Matrimony minus maternity

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MATRIMONY MINUS
MATERNITY

MATRIMONY MINUS
MATERNITY

BY

M. H. SEXTON

NEW YORK
THE DEVIN-ADAIR COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY
THE DEVIN-ADAIR CO.

All Rights Reserved by The Devin-Adair Co.

Press of

J. J. Little & Ives Company
New York, U. S. A.

PREFACE

IN ancient Egypt the Apis bull was
fanned with a feather ; to-day his stately
brother is knocked down with a sledge.

Job, to grow a velvety skin, raked his
slimy pelt with a potsherd.

The surgeon's knife explores the anat-
omy of man and destroys the haunts of
skulking life, while the pen of genius,
dipped in the ink of fact, lifts the counter-
pane from the bed of sin.

Social laxity has never been more ram-
pant than at the present day, and the cod-
dling methods now in vogue will never
starch the moral fiber of man.

In the following pages the reader will
see that the steed of thought swings along
the human highway, check free, pounding
with his steel-rimmed hoofs the pagan
methods that have outlived the Christ-
numbered centuries.

vi PREFACE

It is sought to environ the home, family,
and fireside with precepts that will cleanse
the body and lacquer the soul against the
burrowing power of sin.

Where tear gas is used the subject in
the judgment of the writer merits it.

No brief is held for any creed, and every
man is accepted as a brother.

With the theology or organized beliefs
of men the following pages do not deal,
nor is the domain of technical science en-
tered.

While standing on the summit of man's
activities and casting his eyes across the
world, a lawyer saw the moral dreariness
of the children of God and the contempt
for law among the children of men, —
hence set out to lash the money changers
from our social temples, and the seven
devils from our Magdalens.

Should any reader behold himself in
the mirror of thought, — or recognize any
of his sins in the inventory of man's cu-
pidities, it is hoped that he will not flame
into a passion, but will swallow it as he
would physic, on the theory that it is all

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intended for his good. Like Buddha, let
him reflect that if he meet a cripple in his
travels, there is time to become like unto
him; that if he sees a cancerous face, let
him shudder at the thought that he may
not be immune; and that if he beholds a
decaying corpse by the roadside, let him
remember that — "the paths of glory lead
but to the grave."

CONTENTS

I EUGENY .......

II MATRIMONY <••• • 8

III MATING 20

IV MATRIMONIAL BUREAU 25

V MYSTERIES OF CONCEPTION AND GESTATION . 29

VI CONTROL OF OFFSPRING 42

VII STERILIZATION 57

VIII STANDAED 77

IX INTELLECTUALS GENERALLY UNFERTILE ... 82

X SOCIETY 98

XI SHRINKING PROGENY 132

XII PREVENTIVES .' . . 167

XIII EYE OPENING AT PUBERTY I75

XIV DIVORCE

179

XV SEQUENCE ....,.< ... ..... 202

MATRIMONY
MINUS MATERNITY

CHAPTER I
EUGENY

IN lighting up the burrows of the ver-
min on the family tree and in locating
stains on the social linen of this day and
generation — in the words of Garrison:
"I will be as harsh as Truth, and as un-
compromising as Justice. On this subject
I do not wish to think, or speak, or write
with moderation. No ! No ! Tell a man
whose house is on fire to give a moderate
alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his
wife from the hands of the ravisher ; tell
the mother to gradually extricate her
babe from the fire into which it has fallen
— but urge me not to use moderation in a

course like the present. I am in earnest

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— I will not equivocate — I will not excuse
— I will not retreat a single inch — and I
will be heard. The apathy of the people is
enough to make any statue leap from its
pedestal and hasten the resurrection of
the dead."

It may be that the advocates of eugenics
and sexual precociousness are unconscious
worshipers at the shrine of Pandora.

Many well-meaning, intellectual people,
during all of the ages, by flattery, desire
for praise, hope of renown or temporal
advancement ; together with many honest
seekers of truth with the betterment of
man at heart, have launched their inquisi-
torial barks upon moral seas of unknown
depths, concealing monsters which have
arisen without warning and strewn their
wakes with wreckage.

Havelock Ellis says :

By "Eugenics" is meant the scientific
study of all the agencies by which the hu-
man race may be improved, and the effort
to give practical effect to those agencies
by conscious and deliberate action in fa-
vor of better breeding.

Eugeny 3

It has been settled that animals and
vegetation can be improved by the guid-
ance of man. Such interference is
known to us as the science of eugenics.
But when the sexual progressives under-
take the application of the barn-yard rules
to man, they are confronted with their
equals, and since the laws of civilization
accord to men and women alike security in
their nuptial selections, sexual scientists,
unwittingly in the service of the devil,
base their hope for aid upon public opin-
ion agitated to the point of statutory
enactments.

It must be conceded that it is a fascinat-
ing subject even to the bystander, and it
may be that in time to come, as in the past,
enactments may be brought about in sup-
port of some phases of it.t For the in-
tended purpose they will be as futile as
the sanitary laws against spitting or the
Mosaic laws against adultery and idolatry.
They will be in constant conflict with the
innate laws of love, hate, sex attraction,
and free will given to man with his first
breath.

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Long before St. Patrick built a fire of
icicles and during the intervening years,
sincere men ascended the mountain of
thought and in the haze of its summit un-
availingly struggled with the mystic prob-
lems of life. Some have had brass enough
in their blood to offer amendments to the
laws of progeny worked out in the Gar-
den of Eden. There God said, "Let us
make man in our image, after our like-
ness."

Darwin was the first to slip on the Ba-
nana peel of reason in an effort to estab-
lish that "man in our image" was really
the image of a monkey, and in his day,
strange as it may seem, many of the lead-
ing thinkers worshiped at his shrine, but
to-day the best thought rejects this theory
as a scientific folly.

The animal called man, now under con-
sideration, has 240 bones, 7,000,000 skin
pores, 1200 breaths per hour, 98 degrees
of heat, 33 ounces of insensible perspira-
tion a day, an average brain of 3l/2 pounds,
about 2500 square inches of skin, 10 yards
of bowels, 46 quarts of water, and a pas-

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sionate longing for the daughters of Eve,
which has pranced in his blood for sixty
centuries, and been calmed by onanism,
buggery, rape, incest, fornication, adul-
tery, and matrimony.

Man, on which the scientists propose a
social operation, infests every part of the
known world. Climatic and social condi-
tions have bred in the human family a
multiplicity of distinct races. As an an-
tidote for the miseries of life about four
hundred spiritual specifics have been for-
mulated by man, which assure cold-stor-
age security to the soul while in the body,
and a bed of down after it has gone over
the top. Creeds and superstitions have
so burrowed into man that they unalter-
ably affect his habits of life and beliefs
touching matrimony, monogamy, polyg-
amy, constancy, and offspring. Hence by
common consent and in spots only, can the
eugenic scientist ever hope to influence
people to statutory mating or regulated
offspring.

As well attempt to teach Greek to a
gorilla as to eugenize people who believe

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that they can save their souls by chewing
and swallowing a printed prayer; that
they can purify the blood by eating stews
made of skinned moles and bats; that
neuralgia can be cured by sticking a piece
of lemon peel over the nerve where the
jaw bone joins the skull; that headache
can be stopped by a strip of snakeskin
bound on the forehead ; that hiccough can
be relieved by boiled ants' nests taken in-
ternally; that snake bites and heart ail-
ments can be conquered by slowly swal-
lowing a broth made of boiling water and
alligators ' teeth ; and, finally, that all dis-
eases will yield to the red topknot of a
woodpecker if worn constantly in the ear.

Sexual relations never have been, and
never will be, fully controlled by man-
made laws. The divine law even has ut-
terly failed to bring to its observance any
considerable portion of the human race.

The propaganda, now abroad in this
fair land, having reached us from other
shores, seeking to unburden woman-kind
by damming up the maternal stream, has
found some congenial centers in which to

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build its nasty nest and hatch from its
eggs social vipers, physical cripples and
midget souls who will satiate the fires of
lust on the armored altar of love and
finally sink into a childless rottenness,
then with no evidence that they have bene-
fited the world, they may be called to
render to God an account of their steward-
ship and hear the final words, " Depart
from Me, ye cursed."

An orderly handling of Eugeny, the
subject under consideration, requires that
it be treated under subdivisions.

CHAPTER II

MATRIMONY

SEXUAL relations, not prefaced by mat-
rimony, always have been condemned by
the laws of God and civilized man. As
Eugeny anticipates wedlock, the evolu-
tion thereof must be considered, as well as
the motives that inspire it, in order to
determine man's power to forecast its
fruit.

By covenant there has been sexual union
from the very dawn of man under the
social name of marriage.

The first connubial expression is found
in Genesis : " Therefore shall a man leave
his father and mother, and shall cleave
unto his wife ; and they shall be one flesh."

This language excludes polygamy.

Evidently one man and one woman was
the divine plan for companionship and

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propagation, or more ribs would have
been used.

The one- wife "cleave" law seems to
have been observed to the time of the
Flood and even in loading the Ark, as
Noah was commanded to take in "the male
and his female," and when the shower
was over, Noah was directed: "go forth
of the Ark, thou and thy wife, and thy
sons, and thy sons' wives with thee."

The law of monogamy received its first
great shock when Sarai, whose frail
knowledge of man led her prayerfully to
implore her husband to "go in unto" her
willing tent maid.

Then being ripe and roseate with youth,
and but recently married, Abram reluc-
tantly "hearkened to the voice of Sarai."

After several months of anxious brood-
ing the blood of the Jew and Egyptian
blended in the wild man Ishmael.

The rigidity of the old rule, involving
the wife's consent, has been so greatly
relaxed by fleeting centuries that now the
domestic and the head of the house rarely

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consult the wife before they jointly sacri-
fice to the goddess of love.

The relations of the cook Hagar and the
Patriarch Abraham furnish us with the
first recorded family scandal, as well as
the earliest instance of the wildness of a
wife's jealousy by which Abe was forced
to drive his dark-skinned mistress of low
origin from his bed and board with no
other heritage than a bottle of water, a
loaf of bread, and a bastard.

Had Abraham obeyed the promptings
of eugenics and continued hopefully to ob-
serve God's command, " Increase and mul-
tiply," the illegitimate progenitor of a
great nation — "whose hand was against
every man" — and from whom Mohammed
claimed descent, would have been lost to
the world.

Solon, one of the seven sages of Greece,
in the sixth century, B.C., chained the am-
bulatory laws of marriage to a fixed stat-
ute.

The humanity, wisdom, and morality
reflected in this pagan's conception, when
compared with our own family safe-

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guards, should make our evolutionary
twentieth-century Christians feel as
humble as Job on his ash hill.
The Solon Law provided :

That the bride and bridegroom shall
be shut into a chamber, and eat a quince
together; and that the husband of an
heiress shall consort with her thrice a
month; for though there be no children,
yet it is an honor and due affection which
an husband ought to pay to a virtuous,
chaste wife; it takes off all petty differ-
ences, and will not permit their little
quarrels to proceed to an eruption.

Plutarch says :

In all other marriages Solon forbade
doweries to be given ; the wife was to have
three suits of clothes, a little considerable
household stuff, and that was all, for he
would not have marriages contracted for
gain or an estate, but for pure love, kind
affection, and birth of children.

In China a married woman was without
respect until the hour of her travail, and
was particularly honored if she brought
to the nation a son.

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"Happy," says Confucius, "is the union
with wife and children ; it is like the music
of lutes and harps."

The moral pendulum is constantly
swinging from one extreme to the other.

The tendency of the idle, passionate,
restless rich, like St. Augustine in his
youth, is to try out all of the old and in-
vent new sexual thrills.

Many of our godless wealthy heads of
families do not pretend to confine them-
selves to one household. They look upon
a wife as a domestic convenience, the chan-
nel for an occasional heir and the means
of maintaining a hypocritical appearance
of exterior respectability, while courte-
sans in queenly apparel walk out from
palatial apartments, covertly maintained
by church, financial, and social leaders,
until anger, revenge, death, or a suicide re-
veals their villainies to the world, all of
which evidences a return to pagan prac-
tices on the part of a startling number of
our leading men.

The sexual filth that rides the matri-
monial tide seems to ooze from the mor-

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ally weakened condition of men, con-
stantly diluted by neglect of the ever will-
ing graces about them, who spring from
their knees at the beck of a coozie niggling
on the highways of sin.

Judge Hopkins, of the Chicago Court
of Domestic Relations, recently sought
transfer to another branch of the court on
the ground that the marital woes poured
into his ears daily for more than six
months had completely unnerved him;
that they were such as to attend a man
in his solitary walks, arrest him in the
midst of his debaucheries and fill even his
dreams with terror.

He said, on retiring :

Once I viewed marriage through rosy
mists of sentiment and poetry. I believed
there was still love in the world — love that
endured from the altar to the grave. In
the Court of Domestic Relations my ideals
died one by one. Day after day I lis-
tened to nothing but the sorrows and
tragedies of married couples. I began to
wonder whether any such thing as marital
happiness existed on earth. So I asked
to be transferred. It was a last measure

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to self-defense — a measure to save at least
some of my ideals.

It must be apparent to men and women
of the world that just as soon as a mar-
ried woman begins to ease up on the corset
string of virtue by permitting a man, not
her own, to linger on her lips, or to pass
to her a cocktail across a rose-shaded table
in a gay restaurant, or seemingly to acci-
dentally touch her amative centers, that
moment she receives into the parlor of
matrimony a guest who may pick the lock
of chastity; for, as Shakespeare says,
"touches, though gentle, still conquer
chastity," and with that conquered, the
hen of matrimony soon begins to brood,
cluck, and show temper.

Connubial restlessness is stimulated by
vitalized fiction and photo plays, now used
to entertain the people, which are often
founded on matrimonial blisters, or the
webbing of females, with suggestive sen-
suality as the chief attraction. Any show-
house management will tell you that it
would much prefer to place before the

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public clean entertainments, but that the
general condition of society is such that
snappy stories in the magazines, the por-
trayal of woman's downfall on the stage,
her emulation of the undraped statue in
dress, and her growing tendency to booze
and bridge, with an exterior cleanliness
and an interior moral rottenness, and all
approved by the hunters of corseted
shoats, have forced all sources of enter-
tainment, including show houses, hotels
and restaurants, to cater to the social
swill-hunters, or die of monetary dry rot.

Though cruelly unjust, it is quite the
habit to condemn a lapse in woman in
spite of the fact that she must breast the
storm of wild desire within, and parry
the seductive, passionate, embracing, heat-
charged pleadings of the courageous male
who presses her to submission or rebel-
lion.

Dorothy Dix says :

Every pretty girl in the world is in daily
and hourly danger from the street masher
on every corner and from the men she
meets in society and works with in busi-

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ness, who are forever, openly or covertly,
tempting her to adventure along the prim-
rose path with them.

By wine, curiosity, or through her own
passionate untrained heart, many a wo-
man has been tempted, like fish, to nibble
till hooked.

It has been published that a noted
clergyman, who has personally explored
the subways of immorality, asserted that
one-half the husbands and wives of New
York are unfaithful to their marriage
vows.

This proclamation, coming from the
moral night-soil man of the great metrop-
olis, would lead one to conclude that the
human race is gliding down hill to hell and
to believe in original sin, and doubt the
perseverance of the saints and even the
chastity of Mary.

