CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4] — Page 23

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• "believe that I have

demonstrated that amoral

in

disease is thus existing .

to the verynitals growing in of good orders in this community.

Cans this disease be dealt with ? Example and theory with both prove the affirmations " In England an attempt to bring the matter under Government control might.

might

raise as cruff from those who

is best

think the Almighty plaved when vice is left

alone beet

in

this Colony

we have already had the proof that this class of

obshuchives if existing. dormant . I therefore again

most peopratfullyy but with every that is in me supplicats

energy

and

those who have the responsibility nested in them of determining what is or is not beneficial for this Colony to consider whether a recog

a recognition by Government of the existence of the vice of gambling.

modification of that vice by allowing it a pertain legal putlet and controlling it in the wregular but irresistible overflows will not relieve the Colomy ofe Hongkong of many

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