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    February i, 1868.] THE TOMAHAWK. 51

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    " THE MOST SHAMEFUL SIGHT IN THE WORLD: 1

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    WATER IN THE DESERT ! able This ! We is ...

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    February I, 1868.] The Tomahawk. 51

    February i , 1868 . ] THE TOMAHAWK . 51

    " The Most Shameful Sight In The World: 1

    " MOST SHAMEFUL SIGHT IN THE WORLD :

    Water In The Desert ! Able This ! We Is ...

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    should have cause for his wailings ! joy I less purpose , wicked this place week which leaving I have for a moment styled ( not the without glaring , truth noisy I , rooms trust ) " , casinos the most , and shameful taverns si , to ght follow in the the world wavering , " with step its s supper of one rest of its and habitues peace . , to Not a land to the populated river this with time prodi , but gal to daug a haven hters , to of still a fold been filled found with . sheep Oh ! that it is have leasant been lost , but leasant being lost to know have that there exist in this great town p of ours , very good p men and great menwho b ^ p willingly have measured swords with S atanand daringly

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    success After is lifting the Rescue up my Society humble , of pen 85 Queen a few street weeks , Cheapside sincein the . . cause of purity , I was greatly encouraged , in my Herculean , and almost hopeless task of " writing down " an abuse which for p year hilanthrop s has defied ists , with by receiving impunity a the kindl efforts y letter of our from most a energetic very influential ^ ^ ""^ ^ 'B' ^ ^ ^ ^ » ™ ^— member ' " ^ " ^ ¦ »~» - ^ ^ " ^ of " the ^ B BBBB BT Managing Bi » ^ " WBIfl BB BB BB » B , Committee Bb * BjbT b » BB Bk ^ B * « BI ^ V BB * BBV ^ B ^ of ^| B- BB the ^ ^ ^ V Institu BBi B » Bk B # W ^ Bjf Bj ^ Bfe

    tion to which I have just referred . The writer of this letter begged perusal " me The to Fourteenth persevere in Annual my work Report , and of enclosed the Rescue for So my - affected mentalism ciety . " I me , don and more 't yet want than I cannot to lay book myself but declare I have open ever th to at a read this charge . little The of volume works sentiof Dickens and Thackeray any now and again bring- the tears to the the eyes eves of of their their readers readers , but but I I say sav that that every everv page naere of of this this re

    re-port was full of sorrowfu , l reflections . It opened my eyes to certain such a frightful than ever vision that of I had human done depravity right in calling that I became the last more subject World of . " my Perhaps " Peep-Show I can " scarcel the " y Most do better Shamefu than l print Sight , a in letter the allusion I have received . As it from is written the gentleman by a good to man whom in I a 've good alread cause y made it cannot be read by too many : — ,

    Rescue 85 Society Queen , street , Cheapside , It is encouraging to us , who are working i 20 n th a bl Jan esse uary d w , o i 860 rk , . the feeling recovery that of t we he lo are st , and not yet checking all the the while flow going of public on profli with gacy a hopeless , much less strik " e , damming and are willing -up " any to of do its so many at the sources other end —to of learn the subject that others . can Though you will never be able effectually to " write down " this and monstro bli u ht ev with il , yet satire you and may denunciation scathe to the those death cruel many social of its theori accessories es and , g

    maxims which go far , in the first place , to produce the evil , and then thought in operate London t among o prevent I am those unable its diminution most to conversant give . you As to any with the reliable number the subject statistics of " that Unfortunates , they but may it is " reg number istered from loose 40 women , 000 to , 60 and , 000 its ! polic Paris e estimate , it is kn that own at , ha least s about 30 , 000 20 more , 000 evade their - ""^ restrictions ! ¦

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    work speak at to some quite trade an equal or other nu ? nber as those of those who who more state avowedl that the state y usuall them y - , y selve at interval s to s of thre ** gay e . " or four I have months frequ , and ently found visited the th majori e Hay ty market of the women there each time to be diflferent to those I have seen before . the Beyond mark doubt ! All you the may institutions safel y conclude in London that receive 50 , 000 about will 1 b , 000 e far yearl beloro y . The ^^ B ^ v ^ H B > va * n ^/ st ¦ ^^ majority ^ B ^^^^ B *^* B * k ^ ^^ ~^ Bff of ^*^ ^^ B fallen > ^ ^ ^ M * B > ^ F 4 Bi women V V ^^^ BAA ^ BP " ^^ Bn are B > ^ from B ^ B ^^^ B > B > BB the Bff ^^^ hBBr humblest ^ B > ^ B WBF ^ tBkB . P ^^ ^^ ^ B ^ ^^^ BP B social ^ ^^^ ^ f A . ^ l ^

    station , female domestics affording the greatest supply . There is somewhic the thing modern h terribl should social y connect suggestive and class female in this and life class fact , and . of of the I hardl the hollow chasm know * ' in artificialism how the to sympath indicate " y to you those causes , above others , which eventuate y in the open vice of may the streets venture . almost They are to ta so ke rife any , so part multifarious of our social , so organism involved , , that when you you education examine ( or «¦ it rather , find the it a entire feeder absence to the social of it ) evil bad B . " Mongrel housing laws " Bjp ^^ , bad low

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    ¦ i * * * abuses I thoug abounding ht it would in the not spot be out with of which place , I before am dealing I attacked in detail the the to say Rescue here a Society few word . s I about will leave this most for admirable future discussion of charities the , , contents of the sad little volume lying before me , and merely follow It It is is the broad broad faltering daylight daylight steps , , and and of the the the fi gas gas gure lamps lamps I see in are are my being being mind ' cleaned cleaned s eye . .

    business and last . ni Shop ght ' s -keepers revelry of has hig g h iven standing way to have sober exposed , respectable their , wares customers for sale . And , and here are let waiting me pause upon and their ask why carriage do - these possessing shopkeepers street in which of high their standing houses permit are situated the ni into ghtly conversion hell ? It lies of the in avery their ¦ scenes power of which to do I much comp , very lain much and , towards it is their " putting duty down as honest " the

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    quite standing a different on this class spot to would those who not throng have been the street out of . This place figure last g ni lare ght— of but the here rising this sun , morning it seems , inexpressibl in the broad y strange daylight and , in con the - temptible . Let me follow it . Cross It threads and its its squirting way through fountains the , past busy the streets Strand , past with Charing its lazy clerks lounging to Somerset Housepast Temple Bar with its

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• Citation
  • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Feb. 1, 1868, page 51, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_01021868/page/9/