Much of the carbon which tends to un-
seat the matrimonial valves is found in
that part of the press of the country
which seems to be willing to do anything
but be respectable for the almighty dollar.
With the general news of the day are also

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thrown at our doors, to be often read by
children, glowing, lying, nasty advertise-
ments urging the public to traffic in sure-
cure bald-head remedies, face lotions,
freckle-eradicators, waist-reducers, flesh-
killers and flesh-builders, wart-crumblers,
corn-lifters, bunion-pacifiers, foot-deodor-
izers, rheumatic-twinge yankers, torpid-
liver rattlers, kidney-flushers, constipa-
tion vents, diarrhetic astringents, evacu-
ators, pain ferrets, furred-tongue erasers,
itching-piles soothers, drooping-f emale lo-
tions and lost-manhood resurrectors, to-
gether with pictures of the few shameless
scavengers of the medical profession who
say to the libertine and developing youth :
"Fear not! Sound all the depths and
shoals of sensuality, then come to us, as
we hold the power of life and death over
every microbe that lurks in the crummy
valley of bartered sexual commerce. "

The olla-podrida of many of our daily
papers would disturb the abdominal poise
of a yellow dog. Conglomerately we find
editorial splashes of social, civic, or politi-
cal morality; tickling engagement an-

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nouncements ; the lying, bombastic, flam-
boyant wedding write-up; followed by
copious extracts from the nastiest por-
tions of divorce proceedings; church no-
tices sleeping beside Duffy's Malt, Pe-
runa, Swamp Root, Twilight Sleep, Tape-
worm poisons; a sermon on the seventh
commandment, balanced by the picture of
a medical degenerate barking his wares
and willingness to clean sexual sewers for
a nominal sum.

A Sunday edition of the Houston Post,
a widely circulated paper, carried into
the homes of its readers the following ad-
vertisement of a prominent merchant:

Our Ladies' Garter Department:
We can give you an All Silk Garter
for 50 cents with nice buckles with
such reading on them as "Private
Grounds"; "Stop, Mamma is Com-
ing"; "Look Quick"; "Good Night,
Call Again"; "I am a Warm Baby";
"Take off Your Things," etc.

A New York City daily on February 7,
1916, announced that conversation hose
for Palm Beach dames, displayed by ho-

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tel shops and seen at balls, tell much.
Some are of hand made lace and cost up
to one hundred dollars a pair. One has a
mouse at the skirt line, while its mate
says, " Watch your step." Another says,
"Delighted," while its companion shows
a clock face with the hands at twelve and
the words "Good Night."

On May 15, one of our Utica papers
published this :

A neighbor told my mother about Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and
I took it and now I feel like a new person.
I don't suffer any more and I am regular
every month.

If the lucre-loving press continues to
emblazon fakes, Father John may yet be
crowned "King of the Gullet" and Lydia
Pinkham "Queen of the Matrix."

If men and women would bow to the
full meaning of the wedding ring, the
false gods of to-day would be cast from
their pedestals, tranquillity would nestle
in the lap of matrimony and the horrible
effects of ravishing sexual ills-would cease
to deface the offspring of man.

CHAPTER III

MATING

MATING, in our social structure, is a sub-
ject that has been periodically cuffed
about since the ancient days of Theognis
by fluffy intellects and by university men
with less practical brain than the angora
goat, and whom an asinego might tutor on
the tricks of the mattress and social de-
ceits.

Yet these God-forsaken modernists cry
out that mating must be controlled, if
need be, by legislation.

Only a f arding-bag brain, where green
stuff lies undigested, would suggest, even,
such an impossibility.

The statutory stricture cult, engaged in
high-brow development, would have those
afflicted with love, with generation in view,

submit their family tree and sexual ma-

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chinery to a physician and in the somber
shadows of doubt await his certificate.

Communities would soon learn that spe-
cial examiners, politically appointed, and
with an itching palm, would pass on to
the portals of matrimony every lung-
spitter and blood-poisoned applicant that
could pay the price, and would do it with
as little qualm as the present professional
murderer experiences when he presses the
sound through the door of the temple, gen-
erally sealed by illicit contact, and feeds to
maggots the embryonic temple of a soul.

You cannot legislate virtue into a whole
people nor will they long submit to ob-
noxious laws.

Lovers will ascend a high mountain, if
need be, to commit matrimony on the
summit.

Legislative enactments, such as are ad-
vocated by sex maniacs, with the nasty
provisions for personal exposure, would
tend to dry the fountain of matrimony and
multiply celibates, who, with God's com-
mand, "Increase and multiply," resound-
ing in their ears, would, like the cats, in

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the soothing stillness of the night wake
up the world with carnal carousals.

Adam was the first male to yearn for a
female, and that yearning has lived and
burned in the blood of man during all of
the dreary centuries since. This female
magnet high-browed and low-browed, in
gorgeous attire, mean attire, and in no
attire, within the law, without the law
and against the law, has always drawn
men from every station of life to the lap
of her yearnings.

The social sex-filters who, in book form,
spew their mental indigestion upon the
world, seek application of the Holstein
breeder's rules to man. The ten- thousand-
dollar bull and the five-thousand-dollar
cow can be mated and occasionally will
increase the milk supply. But how are
you going to keep the wealthy, social,
blood-poisoned scrub out of the nest of
the wayward woman, attractive common
actress, or the sensual, socially ambitious
female ?

Will it ever come to pass that only the
dyed-in-the-wool type shall bring forth,

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while the ever oncoming amorous women
of low origin shall be denied the thrills
of maternity. As a general rule, in every
phase of animal life dependent upon coi-
tion for progeny, the amative male pur-
sues the female to the threshold of her
choice.

As well try to hang the Mediterranean
on a grape vine to dry as by statutory
enactment to force mating among unwill-
ing human subjects.

Sex attraction, for mating purposes,
among men and women, will forever defy
the stock-breeder's rules.

If mating were practical there is no way
to limit the sexual activities to the pair
mated.

From the sparrow to the virtuous queen
for mating purposes the male will be
selected.

For if perchance they feel the amorous flame —
No choice have they — for every man 's the same.

Mate those who meet the requirements
of the most aesthetic sexologist, and what
assurance is there that they will breed at

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all, and if they do, how can the mind and
physique of the offspring be definitely in-
fluenced by man-made rules, in view of
the fact that developing life germs blindly
obey unyielding natural laws $

It must be that race-control trumpeters
are the victims of catarrhal head noises,
rather than the called harbingers of social
reform, else they would not have been led
to conceive that which they cannot bring
forth because of the natural barriers that
plug the orifice of generation.

The greatest present need is a richer
mixture of morality for the engine of
love.

Myriads of times has virtue been will-
ingly sacrificed on the altar of ambition
and secretly bartered for place and power.
Incontinence has led men across lands and
seas ; bent them to intrigue, larceny, mur-
der and suicide; wrecked hearts, homes
and thrones; bred wars; wiped out na-
tional boundaries and many times changed
the map of the world.

CHAPTER IV

MATRIMONIAL BUREAU

As an aid to the mating of compatible
and physically fit people, the tomnoddy
sexual progressives, who chafe under the
present semi-decent restraining laws
enacted for social betterment, now un-
blushingly urge a trial matrimonial bu-
reau, which to my mind falls but little
short of lechery refined by sanction. Al-
low such a law for the sake of argument,
and what would follow? Men or women
who failed to qualify would go forth into
the world marked to be ever after pur-
sued by the suspicion, engendered by gos-
sipers, that they were not well sexed, that
there was a wrinkle in them somewhere ;
hence in communities where known they
would be doomed to celibacy, or those
physically capable would become sexual
nomads.

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Start the experimental station where
the trial marriage candidates may test
their fitness with no resultant obligations,
and society will soon become about as or-
derly as a harem in hell.

I imagine that the matrimonial trial sta-
tion would soon become very popular, and
the she-pearl of virtue a very cheap article
of commerce in the marts of man's will.

Just as soon as the unbelievers, sexual
idolaters, and the morally torpid men of
science succeed in prying the fig leaf from
the goddess of chastity, and lifting the
counterpane of marital constancy, as
woven by the Christian Church, you will
see the Syrian cities of Sodom and Go-
morrah revitalized in our own fair land,
and our men, like the snail, shall leave
behind them a slimy track on which they
will have wasted themselves away.

Of course, the great power of the Chris-
tian world will continue energetically to
war upon all devilish and socially baneful
influences, which on the surface seem
harmless yet tend to sterilize the moral
soil of the human heart and disrupt the

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social trinity, the home, family, and fire-
side.

Many know how hard it is for morally
inclined men and women, with passion-
charged blood, to resist the call to sin.

Since virtue carries in her lap her own
" order of sanctity," and hard-working
meandering lust warningly burdens her
anatomy with nauseating droolings and
weeping scab-capped sores, why, then,
should righteous indignation swell into a
smothering billow at the approach of an
alleged improved sexual doctrine? — ask
the disciples of the new school. Our an-
swer is, that well-meaning and God-fear-
ing men may stand in the narrow highway
of morality and flap their shirts and shout
against sin and corruption until they
swell their thyroids into goiters without
numerically affecting the vast army of lust
wrecks that annually dive into the mud at
Hot Springs.

The trial marriage or matrimonial bu-
reau will never be seriously considered
as a social institution so long as nuptialed
sensualists can at will have their ties sun-

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dered in a devilish institution sanctioned
by alleged Christians, called the divorce
court.

It will be conceded by every sane man
that the scabby, rickety, and blood-poi-
soned should not add to our population,
but to prevent this, we need not become
unduly exercised, as nature soon calls
home all of her weaklings.

CHAPTER V

MYSTERIES OF CONCEPTION AND
GESTATION

VOTARIES of a controlled and more per-
fect offspring, tell me how it happened
that the blear-eyed Leah and fair Rachel
came from the same shell. Account for
the velvety Jacob and the shaggy Esau,
twin sons of Isaac the Patriarch and
Rebekah the Venus of Israel.

Gestation is subject to so many mysteri-
ous influences that every child is carried
to birth with fear and trembling. The
laws of nature toy with the powers of man.

Louis II, king of Hungary and Bo-
hemia, was born without a scarfskin.

Dr. Harvey, the father of the principle
of blood circulation, is said to have be-
lieved in and written of a race of men
with tails.

The kings of Denmark have descended,

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as some say, from one Ulf o, the son of a
bear.

In the family of Lepidus at Rome there
were three, not successively, but by inter-
vals, that were born with the same eye
covered with a cartilage.

A race is mentioned that carried from
their mother's womb the form of the head
of a lance, and children not so marked
were looked upon as illegitimate.

Galen, in his treatise on the measles,
says the disease was brought by a woman
who had no father.

Lord Bacon, treating of the period of
gestation of various animals, says gravely
that an ox goes twelve months with young.

Livy speaks of a woman brought to bed
in a desolate island, where she had not seen
a human face for nine years.

Diodorus Siculus mentions a sorceress
of Egypt who had passed for the cele-
brated Isis, upon the strength of child-
bearing without the aid of man.

It is recorded that while a princess was
watching skillful Egyptian craftsmen cut-
ting down the Persea trees of Pharaoh,

Mysteries of Conception and Gestation 31

a chip flew into her mouth, which she
swallowed, and after many days she bore
a son.

In Robinson's Readings in European
History, it is recorded that during the
crusades a woman, after two years of ges-
tation, brought forth a son who was able
to talk at birth; and that a child with a
double set of limbs, another with two
heads, and twin-headed lambs were born,
while colts came into the world teethed
as mature horses.

Hippocrates relates that his mother
used frequently to tell him that for two
years before his birth she had no carnal
intercourse with his father, but that she
had been strangely influenced one even-
ing while walking in the garden. We can
all understand the doctrine of animal ap-
petency, if not of the chemical affinities
controlling these strange births. Before
admitting the miraculous, I suggest that
these mystifying instances of nativity
may have followed pious or patriotic coz-
ening.

Samson's strength lay in his hair,

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may be thus concealed on the suggestion
of the angel who apprised his barren
mother of her approaching fertility.

No disciple of eugeny would recommend
mating with the scabby Job, yet in the
Bible we read that "in all the land were
no women found so fair as the daughters
of Job."

Richard Gibson was court dwarf to
Charles I of England and became a noted
miniature painter. Ann Sheppard was
the court dwarf to Queen Henrietta Maria.
These mites were happily married and
broke an established opinion that dwarfs
do not reproduce, by having nine chil-
dren, five of whom lived to maturity and
were of ordinary stature.

Professor Preyer in 1859 says that
mammae occurred on the back, in the arm-
pit, and on the thigh; the mammae on the
last place having given so much milk that
the child was nourished.

To procure future husbands, suitable to
the altered conditions of society, cross
with Lemurs some of whom are well
known to have two pairs of mammae on

Mysteries of Conception and Gestation 33

the breast. Dr. Handyside cites a case in
which two brothers exhibited this peculi-
arity. Dr. Bartels gives an instance of
a man who had five mammae, one of which
was located above the navel. The scien-
tists should give attention to the develop-
ment of these maternal parts of the male
anatomy as in the event of a general suf-
fragette triumph they would become very
handy. Much cold sjtudy and careful
thought should be given to the subject be-
fore any serious move is made towards the
development of the one located above the
umbilicus.

A normal and favorable gestatory con-
dition might lead to the elimination of
undesirables. Nutrition, mental calm,
comfort, mode of dress, social habits, and
physical activities exert a mighty influ-
ence upon the young before parturition.

Alcoholic, syphilitic, drug-charged or
disease-laden sperm will rarely produce
prize-winners at a beauty show. Circingle
a breeding mare, or sow, or tighten up the
corset-deformed woman of the present
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museums and side-shows will be mul-
tiplied.

If the eugenists would seriously address
themselves to the correction of these evils,
they would be most welcome in our midst.

Sex-control by feeding was one of the
fads of some of the burnished intel-
lects of the past who occasionally sug-
gested to the Almighty, but the prescrip-
tion of a proteid diet to produce males, a
fatty diet for females, has been relegated
to the realm of quackery, though it was
the opinion of the great Verulam that
when mothers ate quinces and coriander
seed the children would be witty.

Plutarch on this subject says:

We find that women who take physic
whilst they are with child, bear leaner and
smaller but better shaped and prettier
children.

It has been announced by the Child Wel-
fare Association of Pittsburgh, that beer
and bologna are two of the causes of the
crescent-shaped underpinning of children
in that city.

Mysteries of Conception and Gestation 35

It has also been observed by close stu-
dents that black hens sometimes lay white
eggs.

It is claimed that Jacob spotted the off-
spring of Laban's sheep and goats by the
timely use of mottled sticks.

In a book written by a Christian bishop,
Heliodorus, in about the fourth century,
it is stated that "Chariclea was a beautiful
and fair virgin of Ethiopian parents. Her
whiteness was occasioned by her mother
looking on a statue of Venus."

A man residing in New York kept a
cow of which his wife was very fond ; the
cow was killed and sold and the feet re-
served and in a mangled state were hung
in a shed. Upon seeing them, the wife
who was then pregnant was so moved and
shocked as to affect the child in such a
manner that he was born without any arms
and with distorted feet, and for pastime,
when a youth, he dexterously handled a
cooper's shaving knife with his toes.

In Haddington's Poems, there is a case
called the Black Case, concerning which
the story recites :

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There was a man who followed the pro-
fession of an attorney, .who had a very
amorous wife. But he had not leisure to
attend to all of her gayeties. Once, that he
was unable otherwise to free himself from
her importunities, in toying with her, he
upset his ink-bottle in her shoe. She
brought him a black child in consequence.
He reproached her, but she reminded him
of the ink-bottle, and of his awkwardness.

Into families of normal children a giant
or dwarf occasionally drops.

Among the noted dwarfs, the earliest
mentioned was Philetus of Cos, 330 B.C.,
a poet and grammarian, and tutor to
Ptolemy Philadelphus. To resist the
wind, it is said, his clothes were weighted.

Julia, a niece of Augustus, had as a
court favorite Coropas, who was twenty-
eight inches high, also Andromeda, a freed
maid of the same height.

