MORALS OF RICH AND POOR
Dialogue between Lady Astor, M.P.. and a man in the audience followed a meeting of the Lancashire and Cheshire Child Adoption Council at Liverpool. Man: Do vou not think you are tinkering with a great social problem? Lady Astor: Do you mean that private enterprise is at the bottom of inimorality? ... I used to think housing conditions alope were responsible for immorality, but some of the most immoral peojjJe live in large houses. Questioning the man Lady Astor said: “You swear that the Socialists arc moral and that the Liberals and Conservatives are not. 1 may tell you that morality does not belong to one party and is not a question of purse. Come to the. House of Commons and I will show you?”
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 75, 21 December 1929, Page 33
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129MORALS OF RICH AND POOR Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 75, 21 December 1929, Page 33
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