Daily Republican., 1885-07-14
London S Mask Off.
POINTS OF DEMANDED l.EGIsLA.
oTION-A WOMEN's N BITING
PROTECTION ASKED.
SURGEONS SERM ON.

Gazette this afternoon, In response %
requests for its opinion as to the nature
of the changes requ ired in the present
Eng lish criminal law, makes several
important suggestions. 1t advocates
First. An addition to the crimi inal
act raising the age at which female chill
dren may legally consent to sin ful con.
duct from IL years, the present per iod
to l6.
Second. Extension of the law pro.
hibiting soliciting to both sexes.
Third. Deniai of any additional
power over women TO the police that
will be aimed at the suppression of
crime and not AT the suppression of
vice, that is complete legal liberty for
voluntary immortality between adults
contracting on equal terms, bat rigorous
repression Of sexual criminality In ell
classes In which the parties are under
age or the elements Of full, free and
Intelligent consent are absent.
Fourth. Greatly increased strinRency
In the laws against procurstion.
The Gazette, in an editorial commen.
tsry on the results of It's revelations.
declares that its trumpet blast has
reused the world" q" No word was
raised yesterday in the churches against
us" continued the paper, but all the
forces of wickedness In high places are
arrayed against us. The Hon. W.
Smith q Sons, possessing the monopoly
OF the news. stands on the railway sys-
tenn Of England, have suppressed their
sales of the Pail Mall Gazette. The
Prince of Wales has stopped his paper.
The Right Hon. Mr.. Bentinck ia posing
In Parliament In the name Of outraged
morality, and clamors for our extinc.
ton. The Gazette did not understand
| this inquiry TO unearth the vices Of the
great, but, II we are driven to lay, we
will be compelled by the action of our
assailants to speak out and spare not.
|sPUkGEoS's SERMON ON THE DIS
CLOSURES.
LONDON, July 13.-The Rev. Mr..
Spurgeon yesterday preached power
full sermon on the patrician iniquity of
London, as exposed by the Pail Mall
Gazette during the past week. He took
for his text the sixteenth verse of the
second chapter of the Epistle of Paul
to the Romans, which he quoted in de-
fense of the Gazette's work In making
Its revelations, as follows: ain the day
when God shall judge the secrets
OF men by Jesus Christ according to my
Gospel"
St. Paul, the preacher said, felt it
necessary to mention the hideous vices
OF the heathens, and left on record an
exposure Of the sin of his day, which
crimsoned the cheek of the modest
when they read it. 1t had to be written
to shame the denominations of an age
almost past shame. There was judg-
mont for sin in this world for both men
and nations. Assyria, Babylon, Persia,
Rome and Egypt were empires of op-
precision and cruelty, and full of ini
guilty. When the sin of these people
could no longer be tolerated they were
wiped off the face of the earth. Thus
OF nations. But no one could tell what
blood shedding and suffering came upon
men for their iniquities.
why should London" exclaimed
the preacher, "be more favored than
Rome? What is there about our boast
ful race on this or the other side of the
Atlantic that we should monopolize
Gods favor? God will judge n ems
secret sins too vile TO be spoken of and
which cause the nation to shudder if
dragged, as they ought to be, inIo day
light. Deeds of night of the closed
room, done when the finger is put upon
the lip and the act committed which
must never he mentioned lest the man
himself be regarded as an outcast, alb
horred even of his fellow sinners-an,
all shall be revealed-all that we have
for oul own comfort blinded our eyes to
and averted our gaze from
Things inconvenient to see shall be
revealed. We here make q difference
between the secret and the public, but
God does not. Every secret sin is
secret only by lying phantasy of the
imagination. 1t is public before God.
IL Is necessary for the church to warn
men of what will happen If they
continue in their sins, and not keep
them in FOOLS paradise until they be
sent down to hell's damnation. 1t
becomes every preacher to cry aloud
and spare not
TIE WOMEN AROUSED.
LONDON, July 13-A mass meeting
of women was held in Princes Hall
this afternoon TO consider ways and
means to protect young gi-ls from the
horrible pitfalls OF London, as revealed
by the Pail Mali Gazette. Mrs. Booth
and other ladies made eloquent ad.
dresses. The meeting resolved that the
laws on the subject should forthwith be
made more efficient, denounced State
regu lation of vice, demanded the total
repeal of the Contagious Disease act aud
that the age of consent be raised from 13
to l6. The meeting also voted to send
copies of the record of its proceedings to
the House Of Commons.
INVESTIGATING THE POLICE
LoNoN, July 13.-In the House of
Com mons this afternoon, Right Hon.
George Bentinck, Conservative mem.
Der for Whitehaven, asked the Home
Department whether the Pail Mall
Gazette's charges against the London
police in connection with that papers
revelations of iniquity in the city were
true
Sir Richard Assheton Cross, home
secretary, replied that, If the facts were
as stated by the Gazette, the fu Hest
inquiry would be made, and that he
considered it his duty to get TO the
bottom of the charges.
NOTHING SETTLED WITH RUSSIA. Z
LONDON, July 13.-In the House of
Commons this afternoon, Robert Bourke,
under secretary for foreign affairs, stated
in response to inquiries that nothing
had yet heen definitely arranged by the
present Government for an arbitration
to determine whether theRussian attack
on Penjdeh was consistent with Russian
promises previously made to Eng
land.
Thomas Ryburn Buchanan, Liberal
member for Edinburgh City, asked
whether 1t was true that the British
intended to establish cantonment near
Candahar, In Afghanistan.
| Lord Randolph Church i'll, Secretary
for India, replied "The honorable
member seems to forget that Afghanis-
tan is an Independent State"
During the discussion of the army
supplementary estimates Mr.. W. FL.