The Portland daily press., 1895-10-16
PLEADS FOR PURITY.
The Big Social Purity League at
Baltimore.
THE "BICYCLE Is AN AID TO
PURITY"

So Saws Frances Wllard-"The Enemy Of
the Saloon and Theatre"-Prominent
Speakers in the Cause-Roosevelt Sends
a Letter.
Baltimore, Md, October 15-Motherly
looking women were largely in evidence
at the second days session of the National
Purity Congress. Among those who have
devoted years to aiding and comforting
their more unfortunate sisters who have
given way to human weaknesses and
have become social outcasts, we're
scattered number of laymen and clergy
men who have also identified themselves
with the work.
The delegates come from every section
of the country to register a protest
| against the adoption OF laws IN any OF
| the states which wonld legalize vice by
| licensing it. The reputation OF these men
drew crowd of interested spectators to
this mornings session which began Wild
the reading of paper by Rev. ". u;
Sabine, D. D., of New York, on "Social
| Vice and National Decay.
| Mrs. Julia Ward Howe who was to
have made an address today upon Moral
Equality Between the Sexes, was not
able to be present but her paper was read
| by President Powell
Woman's Medical College, New York,
spoke upon responsibilities OF women IN
regard to questions of public morality.
| Her paper was brief.
| Mrs. Charlton Edholm, superintendent
of the press OF the Worlds W. G. z. Y,
delivered an eloquent, address on mIrafnc
Missions. She told of horrors suffered
by thousands of young girls lured into
haunts of infamy. She described her
| Summing experiences in many cities and
delineated the work of resculng the
| fallen.
| Mrs. Edholm asserted that OF the two
! hundred and thirty thousand errlng girls
| in the country over half have been shared
and bought and sold in their lives OF
| shame "Their average is five years, -
she added, Forty-six thousand are carted
out to the potter's field every year, over
a hundred American homes have to be
desolated every day to recuit the ranks OF
| shame Isn't it time that somebody Is
| trying to save the girls from falling into
these dens of iniquity? Twenty million
Christians can rescue 230, 600 erring girls
| or surely the religion of the Lord Jesus
| Christ is failure.
DR.. Laura H. .Satterthwaite of Trenton,
N. j., read an effective paper on The
l
only way to keep knowledge of immor-
ality, from children she said. was to
sweep the great moral blight from the
! land. No reasoning could convince her
| that the religion OF Christian could
abide in an impure body. The crusade
must be brought to the church door and
purify those within. Miss SatterthWalte
said many a woman was living today two
| lives as we'll and as successfully as men.
| Attention should be turned to the youths,
| that they might be saved from willy
women as we'll as from libertines.
| Women should demand purity for purity.
Rev. Joseph May of Philadelphia IN
the course Of some remarks scored the
legislature of Philadelphia He said,
she who would betray woman for his
pleasure. would betray man for his
interest If women must be licensed,
let men also be licensed.
| "Young men and Morality" was the
theme of J. w. Walton of Cleveland,
| Ohio "I am not one of those prophets,
he said, .swho predict the world is grow
ing worse l believe it is growing better.
The laws of nature are not playth1ngs,
they are imm utable realities You may
break them if you will, but the result
can never be wiped away. Self respect
once lost, can never be regained: Virtue
prolongs as we'll as ennobles life: The
virtuous man alone is worthy OF being
the friend of the yirtuous women.
The feature Of the afternoon session
was the appearance and address of Miss
Francis T. willard, leader of the
Women's Christian Temperance Union in
America. She gave brief history OF
work accomplished by the W. G. L. u,
and cited the fact that there are today All
colleges and universities which admit,
and only about forty which exclude
| women,
The bicycle, Miss Willard said, was one
Of the greatest allies of social purity. In
| Chicago the saloon keepers and theatrlcal
cause the young folks were riding into
the country and oot patronizing their re-
| sorts.
Mrs. VIM. H. Whitney of the National
Scientific Family Culture Institute OF
| Boston, read a paper on heredlty ana
ethics, by Helen Fl. Gardener OF Boston,
| who was unable to attend the congress.
Mrs Gardener, in her paper dweit upon
the impossibility of moral nature be-
| ing born of immoral nature and OF an in
tellectual person being created from an
idiot After reading Mrs. Gardeners
paper Mrs Whitney made an address
upon saThe Relations of the Sexes. -
! Children should. she said, be educated in
q proper way, and taught the differences
| between the sexes in school, and not be
stopped in their study CT anatomy. just
at the point which is of such vital
| Importance. We should have no more
false modesty, but should work upon this
subject open handed and face to face.
"Legaiized Vice. was the subject of
paper of Rev. Joseph T. Flint Of Harvey,
Illinois.
Mrs. Dora Webb, superintendent of the
Ohio Social Purity department. Of the W.
g. L. u, read a paper on Organized
Prostitution and How to Deal With It "
In the absence Of Samuel G. Blacwk ell
of New York. his wife, Rev. Antoine r.
Brown Blackwell, read his paper on
''The Municipality and Vice"
| Anna Rice Powell, corresponding
secretary, read a historical paper on the
Alliance and it's work.
Theodore Roosevelt, president of the
New York Board of Police Commissioners
sent letter, which was read by Presi-
dent Powell He was sorry he would be
unable to address the Congress. He said !:
81 will not have one law for men and
one law for women, they shall be treated
exactly alike, as far as 1 am concerned.
Anthony Comstock. secretary of the
New York society for the Suppression of
Vice, who was to have read a paper on
'Demoralizing Literature" also sent q
| letter of regret