the Editor of the "Nonru-Cmsa Dany News"
—From time to ti have app articles calling attention, from points of view, to the rapid growth and {present extent of morality in the Settlement of The Chinese Press has Jalso given voice to native opinion on the {sume subject. A common characteristic of of these contributions is an appeal to the Municipal Council to, take measures for I bettering existing conditions by exercising some control over the number and location Of houses of prostitution within the Settlement.
The criticism, thus implied, upon the laxity of the Municipal government, on this point is so sharp and the picture of social evil drawn so dark, that the reader is made to feel, if a resident of Shanghai, that his Ict has fallen in a veritable Sodom where the protectors of public good have become its destroyers. The writer, as one
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