Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878.] WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1893.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4480, 26 July 1893, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878.] WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1893.

SECOND EDITION I

Certain persona wlio are considered ] to be in some treasure responsible for | planting an in.tooral house in a < decent, quiet neighbourhood of this I town have, with an effrontery which ' we do not care to oharaoterise, endea- ' voured to extenuate their conduct by J assailing the motives and character's of those who have openly declared their intention of opposing a palpable ! outrage on publio decenoy. Neither ; do we care to bandy words with a journal which, lost to all sense of ] shame, writes of the keeper of a ( notorious house os " A Lady." It 1 was hoped that a certain culprit was i sufficiently sensible of the false, posi- ' tion in which he had placed himself as to endeavour to repair the oiisobief' which he has contributed to bring ! about. This expectation must now be abandoned and the only alternative is , to appeal to the law—which professes 1 to provide a penalty for such offences, 1 It would be easy to gibbet the offen- I ders by publishing a plain narrative < of the whole aflair, and they have, by ' tbe position tbey have taken up, in- ' vited an exposure of this kind. But , recrimination will serve no good pur» 1 pose. The municipal by-law, to ] the unprofessional mind, provides I a plain remedy for the evil it- ' self. It may or may not he difficult ( to bring legal proof of the character j of the house in question; but if, in this instance, sufficient evidence to satisfy a Court of Justice is not pro* j curable,' it may be said that every ( decent family in tho town is iinpro- t tected, and may, any day, have, foran I immediate neighbour, a pestilential ' tenement. We do not propose to dis- f cuss further the moral aspect of this ' question, but we shall do our best to 1 co-operate with others in suppressing j any notoriously immoral house that i may be, opened in a decent height < bourhood, by appealing to the remedy provided by the'law in the first in- t stance, and if that proves insufficient, by endeavouring:to secure Buck addi- f tional legal provision as may be ( necessary for effectively dealing with t the evil. We have been misrepre- l sented in a quarter where it would J be perhaps bad form for us to refer r too pointedly. It has been said that 1 the article which we published on < Thursday, last was written under * pressure from certain reverend gentle- c men. We may say that not a single t Minister of Religion suggested the c article or even spoke or wrote to ub ' on the subject prior to its publication, ( Were the Ministers, of Religion to t drop this question at once, we Bhould ° still proceed with it, because we have ! come to the conclusion that the 1 decent quiet families of Masterton re- j quirey: protection from outrage.There are persons euoh as theßorough ii Inspector or the police who may be l expeoted from their J official poatiohib J initiate 1 proceedings in- this; matter. 0 But if these fail in their duty, and h there is the slightest chance of estab- 9 lishing this notorious breach of,the l Borough By-law, ourselves, even ■',. if we stand alone, will take : out a ut summons against the keeper of tho' } offending premises..ln the meantime l we.depreoatefurther .discussion in j, our oolomns, as unlikely to be attended with any public benefit. . C