The Chairman—Mr. Lockhart, you are doing your case no good. Mr. Rawlinson is trying to reply. All matters of exaggeration depend for their truth upon the standard from which they are looked at. It is quite possible for one person to say that a cause is exaggerated without implying that another person...
Mr. Bruce Lockhart—It is important. It shows up the whole spirit of the league. (Fresh cries of "Order!") I am going to say what I wish to.
A speaker who was subsequently referred to as a Mr. Read asked what had been the drift of Mr. Rawlinson's speech—''We have done splendid work this year. We have gone to various houses and pushed these people out." That was considered a most delightful and splendid thing to do, Throughout the whole speech he waited to hear some really Christian words. They had brought pressure to bear on the Council. They had pushed poor people out on the streets whom they said were immoral. Would one go to an asylum and eject people who had nowhere else to go. So these women in Shanghai could be looked upon as morally and intellectually deficient. The league wanted to eject them long before they provided somewhere for them to go.
"Tf T were a woman (loud shouts Order!")... Tam going to w it in public, You have never had aman up before. I am going to tell you what a lot of cads you all are." declared Mr. Bruce Lockhart.
The league, he continued, would not lift a finger to help these women. He was telling what the public's opinions were about them all. They were driving prostitution all over the town and encouraging secret prostitution, a very grave danger. jinest people in town were saying this privately.
The Chairman—I must ask you not to turn this meeting into a bear garden.
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