The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-07-14
Thirteen News Vendors Be
fore the Lord Mayor.
Spuigeon Says Let the Work
Coon"
The Gazette Has the Support
Of the Clergy.
Other Foreign News Of Great
Importance.
The Pail Mall Gazette.

newspaper, and Western Mercury and
Belfast Ners, together with letters pro-
tested from Mr.. John Brintop, liberal
member of parliament, OF Kidder, minister,
aud other persons If prominence.
The Poll Null Gazette publishes an ed
itorisl thanking the city authorities Tor at
tempting to suppress sale Of the paper,
thereby breaking The conspiracy OF
silence msint4ined by the press
conc rninx the Gasctts's revelation.
"Tbe seizures oil newspapers are
common In Vienna" continues the Gazette,
shut such high-hsnded oulra yes On the
freedom of the pres should have been im-
possible in London Instesd Of wag ng
war against the street boys they let authori-
ties take action against the responsible
parties in this business Ii We have pub
lished anything ob,ceue let them prosecute
us. We deny that anything has been pub
lished by US deserving that cepsure and we
declare the authorizes towards or wore
If they fail 10 proceed sgainst Us
after having charged in open court
that the Pull Mall GGsette was
an obscene publication. We reluctantly
adopted this mode Of publici y in order to
arouse men to a just sense Of the horrors
existing all around them. Now the more
publicity the better. We are prepared 10
prove our ststem, nts We can summon
witnesses from the dean of Canterbury and
the pr.nce of Wales down TO Mr.. Jrffri-s.
We will put our chief informant and his
ss;stants In the witness box"
THE SALES.
SD. -Norlhumberlsnd street, where
the Pau MaL Gazetes Office is located, has
| all the afternoon been packed with a mass
of excited people. AS many as 5000 news
vendors have at times been in q crowd ell
bowling and otherwise for opportunities to
purchase copies of the Gazette to sell. AT
one time the pressure of The crowd vas so
great that all the lower windows OF the CD
zstte building were crush.d. When the
doors of the publication Office were opened
! for the sale of the 6rst edition
This afternoon there was q tremendous rush
for papers, during which women and boys
were knocked down, trodden upon and in
many cases badly injured. Despite the ex-
traordinaIy preparations TO meet the pub
lie demanI which the experience OF the
past three days taught the proprietors to
make, the sales this afternoon soon ex-
haus ed the edition and the supply OF the
paper giving out pres were stopped for
several hours before the requisite sddl-
tional supplies could be procured.
SECRET INQUIRY.
The chief director of the F6u Mall Gaze 'te,
in secret inquiry in the commission
through which the revelations were OBJ
tanned, writes concerning the whole matter
as follows: "The investigation began on
May "a, and the work wss unremitting TO
date. The commission had valuable as
sistance from the salvation army, from the
London committee for the suppression of
traffic in English girls and from the vast
experience of Miss Josephine Butler. The
commission was composed OF members OF
the Gazctte's staff and acted independently
OF the police. The home Office deprecated
on official grounds allowing journalists to
interview the police. The commission APP
piled to the archbishop of Canter-
bury, the bishop of London and
Cardinal Manning for sdvice and
these greet authorities on morals,
while deprecisting the risk involved
in the commissions task, all warmly sup
ported its object. Ready help was accord
ed the commission by Catholic ana Congre-
gationsl clergymen, also from the minor
joirt protection committee, the white
ribbon army, the society for the prevention
of cruelty to children, the London city mis-
sion, the reformatory refuge, the union
rescue society and the Pimlica ladies as
ISOLATION and the moral reform union.
The commission visited all the hospitals
and refugees where harbor is given the IN
fortunates. The inmates readily gave
ali the information In their pos. ssion.
Most of the revelations, however, were OBJ
tanned through interviews. Everybody,
high and low, likely TO have information
from Lord DalhousIe to Mrs. Jeffries was
subjected 10 an interview by some member
of the commission. Mrs J.ffies shed a
flood of light upon the whole subj.c under
investigation. The entire cost Of the To-
yestigxtion amounted TO $4,000
Thirteen newspaper venders who had
been arrested for selling copies of the Pail
Malt Gazette were arrsigned before the lord
mayor to day. The city solicitor IN pre-
ssnting the cases against the prisoners
charged them with publicly selling obscene
literature and said he had marked for the
courts perusal the passages IN the Gazette
articles upon which the charge ives based.
He must, he said, decline TO read those pas
ssges In open court, and said he thought
that the repetition of those Objectionable
statements with little alteration daily indi-
Gated 10 good object. The solicitor then
stated that he would require further time
to consider what charge to formulate
against the prisoner.
The lrOd mayor said he thought it best
to await the decision of the government,
which had before il for consideration the
5 me case. The proprietors of the Faa
Nal GGsetts to-day asked Sir Richard
Cross, home secretary, for protection
against the crowd surrounding their publ
cation Office.