The morning times., 1896-03-30

| the next address. He began nv Etatipg
| the principle on which he had entered
INTO The fight for the eradication of the
piague spot from the city, He said that
last summer he had spoken 10 an editor
OF Que OF tie papers, who had made the
argument that vice that had existed
ior 1000 years as profession could
not now be legiSlated out of existence.
he replied then, as he replied now that
man and woman were made in the image
or God and that the defiIement of their
bodies, the temples or the Holy Ghost.
derilement.
Mr.. Brueu developed this thought at some
length, and thcnmade the sta tenent that = o.
cordlnG 10 statistics, which he read Wash
lugton was the most degraded CITY in the
Union. He showed that in Washington there
were thirty houses OF prostitution adyer-
tlSed, In baltimore twenty, in Cleveland
eleven, In Minneapolis five, in Philadelphia
nVe, IN Buffalo four, and in Boston two
The ratio was in Washington l 10 $500
Inhabitants, Baltimore / to 81 600. Cleye-
land 10 %, 600, Philadelphia 10 2Ug 900
lie also showed that in Cleveland when a
woman was convicted, as in Washington
recently, she was sent To jan for six
months and that each ~ the inmates was
committed for thirty days
ROASTED THE TRIoCRACY.
Mr.. Brueu then made lot OF fun OF the
Commissioners in very serious way for
those gentlemen. He elaborated their zeal
Tor capturing barber poles, caTria ge stones,
water boxes, and the police had even Rev
Dr. Hugh Johnston up in court for allowing
a little snow TO conCreGate about his door.
Mr.. Bruen made Il fine contrast of this .'of-
f!clal activity and intelicclualhy'' with
their Supineness when il came TO the Di-
vision
He also hit them for their position On
the necessity or the Division, and then
having il under police control. The re
mainder of his remarks went 10 show the
possibilities of coTupting influences on
the coming Christian Endeavor ConyeDtioG.
and where the responsibility for this and
all other possible results would lie He
also emphasized the statement that no
harsh treatment was 10 be anticipated of
the women who would abandon their
present way OF life, because there were
ample means OF taking care OF them should
they indicate q desire to reform.
The closing address was made by Evan
geliSt Rodney Smith. II was a pity, he
said, that in this case il was not possible
10 get the rulers of the city to pledge
themselves to righteousness and all rulers.
That, in the first instance. would be a
solution of the whole problem. great
deal, he said, had been told about the four
or five hundred ''fallcn women" but what
about the fallen men, Why were women
50 cruel in their attitude to their fallen
sisters, when ca ch one of them was the
result Of the infamy OF some man, and
perhaps a man who was received and
cherished in their society?
CRIME OF THE MAN.
He hoped that The day would come when
the brand should be put on the man Just
as il was on the women. and that we should
hear or FALLEN men, Just as We hear of
fallen women. ThisstateneDt was much ap-
plauded, and especially by the ladies. 1t
was fact, he said. that women were harder
on the SOiled doves than Were the men. but
they should remember that IL there were no
fallen men there would be no fallen women.
In the GipSy nation he had never heard OF
fallen woman. and this WAS because men
had been taught to honor and respect their
applause.
He did not believe in mock modeSty. he
believed that Young men and women should
be appriSed of the evils flowing from these
vices He believed that a true sentiment
of respect and honor for women should
be taught tot he youth OF theland and, when
they had learned that lesson well, there
would no longer be these in nfamous unhappy
women. TO represent The ''wreckagc OF the
train of the nineteenth century,
a fter these remarks "a collection was
Ia kenup. a nd the hecongreEatouwasd dismissed
with the benediction blythe Rev. Dr.. Easton.