New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-12-02
ANTT-VICE MEETING.
JOHN H. ELLIOTT AND HENRY A. STIMSoN
AMONG THE SPEAKERS.


AMONG THE SPEAKERS.
The trouble with New-York City is that. from the
ministers down, we're a set OF arrant cowaros-
We know what is right but are afraid to say
it So said the Rev. John H Elliott pastor OK
the Thirtyfourth Street Collegiate Church. yester-
terday afternoon 10 a mixed audience IN the
Friends Seminary in East Sxteenth-st, at the Cali
OF the Woman's Anti-Yiee Committee to discuss the
bill making infdelity to the marital state a mis-
demeanOr in this State. Mrs. Anna Jackson the
first vice. president presided
The bill framed by en-Judge William II Ar
noux, and carries with It penalty for Viola'ioh
fine of from 5000 to 5000 and imprisonment Oh
from one to five years. The bill will be introduced
into the State legislature by Senator Ellsworth
Continuing DR.. Elliott said: Women can do
much by agitation in this matter, as they are DONG
in the crowded streetcar nuisance. That's the most
Infamous thing in the world! My soul turns within
me when I think Of it, and L hardly ride In
the surface cars that I don't cry out for shame
against the indgnities TO which girls are suoJecleu
There is tremendous tendency in America 10
cultivate easygoing moral sense Inc news
papers are doing lot of harm with their Jests
about marital infelicity and infdeity. Young PEG.
pie read them. and think they give a true view %
life"
TT took the stoning to death of tens Oh uou
sands of women before marital infdelity could be
viewed as a SIM" said the Rev. Henry A. Sumson.
pastor of the Manhattan Congregational CiuAci
Personal purity like most of the so-called primal
virtues, is in reality the result OF lons SuA'i'N0
and education IT has been said that purity IS
speciaI gift of God to AngloSaxon race, but no
epoch or race has been without corruptloh- nigh
society is exempt than low aio the NUS
fragrant cases could be found in the courts OF Eu-
rome PeopIe can't be made moral by law YET id"
can protect and defend morality Not man is said
to have lost his life through the building OF tne
subway in Boston, but think how many have al
readv been killed in connection with the subway
here! In England in a year not a life was lost on
hut ntJ1ee0
ora hurt in this city by the surface every DAY
T., rho vaarr What makes the difference? Law In
Boston and England the penalty has been sufnclehl
TO make life sacred. In New-York life Is cheap
4sWhiIe in a sense people can't be made moral py
law when YOU make a law with enough sentiment
behind Il 70 compel its execution, people 90 coii
form to it asserted Ex-Governor CanpDeI Oh
Ohio. ain Ohio for seventy-one years there mas
been law Furnishing immortality IN ana out u
natrirnony have practised law there 1oF ihii "
five years and lived there all my life. out never
personally kneW of a prosecution under that raw
greater than any Albany senator oIiad on
law against immortality. and had II engragIsu u,
stone so the people should not forset II II
cart prevent crime it make things mighty ui
pleasant the criminal. 1t is sald suCL 80, 70
would encourage Dlackmail. But you can o.sch
don+ mass themselves execute themselves.
There's only way to get law psssteIu ioois
Iators at Albany at ALL It's the leisure ciaSs ne
smart set as il calls ftseIf-and the lower pest.a'
element of the tenement houses that SIN !" liii o
Nrs Is B Cirannis, president of the Sa Sii
| Christian League for the Promotion OF SoG "a
purity said she had worked night ana Gay ,,, hG -
| 6uestion. The anti-vice committee plans 10 holo
| ether meetings on the Dill