Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-07-15
THE PAIL MALL SCANDAL.
SALISBURY,S EGYPTIAN POLICY.
THREATENED AFGHAN WAR.
CHEYENNEs LEAVE THE AGENCY. |
AN OUTRAGE FIEND ESCAPES LYNoHINa
CARDINAL MANNING.S VIEWS.
He Warmly Approves the Exposures
Made by the Pail Mall saKeitc-The
Only Way Possible to Secure the DE.
sired Legislation.

Speelal taDle DISPATCH TO THE EVENING STAR.
LONDON, April l5.-The committee of inves-
tigation into the exposures of the Pail Mall
Gazette met to-day, and sat from 10 TO =. / have
already given you their names. As / antic-
pated, the government will take no proceed
lngs against the editor publisher of the
paper. To be quite frank. there are two rea-
sons for this First, public opinion has been
changing rapidly i'm favor of the Mall and the
worthness of its motives; and second, there
are too many prominent people i'm and out Of
parliament who might be compromised for the
subject TO be transferred to "a court of law
The question Is still the uppermost topic here.
1t seemed desirable, If possible, to send you an
expression of opinion from some person well
known as connected with many reforms, and
whose position is sufficiently high to give
decisive weight to his words. Accordingly.
have been favored with an interview with
Cardinal Manning, the cardinal archbishop of
Westminster. His cminence was deeply moved
in speaking OF the matter, but gave the editor
and proprietor of the Pan Mall Gazette the
strongest support. 81 know Mr.. Stead" Cardi-
nal Manning said, "and have perfect confidence
in his intentions and then what he has done
has been done i'm combination with a number
of trustworthy persons and legal advisers,
SO that his evidence depends not on hearsay,
but on direct personal knowledge. The extent
of the evil now exposed has been long indis-
tinctly known, but then it was impossible to
obtain legal proof. Mr.. Stead is the first person
who has ventured, at great personal sacrifice
and endurance, to obtain this legal evidence.
In publishing statements SO detailed, and often
SO VIVID. he Will encounter, he has done. "A
great deaf OF oboquy; but, on the other hand.
he has the firmest support of a very large num-
Der OF men OF all Kinds, and of the highest
influence in England. 1t would be easy to criti-
else the details of articles of such nat ure and all
those who desire to hush up so atrocious an
evil may f1nd expressions and narratives on
Whlch TO faSten. but ii would be ungenerous
and cruel to assail man who has sacrificed
himself to expose. and hope to check il not to
extirpate, an evil of such portentous magni-
tude. 1t is to be further remembered that
since 1881 the attempt TO obtain the needed
legal enactment has been continually and
VeXatlOuSly defeated. Yet, in 1881 "A commit
tee OF the house of lords published a folio blue
book detailing in the minutest particulars with
irretragable proof, the enormities OF this abomi-
nable traffic. II ear AFTER year the bills proposed
TO parliament have been weakened or defeated
or taken out The patience OF those who know
the truth has been justly exhausted. Nething
short OF this last hideous and resolute action
could bring relief and have forced an enact
ment of further power to supplement our most
detective statutes on this terrible subject"
Professor Bryce has consented TO sit on the COM
mittee of Investigation. He expressed the
opinion TO me yesterday that the difficulties of
passing any opposed legislation like this bill
through the commons are such as nothing but
the pressure of popular sentiment can over
come. "The rules OF procedure in parliament"
he said, ''are utterly unfit for practical assem-
bly,. They Invite obstruction, which would
have been vigorously practiced by the enemies
OF the bill. On seeing an appeal like this. with
all these incidental evils made from parliament
To the people, We feel that parliament is paving
the penalty for having so much neglected social
questions and allowed the good Intentions of
Its majorities to be frustrated by the perversity
and perhaps. also heartlcssncss of a small
number of members. 1 have from the first felt
sure that the motives of the conductors of the
PH MAJ Gazette were perfectly pure and un-
selfish