Autograph letter signed (“William Booth”), to Dr Gladstone, enclosing a paper which aims to deal “with the fearful immorality and crimes that have been revealed of late” (“...There is no time to lose. Something should be done at once. The evil grows and still greater evils may be expected unless effectual measures are taken to deal with them...”), three pages, 8vo, original enclosure no longer present, contemporary newspaper cartoon tipped in, Headquarters of the Salvation Army, Queen Victoria Street, 13 August 1885 THE FOUNDER OF THE SALVATION ARMY BATTLES CHILD PROSTITUTION. He tells Gladstone: “In raising the age of protection to sixteen the Act must necessarily reduce a multitude of young creatures to the greatest straits of want and homelessness; and if we can provide a method by which they can not only abandon their wretched calling, but learn how to earn a livelihood, many will embrace it, beyond doubt. But we want to do better still. We want to lead them to a Saviour who can save to the uttermost, both for this world and the world to come”. In 1875 the age of consent had been raised from twelve to thirteen, but agitation, lead by William Booth´s son Bramwell and others, continued for further reform. In July 1885, the month before this letter was written, the journalist W.T. Stead had purchased Eliza Armstrong, a thirteen-year-old daughter of a chimney-sweep, to demonstrate how easy it was to procure young girls for prostitution. He published his account of the affair in the Pall Mall Gazette as ‘The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon´. Both Bramwell Booth and Stead were arrested, and while Bramwell was discharged, Stead was sent down for three months. The publicity however resulted in the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885, which raised the age of consent from thirteen to sixteen, and strengthened existing legislation against prostitution and indecent assault (the part of the act under which Oscar Wilde was later to be charged). The recipient of this letter would appear to be the chemist and educationalist John Hall Gladstone, a member of the London School Board, and early supporter of the YMCA.
Autograph letter signed (“William Booth”), to Dr Gladstone, enclosing a paper which aims to deal “with the fearful immorality and crimes that have been revealed of late” (“...There is no time to lose. Something should be done at once. The evil grows and still greater evils may be expected unless effectual measures are taken to deal with them...”), three pages, 8vo, original enclosure no longer present, contemporary newspaper cartoon tipped in, Headquarters of the Salvation Army, Queen Victoria Street, 13 August 1885 THE FOUNDER OF THE SALVATION ARMY BATTLES CHILD PROSTITUTION. He tells Gladstone: “In raising the age of protection to sixteen the Act must necessarily reduce a multitude of young creatures to the greatest straits of want and homelessness; and if we can provide a method by which they can not only abandon their wretched calling, but learn how to earn a livelihood, many will embrace it, beyond doubt. But we want to do better still. We want to lead them to a Saviour who can save to the uttermost, both for this world and the world to come”. In 1875 the age of consent had been raised from twelve to thirteen, but agitation, lead by William Booth´s son Bramwell and others, continued for further reform. In July 1885, the month before this letter was written, the journalist W.T. Stead had purchased Eliza Armstrong, a thirteen-year-old daughter of a chimney-sweep, to demonstrate how easy it was to procure young girls for prostitution. He published his account of the affair in the Pall Mall Gazette as ‘The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon´. Both Bramwell Booth and Stead were arrested, and while Bramwell was discharged, Stead was sent down for three months. The publicity however resulted in the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885, which raised the age of consent from thirteen to sixteen, and strengthened existing legislation against prostitution and indecent assault (the part of the act under which Oscar Wilde was later to be charged). The recipient of this letter would appear to be the chemist and educationalist John Hall Gladstone, a member of the London School Board, and early supporter of the YMCA.
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