Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-03-12
TO HIDE SHAME.

months ago, by the London Pail Mall
Gazette, are fresh in the minds of the
entire reading world. Wherever vir-
tue, honor, chastity, and woman's fair
name are priced, society was shocked,
yea, stricken dumb, by the awful dis
closures of that London journal. Men
went wild over the publications.
Women We'd with men in crowding
to the Gazette Office to secure each
days record OF more damning deeds,
perpetrated in the high places by the
aristocracy of the worlds greatest
city-the capital of the boosted and
Boosting Empire of Great Britain and
India, and the pretended center of all
that is wise, great, and good.
Days followed upon days, and the
wild, rushing crowds grew wilder and
greater, as the great paper added to
its recitals, and defed contradiction
of the horrible deeds it told of. The
clergy, the public press, the great
Parliament, and even the high digni-
taries of the Empire became agitated
and began to investigate. Investiga-
ton added to the universal excite.
ment, for it only established the truth
OF the Gazette's charges. The breath
of the nation bated; the lips of lords
and proud princes paled, and their
frightened hearts stood still at the
consciousness of the awful reckoning
that an outraged populace threatened.
Royalty trembled, as the bold Gazette
published and courted and dared
denial Of the truth Of its accusations.
The rich and powerful, the high in
place and social rank, saw the hand
writing on the wall, and desperation
filled the place of fear. The guilty
ones determined by one united action
TO crush, by force aud might, the free
bold man, whose knife was daily
driven deeper into the tester of their
filth. This is always the recourse of
towards and criminals. They had
him arrested and tired, by their own
official machinery, upon some slight
charge, and convicted and sentenced
to prison. The charge and its inves-
LEGATIONS were Of such character as
to cover up and divert attention from
the great question that was shaking
the country from center all around,
and thus, for a time, the excitement
quoted. But halfway measures never
cured an evil; surface treatment never
removed the roots Of cancer. The
great voice of England's people is
again, in chorus, crying out. That
editor is the hero, the martyr, this
time, and the people, whose daughters
have been outraged ard despoiled, are
more maddened than before. They
cry for vengeance. They should have
it in full measure.
Who are the guilty? The Englisl
aristocracry. The scions and associ-
ates of those same self-styled "bes,
people" The descendants of "di
vine line Of kings" The followers
in line, of the debauchees, who for cen.
turtles have Toasted and fattened or
the earnings of the laborer, and de-
based and defowered the daughter:
OF "the lower classes" with the ruth
lessness of vulture and the rapacitI
of wolf. Nothing is sacred to them
Virtue is a thing of batter, pal fo
by the earnings of the victims pa
rents. Chastity is toy, to be crushed
as child does a doll, and cast aside
broken and ruined forever. These
are "the guilty" These aristocratic
highborn "Nobles," who claim a,
their boosted line OF chaste ancestr,
the naked savages who roamed owe
the pretentious Isle, the famous Vir
gin Queen, "with her fayorites" anc
her Leicester, and the brandy drinkin.
companion of the Scot, John Brown
Let the people arise and probe ant
prove these outrages. Let them neve
cease investigation and protest, unit
the guilty ones stand naked to tn
eyes of earth, in all their hideou
hypocrisy, fostering and depravity
Let the people do tins, and the might
voice of God-given morality will tea
down these hyenas from their station
of xice, crime, and immortality, an,
erect upon the ruins of their rotteI
abiding places q government whcr