Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-10-31
tleman declared that he had been simply
Mortified at the

Mortified at the
HUMAN SLAVERY AND TORTURE
Invented and carried out in this country
TO meet the demands Of an inexorable ex-
animation. Bad in the case of boys, it
was, he said, absolutely wicked in the case
of girls. Hard work and long hours, he
added. did not of themselves constitute
over. pressure in education or over-work IN
life. 1t was the work done under perpet-
nal worry and anxiety, and under the COM
pulsion of want of time that tried the
health of both young and old and 1t Is so
because they were importing into modern
education hurry, worry, anxiety, seltlsh.
ness, competition and feverish desire for
succes, that he foresaw injury to health,
degradation of intellect and general de.
parture from the true ideal of what sound
education should be. That an assembly
composed largely of clergymen should give
a prominent place in it's discussions to
THE WOMAN QUESTION
Was only natural, for have not the clergy
ever found in the so.called weaker sex their
readiest and ablest helpers in the work of
the church. 1t was fitting, too, in view of
the deep interest, not to say perplexity,
with which this question has so long been
regarded, and of the universal longing
there is for more light on the subject from
the best sources. In regard to the status
of women, enthusiastically, general opin-
ion was expressed in favor of an order OF
deaconnesses, and it was also resolved
to give encouragement to " sisterhoods. "
The former would approximate very closely
to lay preachers, and should the Church OF
England institute such an order it would
take position in advance of nearly every
church in Christendom, though, doubtless,
its example would soon be followed by
other bodies. The sisterhoods, B." of which
many already exist, are bands of women
DEVOTED TO WORKS CT CHARITY,
Who dress aud live after the style of the
Roman Catholic Sisters of Mercy. None
will be sorry to see Christian ministers en-
couraging good works or specially conse-
Grating devotsd women to lives of self
sacrificing benevolence but that it should
betray, as this feature of the recent Con-
gress indicates, an increasing regard for the
most Objectionable forms of Romanism, will
be regretted by very many and by none
more than by large number of its own
communicates. The Rev. G. Everard, of
Wolverhampton, declared VOWS of celibacy
to be unscriptural but the remark was
received with cries of "No." The latter
ebullitioD, however, must not be taken as
an indication of the predominant feeling of
the Congress, but simply as little straw
which shows that the wind is blowing in
that direction. A session was held on
Wednesday
EXCLUSIVELY FOR MEN,
At which matters too delicate for feminine
ears were considered. Only little that
was said got into the press, for the English
papers are very particular at this point.
Strangely out of proportion to the corrup-
ton that prevails in certain circles of their
social life is this prudishness of the Eng.
lish as to what they will tolerate in the
daily newspaper. But better be particular
in few things than loose in all. In a
paper on "The Prevention of the Degrade
tion of Women" Canon Butler contended
that womans degradation "always pro.
ceeded from the coarseness and brutality
of man." and added that the law of Eng
land, in the shields it threw around female
virtue, "was less effective than that of any
other civilized country" The first step
toward reform, Canon Holland ventured to
suggest, "was to abolish legislation which
bore the shameful brand as having been
made by men for men," statement for
which the press has taken the gentleman
severely to task.
LoNDoN's CRIMINAL RECORD.
The most notable and useful paper read
before the Social Science Congress was
that by Howard Vincent, Director oi
Criminal Investigations for London, on the
causes, results, prevention, detection and
punishment of crime. The direct cost Of
crime in England, Scotland and Wales,
said this gentleman, was nearly six million
pounds yearly. Magistrates, police, prison
officials, &C., numbered $4,000 persons.
In 1881 there were apprehended or cited
S25, ,657, or nearly one in &c of the popula.
ton. Ninety-four thousand eight hun.
dred and sixty-eight were for offenses
against tie person, l22, 76l for offenses
against propertg, and the remaining three
fourths for minor offenses. In 1882 there
were only l0l more convicts than in 1871,
notwithstanding the increase of the popu'
lation by three and a half millions. This
Mr.. Vincent attributed to the temperance
movement, home missions, board schools,
industrial schools, reformatories and the
increased efficiency of the police. For
lSS0-Sl London, he said, compared well
with Paris, Berlin and Vienna; Paris hav'
ing proportionately most murders and rob-
berries with violence, Berlin most forgeries,
Vienna most burglaries, and London most
larcenies from the person. He advocated
fogging for robbers who resort to violence,
and hanging for those who maliciously
take life, but toward minor offenders
brought up for the first time he would be
very merciful, allowing them to go into
the world again on probation under sys.
tenn similar to that which he declared had
worked 80 we'll in Massachusetts.