XPost: rec.music.classical.recordings, edm.general, rec.arts.poems   
   XPost: alt.culture.orientalism, alt.culture.outerspace   
   From: afb.acfk@afayacfj.com   
      
   slaves   
   girls, as some prefer to term them) in the families in this Colony are   
   contented with their lot, and their parents do not claim them, the   
   police cannot be expected to interfere.' Another said 'Buying and   
   selling children by the Chinese has been considered a harmless   
   proceeding, its only effect being to place the purchaser under a legal   
   and moral obligation to provide for the child until the seller chose   
   to repudiate the bargain, which he could always do under English law.'   
      
   The Attorney General, Mr. O'Malley, when asked (at a later period) his   
   opinion as to the utterances Sir John Smale had made from time to time   
   on the subject of slavery, replied to the Governor   
      
       "With regard to Sir John Smale's observation, I know that   
       difficulties national, social, official and financial beset the   
       Government in reference to the special questions I have raised,   
       I have only to observe that I have never heard of those   
       difficulties. My own impression is that the respectable parts   
       of the community, Chinese as well as European, including the   
       Government and the police, are fully alive to the brothel and   
       domestic servitude systems, and as well informed as Sir John Smale   
       himself as to the real facts. One would suppose from the tone   
       of his pamphlet that he stood alone in his perception and   
       denunciation of evil. But I believe the fact is that the Executive   
       and the community generally are quite as anxious is he is to   
       insist upon practical precautions necessary to prevent the abuses,   
       and to diminish the evil   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)