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HAUNTS OF THE WHITE SLAVE TRADER 53
The officials in the countries we have
named are British. They are men of honour,
who loathe, as they would a deadly plague,
the despicable "pimp." It will also be
averred by the authorities a,t Whitehall that
the judges and magistrates in our Eastern
possessions are quite capable of dealing with
cases arising from the traffic in women as
they occur. We agree
with this also. We
also know that all good men are not dead
in the East ; we admit that the judges and
magistrates of the superior courts of India,
Burma, of Singapore, Penang, and Hong-
Kong, are a splendid reflex of all the highest
traditional probity that has, for the last
couple of centuries at least, surrounded
British justice and British judges from the
Law Courts at Temple Bar right to the
farthest portion of the earth, where the
British flag flies.
To some persons who are ignorant of the
greatness of Britain's Eastern possessions, and
who consider the affairs and the life in the
East to be one topsy-turvy conglomeration
of all that is unwholesome, it would come
as an intellectual revelation, and as a cause
for pride and thankfulness in their British
heritage, if they could seat themselves in
the superior court at Penang or Singapore
and minutely observe the great judges dispensing
justice between all manner of men,
all castes, colours, and creeds, and of every
tongue, in the name of and on behalf of the
British nation. Further, it is safe to say that,