Show I rLONDON I INIQUITY hefpainrfll Gazette Highly JL lEifcouraged IS ITS WORK OF EXPOSING VICE 7 T L J I w 3 Tliidow Glass Workers General Grant = Strikers In Cleveland Saginaw and Bay City Iii Encouragement I LOSDOX July HThe editor of the Pall Jny Gazette has received letters from the Queen and Gladstonein which they heartily thank him for his recent exposures of the traffic in young girl focjmmoral purposes anti assuring him that he has their full sympathy in the matter LOIDOS July l4EveninItis now I depied that the Queen and Gladstone have written the editor ol the Pall Mall Gazette LONDON July l4A conference for the protection of young girls opened this afternoon in Princes Hall The chief promoter of the conference is the I Salvation army Hon Samuel Morley Liberal M P for Bristol presided and I male an address on the subject of the iniquity exposed by the Pall Mall Gn zelle He declared that the condition of society I in London as revealed by that paper was a scandal to the Christian nation The people must speak nut exclaimed the orator ioU their home are to be kept sacred from this surrounding sur-rounding pollution I believe there is I one law for the rich and another for the poor in these matters It should ben be-n fpfnnv to steal a noor nersons child Professor James Stuart proposed a vote of thanks to the proprietor and editor of the Pall Mall Gazette for the assistance their work has rendered to the cause of Christian morality This proposal was unanimously adopted as was also a resolution urging parliament i to raise the age of consent from 13 to I 18 years Sir Richard Aaheton Cross Home Secretary I announced in the House of Commons this afternoon that government govern-ment had concluded it was not advisable advis-able to prosecute the Pall Mall Gazette for its recent publications Pall Mall Gazette announces this afternoon after-noon that the Archbishop of Canterbury Canter-bury Bishop of London Cardinal Manning and Hon Samuel Morley have consented to act as a committee of inquiry into the charges of aristocratic iniquities made by the Gazette The committee which is looked upon as one of the most extraordinary in the high character of its members when organized will begin the work of investigation investi-gation tomorrow afternoon The Gazette will place in confidence before the committee every detail of evidence gathered by the papers reportorial commission com-mission on which it relies to prove the existence of the wickedness exposed by it Every person engaged in the Gazette investigations will appear under oath before the committee and each will produce pro-duce all the memoranda gathered by him durinctheseveralweeks of inquiry together with all addresses letters portraits descriptions and identifications identifica-tions of persons The certificates and agreements collected and referring in any wise to persons directly or indirectly in-directly implicated in the discoveries made The committee will treat confidentially con-fidentially all information placed before it but will make a memorandum report tions as to the truth of the Gazettes revela I |