Show t I S M LOND XS vices S II 1 During the past ten days thewtf c have been laden with the accounts of a t f rl sensation caused by the Pall Mall t Ga < = ttss exppsdre Of 6fte of Londons Is i vices Not many of the details hayje S I r t came but enough has been received to S i j tell us tliava good deal of nastiness has i i been covered A small affair could S S not have created the sensation that I ft S prevails in the great metropolis Some S months ago the Gazelle began the coLlection 1 coL-lection of materials preparatory to the I exposure of the depths to which the in fdmy of the traffic in young girls for 1 immoral purposes had descended It l a expended l500in its investigation and a few days ago began making public I I what it had learned The revelations were startling and filthy and while no names are given the descriptions are pomtcdenough to leave no doubt as to S who are aimed at It so happens that the vice mentioned is largely indulged r by the rich and titled Big money bags and bl5e Sldoi cover sinand crime in S that countryasm this The newspaper I d has been q assailed s y in high placesralmost from tfeenthrone itself and measures taken fosnppVess it Street and railway I rail-way sales have been stopped but the er I circnlatfon of the issues containing the IS S nasty articles Is nevertheless wide extra I heavy editions being necessary to 5 I supply the demand i If newspaper were less reputable less responsible or less wealthy than the JPallt Mall Gazette it might be S I I I char d lgainst 1t that the exposure was made only for the purpose creating 11llh a furore and selling papers but no such motive can be attributed to the p I r Gazette which is not only immensely I t rich but Js eminently respectable and I highjtonodf Jn exposing tlie sintiilt I 1k f practicesiof the British capital ititis t I I worJanVin the interests morality rt1 J r f ia notfDan < lenn s to tae vile tastes Qja I W5 I vulgar public but is lifting tiieSeil f S whicMiides from the eyes of decent S peoplCjihe moral rottenness that exists S around them in the hope that the evil i S will be curedthrough its xposure Perhaps there is no city on the earth i where there is greater depravity than in I London where society is said to be a fairly reeking with moral filth The I S sI I Gazettes expoSures may result in doing good though the newspapers taskis a I hard one where wealth and rank are so S li i j influential fallcontrolling If the people were masters the hope of a cure I would be better but as the sinful and depraved are those who make and enl en-l force the Jaws control society and are I influential everywhere the Gazette wilt I i fail in its laudabletask |