Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-09-27
LoNpon's VICE.

Cardinal Manning sustains the PAN Mall
Garette's Charges.
Cardinal Manning in the October number
of the North American Review, sussains the
charge Of the Pail Mall Gazette about the
Infamous crimes of London. Speaking OF
the existing Law of England. the Cardinal
titus ,hows how they encourage inhumAn
enpts:
BY or present legal code girl cannot
give her consent to marriage before the age
OF Il b1 she is regarded rs capable OF con-
ssLti, &c her cwa ruin ut the age OF IL
,es,is. The man WHO msrries her before II
!, punishable By law. The man who ruins
q chil4 of IL CSC pswtl IMMUNITY. Sh,
n.sy ], in herseit II IL, but cannot marry,
or eject # copeent, till Il. If any one
should know that HE dog or cat we're de.
tanned in any house, the police, with all ex-
petition, could search for bis property. But
If he knew that his child were detained 10
the house, neither he not the police could
enter it His only remedy would be BY writ
OF hsbeas corpus, which could not be OBJ
tanned Tor many hours, aud perhaps for days;
but the ruin CT his child might be at any
MON emf. Once more say, chlldrel oil Is
and ell girls above that age, sre supposed 10
be free agents, and capsule OF consendng
TO their own ruin; thus he who ruins them
for life escapes with impubity, on the rule
'yolenti non fit iniaria. II has bean thers-
fore solemnly argued, BY men who have
great legal reputation, that the abominable
and iphumsn trade Of the procuress cannot
be Punishable at law, because the end 10
which their hideous traffic is directed ia
rot illegal. Here We have another legal
dictum; the sccomplices sre not punishable
because the principals are within the rights
Of their liberty"
After stating how every effort to amend
these infamous laws was persistently defeat.
I'd for FIVE long years" the Cardinal then
refers to Mr. Stead's assault
This hesrtless delay, full Of fatal conse-
auences OF Decentralization and wreck and
ruin to the innocent the helpless OF our peo-
pie, Justly aroused the indignation OF those
to whom jrstiCe and mercy are more dear
than the redistribution Of seats or the dis
irsncbisement for medical relief Prompted
II might say stupg-by an indignant i'm.
patience, the editor OF the Pail Mall Gazette,
and other Hke-minded men, detying sll an.
tsgonists entered upon their warfare
sasinst the dominion Of cruelty and last, /
have said elsewhere, that many Of those
Who profoundly sympathize in the motives
which induced the Pail Mall Gazette to take
up the question might have desirediIs modes
nd expressions to have been revised and
cha ened but that in such matter Of moral
life and death, and above all, when the
obloquy ard calumny Of the bad, aud hssty
and thort-sighted census Of some good men,
were h,aped upon those who entered the
turns &c to save souls, should hold il to be
not only upfeBerous, but cowardly aud cruel,
not to stand between the handful OF men
who. fer the moral lite Of England, dared
this COZ rsgeous action, and the whole word
J Of heir censors The substance Of this &C.
ton is intrinsIcally just and mercitul The
| incidental evils that may arise are Of q lower
order, and depended upon the use or the
abuse which individuals may make OF these
| terrible revelations