In England they are free to come and go wherever they
please. There are many moralists who uphold one system



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against the other, and there are many who condemn both,
without suggesting any preventative scheme. That prostitu-
tion will exist as long as the world lasts is, I suppose, to be
admitted. Foreign Governments say that this great evil
should be supervised, and placed under rigid control ; that
no woman need follow that vocation unless she pleases, and
that if she does, in spite of every warning, she ought to
deprive herself of personal hberty. Also, that the moral
condition of their streets is far superior to English ones, where
vice is horribly rampant, and open scandals and temptation
are visible to the young of both sexes.
Writing on prostitution as it is carried on in London, Dr.
Richelot says : " La Prostitution y marche sans entraves,
sans controle, sans lois moderatrices, la tete levde, en plein
soleil."

The French authorities say that it is utterly wrong that this
great evil should be allowed to flaunt itself in public, and that
if people are so depraved as to wish for it they should go in
search of it, not have it brought prominently before them.
