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Show j WOMEN TO BLAME. Bishop Spalding Says Improper Home Influences Are Responsible for Poverty Pov-erty and Crime. , I In a sermon before the national conference con-ference of Charities and Corrections at Detroit, a few days ago, Bishop Spalding of Peoria, Ills., preached to 2,000 people and laid two-thirds of the sin and depravity, de-pravity, the crime and indigence, and poverty of America at the door of the women of the country. In the course of his address he said: "If the women of the land were more large-minded, more thoughtful, more intelligent, three-fourths of the depravity deprav-ity and sin that curse present-day life would disappear. The seat of the development de-velopment of the child is in the home. To her man must leave the training of the beys and girls that are to be the fathers and mothers of the future. Shall women be false, ungrateful and traitorous to the trust that man has reposed in her? "It isNmore 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 its source in political corruption that taints our whole public pub-lic life. "In municipalities particularly this influence disheartens the most courageous coura-geous and makes reform seem impossible. impossi-ble. It thrives in the saloon, the brothel broth-el and the gambling hell, and perverts the public conscience. If in the home, the school and the church, where woman's wo-man's love is potent for good, the sentiment sen-timent were implanted that corrupt politicians are more dangerous to the nation, the state and the city than are the convicts of the penitentiaries, what a power for good the woman of the land might be." Later, in his sermon, Bishop Spalding Spald-ing argued , for forcible restriction of marriages among reckless and too youthful persons. j |