The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1886-05-19
VICE IN BRUSSELS.
Shocking Picture OF the Degradation
Of the Belgian Capital.

Of the Belgian Capital.
Go from the cafes to the hotels.
Thc proprictors will wait and lawn
upon you-if you be we'll dressed and
have q few diamond rings on your
fingers-just as lis partisan contrere
does. Here you will find those pri-
yate rooms-Or. as they cell them,
cabinets particuliers-that are, by
the by. mere limitations Of the class
ct the palais Royal in Paris. where
gallants eat and drink tete a.tetc
with the fashionable female tatterde.
malions Of the city, and where mar
ricd women forget their nuptial VOWS
in the arms Of dudish dandies. On
tie streets after nightfall we meet
with the same disgusting sights so
common at the same hour on the
boulcvards and FouJourg Montmar-
tre OF Paris-the rough and pow
dered battalions Of smirbing vice,
Haunting its gaudy dresses and star
ing you imlIodcstly out Of counte-
nance. Stroll into by-lanes and into
alleys, where you will not need very
much discrimination to see that
Brussels even exceeds Paris. pro-
portionaily speaking, in the number
Of its dens Of corruption tolerated by
the statute book and patroniZed by
many who have something to do with
the manufacture Of statutes; dens
where British, Irish, French and
American girls cater to the brutal
tastes and procliyities Of scoundrels
Of every class and Of all Nationali-
ties. Go into society, frequent fash
ionablc tea parties. dance at fashion,
able balls, and eat and drink at mid
night suppers, and what do you find
except that strange samencss Of
habits and ideas so prevalent in the
city by the Scine-the same fashion
able dictum, If not openly expressed,
at least secretly implied and acted
on, that Z married dame who does
rot afford herself the luxury Of a
paramour is the wrctchcdest of sotts;
the same prurient. practical philoso-
| ply that ties respectfully brought up
girls to their mammals apron-strings
till the nuptiai Gay-a philosophy
which makes the minxes hypocrites
before marriage and God knows what
after it; the same simpcring civili-
ties exchanged between men and
men or women AID women vino have
no more regard for each other than
an Irish dynamiter has Or is sup
posed to have for the hide Of the aver
age Saxon. Over the tea.cup the
same scandal is banded about as in
Paris. Mime. 4. wore. it seems. the
same dress three times conseCutively
at her box in tie theatre. NJ. B. is
proud Of the youngsters, B. never
dreaming, poor soul! that they are
not his own. Nine. G. is stupid
enough to love her husband. although
The fellow lavishcs thousands Of
francs monthly on one Of the ac-
,resSes OF La Monnaie. &c.
SO from the tea table to the political
caucus club, and there you will find
the sa!Ie political profligacy running
riot. Hire rs there Deputies are
secretly pald thousands ant thou
sands Of francs for allowing their
names to appear on the directing
company in tic prospcctuscs OF
financial speculations. Here rs
thcre the Deputy's or Senator'S
pockets are lined with gold for beg
ging ministerial favors. Here rs
there political oig.w;gs carry on the
mcpcttyiu iutrigucs. the same double
faced chicancry, the same double
dyed hypocrisy. Where public po-
sitions are got by bribery politics be-
comes trade, and political traders
(or tricIstcrs) are rs proportionatcly
numerous in Brussels rs they are in
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