does not give much information. I
cannot conceive how men like Horton & Lee Chen who could stoop to such
Existed in 18771 practices
Even under orders from their superior officers,
as Protectors of Women & Children! The fact that these
have been kept at this work
Ever since that date seems to me
to be a sufficient condemnation
of the whole system.
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Should not the Gov. of Fiji be reminded of the desp which he has not get ans
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I have got studied the subject & Mr. Johnson has also done so, therefore it is unnecessary for
me to multiply minutes. There must be some means, practically & really
efficient, for practically inspecting these brothels
and safeguarding their inmates and otherwise
we shall let horrible abuses continue. The best means of doing this
should be attached to the greatest weight by men who really know
the condition of life of the Chinese
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Drawn up & the number of highly educated & placed officials who have devoted their own time to counselling will thus be seen. I don't think any men should be called upon to administer such Laws.
This has now been done
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Considering the outcry not many years ago about the immoral traffic in young girls between England & the Continent; & the Laws taken to suppress it & to prevent the girls being sent, in aums cursions that it should require the Colonial Secretary against their will & in spite of Local Opinion to discontinue a system which was invented for the purpose of checking a similar and more extensive traffic, and if possible some of the girls before they begin their life of degradation; & afterwards giving them some
Kind of protection. If these wretched women were so passible persons, & able to take care of themselves they might be left to themselves, but being as they are, little better than dumb animals (on the
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Middle par. of p. 56 g P.P.118 of 80) we ought to do something for them. But the question is:
The system of registration & inspection may not have done all that was hoped from it, but to put it away presumably brothels & then leave things as they are, is, in a sense, to fail to
Leave it recognises evil but does nothing
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I did not suggest that as a substitute,
for providing protection that the present system is supposed to afford.
to meet the evil that otherwise brothels would
spring up everywhere. It's plain that without humanity for good government. If it
promotes Homes for girls something more
effective means of helping the girls. But nothing is suggested"; to suppress brothels when they make too much noise is hardly a substitute, even
though an adopted
greater Machinery of Criminal Law unnecessary but a quarter as effective an answer
the detections of the Po Leung Kuk good
as it is is itself on hardly
Equivalent to the frowns now pronounced by the Registrar General.
I shall be sorry
to see the registration abolished & the
women left to the cruel Mercies of their Refuse
if there were no
Laws for protecting
them up. G.W.J.M Jan 19/11/04
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