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buys her, and her master receives the price
    always paid for a wife, whilst he has received the girl's services
    for simple maintenance; so that, according to the marriageable
    excess in the price of the bride over the price he paid for the
    girl, he is a gainer, and the purchase of the child produces a
    good return. But the picture has another aspect. What, if the
    master is brutal, or the mistress jealous, becomes of the poor
    girl? Certain recent cases show that she is sold to become a
    prostitute here or at Singapore or in California, a fate often
    worse than death to the girl, at a highly remunerative price to
    the brute, the master. It seems to me that all slavery, domestic,
    agrarian, or for immoral purposes, comes within one and the same
    category."

Every word uttered on this occasion by Sir John Smale, Chief Justice,
has value, but it is impossible for us to quote it all. Referring to
the purchase of kidnaped children from the kidnapers by well-to-do
Chinese residents of Hong Kong, without effort on the part of these
purchasers to ascertain from whence the children came, he says:

    "In each of these cases I requested the prosecution of these
    well-to-do persons, purchasers of these human chattels, who had