Note 3 — Chapter II · “λαμπάδια ἔχοντες, διαδώσονσιυ ἀλλήλοις.”

One of the utterances of the defeated candidate did, perhaps, more than anything else to turn the working men’s votes against him, viz., this: in a public document regarding his Governorship of Malta, Sir Henry Storks had stated that he much regretted his inability to bring soldier’s wives under the degrading and disgusting tyranny of this legislation.