St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-23
An Enormous Demonstration in the In
tereSt of Morality Held in Hyde
Park, London.
ODOnOvan Rosa Writes His Correspond
entS at Havre and Antwerp to Use
Oatmeal on England.
Soldiers and Convicts Compelled TO
Carry Dead Bodies From the
Streets OF Granada.
China to Build n Hundred Miles OF
Railroad - English Working
men in Politics.
The Morality Demonstration.

LONDON, Aug. 22.-The morality de-
monstrations at Hyde park this afternoon
was attended by an enormous crowd. Con-
tingents for the parade had been all day
cOnyerging at various points, with banners.
bands and numberless wagons loaded with
women, all displaying the greatest enthu-
siasm. The weather is fine, and
thousands of people have assem-
Died at the park 10 await
the commencement of the demonstration.
The meeting equals i'm number the great as
sembly which gathered at the same place
some months since 10 make demonstration
in favor of the enlarged franchise bill.
Thousands of women are i'm the crowd and
ten times as many more are on the way in
the procession TO the park. One OF the
wagons in the procession carried twenty
four little girls dressed in white. These
little girls held aloft a banner bearing the
inscription
SHALL THE INNoCENTS BE SLAUGHTERED?
Another cart carried large fac-simile of
the queens letter TO Mrs. Gen. Booth, ap-
proving the Salvation arny's work in res
cuing young girls from vice The East end
contingent of the procession started towards
Hyde park promptly at 4 o'clock. This
party had three bands and carried sixty
banners, all having inscribed on them such
notices as Save Our Daughters, etc. The
cart which carried the enlarged copy of the
queens letter was given the middle
place in the line of the East end
contingent. This body had in line twenty
fOur-hOrsed wagons. With the exception
of the one with the twenty-four girls under
thirteen years of age and dressed in white.
the wagons were laden with women dressed
in the deepest of mourning. The vehicles
themselves were all heavily dTaped with
black. Following the wagons were about
1000 men on foot. All traffic had 10 be
suspended during the progress of the pro-
ceSSiOn along its entire route.
THE DEMONSTRATION
included temperance societies, Good Tenn
plars, Band of Hope lodges. the Salvation
army and various trade and friendly socie-
ties, ladies' national societies in wagons
and Young Mems Christian associations
from nine sections of the country, besides
excursion parties from the provinces. num-
bering many thousands. Bands headed
each contingent. Numberless banners were
carried, Ten platforms were improviSed
around the KefomerS' tree in HYDE Park.
\ resolution was passed simultaneously at
all the platforms pledging the meeting TO
assist in enforcing the provisions of the
criminal amendment act. The weather
was brilliant. and the affair was n decided
success. \ huge crowd was present, but
the entire proceedings were orderly.
A STIRRING PASTORAL
The Bishop of London has issued, TO be
read in the churches of his diocese to-
morrow, stirring pastoral ON the subject
of the protection of young girls. Mr..
Stead, editor OF the Pail Mall Gazette, in
an address before the national conference
for the protection of young girls, in St.
James hall, abSolved the Salvation army
from all blame FOR the alleged abduction Of
Sarah Armstrong. The girls mother pub
licly charged that the Salvation army
coaXed the girl from home and then de-
tanned her for the purpose of exhibiting
her as victim of London vice reclaimed
by the army. Mr.. Stead declared himself
responsible for the taking of the girl away
from home. and he said she was taken
away simply because her home was STEPPED
in vice.
One hundred and fifty thousand persons
attended the morality demonstration in
Hyde park this afternoon. The greatest
enthusiasm prevailed in the vast assem-
blagc.