We note with a deep sense of satisfaction that in
the Howie of Lords on Thursday the Second Reading of the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill was passed without a division. In the course of the debate the Chancellor and the Archbishop of Canterbury spoke with great earnestness of feeling, and both expressed approval of the flogging clauses, as also did Lord Lansdowne. A phrase which fell from Lord Willoughby do Broke is worthy of special notice. The real thing at the bottom of the question, he declared, was the love of im 'ey. During one single year the profits from the trade of he procurer in Chicago amounted to something like £3,000,000. In our opinion such tremendous pecuniary temptations make it absolutely necessary to provide deterrents of the severest kind. They are provided by the lash. It is quite possible that corporal punishment does not deter men inflamed by the passions of hate or lust, but unquestionably it does deter the man who is "out to make money."
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