PROTECTION OF WOMEN: GUILDHALL MEETING.
[To THE EDITOR Or TRH "SPECTATOR.']
Srn,—Your article of May 11th on the " Criminal Law Amendment (White Slave Traffic) Bill" seems to me prac- tically to endorse the steps which I have taken towards calling a meeting, for men only, at the Guildhall on Monday,
June 10th, at 5.30 p.m. The Lord Mayor has most kindly consented to take the chair. The object will be to appoint a deputation to wait upon the Prime Minister to beg the Government to leave no stone unturned for the speedy passage of the Bill in question. The difficulty that has arisen within the House seems to be quite unintelligible to the out- side world, and from all I hear, and in spite of Mr. Arthur Lee's indefatigable attempts to influence the blockers of the Bill, there is great danger that it will be shelved. To thousands of right-minded men such a possibility appears very terrible. The passage of this Bill into law will perhaps not make history; yet it is infinitely more important than either Home Rule or Welsh Disestablishment to the welfare of our civiliza- tion, oven granting all the claims of those who endorse the latter measures.
The conveners of the meeting feel that an expression of opinion at the Guildhall—more particularly because it is in- stigated neither by Parliamentary effort nor by any of the societies which are working for the passage of the Bill—will have weight with the Government. I shall therefore be greatly obliged if you will draw the attention of your readers to the matter. May I add also that I shall be very grateful if any one interested will send the names and addresses of men likely to support this meeting to our organizing secretary, Mr. Edward Foord, 85 Harley Street, W. P —I am, Sir, &c., 85 Harley Street, W.
GREVILLE MACDONALD.
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