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The Review of Reviews. 



iiavc liis woik cut mit tor him it he is 

 ooing to make our proletariat contented 

 and get our (h)ckers decent wages. But 

 that he should resolve to induce his party 

 to make the attempt is a promising sign of 

 the times. Labour unrest is bound to con- 

 tinue as long as the figures cjuoted by Mr. 

 Ascjuith to a deputation on the subject last 

 month are not altered. Since 1900 the cost 

 of living had increased 11 '6 per cent., 

 while wages had only risen '3 per cent. 

 This means that a man receiving a pound a 

 week luis had his real wages reduced in 

 eleven years bv more than as. a week. And 

 at the outset 20s. a week was not nearly 

 enough to maintain 'even the animal 

 efficiency of himself, his wife and three 

 children. All churches and parties are 

 slowly coming to see that the battle with 

 poverty is their next common objective. 



The Government has re- 

 White Slave Traffic cognised at once the feeling 

 ^'"- of the nation and its own 



plain duty in adopting Mr. 

 Arthur Lee's Bill for the Amendment of the 

 Criniinal Law. The second reading was 

 carried without a division on the lotli idt. 

 The same day saw the Guildhall crowded 

 with men meeting in support of the measure 

 and addressed by speakers representative of 

 all Parties and Churches. The splendid 

 success of this demonstration is largely due 

 to the "untiring labours of ])r. Macdonald. 

 I'Vcquent reference was made to the 

 fact that Iiut for our Chief's going 

 down with the Titauic the Bill would have 

 had no chance of enactment. It is now 

 being considered in Grand Committee. 

 Exception has been taken to the measure 

 on the ground that it might give op|)ortuni- 

 ties for levying blackmail on unoft'ending 

 men. It is a curious cf>mmentary on the 

 valour and clu\alr\- (A the stronger sex that 



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Frau Beatrix Vix- Kuneticka. 



The first woman to be elected a member of t lie Austrian 

 ._... Parliaitient. 



some men would rather let any number of 

 girls be trapped and ruined than run a very 

 remote chance of themselves being exposed 

 to the danger of blackmail. Happily the 

 nation is in no mood to yield to such un- 

 manly cowardice. The meeting in Qiieen's 

 Hall on the 26th ult., called at once to do 

 honour to the memory of our Chief and to 

 insist that the Bill be j)ut through this 

 Session, was an impressive demonstration of 

 resolute purpose, although undoubtedly the 

 dominant impression was that the surest 

 way to protect our womanhood was not by 

 occasional martyrdom, but by giving the 

 women themselves the vote. The whole 

 discussion brings to light the fact that 

 poverty is the worst pander of all. A 

 correspondent writing in the Times reports 

 that there are " firms, amon"' theiii Roval 

 Warrant hoklers, where every one oi" the 

 girls was said to be found at night on the 

 streets" to su|)plemciit her miserable 

 carnines with the hue of shame. From 



