Mr Monro and the Brothels.

Observer, Volume IX, Issue 563, 12 October 1889, Page 12

Mr Monro and the Brothels.

A SUGGESTION FOR A BEMEDY. A correspondent (with whom we do. not agree in every particular) sends the following discursive letter: — , ,','r, Parson Monro's visit to the homes, of the souejl doves has oaused.quite a flatter all over theooiohy.' Mrs Bishop Oowie appears to be a wbmaivjwhp has some of the milk of human kindness .fn her composition ; but Mrs Professor Aldis appears to ' .. be utterly bereft df all human sympathy. Had she lived in the times **bf persecution- -or tha Spanish Inquisition she would probably have developed into a relentless v " Bloody Mary." , While posing as the real Simon Pare herself, she evidently ■ thinks that all the police establishment, from the superintendent downwards, consists of- liars and grossly immoral men. In fact, she appears to think that all those who differ in opinion from her blackguards. She talks about safety in vaooination from diseased children. Is she awate .that disease' has been conveyed by drinking from the same glass ; conveyed, by means of a razor in, shaving, by the slightest .abrasion of the skin, altogether apart from the usual cause of contagion. , - The CD. Act did. a lot of good, although it was a kind of lopsided arrangement. , In my ezpjaxp- , enoe .of life, I have always found women more pure-minded than men, and if a woman is bad 3ft is a man who has made her so. In small pox, scarlet Jever, and other contagious diseases, thejre is no difference in the treatment of the one sex from the other, and whether it makes it safe for men 6r women to sin, they should be treated alike, as what has been gopd, for the goose would >be equally good for the gander. ' The amount of disease in Auckland, is sp.nje-J£ thing appalling, and what could be more^a.bgg^Tr .iKably disgusting than, a baker or a bntol)f^JX scratching his filthy sores and then handling th'e..^ food which we eafc ?r ■ . l ' 1 v k *t Let Mrs Aldis chew the cud of reflection QV£i_ * such things ; but prostitution will never be dope away with ' in our day. It has existed from a very early period in the world's history, 'and will continue to exist when Sir George Grey's unborn millions are in full blast, and long after Mrs Aldis, and her C.D.A., and Sir Joliusi Vogel's borrowed millions, are buried in oblivion. In Auckland, as- well aS in the J 6ld country, married men are said to be the chief supporters of such institutions, and as a remedy. Mrs Aldis might induce Mr Thompson to introduce a Bill to legalize polygamy. -i -^ —