A memorial, on the other hand, of sixty-one thousand four hundred and thirty-seven British women, and presented to the Government July 31, 1897, asserts:-- "No permanent diminution of disease will ever be attained by measures which do not strike primarily at the vice itself." The leader of the sixty-one thousand and more, Mrs. Josephine Butler, answers to the statement of the one hundred and twenty-three: "The confidence of ultimate victory based on a foundation which cannot be shaken, enables us to regard with composure the forward advance and claims of materialism and fleshly indulgence, and to compassionate those--furious against us to-day--who will be beaten to-morrow, and who will be forced, before the 'great cloud of witnesses' in heaven and earth, to confess themselves defeated and deserving of defeat." The cause of venereal disease is promiscuous relations carried to excess. The hope of eradicating such disease, then, by licensing its cause, betokens the extreme of moral blindness, and contradicts all science. Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell says: "We may as well expect to cure typhoid fever whilst allowing sewer gas to permeate the house; or cholera, whilst bad drinking water is being taken, as try to cure venereal disease whilst its cause remains unchecked." A recent official plea for licensed prostitution in the Cantonments of India declares: "The efforts to teach the soldiers habits of self-control" have "signally failed." We wish for a moment to consider the efforts that have been used in the past. There lies before us a copy of the "Report of the Army Health Association." It was printed at Meerut, India, in 1892. We have also the subsequent reports for several years. In speaking of the efforts put forth to teach self-control, much is made of the work of this Association (see Departmental Committee Report, 1897, page 13), as a means that has been used. This report of the Army Health Association has printed on its cover such texts as, "Keep thyself pure," "He that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption," etc.; giving the impression that it is a religious document. In fact it is interspersed all through with Scripture quotations.