Alypius of Alexandria, logician and
philosopher, was seventeen inches in
height.

John d'Estrix, of Mechlin, master of
several languages and about three feet

Mysteries of Conception and Gestation 37

tall, lived with the Duke of Parma in
1592.

Geoffrey Hudson, as a social stunt, was
served up in a cold pie by the Duchess of
Buckingham before Charles I and Henri-
etta Maria. He was then eighteen inches
tall, and in 1653 he killed a man in a duel.

Count Borowlaski was an accomplished
Pole, thirty-nine inches in height.

Charles S. Stratton, or " General Tom
Thumb," of Barnum fame, was a Con-
necticut Yankee, thirty-one inches high,
who married Lavina Warren, one inch
taller. Their wedding tour covered parts
of Europe. " Thumb," wife and child,
with a dwarf, Commodore Nutt, revisited
England in 1864.

Mr. Collard at twenty-two years of age
was smaller than "Thumb," and sang in
concerts in London in 1873.

"Bebe," the dwarf of King Stanislaus
of Poland, was twenty-three inches tall,
and in 1858 at ninety years of age he died
in Paris.

Che-mah, a pigtail, twenty-five inches
high, was exhibited in London in 1880.

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Princess Topaze, a French lady, was
twenty inches high and weighed fifteen
pounds.

General Mite, an Irishman, was born in
New York State in 1864. His height was
twenty-one inches and weight nine pounds.

Lucia Zarate, a Mexican, was twenty
inches high and weighed four and three-
fourths pounds.

The following women never had to look
up to any neighboring male :

Elizabeth Lyska, a Russian lady, who
at the age of twelve stood six feet eight.

Anna Haven Swann, of Nova Scotia,
was seven feet in the clear.

Marian, the " Amazon Queen, " stood
eight feet two in her shoes.

Among men specially noted for their
skin capacity was the Kentuckian, Mar-
tin Van Buren Bates, with seven lineal
feet to his credit.

Robert Hales, the " Norfolk Giant,"
was seven feet six and weighed four hun-
dred fifty-two pounds.

M. Brice was the same height.

Chang-Woo-Gaw, eight feet tall, ex-

Mysteries of Conception and Gestation 39

Mbited in London in 1880 ; and Big Sam,
porter of Prince of Wales (George IV)
was also eight feet; and Gilly of Tyrol,
was about eight feet one. Frederick
Swede, of Sweden, and Charles Byrne
were each eight feet four. When you go
abroad call on Byrne's skeleton in the
Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Patrick Cotter, the " Irish Giant," was
born in 1761, measured eight feet seven,
and wore a shoe seventeen inches long.

Joseph Winkelmaier, of Austria, had
eight feet to his credit.

John Middleton, the " English Giant,"
was nine feet three, and from the heel of
his hand to the tip of his middle finger
was seventeen inches.

Calbara, the Arabian, brought to Rome
in the days of Claudius, is said by Pliny
to have measured nine feet and nine
inches.

Emperor Maximus was nearly nine feet
and of vast bulk.

Goliath of Gath, who was brought to
earth by the stone of David, was "six cu-
bits and a span."

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Og, King of Bashan, in 1451 B.C., ac-
cording to Deuteronomy, had a bed nine
cubits long and four cubits wide.

Peter, the Wild Boy, was captured by
George I of England while hunting in the
forest. He was about thirteen years of
age, walked on his hands and feet, climbed
trees like a squirrel, and fed on grass and
moss which he preferred to the fare of the
king's table. He never learned to speak
a single word, and died at the age of sev-
enty years.

"Baby Jim" Simons, a negro, who at
the age of thirty-seven died in Philadel-
phia in 1917, weighed eight hundred
pounds. To take his body to Texas for
burial it was necessary to charter an entire
freight car.

George Bell, a seven-foot eleven-inch
colored giant, was killed by his common-
law wife at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March
19, 1919.

The Siamese twins were united at the
breast bone by a cartilaginous hose
through which the umbilicus passed. They

Mysteries of Conception and Gestation 41

married sisters — had several children —
and died two and one-half hours apart.

Twin girls were born in Herkimer, New
York, in March, 1918, and though fully
developed and pretty of feature, by some
freak of nature they were joined together
from the chest to the abdomen.

On October 12, 1918, C. Emery Titman,
the son of a deceased millionaire of Phila-
delphia, and weighing six hundred ten
pounds was railroaded to White Plains,
New York, in a special compartment, and
he there occupied the hospital section of
the White Plains jail, as he could not be
shoe-horned into any of the cells.

Jan Van Albert, nineteen years of age,
and nine feet five inches tall, in the
month of April, 1920, arrived in New
York City on the Mauretania from Am-
sterdam. It is claimed for him that he is
the tallest man in the world.

Is more needed to demonstrate that na-
ture will take her course, or leave her
course, in spite of what man willeth ?

CHAPTER VI

CONTROL OF OFFSPRING

UNLESS you restrain the amative male,
offspring, definitely, cannot be controlled.

It must be apparent to even the fitful
browser along the highway of human ac-
tivities, that men in every social station
always have been, and always will be,
sexual rovers.

Death by fire for adultery did not deter
the intriguing, twin-bearing Thamar from
kid-bargaining with willing King Judah
at the crossroads. The death penalty for
adultery failed to restrain the Jews ; and
one thousand blows for the man and the
loss of the nose of the woman scarcely
dented the practice in Egypt.

Maternal instinct so dominated the re-
pulsive Leah that she swopped her son's
mandrakes with the fair Rachel for the
loan of Jacob for a single night.

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Control of Offspring 43

Pharaoh impounded the winsome Sarah
while touring Egypt with her husband.

Prince Sheckem deflowered the unwill-
ing Dinah ; and the sexual scent of Reuben
led him to his father's concubine.

No student of anatomy ever ended a
more bedraggled career than the jaw-bone
warrior Samson. At Timnath his genius
subdued an ogling Philistine ; and at Gaza
he attracted another filly. He fell at the
feet of Delilah, the bewildering beauty of
the valley of Sorek. This trained and se-
ductive queen of tortion nectared his lips,
soothed his massive anatomy, and so fre-
quently tempted his aphrodisiacal yearn-
ings that exhausted nature finally yielded
her secret.

One moonlit zephyr-kissed night rest-
less David sought the palace roof. His
trained eye fell upon Uriah's wife laving
for the homecoming of her spouse. An
unholy fire burned in his soul till his mes-
sengers brought her to him. Soon fitful
slumber mantled the great king, who when
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he moaned and atoned for Ms undying
sins.

The Egyptian kings, Psammetichus I
and Barneses II, the Pharaoh of the Is-
raelite oppression, following the example
of their illustrious gods, married their
own daughters.

The Achaemidian kings did the same,
and Artaxerxes, king of Persia, also mar-
ried two of his own daughters.

The handmaids of Leah and Rachel gave
Jacob four stray sons.

Amnon, the son of David, feigning sick-
ness, converted his chamber into a bakery,
induced his beautiful sister Tamar to
take charge, then raped the baker.

Solomon, the owl of the human race,
hooted over the greatest harem that it
has ever been the misfortune of a single
man to assemble. He loved many strange
women, together with the daughters of
Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammon-
ites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.
A thousand women called him "Sol."

The hoary elders of the people, with

Control of Offspring 45

cockerel energy, chased the pullet Susanna
through the fence of her garden.

The Romans, without rime or reason,
seized the Sabine women and bore them
away on the pinions of lust.

Philinna the dancer gave Philip of
Macedon a male degenerate.

The posthumous son of Roxanna came
from the loins of Alexander the Great.

Nero murdered his mother, divorced
Octavia, married his mistress Poppaea, a
woman of surpassing beauty and of broad
sexual training, who shod her mules with
gold and daily bathed in the milk of five
hundred asses, and went to eternity on
the toe of Nero's boot, a penalty for
thoughtless gestation.

Mundus proffered the winsome Paulina
two hundred thousand drachmae to sup
and lie with him for a single night.

The sexual savagery of Tarquinius
rendered the saintly Lucretia unconscious
and induced suicide.

After the angel Gabriel dropped a chap-
ter of the Koran exhorting Mohammed
freely to enjoy his captives and concu-

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bines in spite of his wives' clamors, in a
solitary retreat for thirty days, he honey-
mooned with Mary to fulfill the command
of the angel. In his sexual peregrinations
the cradle and the tomb alone escaped
him. His nuptials with Ayesha were con-
summated at the close of her ninth year.
He would have been equal to the thirteenth
labor of the Grecian Hercules.

In Ferrara, "in 1425 a Princess was
beheaded for adultery with a stepson."

When Pius II came to Ferrara, in 1459,
he was received by seven princes not one
of whom was a legitimate son.

Giamf aolo Baglione lived in incest with
his sister.

^neas Sylvius Piccalomini, in his his-
tory of Frederick III, says : "Most of the
rulers of Italy in the fifteenth century
were born out of wedlock."

Francesco Cenci was a Roman noble-
man who persecuted his beautiful daugh-
ter Beatrice until she yielded her person,
and for which unnatural crime hired
assassins drove a nail into his head Sep-
tember 9, 1599.

Control of Offspring 47

Casimir, King of Poland, whose queen
was an intolerable shrew, took the beauti-
ful Esther, a Jewess, to fill an aching void.
Her influence with the King secured an
enduring toleration for her people and the
education of her two illicit daughters as
Jewesses.

Abrotonon, proud of her bastard son,
exclaimed :

I am not of the noble Grecian race,
I am poor Abrotonon, and born in Thrace :
Let the Greek women scorn me, if they please,
I was the mother of Themistocles.

The passions of Caesar broke the chains
of restraint when his eyes beheld the
unrugged Cleopatra; and Antony forgot
his Octavia when this pile of voluptuous
lust amidst bewildering oriental odors
beckoned him to her boat on the river
Scydnus.

Mazeppa, immortalized by Byron, and
lavishly endowed by nature, pranced be-
fore the alert Theresa, the wife of the
richest count in Poland, and thirty years
his junior. A spreading chestnut tree
soon drooped from the heat of these pant-

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ing lovers, and wMle Mazeppa was de-
claiming :

And yet I find no words to tell
The shape of her I love so well,

the count's guards seized and bound him
to the wildest horse that ever kicked sand
on a desert. With nostrils shooting fire,
he split the winds, leaped the mountains,
spanned the plains, till he dropped with
his burden

Bound, naked, bleeding and alone
To pass the desert to a throne.

Peter the Great was attracted by a
peasant's daughter, while the mistress of
a prince.

The "Grey-eyed Queen" Guinevere,
wife of King Arthur, and of ravishing
beauty, shared her charms with Sir
Lancelot du Lac and graced the free-love
altars of other seductive males.

Julius Caesar at his aunt's funeral said :

My aunt Julia derived her lineage on
her mother's side from a race of kings and
on her father's side from the immortal
gods; for her mother's family trace their

Control of Offspring 49

origin to King Ancus Martius, and her
father's to Venus of whose stock we are
a branch. We united in our pedigree, ac-
cordingly, the sacred majesty of kings,
who are the most exalted among men, and
the divine majesty of gods, to whom kings
themselves are subjects.

Caesar's descent from this extravagant
ancestry failed to eliminate from his na-
ture the sexual restlessness of the ordi-
nary mortal. Plutarch says of him that
in his youth he had been very intimate
with Servilia, the mother of Brutus, and
when their loves were at their highest,
Brutus was born, hence Caesar believed
him to be his own son.

Henry IV of France madly loved the
matchless blond Gabrielle, who, finally, as
mistress bore him Caesar, Alexander, and
Henrietta.

The third Charles of France, through
Agnes Sorel, "the fairest of the fair,"
added three to his subjects.

Rousseau has immortalized Heloise, the
pupil and mistress of the celebrated
Abelard who was eunuchated at the in-

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stance of her enraged uncle. They sleep
side by side and their graves are fre-
quently watered by pitying and pensive
lovers.

For several years Voltaire basked in
the sensual sunshine of Madame du
Chatelet, noted for her beauty, talent, and
immoralities.

Mirabeau, French orator and states-
man, in 1776 left his wife and eloped with
an adventuress, for which he was con-
demned to death but released after four
years in prison.

Descartes always was attracted by
women with a squint because his first
mistress was cock-eyed.

Goethe loved eight different women of
various ranks, among them a married one,
and finally the low-born fascinating Vul-
pius shared his bed as a mistress.

Charles II of England sighed for the
orange girl and actress Nell Gwynne,
whose bastard son by him was made Duke
of St. Albans. "Don't let poor Nellie
starve," were the last words of this sexual
rover.

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Mrs. Mary Robinson, the actress, at-
tracted the attention of George IV of
England and became his mistress.

Fair Rosamond, the daughter of Lord
Clifford, was the paramour of Henry II.
She dwelt in a secret bower known only
to the king, which he reached by following
a silken thread.

Edward III of England quarreled
with his parliament and saw public dis-
content sap the loyalty of his subjects
while he wallowed in the sensual mire of
his rapacious mistress Alice Ferrers.

George IV, when Prince of Wales, fed
on the forbidden thrills of Perdita, the
English actress and rhymester.

England's first "Defender of the
Faith" slightly shaded his contempora-
ries in sexual energy, blood-letting and
nuptial-busting.

Emma Hamilton, the wife of a tottering
ambassador, at Naples, fell on the breast
of Lord Nelson in a paroxysm of hysteri-
cal rapture. She was a woman of extreme
beauty, sexual ardor, shady antecedents,

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the mother of two strays by a navy cap-
tain and of one by Nelson.

John Howard, England's queer, quaint,
delicate, and studious man, who reformed
the prisons of the world, died while
administering medicines to the poor
wretches in Russian hospitals, and whose
memory is preserved by every nation, at
the age of twenty married a lodging-house
keeper his senior by thirty years.

Shelley, the English poet, married an
innkeeper's daughter, eloped with Miss
Westbrook, and later married her, soon
left her, and on hearing of his first wife's
suicide, married Mary Godwin with whom
he was globe-trotting at the time.

Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
matched Hercules in judging amative
petticoat tenants. The actress Katharina
Schratt will umbra his memory so long
as history endures.

The O'Shea rose brought to her couch,
to the divorce court, to dishonor, and to
an early tomb, the great, silent Parnell.

An ex-king of Portugal, now reduced
to rabbit-raising on a ten acre lot in Eng-

Control of Offspring 53

land, lost his throne through startling
dissipations, and princely gifts to an ac-
tress.

John Rolfe, nuptially mixed his blood
with the squaw, Pocahontas, and from
this mongrel fountain the Randolphs and
many of the first families of Virginia
claim descent.

John C. Fremont, the first nominee of
the Republican party for the Presidency,
and Governor of Arizona, eloped with the
fifteen-year-old daughter of Senator Ben-
ton.

Croker, of Tammany fame, crossed the
shamrock with an aboriginal feather.

The Beecher-Tilton mutual yearnings
is only an instance of the growing number
of clerical lapses.

Now comes a minister of St. Louis,
graduate of a theological seminary, son of
a distinguished clergyman, eloping with,
and marrying, an eighteen-year-old ne-
gress, and still no great poet yells: "Oh,
Freedom, thou wicked dream !"

Pontano plainly suggests that a wife

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had better shut her eyes to the relations
between her husband and her maids.

As further evidence that offspring
cannot be controlled, Mr. Ellis asserts:

It has been found that of nearly
15,000 women, who passed through Mag-
dalen Homes in England, over 2500 were
definitely feeble-minded. The women be-
longing to this feeble-minded group were
known to have added 1000 illegitimate
children to the population.

If bastardy is evidence of low mental-
ity, then weaklings among England's
females are as numerous as Mosaic lo-
custs, for the public press has recently
estimated that 200,000 illegitimates is the
net result of women frequenting the
training camps of the soldiers.

