Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-09-25

Cardinal Manning, in the October
nembsf OF the Worth Ls4ericas R~vs>,r.
soseains the charge Of the Pal Nall Ga
sests about the infsmsos crimes Of Lon
don. Speaking Of the existing laws in
England, the Cardinal thus shows how
they encourage inhuman crimes:
BY our present legal code q Rirl can
not give her consent 10 marriage before
the age Of q, bot she il recorded A
eapsbls Of csusertins &, her ovn min
at the age Of 13 years. The man Who
tnarries her before Il is punish a BILE by
Law. The man Who ruins 6 child Of l3
escapes With imponity. She may ruin
herself as I3, bot cannot NARY. for d.
feet Of consent. till n. II apy one
should know that his dog or cat were
aetained IN any hooss, the police, With
an expedition, could search for his
property. But IL he knew that his child
we're detained in the house, neither be
Eor the police could enter IL. His only
remedy would be by writ Of hateas eorps.i.
which could net be obtained for MANY
hours. and perhaps fer days: bot
the ruin OF his child might be at any
moment. Once more | say, children Of
IL, and ali girls above that age, are SUP
fS-~EA ~ SI Is &c H2bht3- a1d CdVdOsS Oh
consenting to their own ruin; thos be
who ruins them for life escapes with
impunIty, on the rule, ! oleHt. son III
inj.ria.' Il has been therefore solsmn-
ly argued, BY men Who have great legal
reputation, that the abominabie and in
human trade of the procurer and the
procufess cannot be punishable by Law.
because the end 10 which their hideous
trsfiic IL directed 10 net illegal. Here
ve have another legal dictun; the 60
complies are not Punishable because
the principals are within the rights Of
their liberty"
After stating how every effort 10
amend these infamous laws vas persist
entity defeated "for Ave lsnR ysars.-
the Cardinal the refers to Mr.. Stead's
asssult:
This hsartless delay, full Of fatal
consequences Of decentralization and
wreck and ruin to the innocent. the
helpless Of our people, Justly aroused
the indignation of those 20 whom los
tice and mercy are more dear than the
redistribution Of seats or the disfran.
chisement for medical relief. Prompted
Il MIGHT say stone by an indignant
impatienoe, the editor Of the Pail IHaN |
Gasetts, and other like minded men. de-
fyinR all antagonists, entered upon
their warfare against the dominion of j!
cruslty and Lust. have said elsewhere |
that many Of those Who profoundly |
synpathixs in the motives which in. |
duced the Pol Nal Gasssfs 70 take |
up the question might have de-
sired its modes and expressions TO |
have been revised and chastened /;
bat that in such matter of moral life |
and death, and above all, when the oh |
loquy and oalumay Of the bad, hasty |
and short sighted oeasures Of some |
good men, vess hsaped upon those Who |
entered the furnace 10 save souls, I |
should hold Is - - not only unRener-
ous, bat cowardly and cruel, not TO |
stand between the handful of men Who,
Tor the moral life Of England, dared
his courageous action, and the whole |
world Of their eeusors. The substance
Of this action 10 intrinsieally Just and |
The incidental evils that
may ariss are Of . lower ordsr. and de-
pend upon the use OF sbuss which midi
Vid1als nay make Of thess terrible