Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-02
CRIME IS DUE 70 WOMEN
Bishop Spalding Makes Sensa.
tional Statement at the
Charities Conference.
Declares Three-fourths OF the
Worlds Sins Are Due to
Women.
Says Greater Part OF the Deprav-
ity and Poverty Is Due to
Females.

Detroit, Mich, June I'm a sermon
before 1000 visitors at the Nationa
Conference of Charities and Correc-
tons yesterday afternoon, the Rt.-
John Lancaster Spalding, Roman Cath
Ole bishop of Peoria, Ill, laid the re-
sponsibility for three fourths OF the
sin and depravity, the crime, and IN
digence, and poverty of America at the
door of the women of the country.
More than half the audience at the
Light Guard Armory We're of the fail
sex, and they joined the men in ap-
plauding Bishop Spalding to the
echo.
Later, in his sermon, Bishop Spald-
ing argued for forcible restriction OF
marriages among reckless and too
youthful persons, and declared that,
if man shall learn to do for his fellow
men what science and humanity have
/ taught him to do for the lower ami
mails, the world will be much better
than it is today.
The women in our homes decide
how we shall build and furnish our
houses" said Bishop Spalding. They
determine what we shall eat, and wear
and read; they select our friends, and
even decide the important questions
OF religion. They put words of the
native tongue into the mouths of the
children, and influence them power
fully in their growth to manhood and
womanhood.
IF the women of the land were
more large minded, more thoughtful
more intelligent, three-fourths of the
depravity and sin that curse present
day life would disappear. The seat
of the development of the child is
in the home. To her man must leave
the training of the boys and girls that
are to be the fathers and mothers of
the future. Shall woman be false, I'M
grateful, and traitorous to the trust
that man has reposed in her?
1T is more than pity that we need to
have for the poor and unfortunate. We
need to give them justice, which is the
first and greatest charity. Evil in this
day has it's source in political corrup-
ton that taints our whole public life.
In municipalities particularly this
influence disheartens the most cour-
ageous and makes reform seem impos-
sible. 1t thrives in the saloon, the
brothel and the gambling hell. and per-
Verts the public conscience. If in the
home, the school, and the church, where
worlan's love is potent for good, the
sentiment We're planted that corrupt
politicians are more dangerous to the
nation, the state and the city than are
q of ha ,;n
a power for good the women Of the
land might be.
Our city prisons and station houses
and our county jails and county poor
houses are veritable nurseries for the
development of crime. The poor fill the
prisons largely because they are unable
to pay fines and escape the prison bars.
ut is the part of wisdom to refuse to
yield unreselvedly to our American
spirit of optimism. We call the ages
long ago the dark ages. May not the
men and women of the future look back
upon our history and call us also the
people Of darker age than theirs? We
are under the tyrannous sway of COM
emcrialism and expansion. Those who
prefer money to truth and learning are
degenerates."
1T is easier to be generous than to be
just" said Bishop Spalding, taking UP
the subject of organized charity. THE
poor love the poor because they give
their time and sympathy and encour-
agement to each other. They do not
love the rich, who give them only mon
ey.
MANS chief value does not lie in his
ability to conquer with the sword nor
to get money. We must give to the poor
our sympathy more than our money.
Personal influence, not almsgiving, is
the power that shall save them from
themselves"
According to a report issued by the
London board of trade not single pas
senger was killed on English railroads
curing 1901, and the total number Of
other fatalities was only eleven, an I'M
precedented record.
w. B. Dixon has been appointed
passenger agent for the
Milwaukee road. with headquarters at
St Paul. The Office of assistant gen
eral passenger agent vacated by Mr..
Conley some time ago has been abol-
ished and the new one created instead.