Sam Hughes, publisher, politician and soldier, doesn’t like the plan of Salvation Army founder General William Booth to help Britain’s “fallen women” transform their lives and prospects by emigrating to Canada and the United States. He voices his opinion in this item from his newspaper, the Lindsay, Ontario Victoria Warder, September 4, 1885: Booth, […]
Tag: Immorality
Perils of immoral theatre
Excerpts: That lewd insinuations, immodest words, and more immodest action, are admitted upon the stage;—that scenes are exhibited shocking to female delicacy, and pestiferous to the minds of youth; and that these things too often form the zest of entertainment, and the glory of the performance, is as notorious as that the sun shines at […]