If there is virtue in eugenics, then
there is hope for England in this large
spurious increase, as these low-brows
were mated with the best fighting blood
and physical flower of the Empire.

Some of these children of love may yet
straddle the woolsack in the House of
Lords.

Control of Offspring 55

While common bastards are barred
from the tables of royalty, I do not under-
stand that they are excluded from the
trenches of the warring nations.

In his history of the Popes, Pastor says
in 1490 there were 6800 prostitutes in
Rome, and that in Venice in the beginning
of the sixteenth century there were not
less than 11,000 publicly immoral wo-
men in a population of 300,000.

England's man-made religion, founded
by a sensualist, has finally produced a ma-
terialistic people comparable with the
Jewish Sepulcher — fair without but foul
within — whose genital wanderings pe-
numbra the best efforts of pagan Rome.

Shed the light of your own experience
upon the question of regulating mating
and controlling the mated, and it will at
once appear to be a scientific folly.

These human frailties are not disclosed
and collated for pastime but rather in
support of one phase of a very far-reach-
ing subject which has engaged the atten-
tion of men for many centuries and was
ably analyzed by the Grecian poet Theog-

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nis in 550 B.C., who clearly saw the advan-
tage of applied selection as well as the
futility of the effort. He thus wrote :

With kine and horses, Kurnus ! we proceed

By reasonable rules, and choose a breed

For profit and increase, at any price;

Of a sound stock, without defect or vice.

But, in the daily matches that we make,

The price is everything ; for money 's sake

Men marry : women are in marriage given :

The churl or ruffian that in wealth has thriven,

May match his offspring with the proudest race;

Thus everything is mix 'd, noble and base !

If then in outward manner, form and mind,

You find us a degraded, motley kind,

Wonder no more, my friend ! the cause is plain,

And to lament the consequence is vain.

CHAPTER VII

STERILIZATION

STERILIZE the mentally tainted or physi-
cally impaired, urges the Modernist, to
the end that all offspring may be as per-
fect as the hothouse Killarney rose, with
physique and mentality as free from taint
as its divinely painted face.

Sterilization should never be permitted
until every molecule of the spermaceti of
the victim has been microscopically ex-
amined and scientifically developed by
some of God's side-partners, to the point
of definite ascertainment as to whether in
it there slumbers a germ of genius, lest
some needed being, by the recklessness of
science, be lost to the world.

Who can successfully contend that
there was any inherent tendency to mur-
der in Cain ? That which we call jealousy
sleeps under the skin of every rational

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being. Its intensity depends upon the
strength of the being harboring it and the
degree of provocative stimulant which un-
chains its fury.

If a surgical switch had been put in
Cain's seminal railway because he origi-
nated fratricide, then Jabal, the father
of tent-dwellers and cattle-herders; and
Jubal, the progenitor of harpists and or-
ganists, and Tubal Cain, the instructor of
artificers in brass and iron, all would have
taken the switch and still be lying in the
wreckage by the roadside of anthropologic
folly.

The votaries of a perfect race would
knock on the head all such defectives as
were denied holy orders by the Mosaic law
governing candidates for the priesthood,
which provided that :

Whatsoever man he be that hath a
blemish, he shall not approach; a blind
man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose,
or anything superfluous, or a man that is
brokenfooted, or brokenhanded or bone-
headed, or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or
that hath a blemish in his eye, or be

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scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones
broken, shall not come nigh to offer the
bread of the Lord.

Until the wild men of science can tell
us why it is that perfect eyes, cock eyes,
squint eyes, watch eyes, sore eyes; pert
ears, lopped ears, no ears, cauliflower
ears; well formed, humpbacked; knock
knees, bow legs, clump feet; high brows,
low brows; straight noses, convex noses,
concave noses, flat noses, snub noses ; black
hair, golden hair, auburn hair, red hair,
straight hair, curly hair; idiotic, deaf,
dumb, blind, epileptic, bright, sane, crazy,
large, small, powerful, weak, thugs,
thieves, freaks, murderers, sinners, devils,
and saints may gestate in the same womb,
they had better roll the edge on the steril-
ization knife.

The following stars in the intellectual
firmament have been scientifically classed
as semi-insane ; hence, if now in the flesh,
would be proper subjects for the surgery.

Gerard de Nerval, political writer and
poet, from his youth was a mystic, a

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believer in the occult, a noctambulist,
drinker, nomad, bohemian, and the most
precocious youth of his time, who dragged
a live lobster at the end of a blue ribbon
about the Palais Royal and hung himself
in a brothel, probably with a garter of the
Queen of Sheba.

The gifted Baudelaire, whose writings
were deodorized by the police, exclaimed :
"My soul soars upon perfumes as the
souls of other men soar upon music. "
Only the stench of putrefaction gave him
olfactory delight. Before his death he
dyed his hair green and took a strangle
hold on his father-in-law.

Tolstoy, at eight years of age, was
seized with a wild desire to fly. From his
window sill he beat the air with his f eath-
erless wings and a fall of sixteen feet
physically unfitted him if it did not con-
vince him of the futility of an early re-
newal of the effort. He reasoned that a
man accustomed to pain could never be
unhappy ; hence, to bring sunlight into his
somber life he would hold a large dic-
tionary upon his outstretched arm for five

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minutes, or in the barn would scourge his
back with a rope till the tears came to his
eyes. Because of these eccentricities it is
claimed that this noted Russian novelist
was semi-insane. This genius may have
been cracked but through the crack moved
an intellectual light so intense as to draw
the scholars of the world to his writings.

Pascal, before the close of his first year,
nearly died of languor charged to the in-
fluence of a sorceress who consented to his
relief by casting the spell upon a cat which
was thrown from a window and killed by
the fall. To complete his cure, at about
the age of seven years, there were gath-
ered by the sorceress, before sunrise, nine
leaves of three different kinds of herbs
which were worked into a poultice and
placed upon the child's stomach.

From childhood he could not endure the
sight of water without falling into a fit of
passion, nor could he bear to see his father
and mother together.

From his eighteenth year he never
spent a painless day. Partial paralysis
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liquid except hot and then only one drop
at a time, together with volcanic head-
aches, incessant heart burn, and many
lesser comforting ills for all of which
Descartes bled, bathed, and purged him
till his life was endangered. He wrote
out a vision of a runaway and sewed it in
his clothes, and ever wore around his
body an iron girdle set with sharp points
which he would press into his flesh on
the approach of temptation or broken
thoughts. Towards the close of his life
at times he lost his speech and conscious-
ness and was afflicted with vertigo and
convulsions. An autopsy disclosed cavi-
ties filled with putrefied blood. The medi-
frontal suture still open was regarded by
most anthropologists as a mark of mental
superiority. The great size 'of his brain
led the physicians to believe that it pre-
vented the frontal suture from closing.

He came into the world without ances-
tral taint and was sired by a man of high
character and pronounced capacity. In
profundity of thought, grace of expres-
sion, wisdom of diction, flaying irony, and

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keenness of thrust, he stands out as the
central figure in the great galaxy of intel-
lectual luminaries that France has given
to the world.

What surgically trained Ishmaelite
shall say that the fountains of this mighty
genius should have been dried by steriliza-
tion, or that he should have been allowed
to die, while in a decline, during his first
year?

The muckers of science place Mozart,
the beacon light of harmony, among the
semi-insane because at the age of ten he
would flee from a trumpet, and if pur-
sued, would hide.

We have all heard buglers capable of
arousing the microbe of insanity. A fur-
ther scientific ground was urged that at
the age of fifteen he fell in love with a girl
ten years his senior but did not add that
he married her younger sister by whom he
had two sons.

Mozart composed 179 works and died at
the age of thirty-five years. His operas
Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute and
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the world shall be thrown into chaos b}'
the bugle call to judgment. This bulging
genius played the harpsichord at three,
composed concertos at five, and conducted
a concert tour at six. He flashed his-
dying soul into an unfinished Requiem,
which remains a noble monument to his
poverty-hampered genius. No friendly
eye saw his remains covered. His wife
could not find his grave. Vienna let him
starve but finally erected a beautiful
monument upon his empty stomach.

Beethoven stood five feet five inches
high, very broad and strongly built, with
large head thickly coated with black hair,
with dark, very bright, peculiar eyes. His
father was of a tempestuous temper and
led an irregular life and sang tenor in a
band for twenty-five pounds a year. His
mother was so ordinary that she has been
referred to as of no account. They say
he was deaf at thirty, a very eccentric
character, a genial disorder reigned in his
mind; he washed in ice water and used
several pitchers of it for his toilet, dash-
ing it on his hair and face without notic-

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ing that it made a pool on the floor in
which he splashed like a duck and con-
stantly scolded. When hot-headed he
plunged his cranium into ice water to
mitigate the heat, and in the heart of the
woods spent days, composing, with his
head bared to the dampness and storms.
Still his genius gave to music a strength,
breadth, depth of color, and a beauty be-
fore unknown to the world. Living in a
profligate city at a time of unmuzzled
morals, and himself singularly attractive
to women, yet his name was never shaded
by a single scandal. He said: "It is one
of my first principles never to stand in
any relation but those of friendship with
another man's wife." Princes, cardinals,
beautiful, clean intellectual women, like
Rahel, and men like Goethe were his com-
panions. This moral man of the widest
musical intellectual sweep is classed
amongst the semi-insane by scientific
"hags" who, like Jacob, seek to draw at-
tention to themselves by attacking angels.
St. Paul, the heavy weight of early
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epileptic. The evidence against Mm seems
to be that he held the garments of the
assassins of St. Stephen; on the road to
Damascus a Heavenly light clothed him
and for three days he was without food,
drink or sight ; he escaped from the walls
of Damascus in a basket ; collided with St.
Peter at Antioch; failed in his defense
before Agrippa by appealing to Csesar;
talked himself into many jails ; frequently
wrote epistles to strange peoples that were
never answered; had a mania for tramp-
ing, preaching, flaying hypocrites, rib-
roasting the Jews, and a very marked
carelessness in the use of language when
denouncing sinners, — all of which cul-
minated in his arrest and led to his execu-
tion by Nero as a felon.

Rossini, the son of a town trumpeter
and inspector of slaughter houses, stands
at the head of Italian composers for the
stage. In Vienna his music and attractive
personality raised a wave of popularity
which swept everything before it. Paris
gave him such a cordial reception and
storm of applause that he resolved again

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to see her vivacious and appreciative peo-
ple. The king and aristocracy of England
with open arms extended to him a most
generous welcome. In nineteen years he
wrote thirty-six operas, and William Tell
is the one most likely to endure. He is
classed among the irrational and his mem-
ory blackened because at times he wept,
despaired, complained of cold hands and
sleeplessness; and because he once said:
"I feel all the miseries of a woman, the
only thing that I lack is a uterus."

Edgar Allen Poe is classed as a psychic
degenerate because he drank like a savage,
had delirium tremens, would drink liquor
without water or sugar, and gulp it down
without tasting it; that his life was one
dark sob, and that the paralyzing terror
in all of his stories evidenced his madness.

"The Raven," "The Bells," "The City
in the Sea," and "Lenore," are not strag-
gling poetic flowers, which, by chance,
sprang up in the crevices of a whisky-
cracked brain. Only Emerson and Lowell
contest his poetical primacy. Edwin
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tragic figure in our literary history and
the figure that casts from our shores the
longest shadow across the world. He was
a great intellect and a sad heart. ' '

I would rather be the author of "The
Raven" than of all the spew that has
dripped from the brains of all of the sex-
ologists and anthropologists who . have
delved in the frailties of man since frogs
leaped into Pharaoh's soup. In death his
lips moved for the last time upon these
sanctifying words: "Lord, save my poor
soul!"

The critics of this immortal genius in
prose and verse, compared with him, are
as mud-balls "stuck on the radiant front
of the rainbow."

Frederick II of Germany, at the age
of eighteen, wrested the imperial crown
from Otto IV ; spoke seven languages and
was one of the first to write Italian poems ;
he was a patron of the arts and a diligent
student of national science. Intellectu-
ally he was perhaps the most enlightened
man of his age ; still he is classed as semi-
insane because he had such a dislike for

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changing his coat that he did not have
more than two or three during his life.

The following noted men have been
shadowed mentally by scientific cynics
who never see a good quality in a man and
never fail to see a bad one:

Schiller, because when meditating he
would put his feet on ice and sniffed the
aroma of decaying apples, which he kept
in his bureau drawer for that pur-
pose.

Paisiello could not compose unless he
was wrapped in six blankets in the sum-
mer and nine in the winter.

Byron had an attack of convulsions
when he heard Kean recite, and some-
times imagined that a ghost visited him.

Darwin seems to have suffered from
serious chronic neurasthenia, and at one
time from monkey-mania.

Chopin's affliction was extreme ner-
vousness, which so affected him that the
merest trifle, the wrinkle in a rose leaf,
or the shadow of a fly would make him
bleed.

Van Helmot had the aid of a spirit in

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all important matters and looked upon
his own soul as a resplendent crystal.

Richard Wagner was a degenerate be-
cause his writings show incoherence,
flight of ideas, and a tendency towards
silly puns.

Berlioz failed to coordinate mentally
and kicked his guitar, then grabbed his
pistol to end all because his thoughts
failed to flow freely. Intestinal neural-
gia wore him down and epileptic con-
vulsions preceded his death.

Lombroso says that the list of great
men who have ended their lives is inter-
minable, and he classes as epileptics
Moliere, called by Voltaire the father of
French comedy ; Julius Caesar, the greatest
military commander of his time, peerless
as a politician and statesman, and virtu-
ally the founder of the Roman Empire;
Petrarch, crowned poet laureate of Italy
in the capitol in Rome and died sitting
among his books July 18, 1374 ; Peter the
Great, Czar of Russia, who founded St.
Petersburg on a bog, married his mistress,
changed the manners of the Russians and

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filled their lives with industry, and when
drunk with wine would strike off twenty
heads in succession to show his dexterity
with the sword.

Napoleon, whose genius shook the earth,
suffered from an habitual twitching of the
right shoulder and of the lips. He be-
lieved in presentiments and horoscopes,
credited sorcerers who promised good for-
tune, despaired when he broke a mirror,
was superstitious about Friday and the
number 13, and the letter m he considered
fatal.

Grasset, in his work on the semi-insane,
classes Newton as a demi fou, which in
popularized English means a "damn
fool," and that he became insane in his
old age, the evidence being that he deliv-
ered fantastic lectures, clenched his fists
while driving, defied Villars and chal-
lenged him to fight, wrote obscure letters,
became melancholic, had been absent-
minded all of his life, and that the illustri-
ous astronomer suffered from dementia in
1694.

Newton, the greatest of natural philoso-

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pliers, was born in 1642, the year of Ga-
lileo 's death. He succeeded to the Mathe-
matical Professorship of Trinity College
and delivered a course of optical lectures
in Latin at the age of twenty-five years.
A new telescope was invented by him.
The incident of a falling apple brought
from his wonderful mind the marvelous
law of universal gravitation. He was a
master of the mint, twice a member of
Parliament, knighted by Queen Anne and
at his death had been president of the
Royal Society for twenty-five years.

In 1696, two years after his alleged de-
mentia it is recorded in Chambers' Ency-
clopedia, that "in the interval of public
duty, however, Newton showed that he still
retained the scientific power by which his
great discoveries had been made. This
was shown in his solution of two celebrated
problems prepared in June, 1696, by John
Bernouilli, as a 'challenge to the mathe-
maticians of Europe.'

A similar mathematical feat is recorded
of him as late as 1716, and at the age of
seventy-four years.

