Show IJ 4 ft tIs RiW UD i 1 i The long trial in London r l growing out of the Pall Mall Gazettes sensational i exposures of the immoralities and soda r nastiness of the British metropolis came to an end bn6aturday2n thejurj I i finding a verdict of guilty against I Editor Stead ahd the woman Jarrett for taking the girl Eliza Armstrong against her fathers > consent = The ver t t diet will be endorfedbr rightthinking people everywhere especially if it shall t followed by = the pajiishtnent which i the defendants so richly tieserye Front a = the outset it has been clear that t e 11Ir ti Stead wns not honest andr sincerein his i Y work or if so he was no person to i < stand at the heads tita great metropoli t 1 ian newspaper His efforts all point in 1 the direction of nadvertisingscheme Tl first to popularize and t 1 sells > paper i t r and next to gain notoriety for himself j i Some days before L jjmj tHe exposures jjmjff appeared he to ff a kept a notice standing i in tie J ti Gazette calling attention to the forthcoming publication and inviting i i BOWSdealers and the pabIic t publicto send in 4 their orders earlythatjUwiixublisiier1 might be able to supply the demand It was not necessary forMrSie d to Mt Stead tlcm l l r ij k r n I nl r L l i f cmstrnte the truth of his allegations by a personal illustration the editor does not have to steal a horsejo prove that horse stealing is practiced nor to break anvilaw to make it certain that laws are br ken Mr Stead was either remarkably remark-ably ignorant as a roan andean editor or his ownnforals were not abovejtbpse of the persons he was denouncing After his arrest also showed that he was not sincere honorable and honest in what II he had undertaken fomntil theprose cation was well tlJ nghe kept a threat hanging thatif authorities persisted in persecuting him he would retaliate by giving the names of Princes Ministers Minis-ters of State Members of Parliament and high officials who wer guilty of the things that he shad been charging against anonymous persoq ages There is none of the spirit of re taliationin the true martyr the main who is made to suffer for the sake of principle does not endeavor to ease his own suffering by hurting others Steads threat was cowardly and then fact that he has not made it good would indicate thatthere was more buncombe than merit in it ine evils 01 wnicn me Lau juau ua I zeUs complains may and probably do exist in London and it was all right to demand that they be cured but Mr Stead was wrong in his methods and criminal in his conduct he was evidently evi-dently more interested in booming the J I Pall Mall Gazette than in suppressing I vice and punishing the wicked He disgusted I dis-gusted not alone the decent people of England but of the civilized world generally I gen-erally and now that he is to be made to suffer the consequences of his misdeeds or his criminal l ignorance everybody will say that it serves him right |