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The new chivalry, human form the damnatory language 



Tht New which dcals with real which their predecessors once reserved 



ParHam^ent! uccds and uot with the almost exclusively for their theological 



trivialities of romance, opponents. 



is illustrated in the repeal of the One wonders if the same 



infamous French law which forbade all ^j'y Damn the chivalry, free from 



IVlany because -^ 



inquiry into the paternity of the ille- of the Few ? Party trammels, will 

 gitimate child. It also appears in the assert itself when the 

 passage of the White Slave Traffic Bill question of woman suffrage comes before 

 through all its stages in the House of the House. Will honourable members 

 Commons and its second reading in who have been proud to protect our 

 the House of Lords. It is much to be British womanhood from the fraud and 

 regretted that the clause was dropped violence of procurer and procuress be 

 by Mr. Lee which enables nests of shame equally eager to protect the women of 

 in fashionable flats to be dispersed with this country from the reactionary effects 

 the same rigour as the resorts of less of the foul dishonour done to their 

 wealthy vice. It was a pity that the cause by another class of criminals 

 clause was not forced to a division, in leagued in a conspiracy equally law- 

 order that the country might know who, less ? Will they, in spite of the un- 

 however well intentioned, were really pardonable excesses of the Suffragettes, 

 the protectors of wealthy profligacy, refuse to be daunted or tempted thereby 

 But it was feared, unfortunately, that to shirk the duty of freeing woman from 

 the retention of the clause would imperil the degradation of inferior citizenship ? 

 the passage of the Bill. And many of Will the majority of the House of 

 its supporters anticipate that the tide Commons, which is pledged to deliver 

 of mora] indignation which has been our British Andromeda, prove itself a 

 steadily nsing throughout the country true Perseus, and be undismayed by 

 will enable amending measures to be the scaly dragon of the Suffragette con- 

 carried in future sessions. The temper spiracy, which is now the chief hindrance 

 of the House of Commons and of the to the enfranchisement of woman ? To 

 House of Lords in debating the Bill did leave unenfranchised the great majority 

 both Chambers credit. When the chains of British women who are by far the 

 of Party are loosed and Parhament is most law-abiding part of the corn- 

 free to express itself on some great munity because of the excesses of a 

 moral issue, the elect of British man- few criminal women would be logically 

 hood not infrequently do honour to our on a par with an attempt to deprive the 

 common humanity. The chivalrous majority of men of the possibiHties of 

 enthusiasm which swept through the fatherhood because of the enormities 

 Com.mons when by an overwhelming perpetrated by a few in the markets of 

 majority the power to flog procurers shame. Similarly it is unreasonable to 

 and bullies was secured will be long claim the by-election at Bow and 

 remembered. It is equally refreshing Bromley as a popular mandate against 

 to find bishops and archbishops votes for women. The issue was a purely 

 applying freely to those fiends in personal one. It was barely disguised 



