CULLED FROM "HANSARD.”

White Ribbon, Volume 22, Issue 254, 18 August 1916, Page 7

CULLED FROM "HANSARD.”

”1 .tin not the Minisicr of Morals, but the Minister of Health” (Hon G. Russell. Alas! more s the pity. To sec ure a healthy nation, it muse first be a moral nation (using the word moral in its broadest sense). A Minister of Public Morals would erect ,1 fence at the top of the precipice; a Minister of Health, with his ambulance, gathers up the wrecks at the bottom. “There never was a more in i«|uitous thing enacted in this world than the Contagious Diseases Act.”—(Mr Hornsby). Thank you, sir, for expressing, in a chamber where no woman s voice is allowed to be heard, the opinion of the thinking women of to-day. “Io clear up all doubt, let me say these are the only classes 1 propose to segregate, namely, male and female prostitutes.”—(Hon. Russell). It’s good to call things by their right name. Hitherto the* word prostitute has been applied to one sex only. “I have strenuously opposed fi o’c lock closing. Th«* reason Ido so is because 1 trust even man. Take your glass if you want it, and have done with it, but do not forget yourselves and drink to excess.” — (Colonel Potter, quoted by Dr. Thacker). “It was a crime if any man fell out through his own fault, in associating with these foul women. Of course, he knew they were* not so foolish as to mix with some of these pests, but it was while under the influence of liquor that they were liable to forget themselves, and fall victims to the social scourge.’’—(Colonel Potter, quoted by Dr. Thacker). How does the worthy Colonel reconcile these two statements? Evidently he did not get a training in logic. “His parents didn’t pay ’he extra is for logic.”