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On these facts I much prefer to be
classed with the Newtons than with the
nut-cracking alienists and professors who
are ever ready to bedevil a human being
for the beckoning dollar.

Mohammed before his sixth year lost
both of his parents and was the victim
of poverty and fits. In his tenth year he
entered the service of a rich widow, as a
camel-driver, who, though fifteen years
his senior and the survivor of two hus-
bands, offered him her hand, which he took
and grew a long beard and cultivated a
black mole between his shoulders which
later was looked upon by his followers as
"the seal of prophecy."

At forty years of age in the solitude of
Mt. Hira he nursed an inclination to teach
a new faith as a substitute for idolatry,
narrow Judaism, and a corrupt Chris-
tianity.

Like Isaac, Moses, Baalam, Paul, Joan
of Arc, Bloody Mary, and Joseph Smith,
Mohammed was honored by divine visita-
tions.

Whether divinity was present or actu-

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ally represented in each case, is still a
mooted question.

Some dogmatic inquirers have sug-
gested that these visions may have been
the children of hysteria, fright, dyspepsia,
or ambitious cunning.

What Mohammed had conceived after
a long, painful, and solitary confinement
he finally brought forth amidst such fear-
fully exultant physical vehemence that
during his revelations his eyes shot blood,
his lips foamed, and he steamed with
sweat.

This book-made lunatic fought super-
stition, the killing of newborn daughters,
gambling and usury, exhorted the people
to pious moral lives, and to the belief in
an all-mighty, all-wise, everlasting, indi-
visible, all- just God, the throne of whose
mercy could be reached principally
through fasting, almsgiving and prayer.
In the zenith of his power he lived in a
miserable hut, freed his slaves, and
mended his own breeches.

In a civil-service test for humility and
contempt of the world he would outclass

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any disciple who ever cussed fish on the
Sea of Galilee.

Freeing him from the sins and errors of
his successors, and taking him all in all,
human history records the achievements
of but few more earnest, noble and sin-
cere " prophets," men irresistibly led by
an inside voice to preach, teach and warn,
and to throw into the teeth of the world
sublime truths not fully comprehended
by themselves.

If, however, Mohammed were on trial
for murder in this day, the lobcock alien-
ists, who prance on the mental horizon for
hire, would affirm that the fastigium of
his intellectuality had irrevocably slipped
into the storm center of irremediable mad-
ness.

Like hounds, they often take the wrong
scent and cry out along a false trail,
never perceiving their fault.

The noted Thaw was the victim of the
monetary alienist Flint, who, consciously
or through olfactory defectiveness, for
years bayed along the trail of this alleged
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was shown in the last trial of Thaw at
which Dr. Flint called upon the court to
save his great mind from the hypnotic
powers of his victim.

These are only a few of the intellectual
lights that shine in the window of time,
who have been classed as defectives by
alienists.

By all the gods and bobtailed chickens
that infest mythology and the barnyard,
I most solemnly affirm that no sane man is
safe who has ever stepped on one of the
Ten Commandments, should he fall under
the paid observation of any of these scien-
tific vultures.

CHAPTER VIII

STANDARD

CONCEDE that mating can be controlled
to the point of matrimony, then, I ask by
what standard shall fitness be determined ?
Will intellect, physical lines, and pedi-
gree govern as among breeding animals'?
Will honesty, sense, and soundness, di-
vested of dowery, take the applicants past
the censor ?

Plutarch says: " Seldom honesty and
beauty dwell together."

If physical perfection shall be the pri-
mary requirement, the animal in man will
soon dominate the intellect and we will
ultimately have a race of gobblers and
stallions uproariously displaying their
charms before their queens. If an attrac-
tive stalwart physique, with such brain as
chance may have lodged in it, shall finally
become the standard, then it will follow as

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the night the day that genius must sleep
alone.

Physical abbreviation and imperfec-
tions have attended many of the most
noted men of the world.

How many deformed or physically de-
fective princes, kings, emperors, poets,
prophets, philosophers, statesmen, musi-
cians, orators, generals, and wits could I
enumerate ?

When that little, lean, poor, dejected fa-
mous preacher in Italy, Cornelius Mussus,
stepped into the pulpit in Venice the peo-
ple were about to depart. He threw his
beautiful voice into their ears and with
his wealth of intellect soon doped them
into an admiring spell-bound aggregation.
Happy was the senator who could sit in
his company or have him at his home.

Hannibal had but one eye; Muleasse,
King of Tunis; John, King of Bohemia;
Tiresias, the prophet; Appius Claudius;
Timoleon and Homer, were blind. An-
gelus Politianus had a leaking tetter in
his nose, yet he wrote in* words of gold;
Socrates was hairy, long-legged and pur-

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blind; Democritus, shriveled; Seneca,
harsh, lean, and ugly to the eye ; Horace,
a red-eyed shrimp ; ^Esop, deformed ; Mel-
anchthon, a short hard-favored man ; Mar-
silius Ficinus and Faber Stapulensis were
dwarfs; Galba, the emperor, had spinal
curvature ; Epictetus was lame, and Lord
Byron, club-footed; the great Alexander
and Augustus Caesar were sawed off ; Na-
poleon was called "Puss in Boots" ; Pope
measured less than five feet; Agesilaus
was mean in form; Prince Boccharis
physically was the crookedest and men-
tally the wisest of Egypt's royal blood.

The pigmy King of Poland, Uladeslaus
Cubitalis, fought more battles and won
more victories than any stalwart predeces-
sor who ever strode a horse.

Zacchaeus, the only rich sinner honored
at lunch by the Savior's presence, was so

nail that he viewed his Master's ap-
proach from the crotch of a sycamore.

"The Great Commoner," the sickly and
club-footed Thaddeus Stevens, walked
from humble obscurity to a seat in Con-
gress.

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Yet show me so many wits and such
divine spirits in any other intellectual as-
semblage.

Sottish, dull, and leaden minds are usual
in large bodies and comely features.

Fat and fame are not often covered by
the same skin. About the only great
statesman one can recall who was really
a fat man was Charles J. Fox, as can be
seen by his effigy in the palace of West-
minster. He would make three of his
great rival Pitt the younger.

The only fat poet one can recall is Jamie
Thompson, the author of "The Seasons."
He was a comfortable, lazy, slovenly man,
of whom it is related that he would eat
peaches off the tree, not taking the trouble
to take his hands out of his pockets to
pluck them. Yet, despite his lazy dispo-
sition, he managed to write one of the
longest of English poems as well as "The
Castle of Indolence," a castle in which he
habitually dwelt.

When ominous clouds were hovering
above the head of Cassar, he said to his
trusty friend, Antonius;

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Let me have men about me that are fat:
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights:
Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much : such men are dangerous.

In the material world a small diamond
is worth more than a granite block.

If physical perfection is sought, the
lofty idealists might profitably dwell upon
the fact that there has been little physical
progress in our species for many thou-
sands of years. The Cro-Magnon race
which lived perhaps twenty thusand
years ago was at least equal to any modern
people in size and strength, and some of
the so-called unprogressive races, as the
Zulus, Samoans and Tahitians, are even
to-day envied by the people of the white
race for strength and beauty.

The minds of men may be likened to
wood, metal, and stone, in that some read-
ily yield to the burnisher, while the vast
majority remain dull in the hands of the
most gifted artisan.

The belchers of wind and words may
blindly struggle on, but unavailingly, as
they will find their every effort environed
by unyielding, God-given, natural laws.

CHAPTER IX

INTELLECTUALS GENERALLY UNFERTILE

THE sexologists who seek to mate " in-
tellectuals" know that thereby they can
limit offspring and spare the wealthy,
socially inclined the burden and incon-
venience of children and without sexual
restrictions because of the well-known law
laid down by Ellis that "in the races and
also among animals generally, fertility di-
minishes as the organism becomes highly
developed."

That matchless mind and divine favor-
ite, Moses, so ran to intellect that he early
soured on matrimony and sent his wife to
her father that his time might be given
to plaguing Pharoah, legislating against
idolatry and adultery, evolving a sanitary
system of diet, foot baths, and whiskers,
expounding his ten rules of salvation,

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regulating the quail and manna supply
and clubbing waiter from tearless rocks.

The lily-faced Solomon, with " bushy
locks dark as the raven's wing," chased
bugs for a thousand hens and left for his
throne a single Cockerel, mentally slim,
but sexually strong, who, by aid of
eighteen wives, and sixty concubines pro-
duced twenty-eight sons and sixty daugh-
ters.

Michael Angelo, the architect of St.
Peter's, sculptor, painter and poet, put
tongues in clay and the touch of divinity
on canvas, and yet this great sweeping
mind never sought marriage but rather
the pure and ardent companionship of
widow Colonna.

Ariosto, noted for his vivid imagination,
vivacity, fertility of resource, word-paint-
ing and beauty of style, was called the di-
vine by Galileo. By a Florentine widow
he had two sons.

"Tumble-down Dick," was Cromwell's
son, a poor, feeble creature, shooed from
the throne in about three weeks.

A. Von Humboldt, the great scientific

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traveler and son of nobility, never mar-
ried. Of him Goethe said: "I may say
he has not his equal in knowledge, in liv-
ing wisdom. "

Napoleon III gave royalty a single son.

The bigot Edward Gibbon was the son
of a member of Parliament, and in a fam-
ily of seven he was the only one who sur-
vived childhood. He was low in stature,
feeble in health, with large head, thin legs,
big feet, shrill voice, shy and timid; and
yet bridged twelve centuries with a his-
tory which is still the highest authority on
most of the periods of which it treats.

Ferdinand, of Columbus fame, begat
crazy Johanna, the mother of Charles V
of Germany, whose two sons were con-
stantly pursued by squirrels.

Napoleon I, the modern Mars, was twice
married, resulting in a single scrubby
son.

Dean Swift never knew the passion of
love, though for thirty-five years he was
the virtuous companion of the beautiful
and intellectually fascinating Stella.
Within one hour after his death his ad-

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mirers clipped Ms head as clean as the
dome of the Colossus of Rhodes.

Lord Bacon in quest of wealth found it
in a childless matrimony, as sketches of
him make no references to children.

One child bore the name of the noted
Edmund Burke.

Alexander Pope, healthy, plump, pret-
ty, and precocious, at the age of twelve
was attacked by a serious illness induced
by " perpetual application," which ruined
his health and distorted his body. His
" Essay on Man," alone will carry his
memory undimmed through the coming
ages. He left no descendants, and Martha
Blount was the only woman who in the
least swayed this mental marvel.

Lord Macaulay, whose intellect from
early infancy burned with unusual bril-
liancy, died a bachelor.

Cecil Rhodes stamped his name on the
continent of Africa and in the history of
the British Empire and almost hated
women.

Oliver Goldsmith, who " wrote like an

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angel, but talked like poor poll," had no
taste for matrimony.

To say that Bismarck built the modern
German Empire is a sufficient tribute to
his greatness, still this towering master
of statecraft added but three to the
Kaiser's subjects.

Louis Agassiz, a Swiss naturalist and
Harvard professor, had but one son.

From the intellectual aristocracy of
New England came Ralph Waldo Emer-
son, a mild man with a scholar's face, who,
like Hawthorne, despised explosive laugh-
ter. His writings will long supply oil
for other men's lamps. "Hitch your
wagon to a star," is one of his many im-
perishable sayings. His matrimonial rec-
ord is two wives and two sons.

William Cullen Bryant was of Puri-
tan ancestry, the son of a cultured physi-
cian and a weakling at birth, with a head
much too large for his body, rendered
normal by brook bathing on which some-
times the ice had to be broken for the daily
Spartan bath. This first famous American
poet knew the alphabet at the age of six-

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teen months and left two daughters to bask
in the sunshine of his fame.

The historian Francis Parkman was of
distinguished ancestry, the son of a min-
ister and the father of two daughters.

Two wives and one child is the matri-
monial record of James Russell Lowell,
poet, scholar, humorist, and ambassador.

John G. Whittier, former shoemaker,
journalist, agitator, and poet, asked no
woman to wear his name.

Washington Irving, lawyer, traveler,
minister to Spain, and one of America's
most gifted writers, lived the trying life
of a bachelor.

Chauncey Depew of distinguished an-
cestry, a serious or playful orator at will,
a United States senator and the most
noted after-dinner entertainer of his time,
though twice married, and called nearly
everything else, was never called father.

David B. Hill, lawyer, governor, United
States senator and candidate for Presi-
dent, studiously avoided the matrimonial
toga.

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The great white-souled Washington left
his image on no human clay.

Samuel J. Tilden, attorney for fifty-
two corporations, was so highly intellec-
tual that he never built a nest in the lap
of matrimony.

The war governor of the Empire State,
Horatio Seymour, closed his career with-
out a son or daughter.

President McKinley was the seventh
son in a family of nine and his two daugh-
ters died in infancy.

Lolita Armour, the incubator baby of
twenty years ago, is the only heir of the
J. Ogden Armour millions.

Poe married his cousin Virginia, less
than fourteen years of age, who died child-
less at twenty-four. She was the only
magnet that drew and held the love of this
intellectual wilderness in all of his oscil-
lations from the skies to the gutter.

Only one child called the imperious,
matchless Conkling father.

The dazzling splendor of Franklin's in-
tellect gave him membership in all of the
leading scientific societies of the Old

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World and at the close of his great career
there was but one child to soothe his throb-
bing brow.

When Henry Wilson died the faithful
tomb unveiled its bosom and received the
Vice-President of the United States of
whom it was said: "He served his imper-
iled country faithfully, withstood tempta-
tions and died an honest man. ' ' This con-
structive statesman, with better than a
three-pound brain, was so poor that Sum-
ner loaned him one hundred dollars to
defray his inaugural expenses, and so un-
fruitful that his only son in early child-
hood joined the Heavenly choir.

These examples tend to support the El-
lis theory that barrenness haunts the wake
of a highly developed intellectuality.

But gifted men developed up from the
common walks of life, as a rule, are far
more prolific than those long associated
with the so-called learned professions.

A few noted examples will suffice.

Lincoln, the Negro's Moses, the Union's
savior and the Republic's saint, had four
children.

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Beecher, of Plymouth Church fame, a
mud-ball in boyhood, but a bright star in
manhood, had four children.

Samuel S. Clemens of "Tom Sawyer"
fame, and the most recent assassin of sad-
ness, had four children.

James A. Garfield studiously obeyed his
mother's behest, "Kemember thy God and
study books," until called from the rein
of the mule to the reign of the people. Of
his six children one has written his name
in the history of the World War.

Thomas A. Edison, who rescued the hu-
man voice from the sleep of the tomb, and,
wizard-like, robbed the occult of her treas-
ures, found time to dance six children
upon his knee.

James Fenimore Cooper, whose tales
raised the hair on bald heads, had seven
children.

Horace Greeley, the father of seven chil-
dren, with mud on his boots, his worldly
effects in his bandanna, entered New York
City with a country-fed brain which car-
ried him over one of the roughest roads
that man ever trod from the typesetter's

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case to the Democratic nomination for
President of the United States.

Peter Jefferson was a planter, sur-
veyor of note in the Colony of Virginia,
and a member of the House of Burgesses.
Thomas Jefferson was his third child and
eldest son in a family of ten children.

Lyman Beecher was the second genera-
tion of one of the most noted of American
families. His "Six Sermons on Intem-
perance" were translated into many lan-
guages; and his sermon on the death of
Hamilton at the hands of Burr marked the
beginning of the end of dueling in the
United States. Of his thirteen children,
seven became clergymen. The most noted
of his family are Catherine E. Beecher,
Thomas K. Beecher, Harriet Beecher
Stowe, and Henry Ward Beecher.

