“DEFENCELESS ADAMS.”
Colonel Sir Edward Ward, who alluded in a speech at the Union Jack Club to the alleged state of Waterloo Road at night, referred to “Eve, who was the temptress there,” and went on to say that “if these modern Eves were kept off the streets” we should not have “those painful legends of the fall of the defenceless Adams.” We can only say that if the men of the country (an b‘ correctly described as “defenceless Adams” when confronted with schoolgirls, it is high time that responsible women were entrusted with the serious business of the government of the country, including both the making of the law and its admin ; strat ; .on.- “Exchange.”
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White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 266, 18 August 1917, Page 15
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