The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-26
THE REGULATION OF VICE.
LADY HENRY soMERSErs LETTER
TO THE W. q. 4. U.
She Thinks Many or Them Are Moved By the
Spirit or tho Inuuisition-uEer Leading OPP
ponent Elected Honorary Prcsident-Tho
Union Protests Against Licensing sin.

Spirit or the InauisitIou-uIer Leading OPP
ponent Elected Honorary Prcsiden'-Ehe
Union Protests Against Licensing Sin.
ToRoNro, Oct. 25.-whcn prosecuting their
anti.liquor crusade in Germany, the women
Christian Temperance Union people were cnllou
by tho German saloon keepers Dem ROCK Oh
Ages vimcn." This was recalled by Miss
Frances Il. Willard at the worlds convention
to-day when the delegates at once began sing
ing Rock OF Ages" When they got down to
business the Lady Henry Somerset bone OF con-
tcntion came IN. A letter from Lady Henry,
dated Eastern Castle, Ledbury, Oct. 10, was
rend. She did not deal directly with their dit'
ference OF opinion concerning the CONTAGIOUS
Diseases act. She'said that, looking pack from
the vantage ground OF tho ninetee lh century,
they condemned the spirit Of the inquisition'
and yet II they dissccted tho motives which
prompted those appalling crucltios they would
find the root principle was not wholly eVil' out
wholly mistaken. She thought something OF
that spirit governed the W. c. T. u, and We
feel where we differ we may almost claim the
A sensation was caused by reading a letter
of the purity department OF tho Worlds Union,
dated switzerland, in which the writer ottered
her resignation owing to the position or lazy
Henry ana her own uncertainty, as 10 now inc
question was regarded by Miss. Willard.
After working thirty years for the o9ht nsd
tl Nv IA u tllhb a.
%lation.s the state regulation of sexual vice. IN
any and every form in which that STATE or OIL
cial regulation had. presented itself, she nov
found the object and work OF her life discredlt.
ed for the first time by wcll-known leaders OF
women's movements. ut Is openly opposed by
Lady Henry Somerset, who has, as you are
aware, put forward a scheme for the regulation
of male fornication and female prostitution,
which goes. beyond the Contagious Diseases act,
formerly in force in England, in immortality and
indcliCacy." 1t would be n terrible blow, the
writer, said. to know that Miss Willard does not
come out faithfully against the declarations or
Lady Henry Somerset. She had so Tar seen no
pronounccmcnt Of hers.
There was no discussion OF the matter, but IL
is understood there will be a committed report
on it. \ life member Of the union, MIR. j, NJ. 7.
Hale Ramsay, condemned Mr.. Dwight L..
Moody for stopping in Montreal at the largest
whiskey hotel there, when there was an excel
lent temperance hotel within II block.
Mrs. Mary Clement Lcavitt Of Boston, leader
of the opposition against Lady Henry Somcr-
set, was elected Honorary President Of, tho
Worlds Union, at the request of Miss Willard.
Tho Committee on Resolutions brought;in n
report on the regulation OF vice, which said the
discussion of it as represented in the Contagious
Diseases act had assumed q character the
Union could not ignore. The union inostscar:
ncstly protested against anything that would
even seem to commit the members TO any eiort
Mt regulation or license as applied to any and
all forms of sin and declared its adherence of
any compromise iwth anything wrong In princi-
plo or sinful in practice.