Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-18
AG|TAT|ONON
VICE CALLED
HARMF Ill
Right Rev. Robert Gailor Declares
Majority of Crusaders Are Just
Trying to Make Living.

Blame for the materialistic ten
denotes of the times and the respon-
sibility for the epidemic of white
slave" plays and books ana the craze
for public discussion of immoral sub
jects is placed on the shoulders of the
reformers by the Right Rev. Thomas
F. Gailor, Episcopal Bishop of Ten
nessee and chairman of the board or
regents of Sewanee University, who
was in Atlanta Tuesday attending the
semi annual meeting of the board.
1.-The country Is overrun with a
horde of salaried agents and secre-
taries of eleemosynary institutions
and organizations" said Bishop Cal
lor "They feel that they must earn
their money, so they keep up con-
tinual agitation about something, 1t
doesn't seem to matter what 1t is.
These reformers have preached
and are preaching purely materialistic
doctrine; they are intoxicating in the
minds of the people the idea that the
standards of the. physical life should
be raised without paying any atten-
ton to the spiritual life: that pleas
ure now, with no thought of the
hereafter. should occupy their atten-
ton. Their appeals have been pure
ly physical, and their agitation has
been directed toward the solving of
wholly physical problems of life.
Think Only of Money.
Their agitation has been resultful.
The gospel of comfort is more pow
erful in America to-day than the
gospel of Jesus Christ The Ameri-
can people think only of pleasure and
money. Men are weighed, not by
their mental attainments, nor by the
good they have done, but by the
amount of money they have made and
are making. They decide problems,
not by the question of What good can
I do?' but by the question, How much
money can I make out of it,? Their
minds are filled solely with thoughts
of a good time and how to get it.
"The reformers have inflicted upon
the country a senseless and baseless
agitation about white slavery 90
per cent of which is pure sensation
alism. The ceaseless agitation and
shouting about white slavery doesn't
lessen what little traffic in women
there is; it serves merely 20 increase
1t. And it is my opinion that the
white slave traffic is so slight as to
be almost negligible. / have studied
the question of the social evil for
many years: have talked to men
who have made it a lifelong study,
and have interviewed many of the
women themselves, and it is my con-
clusion that very few women enter
such life without knowing fully
what they are doing, and doing 1t be-
cause they want to, and not because
they are forced to.
Dress Agitation Useless.
THE agitation about women's
dress and the modern dances is use
less. They have a right to dress as
they please, and 1t is by belief that a
respectable woman is going to re-
main respectable and conduct herself
In a respectable manner whether on
the street or In the ballroom. And If
woman is not respectable. agitation
won't make her respectable"
Bishop Gailor said that he does not
want it understood that he is OPP
posed to genuine reforms. nor that he
is opposed to reformative measures
generally.
'But We must be cautious" he said.
'We must be sure of our ground be-
fore we raise a clamor. / believe that
genuine reforms will come; some of
them have already come, in spite Of
the shouting and the running about.
The end OF the present wave of phys
ical ideas and materiallsm is bound
to come. Natre will not endure the
elevation of the physical life over the