The evening times., 1895-10-15
ALL FOR SOCIAL PURITY
Eminent Women, Yeung and Ven
erabIe, Give Brave Counsel.
PLAIN TALK FROM THEM
One Great Figure Is the Aged and Fa-
Editres- Delivers II Stirring Ad-
dress in Frank Language Upon IA
subject Usually Slurred Over.

Baltimore, Oct. 15.-Motherly-looki Ok ing
women. with grey hairs and earnest faces
were hugely in evidence at the second
days session oI the EatIUBGi purity con-
gress.
Among those who have devoted years to
aiding and comforting their more un-
fortunate sisters who have given way
to human weaknesses and have become
social outcasts, We're scattered a number
of la yrnen and clergymen, who. too, have
identified themselves with the WORK
The delegates come from every section
OF the country to register a protest against
the adoption OF laws III any of the States
which would leralize vice by licensing it
The reputation of these men and women
drew crowd OF Interested spectators
to this mornings session, which began
with the reading of paper by Rev. W. 7.
Sabine, u. D.. of New York. on Social
Vice and National Decay"
VENERABLE MRS. HOWE.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. who was to
have made an address today on Moral
Equity Between the Sexes" was not abic
to be present, but her paper was read by
President Powell
Emily Blackwell. NJ. D.. of the woman's
Medical College. New York. spoke upon
the RESPONSIBILITIES of women in regard
to questions of public morality. Her paper
was brief.
Mrs. Charlton Edholm. superintendent
OF press OF the Worlds W. c. T. L.. was
listened to with rapt attention as she
delivered an eloquent address on Traffic
in Girls and Florence Crittenton Mis-
SiOnS."
She told OF the 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 rescuing fallen women.
Mrs. Edholm asserted that OF the Two
hundred and thirty thousand erring girls
in the country. over half have been shared
and bought and sold into their lives OF
shame.
Their average life is five years. she
added. "Forty-six thousand are carted
out to Potters field every wear. Over a
hundred American homes have been des-
Olated every day to recruit the ranks of
shame.
save these girls from falling into these
dens of iuiauity? Twenty million Chris
tians can rescue 23O 600 erring girls
or surely the religion of our Lord Jesus
Christ is failure.
PLAIN TALK.
Men go out into the country districts
and bring these girls into our cities, a
mock marriage is often performed, and the
girl is taken into these haunts of shame. be-
lieving she is going to Il clearinghouse.
One man. who was recently converted. told
ME he had gone through the marriage cere-
niony twenty times. and every time sold
the girl into house of prostitution.
1.-The cursed wine rooms are sending
more girls to hell than anything else. Just
as long as we have the traffic in drink we
will have the traffic in girls. Don't you
thins il is time we were leaving our fancy
work. and the making of pies and cakes
and try To save our boys and girls?
at CONES home to you, fathers, too 1t
will he no excuse, when you are asked
what You did to keep your boy out of the
free trade and that in talking for that you
did not hav time to protect your offspring"