The Express.
London, England, 1865-08-11 00:00:00

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LONDON. FRIDAY, AUGUST 11.

Wa haws been once more reminded in the
course of the recent distuasions respecting Lafaa-
ticide of the unhappy ooemequentes which some-
times arise when the public obeys the first impulse
of generosity without inquiring about the probable
effect of its conduct. This ham been so abundantly
shown in the working of Foundling Hospitals on
plans for enabling mothers easily to dispose of the
burden of their children, that we may hope pro-
posals for multiplying institutions of that charsoter
will be allowed to rest for a time. But the
same difficult problem—How to cure one
evil without causing another still greater—is
of constant recurrence. An attempt to as-
sist some struggling neighbour makes him a
helpless dependent for life ; an act of generous
intervention at a time of distress is the first step in
a proems which is to end in pauperising a district.
The moral of this truth is not that we are to shut
up our hearts and our purses ; that we shall never
do ; but that we are bound to use our judgment
when we indulge our feelings, so as not to permit
our very charity to become a means and source of

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There is one form of appeal to benevolence i
now bsooming common which is so wanting in the
necessary safeguards that we feel constrained to I
take the judgment of the public upon it. This is the
case. A clergyman dates an advertisement from
a pariah known to have a large population of the
very poor. Re touches with no light hand upon
the nakedness, wretchedness, and want he is com-
pelled to leave unrelieved, and then, in the name
of the most sacred principle be an invoke, be ap-
peals to the wealthy and benevolent to entrust him
with funds for the alleviation of moms of the most
painful came of distress be sees. Or another
way is to impute gross immorality to a large
district, and to accuse the custom of charging a few
shillings for a marriage fee with being its canoe.
In this case the religious public are entreated to
send the advertiser so many thousand pence that
be may abolish marriage fees for ever in the dis-
trict over which he rules. We are in a position to
state that such appeals as these are attended with
a remarkable degree of success. Cheques, notes,
and postage stamps flow in with a rapidity and
profusion astonishing to those who are unacquainted
with the charitable alacrity of the country, and
the result is that some reverend advertisers have

large gams at their command, in trust it is true,
but over the disposal of which the donors neither
have nor wish to have any control. It is by no means
necessary to suggest corrupt motives to discern the
evils certain to accrue from this condition of things.
For it must be remembered that the advertisements
we read form but a section of the great collecting
business. Its chief and moat onerous work con-
sista of visiting bonze after house in distant
parishes, and in extracting subscriptions from
their occupants. The good people who give have
not a notion that they ►re doing wrong, the first
kind impales, is acted upon, and the reply to re-
monstrances would probably be to the effect that
the fact of the applicant being a clergyman is
a sufficient guarantee for his conscientiousness, and
that if his harrowing statements were incorrect
or overstrained the public opinion of his pariah
would accuse him of unworthiness.
Personal inquiry in the districts on behalf of
which these collections are made sometimes shows
that the advertiser's reputation is not of the
highest : that the respectable clergy of the
neighbourhood—every whit as zealous as he is in
looking after the interests of the poor—are scanda-
lized ; and that the Bishop disapproves, but feels
helpless. Under these circumstances unpleasant
stories concerning the application of the money are
sure to circulate. The evil basin the possibilityrather
than the probability of their being true. It is the fact
of cash being received and disbursed by the same
man without intermediate cheek or accompanying
control which provokes scandal. The other suc-
cessful advertisers, the ingenious people who tell
character by handwriting, or who cant nativities, or
cure diseases by return of post, am not more tho-
roughly independent of account-keeping than are
some of the reverend gentlemen who pester thepublic
for pounds, shillings, or pence. In both mom the
question at issue resolve. itself into one of personal
responsibility, and the inhabitants of one London
parish are to be congratulated on the stand
they have recently made against being
branded indiscriminately as paupers who are in-
capable of helping themselves. It is only necessary
that a few of the middle-class people in every poor
district should act together, sod that the public
should resolutely refuse to subscribe, save where the
person asking for money works under a committee,
to put an end to a calling which is productive of
far greater evils than those it protegees to remedy.
At present certain public cries for help are freely
spoken of in the parish they are supposed to bene-
fit as a raid on the benevolent sad a disgraoe to
the Church. If the Mendicity Society were able
to look into this matter thoroughly, to sift the
allegations made, to ascertain the grass amounts
subscribed, and to estimate the good wrought, it
is certain that they would be able to throw such a
light upon the dubious facts as would materially
strengthen the introit of their colt sense' felled-
If public opinion be of any value what-
ever, then are some of the most notorious