State Iniquity Author:Benjamin Scott Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: OPPOSITION TO THE SYSTEM, AND ITS OVERTHROW. CHAPTER XI. Commencement Of Opposition. The first time a measure was introduced into Parliament to regulate... more » vice in modern times was in 18645 but in 1863 the advocates of this measure were sounding public opinion on behalf of their experiment, by means of the press. One newspaper alone, The Daily A'ews, in a series of leading articles, published in the month of September in that year, protested against the scheme, which it declared was "set about in an indirect way, with the cunning of conspiracy," and which assumed " steadily, without pause, intermission, or a hint of doubt, that police supervision is, in the case of this vice and disease, a specific safeguard." The writer of these articles was the renowned Miss Harriet Martineau, who was in this way the first to raise the alarm, and whom we shall presently see renewing, at a more favourable juncture,her attack upon the system of vice regulation. It is strange that no one heeded the warning, that no one else joined in the protest, and that, save for a slight opposition in the House of Commons, which was easily silenced, no other sound of opposition was heard until the year 1868. Encouraged by the success of their endeavours to fasten on the nation a system of State-managed prostitution, the pro-Acts party proceeded to institute an agitation by meetings of a semi-public character for the extension of the Acts to the whole country. The strategy of silence had succeeded, but publicity damned them. On May, 1868, a meeting was called in support of this agitation, and was held in the Mayor's Parlour, Newcastle-on-Tyne. The advertisement of this meeting was seen by Dr. Hooppell, then the Principal of the Winterbottom Nautical College in South Shields, who did not go to the d...« less
ISBN-13: 9780678004296 ISBN-10: 0678004293 Pages:413 Edition:New issue of 1890 ed Rating: