London Press and Social Purity

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 15, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 39.

London Press and Social Purity

The Methodist Times (London) says that the silence maintained by the majority of London newspapers in regard to the social-purity movement, and their denunciations of the Pall Mall Gazette for its revelations of vice, are due to the fact that an appalling state of the vice exposed by that paper exists in the press circle of London. Meetings are being organized to make the public acquainted with the new developments of scandal in high places, and to organize a general system of boycotting tradesmen, and commercial houses managed by men of reputed immorality. Many shops wherein crowds of young girls are hired for meager wages, have been denounced by name in these meetings as places of ruin.