Thomas Marshall, in the Revolutionary
War, rose to the rank of colonel, and John
Marshall, that peerless jurist, who found
the Constitution a civic dogma and left
it a bar of steel, was the eldest of fifteen
children.

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Intellectuality in woman is also a bowl-
der in the highway of the cradle.

Michal, the daughter of King Saul and
wife of King David, never felt her first-
born's breath.

The six wives of England's genital ath-
lete matured but three children, all of
whom would have filled unknown graves
had they not been born to a crown.

The beautiful, talented Katharine Parr,
who composed both in Greek and Latin,
matrimonied at fifteen, was herself four
times a widow, thrice of widowers, and the
sixth wife of England's most scaturient
royal sensualist; she died childless.

George Eliot so magnetized the married
and gifted Lewes that many years were
spent together and a scandal bred which
closed the coveted doors to social centers
and distilled a gall in her soul which she
unstintingly poured into her literary
stream.

Maria Susanna Cummins, the daughter
of an able judge and the author of Lamp-
lighter, still widely read, had no taste for
matrimony.

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Alice and Phoebe Gary, deprived of
candles by their stepmother, courted the
Muse by the light of rag wicks in saucers
of lard. Attractive women, clever talk-
ers, gifted writers — the cultured and ar-
tistic sought them in their New York
City home, not for matrimony, but to loll
in the sunlight of genius.

Dr. Mary Walker, in man's attire by
leave of Congress, led her sex for half a
century in a contest for social equality,
and while she drew the eyes of the world
upon her, still no man was ever able to
ring her finger.

Sister Maria Celeste, who chose a celi-
bate life, was the daughter of the astrono-
mer and physicist Galileo, the sweep of
whose marvelous mind was beyond the
grasp of the midget souls around him.

The cultured Empress Josephine had
one child by her first husband, but was
divorced by Napoleon for barrenness.

The authoress Margaret Fuller Ossoli,
the daughter of a lawyer, had but one
child.

Helen Hunt Jackson, the daughter of

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a college professor, was twice married,
had two sons both of whom died in child-
hood.

Clara Barton, whose deeds of mercy
covered two continents and won for her
the Iron Cross of Germany, still failed to
attain the greatest title known to woman,
that of "Mother."

Lucy Stone worked her way through
Oberlin College, and during her four-
years course had but one new dress and
that was calico. She became a noted abo-
litionist, and when she was to speak in
Maiden, the congregational minister gave
notice that "a hen will undertake to crow
like a cock at the town hall this afternoon.
Anybody who wants to hear that kind of
music will of course attend." At thirty-
seven she entered Platonic matrimony, re-
tained her maiden name and died child-
less.

These noted women are a type of myri-
ads of their sex, who for centuries past
have chosen the convent, teaching litera-
ture, philanthropy, politics, professional

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or intellectual activities, rather than the
calling of tilling God's flowers in the gar-
den of the heart.

A modern silo would hold the increase
of America's social queens, from the mod-
est, gifted Martha Washington, to the
present-day bare-back type.

To further support the theory of Ellis
and others, that fertility decreases with
organic development, thousands of the
dead might be called from their tombs,
and of the living from their palaces and
banquet halls.

The same rule obtains among animals.

Dan Patch, with a pacing record of
liSS1^, descended in the male line from
George Wilkes with a record of 2:22.
Patch as a sire has to his credit twenty-
one pacers ; all good but none famous.

Cresceus, the trotting king, with a rec-
ord of 2 :02^4, was sold for a fabulous sum
to the Russian Government for breeding
purposes and proved such a failure that
he was put to work on a commissary
wagon.

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Good trotters have come alike from the
thoroughbred, the Morgan, the Canadian,
and the Indian pony. Morgan, a Vermont
horse, did not come from fast ancestry, yet
left numerous fast- trotting descendants;
and Dutchman, one of our best trotters*
was taken out of a clay yard, and put on
the turf from a Pennsylvania wagon team.

Mr. Galton says :

I regret I am unable to solve the simple
question whether, and how far, men and
women who are prodigies of genius are
infertile. The daughters of parents who
have produced single children are them-
selves apt to be sterile.

Recent investigation supports Mr. Gal-
ton.

In the London Times of October 16,
1916, it is reported that a

voluntary confidential census among a
class of "intellectuals," showed that of
120 marriages, 107 were "limited," the
average number of children to each mar-
riage being considerably under 2. If this
were to become the average number of
children to every married couple through-

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out the land, France would live to write
England's obituary notice, with the epi-
taph on her tombstone: "Died of suicidal
corruption and syphilitic poisoning."

CHAPTEE X
SOCIETY

SOCIETY, in its broad and temporal
sense, comprehends the poor, well-to-do,
and wealthy.

The sexology of Mr. Ellis touching off-
spring seeks to introduce into society the
i 'ideal of quality in place of the ideal of
quantity, " and to crush "the vulgar aim
of reckless racial fertility."

By the phrase " ideal of quality" we
assume that Mr. Ellis has in mind an edu-
cated and financially comfortable paren-
tage. He evidently intends that all in-
crease shall ultimately come from the up-
per layer of society as that layer will read-
ily subordinate itself to the doctrine that
1 'reckless racial fertility" ought to be
checked. We all know that the men and
women of this portion of the human fam-
ily are not much given to progeny-hunt-

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ing. They may have become disheartened
by the comparison of their best efforts
with the children of those socially be-
neath them. If the future pillars of this
republic are to be hooked from the ocean
of wealth it behooves us to examine its
depths.

There is but little revealed that greatly
interests us outside of man and his works,
and unlike the chipmunk, it is hard for one
to burrow into the human family without
leaving some dirt at the hole.

Since Noah sang "Rocked in the Cradle
of the Deep" while his kidneys worked on
the blood of the grape, till noisy slumber
alarmed his menagerie and his wine-
soaked body became the rendezvous of
gnats, flies, hornets, wasps, punkies, mos-
quitoes, libellulas, scarabs, spring-tails,
rhipipters, soldados, necrophagans and
humpbacked worms, man has changed but
little in his tastes, habits, and passions,
save possibly, in the intensity of his hy-
pocrisies and in the refinement of his vil-
lainies.

Trimalchio fed his guests on peafowl's

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eggs taken from the straw under a wooden
hen, and startled the gluttons with a cir-
cular tray containing food representa-
tions of the signs of the Zodiac, and fin-
ally washed sow's haslets to the second sta-
tion with century wine, and reclined on
the down of partridge wings; since then
he has had some feeble imitators.

A New York lust scavenger, the vic-
tim of a moral low-brow, touched a spring
and disclosed a human pullet who stood on
the banquet table robed only in a smile
and as imperturbed as an ass of Corin-
thian metal.

Herod, when soused, gave the head of
John the Baptist to a leg-twisting favorite
who thrilled the old fool by a climactic
leap from a table to his lap. Many of us
can recall modern instances of cane-suck-
ing sons of wealthy men who have been
leaped upon by terpsichorean artists.

If the reports that have come to us of
the social broodings at exclusive Atlantic
seaboard resorts are one-half as depend-
able as a sparrow's chastity or a harlot's
dream, then, assuredly, no bedtime dan-

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cer who ever whisked flies from an Apis
bull with a peacock quill had a physical
movement or thrill unknown to the wine-
driven engines of love that wiggle in ham-
mocks or "ham" the sands on the moaning
shores of these sin-soused cities of the
sea.

At these resorts fools and their money
developed the banquet stunts.

A man of some intelligence and great
wealth, who descended from the sweat-
soiled loins of an immigrant, procured
the loan of Consul II, the leading social
Ape of Central Park, and in human
breeches and snowy shirt front he was
given the plate at the right of his host.
In intellect and sobriety he was the star
of the evening.

At another gathering of the low-combed
cocks of society a pig was loosed among
the wine-swashed, waist-stretched revel-
ers. Greased and bewildered, he dove
among the screaming, swaying, tumbling
female tanks, who love every he-thing but
their husbands, and ripped trails and
tailoring till he wrought a havoc and ana-

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tomical exposure sufficient to glut the
monetary and sensual cravings of whin-
nying studs, who spend their wakeful
hours plucking blooms from the garden
of virtue, later to cast them aside, scent-
less and dead.

The pagans, in the days of their juiciest
sins, could have learned from these foul
lemans who nocturnally infest the reek-
ing sewers of shady resorts, and, like the
unclean birds of the night, retire only
with the breaking dawn.

The dollar has been the yardstick of so-
ciety— since Abraham paid Ephron four
hundred shekels of silver for Sarah's
tomb — whether picked from the ham of a
Harpy or the hand of an Angel.

Socially the clean wife of a poor intel-
lectual brilliant would not in these days
be given standing room with those en-
riched by pickles, bonds, hams, or sau-
sages.

Gold is the counterpane for grammati-
cal errors and genital sins.

Society, as now constituted the world
over, is a pottage composed of miscellane-

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OTIS meats, including bob veal, sweet-
bread, lamb fry, choice cuts, capon and
buttocks with a vegetable adjunct of
skunk cabbage, pig weeds, cowslips, bur-
docks, carrots, lentils and an occasional
sweet herb and all spiced with gold dust.

A calico printer founded the famed Peel
family.

Baron Reading, who has just been
created an earl, and Lord Northcliffe, who
has been made a viscount, are both of the
humblest origin. Northcliffe was a re-
porter, and Beading, now Lord Chief
Justice, is the son of a Jewish storekeeper.
Lloyd George, Prime Minister of England
sold groceries in his father's store.

The son of a section boss, born in a little
shanty in a western boom town, John J.
Pershing, in command of the American
Army in the greatest war that ever shook
the earth, drove the blood-reeking Hun
from the soil of his Alsatian ancestors.

Clemenceau, who kissed every stone
along the highway of poverty, the recent
Premier of France, is accredited one of

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the broadest and shrewdest of living
statesmen.

The Socialist Ebert, who on the abdica-
tion of the Kaiser took the royal post of
Chancellor and shocked the aristocracy of
the Empire by reposing in the Kaiser's
bed for two nights, is a harnessmaker by
trade.

In the business world the men that have
emerged from the gloomy shades of pov-
erty into the sunlight of prosperity consti-
tute a vast army.

Notable amongst them is Charles M.
Schwab, who entered a mill at the age of
eighteen and finally performed the mar-
velous feat, as head of the United States
Shipbuilding Corporation, of producing
one hundred and twenty-four ships in the
month of July, 1918.

Let the descendants of these and other
noted men of humble origin refrain from
silly boasting on the subject of ancestry,
but rather pride themselves on the
humbleness of their antecedents and the
greatness attained by them.

We are all well aware that this social

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ocean out of which Mr. Ellis hopes to fish
" quality" is constantly absorbing the
drainage of many social cesspools.
Robert Burton says :

Consider the beginning, present estate,
progress, ending of gentry, and then tell
me what it is. Oppression, fraud, cozen-
ing, usury, knavery, bawdry, murder, and
tyranny are the beginning of many an-
cient families : one had been a bloodsucker,
a parricide, the death of many a silly soul
in some unjust quarrels, seditions made
many an orphan and poor widow, and for
that he is made a lord or an earl, and his
posterity gentlemen forever after.

The same noted scholar further ob-
serves :

Hercules, Romulus, Alexander (by
Olympia's confession), Themistocles, Ju-
gurtha, King Arthur, William the Con-
queror, Homer, Demosthenes, P. Lum-
bard, P. Comestor, Bartholus were bas-
tards ; and that almost in every kingdom,
the most ancient families have been at
first princes' bastards; their worthiest
captains, best wits, greatest scholars,
bravest spirits in all our annals, have been
base.

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The Normans who went over to England
with William the Conqueror and consti-
tuted the proud English nobility were
simply a miscellaneous set of adventurers,
professional fighting men of unknown,
and no doubt for the most part undistin-
guished, lineage. William the Conqueror
himself was a bastard, according to Bur-
ton.

To get a little nearer home let me call
attention to the root of some of the so-
called first families of the present day.

The Yanderbilt root paced the deck of
a ferry ; the Astor root bought pelts from
the Indians; the Gould root was a sur-
veyor and mouse-trap inventor; the
Mackey root was a bartender and gold
prospector; the Lincoln root, a rail split-
ter ; the Garfield root, a canal driver, and
the Grant root, a tanner.

There are hundreds of others, nameless
because still in the flesh, who have finan-
cially emerged from the most abject, but
generally respectable, poverty, and their
descendants who bask in the sunshine of
inherited wealth should not forget whence

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they sprung, and that their pile may rest
on bleeding hearts, wrecked homes, sui-
cides, and financial cripples, the victims
of grasping, thieving ancestors.

Still as the world views them they con-
stitute the gentry, and Agrippa defined
gentry as "a sanctuary of knavery and
naughtiness, a cloak for wickedness and
excusable vices, of pride, fraud, contempt,
boasting, oppression, dissimulation, lust,
gluttony, malice, fornication, adultery, ig-
norance, and impiety."

How many of the white-trousered gen-
try and degenerate princelings who scorn
labor, yet wear and eat its sweat, have de-
scended from the church-robbers of the
sixteenth century?

The right to rule is man's gift, and it is
not vested in some driveling son of a
rough-neck ancestor, or bandit forefather
whose mailed fist battered his way to
power and a throne.

How many family trees have been felled
in the social forest upon the discovery of
a criminal ancestor dangling from a
limb!

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Show me a money-bag who dares invite
all of his relatives to any of his social
functions.

Some disown their parents, deny broth-
ers and sisters, and will not suffer kindred
and friends to approach lest they umbrate
their pomp, accounting it a mud stain on
their greatness to have had such beggarly
beginnings.

Simon in Lucian, in the day of his
wealth, changed his name to Simonides
because of his beggarly kindred, and set
the house of his birth on fire that no man
should point it out.

Sickness is a great commoner, and until
it enters the banquet hall of wealth, the
money idolater and the snobs from the
womb of wealth are unmindful that the
wood is drying in the sun that will make
their coffins, and that the despised hand
of toil will dig their graves.

The result is the same whether one is
strangled by a chain of gold or a rope
of hemp, or the belly is filled with eclairs
or mush and milk.

" Vanity of vanities; all is vanity," is

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the final cry of these worldly, sin-laden,
goldenrods from the cheerless vale of a
drooping virility.

There are too many arrogant, chest-in-
flated, morally poisoned skunks, who
haughtily point to a tinseled ancestry and
the blue veins on their bodies as evidence
of greatness and of their right to make
doormats of the rest of mankind.

With us wealth is society. Money or-
nates the home, adorns the body, expands
the stomach, breeds gout, pauperizes hap-
piness, leads to lust stews, brothels, groin
pains, and contempt for the poor.

The nasty refinements of society's af-
ternoon tango tea dancers, when embold-
ened by wine and amatory yearnings, led
a noted New York restaurateur recently
to close out his supply of social male
household pests, tango pirates and lounge
lizards.

The best solace for the sensual itch is
the dishpan or washtub.

Nero never wore the same garments
twice, — his slaves never changed theirs,

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— to-day by the economy of nature they
are physical equals.

In social distinction founded on money
alone there is a vast volume of froth.

A crooked overseer, dishonest banker,
designing petticoat, Monte Carlo, storm at
sea, flash of lightning, financial panic,
drouth, cyclone, sickness, invasion, specu-
lation, locusts, bugs, or booze, may at any
time force a Dives to the level of a
Lazarus.

When a social pillar has whiskied his
thirst to the point of an old-rose nose, and
stretched his anatomy at the feet of Bac-
chus, and finally expelled his soul in a wild
delirium, the fee-hungry doctor saves the
family name by announcing that dipso-
mania was the cause of death. In a me-
chanic it would have been tremens.

If one of the common herd shoves an ar-
ticle from a counter into her muff she is
a thief or shoplifter, but when a fur-laden,
powdered sister of the social set is caught
the poor soul is suffering from klepto-
mania.

