate Let the romance
our youths look forward to married life on a
Z an of mutual dignity and equality. Fhiloso.
" and poetry in our days have sometimes
pcared as apolOgists of IN evil which has
me to us from the barbarouS past, but which
rs no apology In the civilized present.
Tho entertainment of the old unequal hy-
thesis OF morality has often seemed to me
re the building OF nm arch in which
le side, sBh ould be sound in strength,
1tle $50 other should be built OF
txnown material For one side you
and smooth the stone carefully, for tho
her you take such material as comes to
and. How will such an arch stand? But II
!, bestow equal care upon the two sides Of
10 arch, then the keystone. Duty, will fit in
I'd our social fabric will stand so firmly that
hntless generations shall not cause 1t to
we or fall
bImily Blackwell, NJ. D., of the
i,man'ss jIpedical college, New York,
tike upon the responsibilities Of
ife,en in regard to the questions Of
marc morality. Her paper was brief.
Mrs. Charlotte Edholm, superintend-
mt of the press of the Worlds Ay. C.
rob was listened to with rapt atten-
i've IS she delivered an eloquent ad-
"a on Traffic in Girls and Florence
~ ::nden Missions"
ie Opening Session on Monday Night.
BALTIMORE, Md, Oct 15.-The most
influential movement ever organized
in this country for the abolition of the
social evil was formally inaugurated
evening when the national
purity congress, comprising representa-
lives of all Social Purity, White Cross,
Moral Education, Womens Temper
ance union organizations, all churches
and other religious bodies and philan-
thropic associations in sympathy with
the objects of the congress, met at the
Park Avenue Friends westinghouse
in this city. The congress includes
many of the same women who will at
tend the national convention of the w.
L. U. which will begin Friday.
Distinguished Attendants.
Conspicuous among the early arrivals
ut Monday nights meeting were Rev.
Brown blackwell, tho first
in the world to be ordained as
a minister of the gospel; Mrs. Charlton
Edholm of. the Florence Crittenden
home for the rescue of erring
girls; Mrs. Mary Clement Leavitt,
missionary; Dr. Mary
Wood Allen. national purity superin-
tendeut of Michigan; Mrs. Dora Webb,
Of Ohio; Mrs. Isabel Wing Lake, of
Chicago; Miss Frances f. Willard, Mrs.
Mary A. Livermore, Mrs. Ormiston
Chant, Anthony ComstoclS, Elbridge
1. Gerry and Theodore Roosevelt.
practdopf S,>o.,.,
The opening address was delivered
by President Aaron II. Powell, Of the
American Purity alliance. He re-
viewed the status of the social prob
em in the leading cities of Europe and
America and referred to the work to
,e accomplished in this city. lie made
ecial reference to the continued
Sistence OF licensed and state resu-
ated vice in Europe, a system which,
with the increased volume of foreign
travel, is standing menace to purity
IN America and is largely responsible
Tor the efforts recently made in New
DIRK to secure the passage by the legis-
lature OF bill to license and legal
lzc vice in certain districts of the city.
In the same connection similar move.
ments which have recently been in
augurated before the legislatures of
Missouri and Califor.
MIA and in the cities Of Louisville, Ky.,
and Houston, Tex, were cited.
Objects of the Organization.
1.-THE American Purity alliance. in its pres
sQt form, was incorporated under the laws of
NSsr York state "a few months ago for the pur-
pose OF fighting a Lii to regulate vice which
WAS before the Albany legislature. Being
therein, the membership was In
creased. and now includes persons actively
in purity In many states
The specific objects of the alliance are stated
to be tho repression Of vice, the prevention OF
its regulation by tho state the better pro-
lection OF the young. the rescue of the fallen