Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-07-11
OUTCAsT LONDON.

OtICAST LONDoN.
London, England is not only the largest
city in the world, but it is, just now, the
liveliest OF all cities Indeed the public
excitement in the metropolis is probably
greater than at the time the dynamite eX-
plosions occurred at the tower and the
Parliament buildings The Pail Mall Ga
zettes exposure OF the foul practices OF
certain vicious classes, and its assertion
that certain of the nobility are implicated,
have created a profound impression and a
terrible tension of the public interest. 1t
is not alone the foul denizens of St. Giles
and of East London, the vile drunken
hags, who are accused of buying and train
ing girl children for lives of shame, but
persons in the highest y ranks of society
who are accused, as well of participating
in the shameful and most damnable traffic,
and we may safely say that while there are
in London many OF the best and most ac-
w0en, in charge of humane and evan
gelizing organizations, and while there are
hundreds of churches and free hospitals,
and local foreign missionary societies,
which send their representatives through
out all portions Of the world to carry light
and healing, there are still, in that great
city, the vilest and blackest sorts of
heathenism known. There are no such de
graded and utterly and atrociously foul
social conditions iE the heart Of Africa as
are TO be found in East London; there is
no such barbarism, no such ignorance, no
such depravity, no such murderous bru-
talty in any part Of the world as are to be
found in the slums Of the worlds great
metropolis
And it is no doubt because devoted
Nurisllau men anu WOlneH "uO HdN' tah'b
their very lives in their hands, and have
gone into the poisonous atmosphere of
fever and pestilence breeding dens, to
rescue the poor goddess, vicious, criminal
and beastly wretches and cleanse them,
physically and morally, have found
their work impeded and obstructed by men
in high places, who have in this way shown
themselves to he the vilest of the vile, that
Mr.. Spurgeon first lifted the warning voice
from the pul pit Of his great Tabernacle, on
the south side Of the Thames, and that the
Pail Mall Gazette echoed the warning cry
on the north side, adding most startling de-
tails; and now all London is in a state Of
| excitement and turmoil that is really mar
| velous.
The government has tried to suppress
the scandal, as it is alleged to be, but the
proprietors Of the Gazette had taken good
pains to collect the facts before any publ
cation was made and certain parties will
be very careful how they force them to
prove what they have said to be true. The
members of the nobility implicated will
wait for very cold day-colder than is
ever known in London or anywhere else
before they will dare to do anything which
may result in placing them on the witness
stand.
This eruption is timely. 1t comes at
period when important legislation, intend
| ed to cleanse the foulness of outcast Lon
don, is pending in Parliament, and at
period, too, when the nobility itself is on
trial, or, to say the least, when that portion
of the nobility which is dissoute, vile and
corrupt seems to have filled its measure Of
iniquity, for it must be conceded that an.
other portion Of the titled classes IS com
posed Of the best and purest OF men and
and the most active, aud generous, and
devoted Of phllanthropists, such as the
venerable Lord Shaftesbury, or his younger
co-worker, the Earl of Aberdeen. But
while we have corresponding blots o,
heatl enism in New York, Chicago and
Cincinnati, we should be little careful
shout morslizng too much over the sins
of the gresSer Sodom.