Sympathy with Mr Stead.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1765, 30 November 1885, Page 3

Sympathy with Mr Stead.

at the Social Parity Meeting just held at Auckland, Dr Renderdine presiding, a resolntion was passed expiring sympathy with Mr Stead, of the Pall Mall Gazette, and his associates m social reform. The Rev H Bull, Wesleyan Minister, strongly supported the resolution. Linder the heading of “A Martyred Enthusiast,” the Mwlborouah Express thus refers to the sentence passed on Mr Stead : —lt is a queer commentary <■>« *».. l-J* in -1-111---• l -‘'“‘°“ u l on e£f e c ‘a its reforms to find that the man whose exertions have resulted in the passing of a law giving better protection to young females from the devices of lustful scoundreds, and who has been the means of unveiling a Horrible system of organised iniquity in all its details, has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for the share he took in doing so. It is also a singular through not unexpected fact, that the combined efforts of the Home Department, the Magistracy, and the police of Scotland Yard, which not only failed to put down tbs iniquity referred to, but actually connived

at the crime and screened the offenders, should have been used to crush the man. who, more than anyone else, bus d"nu tinwork the authorities .hould hu'o done, and has lightened their labors for tile future. A long continued howl of delight at tiie conviction and sentence of Mr Stead, thaEditor of the Pall Mall Gazette, has no doubt gone up in every fashionable London brothel and from every titled and monied libertine in England. It is the old story of the British law ; “ one man may steal a horse but another may not so much as look over a hedge.”