The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-10-16
NATIONAL PURITY CONGRESS.
Miss Willard Given the Chautauqua Salute
 When she Arose,

Baltimore Oct, l5,-At the session Of | the National Purity Congress to-day Dr. Laura II. Satterthwait of Trenton, N, J., read an effective paper on "The Great Need of the Moral Crusade" The only way to keep the knowledge of i'm morality from children, she said was to sweep the great moral blight from l the land No reasoning could convince her that the religion of the Christian could abide in an impure body. The crusade must be brought to the church | door and purify those within. Miss | Satterthwait said that many a woman l lives two lives as well and as successful as men did. Attention should be turned to the youth that they might | be saved from willy women as well as l from lbertines. There should be no compromise by the women. They shou d 1 stand steadfast and demand purity for l purity.
 Rev. Joseph May of Philadelphia in ! the course of some remarks scored the 1 legislature of Pennsylvania and said | his pleasure would betray a man for his pleasure would bertay a 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, l o. T am not one of those prophets" :" he said, who predict that the world is growing verse. On the contrary I l believe it is growing better. The laws of nature are not playthings. They are | immutable 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 pro- | longs as well as ennobles life The Virtuous man alone is worthy of being the friend of virtuous woman" The feature of the afternoon session was the appearance and address of Miss Frances E. Willard, the leader of the | Woman's Christian Temperance union in America. She was received with ap- l plause and the Chautauqua salute. In | the course of her address Miss Willard 1 stated that she had read account of last
 nights meeting and thought of what | good and pure things the purity alliance
 was spreading out for all to read. | We dare now she said, Ito tell what We are thinking. The bringing out
 of ideas and putting them all in a com
 mon stock that will build up a stalwart cause will win for your society and
 movement universal good will. We did not dare to speak of these things once, l t is just ten years since I first felt | could mildly say some things about it. l The chivalry of one man, William Stead | of England, did most to aid us in this
 work"
 | Miss Willard then gave a brief history l of the work accomplished by the w. c. 1 T. U. and cited the fact mat there are 1 to-day All colleges and universities which admit and only about forty which exclude women. This was pointed out
 as an indication of the broadening oi views so necessary for education ano purification. The bicycfe, Miss Willard said, was one of the greatest allies o1 social purity: she rode one in England In Chicago saloon keepers and theatrica managers were cursing the bicycle be, cause the young folk were riding out into the country and not patronizing their resorts.
 Mrs. w. H. Whitney of the Nationa | Boston, who was unable to attend the congress. Mrs. Gardiner in the paper dwelt upon the impossibility of mora nature being born of an immoral ma ture and of an intellectual person be
 ing created from an idiot.
 After reading Mrs Gardiner's papel
 Mrs. Whitney made an address upor
 "The Relation of the Sexes, which, sht
 said, began with children. They should
 she said, be educated in proper way
 and taught the differences between the
 sexes in school and not be stopped il
 their study of anatomy just at tha
 point which is of such vital importance
 We shoudl have not more of this false
 modesty, but We should work upon thi:
 subject open handed and face to face
 'Legalized Vice" was the subject of
 paper by Rev. Joseph F. Flint of liar
 vey, Ill.
 Theodore Roosevelt, president of tn, New York board of police commission
 CTS, sent a letter which was read by
 President Powell. He was sorry tha
 he would be unable to address the con
 gress. "You are entirely at liberty,
 he said, "to quote that I reaffirm il
 the most hearty manner what I sait
 before. I will not have one law for mel
 and one law for women. They shall b,
 treated exactly alike, so far as I an | concerned"
 Anthony Comstock, secretary of tn, ! New York Society for the Suppressinf of Vice, who was to have read a pape
 on demoralizing literature, also sen l a letter of regret.