“(Therefore, bigger boys or men were to ill-treat the big little boys. What an argument! – Ed. D.P.]
“Flogging of children on the bare buttocks was approved of by majorities.
“They are all wrong. John Bright was right. Force is no remedy.
“Did these buttock-floggers ever hear of Signora Montessori? Children are better than men. Flogging is always disgraceful and brutalizing – more so to the floggers than to the flogged.
“It is cowardly, mean, and cruel; to be expected only from barbarians.”
The third alleged libel was a copy of a letter that had appeared in John Bull, and it was published in the issue of the Dulwich, Peckham, and Camberwell post for May 24, 1913. It was in these terms:-