As a rule, the working girl will carry

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to maturity her social indiscretion and
clothe it with a mother's love; but out of
the rustling silk no human cry is ever
heard, for the blight of gold has parched
the plant and cast it to the lap of mother
earth.

One pines in repentance and piety or
fills a harlot's grave; the other shines in
her sins and society and holds her secrets
till judgment day.

A noted example was a wealth-crazed
spinster of Detroit, Michigan, who loudly
rang the social bell on two continents.
Her beauty was fodder for both clowns
and kings. At seventeen she married a
Belgian prince, deserted him and eloped
with a cafe fiddler. Soon wearying of his
catgut notes, she erased him from her
calling list, then for a time dropped into
obscurity with another bee that had been
attracted to this much-sucked rose. A
self-willed, highly educated, physically
perfect dynamo of mischievous impulses,
and with eyes that would lift a saint from
his knees, she tantalized and tortured men
in all of the capital cities of Europe, till,

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worn down by the fury of her passions and
dissipations, decorated with three di-
vorces and cursed by four husbands, she
recently closed her eyes in poverty and
obscurity at Padua.

The golden-mouthed John Chrysostom
expressed the general sentiment when he
pronounced woman to be "a necessary
evil, a natural temptation, a desirable
calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fas-
cination, and a painted ill."

How many matrons of our day can be
seen in Juvenal's mirror of the Roman
matron of his day?:

All glowing, all athirst

For wine, whole flasks of wine, and swallows first

Two quarts to clear her stomach and excite

A ravenous, an unbounded appetite.

Maids of obscurity are freely selling
their accumulated beauty and form to
bloated guzzlers for chariots and gems.

If the beds in the palatial homes of
bachelor libertines through this land could
give the names of the crushed and bleed-
ing hearts of former innocence which bur-
dened them till required for another vie-

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tiin, a field of wilted flowers, cut in the bud
by the reaper of lust, would stretch from
the morning gold of the East to the crim-
son tinted West.

The mashing elders sought Susanna in
the garden, and nightly on our streets can
be seen hoary lust-hunters trailing some
unsuspecting squab.

How many can give thanks, with the
soldier and pagan saint Marcus Aurelius
for not having unlawfully tested his viril-
ity before his majority?

Will the attractive innocent girl ever
learn that the honeyed words and special
favors of her married employer are only
spades of earth from virtue 's grave ? Will
she ever learn that the promise of mar-
riage by a son of wealth, with the price
paid in advance, is an apple of Sodom
which will turn to ashes on the lips ?

Society is honeycombed with male lust
gluttons, robed in attire and manners of
gentility, but, who, at heart, are lower
than the rattler that warns before it
strikes.

A noted architect and his millionaire

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slayer are fair samples of an army of so-
cial hell-doomed, carnal sugs, who flay
chastity and worship sin.

How many he-aristocrats molt away
their physical substance and drearily end
their days groaning and sighing over their
emasculated powers, and exclaiming in
the words of the eunuch: " Behold, I am
a dry tree."

Two educated, wealthy, and to the eye,,
refined sisters, for years maintained the
palatial " Whispering in the Meadows"
in the city of Chicago, where every sensual
diversion known to Sodom was practiced
by themselves and stimulated in others.
It was in this annex to hell that the son of
a noted merchant of Chicago was killed
while furthering his creed that no mar-
ried woman could long withstand his as-
saults upon her virtue.

Daily, social, financial cripples yoke
themselves to any old rickety female So-
domite who can stay the sag in their fin-
ancial backs.

In all of the history that has been writ-
ten on the walls of time the single fact

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stands out that whenever gold wrested
the throne from honor and virtue, deca-
dence followed.

The devil, as a teacher, is tireless: He
never sleeps. He works but little in the
barren soil of poverty. In the fields of
the idle rich or in the laps of social yearn-
ers he reaps abundant harvests. His latest
fad, with surface innocence, is the ex-
change of husbands by married women at
the shows, dances, theaters, and other
gatherings.

There is a well-defined percentage of
parasitic sons of wealth who are distin-
guished by red eyes, pearly teeth, daily
bath and linen shift, perfect mouth, glove-
and-cane manners, with a sensual scent,
erupted hides and bandaged anatomy, and
who contaminate and poison everything
within the radius of their unholy mousing,
and yet these harpies are permitted to
roost on and besmear their ancestral perch
and enter the homes of refinement and
cleanliness through the power of a golden
jimmy. How few amongst them with a

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nose without a rose, and a skin without a
scab!

They roam among the highest social
peaks and seek victims even in the huts
of the lowly. From the records of court
trials and the pages of medical works it
seems that their own sex and animals,
even, are not immune from their mias-
matic touch.

Society, in its restricted sense, is made
up of everything that its membership will
tolerate.

No questions were asked the famous il-
legitimate Themistocles after he had
tricked himself into the baths of the sons
of noted Athenians.

An English novelist of Chrysanthemum
fame on a balmy morning entered the har-
bor of New York. For months he was
wined and dined and sighed over and
later spent three years in a London prison
for an unnatural crime.

The devil in his warfare upon unstained
souls has had in his service, and still has,
quite as many women as men.

The female seducer to lewdness, for

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personal gratification, for hire, for her
haunts or for others, has plied her nefari-
ous calling in all of the avenues of hu-
manity since the passion-charged wife of
Potiphar ripped his cloak from the virtu-
ous Joseph and the youthful and match-
less Cleopatra shed her rug in the tent of
Caesar, and Delilah, the queen of teasers,
robbed Samson of his secret.

Like decoys in the stockyards, procur-
esses and she-rakes are constantly leading
lambs to their doom. Thus is the never-
ending stream of social poison fed; and
thus were the instrumentalities produced
which crippled the English army in the
Boer War, and which on May 14, 1917, led
the War Fund Committee of the Young
Men's Christian Association to print the
following paragraph in its appeal, to wit :

Facts not allowed to be published but
which we are given from the most unques-
tionable authorities will strike you with
absolute dismay. Fine young men — many
of them married — leaving home with high
characters and clean records returned by
the tens of thousands before they ever

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saw the front — ruined for life. An un-
believable percentage of the young man-
hood of nations sent home to struggle
hopelessly against their fate — necessarily
to spread their curse among some who are
innocent.

The Church Times of February 18,
1916, an English publication, discussed
the subject, and the public conscience was
painfully shocked to learn that

one in ten persons in large towns is in-
fected with acquired or congenital syph-
ilis, and a far larger percentage than this,
gonorrhea. In one great city of the Em-
pire, which shall be nameless, it is stated
that ninety men in every hundred of mid-
dle age, who have been born and reared in
that city, have had venereal disease.

The foregoing is supported by the fact
that married men in the English army
home on furlough were not permitted to
consort with their wives. It has been re-
ported that within a year two hundred
Canadian nurses returned from the front
burdened with the evidence of sexual pa-
triotism.

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Mrs. Neville-Rolfe, in an article in the
Nineteenth Century, in October, 1918, on
the subject of "The Changing Moral
Standard," is authority for the following
condensed observations, which apply to
England.

Those who pursue a course of conduct
in keeping with the best interests of the
community include only a small propor-
tion of the men and probably only about
two-thirds to half of the women. The
rapid numerical increase of the " ama-
teur" is reducing with startling rapidity
the proportion of women living up to our
past ideals of chastity.

Available records show that from 1914
to 1917 the police arrested and brought
before magistrates for soliciting twenty
thousand women in the city of London
alone.

There is no denying the fact that girls,
unmarried women, and young married
women of all classes have in very large
numbers joined the ranks of the "ama-
teur."

Mrs. Eolf e wrote :

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It is a severe shock to be forced to the
recognition of such depravity as is indi-
cated by the following well-authenticated
story. A girl of nineteen, who entered a
country-house party, when asked by her
hostess where she was staying the week
before, answered glibly, in a mixed com-
pany, "Oh, I was at— —and had a top-
ping time"; openly boasting of promis-
cuous immorality during the visit. That
such an announcement could be made with-
out the majority of those present feeling
that anything out of the ordinary had oc-
curred, shows that the social customs and
traditions are altering rapidly in a most
undesirable direction.

Consider also the well-educated busi-
ness girl who telephones for information
as to where facilities for treatment of
venereal diseases can best be obtained "be-
cause I was kind to a friend who came
home on leave the other day and now my
fiance is reaching London next week and
we are to be married." Or, the domestic
servant who writes for information of the
same nature in great distress, because she
cannot imagine "who I got it from, as
all my boys are such nice boys and it is
not as if I was a bad woman"; all indi-
cate the changing standards.

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It is mainly the result of a short-sighted
system of education, the excitement in-
herent in war conditions, the emancipation
of women, immediately followed by the
economic independence of very large num-
bers under conditions removed from home
influences.

What evidences have we that the moral
bulwark reared by our American ances-
tors is being battered down?

In what respect have we changed as to
our mode of life, habits, practices, and be-
liefs?

Within our memory angel food has de-
throned mush and milk, and silk between
the ankle and the knee has replaced the
woolen sock. The patient ox, the dash
churn, the oaken bucket, the revolving
rake, the peg-tooth drag, the grain cradle,
the horse tread thrasher, the corn-plant-
er's bag, the crosscut saw and the arm-
strong dung-spreader have passed into
history; but let us take hope from the
fact that the cows still calve and the hens
lay in the same old way.

On the farm the wife is supplanted by

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the statutory cow. This animal must be
addressed kindly, and have her hair
combed and bag handled with clean hands
and in full dress. Numerically the calves
are increasing and the children decreasing.

The spare bed is occasionally used by
a son or daughter who has left the Great
White Way of city life for a few hours
with aging parents. The tenement house
has fallen to decay. Nearly every man
is his own clergyman and without the con-
stant gospel-pounding of a Paul, religious
and moral lassitude has entered many
hearts once the abiding places of a rigid
Christianity.

The great fortunes made by hook or
crook in the last few years by men from
the common walks of life have precipi-
tated a mad struggle for riches and its
pleasure, resulting in a bold and far-reach-
ing demoralization of both men and wo-
men. The farm is too lonely and slow for
young men, and the milk pan is no longer
the mirror, nor the country youth the
companion, of the girl schooled upon the
crystallized sweat of doting parents.

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The Ten Commandments are sent to
the attic and the golden calf wheeled out.
The red-light district of life at first is
cautiously entered, then roamed in, till
finally its pleasure-maddening vortex
sucks in and enslaves the once most cau-
tious nibblers at the bait.

Do you demand proof ?

Since Milton *s Paradise Lost sold for
twenty-five dollars and a western bull for
one hundred thousand dollars, the public
press has fairly reeked with accounts of
domestic woes, social evils, crimes, mur-
ders, and suicides.

Men and women in all stations of life
are daily indicted and daily convicted of
all manner of crimes.

We see the wealthy broker Eddy swap-
ping wives with a liveryman followed by
murder and suicide; the Reno divorce-
court judge resigning from pure exhaus-
tion; married women preferring dogs to
children as legatees; the bridge- whist
table to the domestic hearth ; the cigarette
to the darning needle; the sinner to the
saint; the purr of a cat to a child's

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prattle ; feticide to maternity ; a slumber-
ing ovary to a wakeful womb; a calci-
mined face to a clean skin; unbosomed
charms to a veiled existence ; a dog's trous-
seau to children's gowns; Three Weeks in
literature to The Courtship of Miles Stan-
dish; the touch of a pander er to a hus-
band's kiss; the sensual arms of a thick-
lipped ebony pugilist to a sunlit face of
her own race; the stage clout to a ma-
tronly dress ; and finally the street is pre-
ferred to the home, where we see them
"lewd, petulant, and reeling ripe with
wine" — a condition in which the armor of
virtue is readily vulnerable to the tor-
pedo of lust.

We lately read of bankers, moral teach-
ers, professional and business men, mem-
bers of a Christian association, in a sec-
tion of the West, having outsinned So-
dom and Gomorrah.

Civilization is in a continual flux, and
much of the new-world aristocracy has
reached the stage of ooze.

Probably the seed of more sowers is
now cast by the wayside, more tenanted

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wombs evacuated by the refinements of
surgery, and more souls hurled over the
embankment of immorality into the fervid
bowels of hell, than at any time since the
fig leaf was ripped from its moorings by
the curiosity of woman.

How many husbands and wives whose
lives blended well in the dark hours of
poverty have become estranged in the red
glare of wealth?

The toxin of the dollar has led many a
man to sunder his matrimonial fetters, to
pension and turn out to grass the compan-
ion of his humbler days, for a woman with
all the sexual ferocity of a Borgia or a
Massalina pounding in her veins.

Many wives are so cruelly neglected by
husbands, whose daily employment is to
sweat over pleasures that yield only to a
golden key, that the road to perdition is
paved with broken hearts and sprinkled
with the ashes of loves consumed in the
roaring fire of infidelity.

There would, however, be less cockerel-
strutting and tail-feather display if the
deserted wives were permitted to shoot

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the bustle off from every drab who seeks,
like the cowbird, to deposit her eggs in the
nests of others.

If clean husbands would apply the
Cudahy treatment to sexual prowlers who
enter the matrimonial close there would
be fewer men rocking other men's chil-
dren when they think they are rocking
their own.

Walter D. Bieberach, M.D., connected
with the Chicago Vice Commission, esti-
mated that the profits from vice in that
city were fifteen million dollars per an-
num, divided among four groups com-
posed of the brothel-keeper, the property-
owner, the liquor-purveyor and the amuse-
ment-purveyor.

It would seem that among the contend-
ing nations social barriers have been badly
crippled by war.

Birth-control and eugeny have been
mired by the sexual whirlwind which is
lashing the world.

Stokes shot Jim Fisk in a fit of jeal-
ousy over that voluptuous sunburst Jose-
phine Mansfield. This is only a well-

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known instance of the thousands of trig-
ger-pullings involving the possession of
Borne queen of filth.

The world well knows that from the
cheerless huts of the lowly, from the
bleak wilderness of poverty, from the bar-
ren shores of illiteracy, from the deserts
of opportunity — but generally from the
lap of clean maternity, sired by piety and
purity — have come the stellar intellects
which gradually ascended the horizon into
the clear blue field of knowledge whence
their scintillations illumined the somber
highway of man's activities, harnessed
the untamed powers of nature and fer-
reted from their burrows secrets that
baffled man since the dawn.

President Harding, with the patriotic
zeal of a Washington, the sensitive con-
science of a Lincoln, the silent courage
and tenacity of a Grant, the temperament
of a McKinley, the piety and purity of
a Paul, on December 15, 1920, at Marion,
in an address to the Ohio Child Con-
servation League, clearly indicated that

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the America of the future must come from
the soil of the republic. He said:

The generation of to-day in its concern
for the morrow will guarantee a citizen-
ship from the soil of America which will
be the guaranty of American security.

To the social students, moral philoso-
phers, and pupilmongers who are honestly
seeking the betterment of man, I would
suggest that they give the people more of
Christ and less of Ellis.

A greater number of the stalking evils
of the day can be withered through men-
tal sanitation and moral surgery, than by
the specialized well-known anticonception
deceits and sexual formulas.

The human mind always feels for the
popular breeze disregarding the source
and unmindful of its effect.

In the year of grace 1918 it was quite in
harmony with American sentiment to con-
sign the Kaiser to hell as the typification
of the accumulated barbarity of centuries.
Yet burning accused negroes at the stake

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in the South has been a frequent social
pastime.

