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Powell, "Legal Protection For Young Girls," Jan. 1886
do wrong," is exactly reversed by the unjust laws which render young
girls of ten or twelve years the easy prey of bad and viciously inclined
men. It is a striking illustration of the wretched work men alone have
done in legislating upon a subject wherein the interests and welfare of
both sexes are so vitally involved. Women and true, high-minded,
honorable men should everywhere join, heartily and resolutely, in a
common effort to abolish, promptly and forever, the great wrong, and
to surround the persons of young girls, as well as property, with
adequate legal safeguards.
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A. The Criminal Law Amendment Act was passed in Britain in response to the
public outcry following William T. Stead's exposé of white slavery in "The Maiden
Tribute to Modern Babylon," published in the Pall Mall Gazette in 1885. The Act
raised the age of consent from thirteen to sixteen.
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B. William E. Gladstone (1809-1898) was a four-time prime minister of Great Britain
(1868-74, 1880-85, 1886, 1892-94).
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