Daily Republican., 1885-07-13
LoudOu,s shame.

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the menstrous iniquitles and Immoral
ties that have been uncurtained in tn
city Of London by the Pail Mall Gazette
Never did old ancient Babylon rove
In such debassd lewdness as that which
the modern Babylon, London, is guilty
of. Ifit were possible refined and de
cent society should shut Its eyes anC
turn away its face from such revelation
of immortality and ,idebasement, but sucl
a thing cannot be thought OF. The de
mand Of the hour is that the evil shal
be met in a manly spirit. The Pal
Mall Gazette is published in London
three thousand miles from our nearest
shores, but only within weeks trave
oy some OF our ocean steamers. We
| cannot felicitats ourselves that the evil
| is so distant that it can never reach our
shores. We can quarantine ourselve.
against the cholera and other infections
diseases that approach our shores from
foreign country, but we can raiss no
such barrier against the spread of thi.
worse than social vice that has dis
graced London-.his buying and selling
OF young girls to men, worse than
beasts Of human prey, for immoral pur
poses.
But are our large cities in our own
boasted land of moral and religious
liberty free from this terrible crime "
Can New York, Philadelphia and all
our other large cities wrap the mantle
Of .self-purity around themselves and
say TO their sister city of London :
Stand thou there for for am holier
than thou ?" Or is 1t be cause no jour.
nal In this country has yet had the
courage to step into the breach between
morality and immortality and show the
decadence of the Hrst and the rapid
spread OF the latter, that we rest in
fancied security and point the finger of
scorn at England's modern shame
Let Americans beware who boast Of
our exemptions from this terrible
Moloch that is eating out the morals of
London. Vice is monEer Of such
frightful mien that it has not only been
first loathed, then seen, and then en-
braced in London. la looking towards
| that city now IN her exposed degrada-
tion and shame we must not forget
that the same debased nature exists
every where. Vice lifts its brazen front
in every city. Even in Wilmington its
poisonous. Shiny trail is 10 be seen,
and to what extent it is carried on is
not known because our Pail Mall Ga
zette has not come upon the scene to
make the exposure. But we will say
that our own city is not exemp: from
the vice that affiicts Londcn
| The disappearance OF young girls
from home ofSen become the subject of
local paragraphs, but such things are
but the thought of the hour and passes
away in the oblivion of the past. So it
was in London until the number of
missing became alarming and still
society slept and slum bered on until the
revelations of the Pail Mall Gazette
OF oke ike thundsrclap upon ears of
church congregations moral associa.
tions and reform organizations of all
kinds only to show that traffic In the
bodies and souls of young girls was
carried on that put TO shame all the
horrors of chattel slavery. The buyers,
who were they Members of She
Qaeen's Cabinet, mem bers Of Parlia-
ment, Presidents of Colleges, Judges of
the Courts, doctors, lawyers, profes.
siona1 men Of all departments OF life,
anG yes, let society blush while we say
1t, ministers of the gospel The sellers,
who are they
Not only the ruined procuresses that
boast of having procured thou sands of
| young girls and sold them in the
market of vice, but parents. pushed
down TO starvation, have aoid their
daus shters, and the nearest friends o. in.
nocent girls have entrapped them into
snares of vice, whnt3 this goblet and
drug made them an easy prey. Great
God, what picture Of immorality and
vice
Yet the exposure Of these crimes
against humanity must serve q good
purpose. Parents and guardians who
have any regard for the future welfare
OF those under their care must take
warning aRt strengthen the barriers
against ne encroachments Of the iiber.
ure and the tralhckers in human souls.
/ There is no city nor no community.
even the quiet country village, jha; has
an Immunity against these evils. The
! libertine, the procuress and the child
ravisher go everywhere and against
them law is almost powerless. Let
people who love light rather than dark.
ness, purity rather than impurity, mo
Tality rather than immortality, docency
rather than indecency, profit by the re
cent terrible London exposures arouse
from the lethargy of ease and content
ment into which communities general;
LAPSE, and dcuble guard every avenu,
hat leads t. tho family hcart art
htatih, against these wicked destroyer.
ct domestic peace and happiness