... prevent. In the first place they wanted to help women to be able to get a decent living without going into the desperate slavery to which many working vwomen were now condemned; and, to go further, to prevent this drain upon thelabour market by bringing ...

... the question, he said that we are in the same position in relation to the opium trade as our fore- fathers were upon the slavery question. (Applause.) They bad never yet had a statesman who had said a word abouf the trade, except that they wanted money ...