The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1895-10-19
THE PURITY CONGRESS,
National Body VIII Meet Mt Baltimore
This Evening.

@ Inis evening. tEt
Baltimore, Md, Oct. 1.-THE most m
fuent.al movement ever organized in
this country for the abolition Of the
social evil will he formally inaugurated
this evening. when the. National Purity
congress. comprising representatives OF
all Social Purity, White Cross, Moral
Education, Women's Temperance union
organizations, all churches and other re.
lig.ous bodies and ph.lanthropic associ-
ations III sympathy with the objects of
the congress, win meet at the Park
Avenue Friends meeting house in this
city. The opening address VIII be deliv-
cred by President Aaron H. Powell of
the American Purity alliance. He will
review the status of the social problem
in the leading cities of Europe and
America, and Will refer to the work to
DE accomplished IN this city. He w:ll
make special reference TO the continued
existence of licensed and state rsgula led
vice In Europe, a system which, With
the increased volume of foreign travel,
is a standing menace to purity in Amer
lea, n IS largely responsible for the
efforts recently made in New York to
secure the passage by the legislature of
a bill to license and legalize vice IN GER
lain districts of the city. In the same
connection similar movements which
have recently been inaugurated before
the legislatures of Massachusetts,, Ms
souri, and California, ana in the cities OF
Louisville, KY, and Houston, Tex, VIII
be cited. Following the opening adj
dress Mrs. Alice c. Robinson, president
of the Baltimore w. c. y. L., will well
come the delegates, and response will
be made by Rev. w. T. Sabine of New
York. Helen Il. Gardener of Boston will
deliver a paper on 'Heredity and Eth
tcs,' and Democracy in Morals viii
De discussed by Rev. Anna Garl.n Spen-
.er of Providence, r. l. The New Eng
and delegates VIII pay special atten-
Ion to the conditions prevailing in Bos-
on, where a "Landladies' Union" has
recently been organized by keepers of
houses of Ill fame of the more fashion,
able sort. The avowed object of this
organization, which has been made a
ornament one, is to secure Il system of
municipal license and medical inspec-
lion for the women of their unholy
Tade. They claim to represent sufif-
:.ent capital to gain their ends, INC if
more funds should be needed, they as
cert that prominent business men have
Volunteered their assistance to any eN-
'ent.
It was in the summer of 1876 thai a
ew earnest reformers organized under
he title of THE New York Committee
or the Prevention of State Regulation
If Vice" with Rev. Abby Hopper-Gib-
oons as president, in response to an
appeal from the international federa-
lion for the abolition of state regula-
lion of vice, a organization of which
Mrs. Josephine r. Butler of England is
The leader. Yeoman service has been
done by this organization in the fight
tgainst state regulation in New York,
and much has been done. also. 10 agi-
ate the question throughout the coun-
Try at large by means of publications,
IF which the Philanthropist is the most
widely known. over 1000, 900 pages of
pamphlet literature We're distributed
during the past year. The increase of
vice in large cities during the past few
years led the promoters of the move
ment to enlarge its scope, and to adopt
the name of the American Purity all
lance, the objects of which are best
stated in the words of the constitution
40 NtSN VI sSiG nlbSol'iGou ouilcllliS,
physical disease, deplorable hereditary
results, degradation of manhood and
womanhood, and the peril to the homo,
society and the state involved in the
prevalent immortality, we do hereby
agree, with a prayerful reliance upon
divine aid, to form ourselves into an
association. The objects of this alliance
are the repression of vice, the proven
ton of its regulation by the state, the
better protection of the young, the res
u of the fallen, the extension of the
white cross among men, and to main
tain the law of purity as equally bind
ing upon men and women" The con
sress will remain in session for three
days. Among the more prominent OF
the speakers are the following: Julia
Ward Howe, Boston; Ida c. Clothier,
Colorado: Rev. Antoinette Brown
Blackwell and Mrs, Dora Webb, Ohio,
Mrs. Charlton Edholm. Chicago; Mrs
Mary Clement Leavitt, Boston; Antony
Comstock, New York; DR.. Mary Wood
Allen, Michigan; d. A. Watt, Canada,
Mrs. Isabella Wing, Chicago; Hon
Elbridge T. Gerry. New York; Mary A.
Ltvermore, and possibly Frances L.
Willard