"A new struggle is made by this unscrupulous ministry to retain the execrable C.D. Acts. "I am sorry that the Bishops have again turned the scale in the unrighteous retention of the law against a man's marriage to his deceased wife's sister. When do the Bishops rally against sanguinary injustice and dire oppression? "I have just had two hundred and fifty copies struck off of the enclosed leaflet, which aims to suggest to the haters of unjust war, especially Quakers, in what direction they ought to work, viz. to lay the foundation of an _entirely new_ political party. No candidate for a vote could complain that he was humiliated by being required to profess himself a VOTARY OF JUSTICE. "I throw these leaflets in this and that direction as _feelers._ Of course more can be printed when wanted.... "With best regards, "I am, yours, "F. W. Newman." "15 Arundel Crescent, Weston-super-Mare, "_3rd Jan. _, 1887. "Dear Friend, "You need not think me dead yet; but you easily might, so estranged am I to Manchester. "Yet I at least have life enough to be able to wish all welfare and blessing to you and yours in this New Year. The accumulation of letters has always thwarted me when I have tried to find your last letter.... I seem to remember that you then told me of the marriage of your eldest daughter and of the literary efforts of another. Since then we have had the overthrow in the W.K. of the Safe-Harlot-Providing Law, and indeed it must have been as early as 1885; and the episode of Mr. Stead and his prosecution was later! A great moral change has been wrought (for the better, I say) in our ladies by that wickedness of our ruling classes with the aid of wicked medical theories provoking indignant protest. To drag printed matter into daylight is no doubt very offensive; but without sweeping it away no sound health is to be expected. The ladies, I fancy, will now, more _perseveringly_ than men, keep in activity the Purity Society. And if some of them seem a little _too_ active--I ask, how _can_ this odious system of sin, crime, and cruelty be crushed without hot enthusiasm? And where was enthusiasm hot without partial error? Fire burns! "This reminds me of my sending you (at your request) a load of anti- vaccination literature, and I am wondering whether you were able to turn it to service. THAT monstrous iniquity _must_ come down; but the medical schools and _your Irishmen_ block out our movement.