Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-07-13
FOREIGN NEWS.
LONDON'S SOCIAL EVIL.
The Pail Mall Gazette Receives Letters
Recommendation From Prominent wen
and Women for Letting the Light Of
Day on London's Wickedness.
LONDON, July IL.

LONDON, July IL.
The Pail Mall Gazette. in a late edition.
commenting on the results of its revelations,
says "A little sympathy arrives by every
post A large proportion of those who writ,
promise to subscribe sums varying from f5
to fl00 TO defend the Gazette in the event of
its prosecution nv the officers OF the law. Ii
will, however. be time enough to think of
defending ourselves when anybody shall be
foolhardy enough 10 attack US"
The bishop of Chester writes to the Gazette
urging the paper to use its influence on mem
bers of Parliament TO induce them TO hurry
through the amendment to the criminal law
designed for the protection of females, by
raising the age at which they can give legal
consent to criminal intimacy. DIR Gregg,
senior bishop of the Reformed Church of
England, writes as follows "As a minister
of the gospel and a physician. I thank you
for your heroic treatment of London's social
evil Speak and hold not thy peace. Lift
up thy voice like trumpet for the exposure
of wickedness and the defence of Its victims. F"
Sir Frederick X. George Miner, bart, liberal
conservative member of Parliament for York
city, asks the Gazette to issue to the public a
statement on Monday next expressive of the
views of the most efhacacious amendments
possible TO make to the present criminal law
of England. and he saws he thinks the law
should protect girls from the awful results of
ability to consent to sexual crime until they
are Il years of age at least. A great num-
ber of magistrates, clergvmen and secretaries
of rescue societies write, warmly thanking
the Gazette for its exposure and promising
TO do all in their power IN assist the paper in
the crusade One prominent clergyman
writes thus II am filled with burning indiy-
nation. bless the daring hand which pours
the light of day into the foul and cruel re-
cesses where innocence is tortured and child
hood ruined. You have ample scripture war
rant and need not mind the objections of
men," Another clergyman urges the Gazette
to persevere in the work of exposing the in.
famous iniquity which it has already revealed
and says The masses of the country will
support you. How is it possible for the
Almighty God to bless us as a Christian ma
ton if we allowed such enormities to contin-
ue." "A widow with young daughters"
"An English mother" and other ladies
write, calling upon God to bless the Gazette
"for breaking the awful silence that so long
shielded these horrible crimes" and suggest
ing that the Gazette open subscription list
for the general benefit of the rescue societies
and similar charities. Another lady says
pray accept my heartfelt thanks for the
noble, courageous and chivalrous battle YOU
are doing on behalf of my poor, dow wntrod-
den, morally murdered sisters, and therefore,
on behalf of our SEX" The Gazette pub
fishes 80 letters similar to the above, and says
the batch is but a small proportion of the
vast number of the same kind il receives
every day.