The Indianapolis journal., 1885-08-23
PROTECTION FOR GIRLS.
Monster Meeting in Hyde Park, London
Features of the Procession.


Features of the Procession.
LONDON, Aug 22.-The morality demonstra-
tion at Hyde Park this afternoon, was attended
by an enormous crowd Contingents for the
parade were engaged all day converging at va
rious points, with banners, bands and number
less wagons loaded with women, all displaying
the greatest enthusiasm. The weather was
fine, and thousands of people assembled at the
park to await the commencement of the demon
stration. At APO o'clock the meeting equaled
in numbers the great assemblage which
gathered at the same place some months since
to make a demonstration III favor of the enlarge
ment- the franchise bill. Thousands of women
are in the crowd and ten times as many more on
the way in the procession to the park. One of
the wagons In the procession carried six little
girls dressed in white. Three girls held aloft a
banner bearing the inscription, Shall the in
nocents be slainF Another cart carried large
fac-simile of the QIeen's letter to Mrs. General
Booth, approving the Salvation Armys work in
rescuing young girls from vice. The East End
contingent of the procession started
towards Hyde Park promptly at p NJ. This
body had three bands and carried sixty banners
all having inscribed on them such notices as
Save Our Daughters" etc. The cart which
carried the enlarged copy of the Queens letter
East End contingent This body had in line no
less than twenty four horse wagons. With the
exception of the one bearing the twenty four
girls under thirteen years of age and dressed in
white the wagons were laden with women
dressed in the deepest of mourning The veh-
cles themselves We're all heavily draped with
black. Following the wagons were about 1000
men foot All traffic had to be suspended
during the progress of the procession along its
entire route.
The demonstration included temperance socie-
ties, Good Templars. Band of Hope lodges, the
Salvation Army, and various trade and friendly
societies, ladies' national societies in wagons and
Y NJ. T. A. s from nine sections OF the metrOpo-
lis besides excursion parties from the
provinces numbering many thousands. Bands
headed each contingent. Numberless banners
were carried; ten platforms were lnprovised
around the reformers tree in Hyde Park. A
resolution was passed simultaneously at all the
platforms. pledging the meeting to assist in
forcing the provisions Of the criminal amend
ment act. The affair was decided success A
huge crowd was present, but the entire proceed
ings were orderly.
The Bishop of London has issued. to be read in
the churches of his diocese tomorrow, stirring
pastoral on the subject of the protection Of young
girls.
Mr. Stead editor of the Pail Mall Gazette in
an address before the national conference for
the protection of young girls in st. James's Hail.
absoved the Salvation Army from all blame for
the alleged abduction of Sarah Armstrong The
girls mother publicly charged that the Salvation
Army coaXed the GIRL from home, and then de-
tanned her for the purpose of exhibiting her as a
victim of London vice reclaimed by the Army
Mr.. Stead declared himself responsible for the
taking Of the girl away from home, and he said
she was taken away simply because her home
stepped in vice.
One hundred and fifty thousand persons at
tended the morality demonstration in HYDE
Park this afternoon.