The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-07-10
ENaLAND,s ROTTEN SOCIETY.
The Gazette Still on the warpath
and Defying the Authorities.

LONDON, July 8.-The Pail Mall Ga
zctte reproduces articles favorable to lis
course from the Christian RELIGIOUS
newspapers, the Western Mercury and
Belfast Ne,rs, together with letters of
protest from Mr.. John Brenton, Liberal
member of Parliament from Kidder-
minister, and other persons of prom
inence.
The Pau Mall Gazette, this evening
publishes an editorial thanking the city
authorities for an attempt to suppress
the sale of the paper, thereby breaking
the conspiracy of silence maintained
by the press concerning the grave reve-
Iations. Police seizures of newspapers
are common in Vienna" continues the
Gazette, "but such high-handed out
RACES on the freedom of the press could
have been impossible in London, In
stead OF waging war against the street
boys, let the authorities take action
against the responsible parties in this
business. Ii we have published any,
thing obscure, then prosecute US. We
deny that anything has been published
by US deserving that censure, and we
declare the authorities towards, or
worse, if they fail to proceed
against Us after having charged in open
court that the Pail Mall Gazette was an
obscene publication. We reluctantly
adopted this mode of publicity in order
to arouse men to Just sense of the hor-
rors existing all around them. Now,
the more publicity the better. We are
prepared to prove our statements; we
can,Summon witnesses from the Dean
of Canterbury and Prince of Wales
down to Mr.. Jeffries. We Will put our
chief informant and his assailants in the
witness box.
LONDON. July 9.-The chief director
of the Pail Mall Gazette secret inquiry
commission, through which the revela-
tons were obtained, writes concerning
the whole matter as follows: The in
vestigations began on May 24th and the
work was unremitting to date. The
commission had valuable assistance
from the Salvation Army, from the
London committee for the suppression
of traffic in English girls. and from the
vast experience of Mrs. Josephine
Butler. The commission was COM
posed of a number OF the Gazette's
staff, and acted independently of
the police. AT the home office
it Is deprecated on official grounds, ell
lowing journalists to interview the
police. The commission applied to the
Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishop of
London, and Cardinal Manning, for
advice, and these great authorities on
morals, while deprecating the risk in
volved in the Commissions task. all
warmly supported its object; ready
help was accorded to the commission
from Catholic and Congregational
clergymen; also from miners in
joint protection committee, while
the Ribbon Army Society for
prevention of cruelty to children,
Loudon City Mission, Reformatory Re-
fuge, Union Rescue Society, Public
Ladies Association, and Moral Reform
Union. The commission visited all the
hospitals, homes and refugees, where
harbor is given the unfortunates. The
their possession. Most of the revela-
tons, however, were obtained through
interviews. Everybody, high and low,
likely to have information de-
sired by the commission from
Lord Dollhouse to Mrs. Jeffries
was subjected to an interview by some
member of the commission. Mrs.
Jeffries shed a flood of light upon the
whole object under inveftigation. The
entire cost of the Investigation
amounted to 81 800.
Three newspaper vendors. who had
been arrested for selling copies of the
Pail Mall Gazette, were arraigned be-
fore the Lord Mayor to-day. The city
solicitor, in presenting the cases
against the prisoners, charged them with
publicly selling obscene literature, and he
said he had marked for the courts
perusal passages in the Gazette articles
upon which the charge was based. He
must, he said, decline reading the pass
ages in open court, and said he thought
that repetition of these Objectionable
statements with little alterations daily
indicated no good object.
The solicitor then stated that
he would require further time
to consider what charge to formu-
late against the prisoners.
The Lord Mayor said he thought it
would be best to await the decision of
the government which had before it for
consideration the same case.