The fault is with the State, and the cause must be looked for at St. It is, however, an absurd thing to throw the blame on the police who, as known to us clergy, are amongst the most hardworking and hardly tried of the populations, and it shows a still grosser lack, both of taste and reason, to cast the slightest innuendoes against Sir Charles Warren or the Home Secretary in this particular. In the latter locality such events as the recent murders could never have occurred without prompt discovery. Nothing is more instructive than the difference between the East and the newer parts of South London in this respect. The burden would thus fall on the proper shoulders. The dismal, unhealthy, overcrowded and underlighted streets, with cul de sacs inviting to evil, should be dealt with by each Vestry separately, and drastic measures, however expensive and apparently stern, should be taken for the eventual good of the community, by means of a rate levied on ground rents throughout the metropolis generally. The poverty is in the end traceable to the most despicable and common sin, "love of money," on the part of landlords and sweaters, who ought to be heartily ashamed of thus grinding the faces of their poorer brethren. Let it be dealt with as it deserves, and let the blow be struck at the fountain heads, on whom will fall the curse when justice is meted out. The drink traffic is at the bottom of half this misery and vice. The men who morally assert the contrary are not men, whoever they may be, and whatever the position they may occupy. But there is not an atom of difference in the guilt of either.
So called "degraded" women are the result of equally degraded men, and vice versa. Socially, the whole affair points unmistakeably to the regulation and comparative suppression of vice by the State, unflinching and absolute equality being dealt out to both sexes. The difficulties suggested range themselves immediately under two heads - social and moral. I will try to make my remarks at once trenchant and tender. Kindly forgive any seeming presumption in adding to your correspondence on this subject but it appears to me a fair case for hearing suggestions from those who have dedicated their lives to the service of the poor. The Leeds Mercury London Correspondent believes that a Metropolitan Member will, after the meeting of the House, give notice of address for the dismissal of Sir Charles Warren.
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