FORCIBLE FEEDING.
How Mr. Herbert Gladstone until lately. Homo Secretary, experimented on himself in order to test the sensations of a Suffragette being fed by force was revealed by Mr. Winston Churchill in a speech at Dundee. Mr. Churchill was asked whether, if he became Home Secretary, "he would put a 'stop to the inhuman method of feeding Suffragettes." Mr. Churchill said he had felt great'regret'that these methods had had to be adopted. (Cries of "Shame".'') No, he did not think it was a shame. If they were going to tako up the position that any prisoner in any prison, no matter what his crinie, might obtain reloaf.e or commit suicide, they reduced ..the whole punitive system of this country to nil absurdity. • ■ '. "I am informed," Mr. Churchill added, "that the system of feeding through the nostrils is not a brutal one. Mr. Gladstone took the best possible means of ascertaining this. Ho had it tried on himself, lie had administered in this way nn entire meal of.egg aiid milk, and so little inconvenience did he feel that he could talk perfectly well during the whole time.of the operation." (Loua laughter.)
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 759, 7 March 1910, Page 4
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191FORCIBLE FEEDING. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 759, 7 March 1910, Page 4
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