In May, 1917, — while we were commend-
ably pouring our wealth into the lap of
bleeding Belgium to aid the suffering vic-
tims of alleged Hun atrocities and belch-
ing forth anathemas from the pulpits, and
issuing well-intended proclamations from
the White House, threatening the world
with our brand of democracy — two thou-
sand five hundred citizens of Memphis,
Tennessee, calmly watched the sizzling
flesh fall from the oil-soaked burning
body of Ell Persons, a dangling negro.

While the whites of the South continue
to deny the blacks the due process of law
which they invoke for themselves, they
should not grow red in the face blatantly
demanding justice and freedom for people
abroad.

"Thou hypocrite, first cast out the
beam out of thine own eye ; and then shalt
thou see clearly to cast out the mote out
of thy brother's eye."

Class and race hatred, religious bigotry,
avarice and immorality will always be f es-

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tering sores in the side of world-democ-
racy and obstructing bowlders in the high-
way of eugeny.

For redemption from the gathering so-
cial evils which are blighting many of
the best amongst us we must steadfastly
lean upon the arm of Christ and place our
trust in the moral stamina of the com-
mon people, the daily associates of the
Messiah, who have always in times of
great social stress and oppression rescued
humanity and relit the taper of hope in
the human breast.

If we escape the extreme penalty here
our civic salvation must be secured
through the millions of Christian men and
women of our nation who shall be strong
and brave enough to teach mankind by
word and example that there can be no
hope for those in whose hearts the grace
of God is a stranger.

One of the most elucidating mental
flashes, on present social conditions, is the
following from the pen of Hon. Byron
B. Newton:

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Vulgar of manners, overfed,
Overdressed and underbred,
Heartless, Godless, Hell's delight,
Eude by day and lewd by night,
Bedwarfed the man, overgrown the brute,
Ruled by boss and prostitute,
Purple-robed and pauper-clad,
Raving, rotten, money-mad;
A squirming herd in Mammon 's mesh,
A wilderness of human flesh,
Crazed with avarice, lust and rum —
New York, Thy name 's delirium.

CHAPTER XI

SHRINKING PROGENY

THE plan of sexologists does not com-
prehend morality as it has come to us from
the Cross but rather a limited high-power
progeny.

Havelock Ellis, in his book The Task of
Social Hygiene, at page 23 says :

" Increase and multiply" was the legen-
dary injunction uttered on the threshold
of an empty world. It is singularly out of
place in an age in which the earth and sea,
if not indeed the very air, swarms with
countless myriads of undistinguished and
undistinguishable human creatures, until
the beauty of the world is befouled and
the glory of the heavens bedimmed. To
stem back that tide is the task now im-
posed on our heroism, to elevate and
purify and refine the race, to introduce
the ideal of quality in place of the ideal
of quantity which has run riot so long,

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with the results we see. The vulgar aim
of reckless racial fertility is no longer
within our reach and no longer commends
itself as worthy. It is not consonant with
the stage of civilization we are at the mo-
ment passing through.

The foregoing is one of the most un-
godly, unchristian and unpatriotic pro-
nouncements ever written on ancient tab-
lets or in modern books.

Had the Pilgrim Fathers and Mothers
disregarded the multiplication precept
hurled from the eternal throne, at the
dawn of man, into an unpeopled world,
who would have thrown the tea of the op-
pressor into the ocean of liberty, who
would have fought the Colonial battles,
whence would have come the three mil-
lions of unconquerable men and women,
who would have rocked the cradle of lib-
erty in which reposed an infant republic,
and who would have guarded and nur-
tured that infant to a stately manhood,
represented in "Uncle Sam," who now
proclaims to the world that he rules the
greatest nation, the most versatile people

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and the best governed republic that the
sun has ever smiled on since thrown into
space from the majestic hand of God?

The greatest struggle that ever rocked
the earth, since Cain killed Abel, and
which fertilized the battlefields of Europe
with human blood, was fought by children
grown to manhood.

When Babylon, Sparta, Greece, Rome,
and many other nations which have long
since perished from the earth, had at-
tained the zenith of their greatness and
culture, they sought the widest possible
sexual liberality, but set bounds to their
offspring, and willfully permitted their
children to die or be eaten by beasts, thus
unwittingly sapping their man and wo-
manhood, and numerically weakening
their nationality by ill attention to pro-
geny, thereby hastening the approaching
day when they were to lay the crown of
centuries of glory in the lap of the in-
vader.

When irreligious France wrote above
her graveyards: " Death is an eternal
sleep," and in 1870, fell crushed and bleed-

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ing before the invader, a victim of sen-
sual and riotous living, and with her death
rate above her births, in alarm she then
took a paternal interest in her pregnant
daughters and public morals, and pro-
vided maternity homes for dependent or
afflicted women who were molding assets
for the nation; hence in less than fifty
years, we behold a new France, so regen-
erated that her people, in genius, patriot-
ism, courage, resources, statesmanship,
versatility, and endurance are now the
marvel of the world.

A female German socialist boldly an-
nounces the doctrine that every woman,
regardless of social relations, having a
yearning for maternity should select a,
male and bring forth young.

The government of Germany is liberally
socialistic and with a bounteous hand
takes care of her children of chance, de-
pendent mothers and the unemployed.
Her net increase in population is about
one million a year. In 1906 the number of
illicit births was 177,060 ; and now twenty
per cent of all increase are the children

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of love. Here we have a people who from
the days of their savagery to this hour
have believed in monogamy and that it
was their duty to have children and to
rear them all. Hence, Germany is numeri-
cally and intellectually one of the great-
est nations on earth, and single-handed,
could have, in 1916, wrested the crown
from any king or ruler then burdening his
people with the humbug of royalty.

To check the reckless multiplication of
offspring Richardson and others appear
to advocate the special cultivation of non-
child-bearing women. In other words,
these godless sexologists want a scentless
rose, stoneless cherry, and ovarian desert.

If the doctrine of Ellis and others, that
" racial fertility " is a reckless vulgar aim,
ever effectively roots itself in the hearts
of the pale-face nations, the time will as
surely come in the future as in the past
when the boasted civilization of the white
man, defended by machine-made men
grown on the deserts of maternity, will
vanish before the onrush of that nation

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or those nations who have kept up the
4 'vulgar aim" of "racial fertility."

Antagonism of the Roman Catholic
Church toward the birth-control move-
ment is well known. This antagonism is
based on theological grounds, but it has
frequently been pointed out that the re-
sult, whether the Church has the fact in
mind or not, will be to give the Church a
slowly increasing preponderance in num-
bers in any community where the popula-
tion is made up in part of Catholics and
in part of Protestants.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-
Day Saints, popularly known as the Mor-
mon Church, has taken a similarly antag-
onistic stand on birth-control. Theologi-
cal objections are raised against it ; but in
this case what may be called the eugenic
aspect, the problem of altering the rela-
tive proportions of different classes in a
population, is clearly seen and acknowl-
edged.

In the July issue of the Relief Society
Magazine, an official publication issued at
Salt Lake City, five of the twelve elders

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who make up the supreme council of -the
organization state their views on birth-
control.

The eugenic view of the subject is most
clearly seen by Elder Joseph F. Smith, Jr.,
who points out: "I feel only the greatest
contempt for those who, because of a little
worldly learning or a feeling of their
own superiority over others, advocate and
endeavor to control the so-called 'lower
classes' from what they are pleased to
call 'indiscriminate breeding.'

The old Colonial stock that one or two
centuries ago laid the foundation of our
great nation is rapidly being replaced by
another people, due to the practice of this
erroneous doctrine of "small families."
According to statistics gathered by a lead-
ing magazine published in New York, a
year or two ago, the average number of
children to a family among the descend-
ants of the old American stock in the New
England states was only two and a frac-
tion, while among the immigrants from
European shores, who are now coming into
our land, the average family was com-
posed of more than six.

Thus the old stock is surely being re-

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placed by the " lower classes," of a stur-
dier and more worthy race. W°rtbder
because they have not learned, in these
modern times, to disregard the great com-
mandment given to man by our Heavenly
Father. It is, indeed, a case of the sur-
vival of the fittest, and it is only a matter
of time before those who so strongly ad-
vocate and practice this pernicious doc-
trine of " birth-control" and the limiting
of the number of children in the family
will have legislated themselves and their
kind out of this mortal existence.

Our government in 1917 was demand-
ing a trained force of five millions of men
for the World War in anticipation of the
very danger that I have outlined. Let us
thank God that we to-day can give to our
national defense, if need be, ten millions
of men, for the reason that those who have
come to our shores, except the so-called
nearly extinct " Yankee," have indulged
in the old-fashioned " vulgar" physical
progeny methods, rather than in the cap-
ers of those who burn in their lusts one
toward another and burrow in the filth of
unnatural commerce, rendering abortive

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sexual enterprises and salting maternal
plants.

A frontier defense, composed of flesh
and blood, such as the World War pre-
sented, is not spun from threads of silver
or gold, nor does it come from Richard-
son's " non-child-bearing women."

Unless those amongst us who corres-
pond to the ancient burghers and peasants
are encouraged by social laws to marry
and multiply, who will man our dread-
noughts, sight our coast guns on the in-
vader, enforce an orderly civilization,
keep the idle, lazy wealthy from hunger
and filth, run our mines, shops, factories,
and railroads, and do all the menial work
of the nation?

You cannot grow an oat crop on an as-
phalt pavement; neither will progeny
sprout in a sandy uterus nor spring into
being in a surgically raked ovarian gar-
den. Unless those endowed by nature for
progeneration are permitted frequently
to test their virility, regardless of family
tree or physical contour, the Lady Eglan-
tines of the future may as well save the

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wear and tear of laying 314 eggs in 365
days, because Richardson's prognosti-
cated non-child-bearing Amazons will
soon solve the problem of the food supply.

No great amount of printer's ink need
be used in efforts to shrink the progeny
output.

The withering effect of diversified tech-
nical sexual knowledge used against off-
spring, unknown to the woman of a cen-
tury ago, is apparent in every compilation
of vital statistics and is emphasized by
the few or no children in the families of
the wealthy and in the great reduction
thereof amongst the middle classes.

The cause of this social condition
springs from a general moral relaxation
and cirrhosis of the conscience, stimulated
by the doctrine of sex equality, taught in
female colleges and on the rostrum and in-
culcated with socialism ; and still further
impressed by social-sin literature, the eas-
iest way on the stage, a trousseau of hair
and hints in vaudeville, leg-locking, um-
bilical chafing, breast-pressing and pla-
tonic commerce in the ballroom, which f re-

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quently lead lambs to their doom and
sheep to a change of pasture.

In New South Wales, dominated by
socialism and suffragists, the evidence
given before the Royal Commission, by
doctors, clergymen, and druggists, and
subjected to a sifting cross-examination,
proved that the women generally ex-
pressed the desire to avoid maternity and
took positive action to that end.

A feminist, Lydia K. Commander, in
her book upon this subject, says:

The knowledge of how to control fam-
ily scarcely existed in America two gen-
erations ago. Now it is practically uni-
versal. To-day thousands of physicans in
this country make a practice of dissemin-
ating the knowledge of how to avoid chil-
dren. The vast majority know how to
control the size of the family and do so
deliberately.

Let me add that the old custom of going
downstairs head first on the hands and
knees and taking pennyroyal tea have
long since been abandoned as emmena-
gogues,

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The greater the female liberty and in-
tellectual attainment the more dormant
is the maternal instinct.

One authority states that "half the col-
lege woman graduates do not marry, and
a quarter of those who do marry are child-
less."

The social pullets, and engaged couples,
discuss with amazing frankness the num-
ber of children they will have, if any, and
the conditions under which they will con-
sent to bear them.

Miss Gertrude Barnum, connected with
the Federal Department of Labor, refers
deploringly to what she terms "the third
sex in industry." Her definition is:

In general, it is a group, divorced from
the women who believe that women's
sphere is the home, and from the coeduca-
tionists in labor who believe that women
should receive labor education with men
and should cooperate with men in raising
the working standards of both men and
women. This group believes it should
work primarily for women and against
men. Most of the active ones are unmar-
ried.

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There is in the world a lot of militant,
mouthy hall trees for petticoats, who are
generally sexually unemployed, and who
spend their time advocating the torch, dis-
seminating socially baneful literature, dis-
charging cargoes of soap-box gas upon
street groups, and in breeding discontent
amongst a class of women who would be
happy if let alone, and finally advising
those under the connubial yoke to sand
the copulatory track and sexually starve
their husbands into buglers in the cause
of equal rights.

How many inflammatory he-orators
and cupbearers are in the ranks of the
"eruptionists" through sexual starvation
rather than through any innate conviction,
thereby encouraging and augmenting the
ever-increasing number of women who are
hostile to maintaining such a birth rate
as will enable the nation to repel the in-
vader, protect its institutions established
by the blood of the sons of heroic women
and to continue to secure to her citizens
peace and plenty?

Persistent attempts to parry the laws

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of progeny sooner or later will lead na-
ture to rebellion, the physique to emacia-
tion, the individual to the tortures of the
damned here, with all of the diversifica-
tion of hell hereafter.

In furtherance of these soul-destroying
and body-wrecking indulgences, a world-
wide propaganda sneaks its literature and
missionaries into the homes of our people
to poison contentment, sow the seeds of
sexual rebellion against natural coition,
and instruct married women in the use
of the anticonception mask.

Ben Beitman, when placed on trial in
Rochester January 24, 1917, for selling
birth-control literature, presented to the
court a petition signed by 450 persons
protesting against his arrest and demand-
ing his release. Mrs. Ada Chase Dudley,
one of his supporters declared: "Common
sense is the keynote of the birth-control
propaganda, and I am heartily in favor
of the movement."

Mrs. Ethel Byrne, a birth-control mis-
sionary, while a guest at Blackwell's
Island for distributing some of the devil's

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best productions, observed: "It is only
a question of time before people will un-
derstand. I felt that we owed a debt to
society. We are seeking to lighten the
burden of womankind."

Sexual eunuchs are increasing rapidly
among church patrons and society-hunt-
ers, while free-love tendencies and yearn-
ing for social freedom, are breeding a vast
army of "neuters" among the women,
who "are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good
red herring."

Those women who dodge maternity and
fondle poodles, and leave their dogs with
the check maids in church basements,
while they proclaim on the floor above
that they are glad that they are not like
the poor publican at the door, recently
received a shock from Rev. George Hugh
Birney, of Cleveland, pastor of the fash-
ionable Euclid Avenue Methodist Church.
He astounded his wealthy and practically
childless congregation by deploring the
absence of children in the homes of the
rich and the development of a "third sex"
amongst the women.

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"If I were asked to indicate the one
most ominous sign of the times, I would
indicate the unsexed woman," said Dr.
Birney. "In the craze for freedom from
all restraints, both religious and social,
the new woman is under the temptation
of disregarding both her nature and her
soul.

"We are told of a ' third sex' created
by the European war, due to the changing
status of both women and men, particu-
larly the women outgrowing their mat-
ernal instincts.

"Such a * neuter' sex has been afflicting
America for two generations. It is rep-
resented by the woman who cares more
for puppies than babies and who thinks it
more genteel to coddle a cold-nosed poodle
than to sing cradle lullabies."

It is well known to all students of social
conditions that there is a steadily grow-
ing revolt against child-bearing. The
world- wide decline in the birth rate of our
people is not so much due to temporal
conditions as to volitionary sterility or
the use of artificial preventives. The

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"massacre of the innocents" by the tools
of the devil shows how widely neo-Mal-
thusianism has rooted itself in the hearts
and homes of our people; and the time
is not so far distant when we may be
called to realize that this canker is threat-
ening not only our national life but the
paleface with extinction.

Letters from the working women pub-
lished in Maternity, 1915, page 94, contain
these sad and devastating confessions
from women who have taken a definite
stand against maternity.

One writes :

If ever I have the opportunity, I shall
certainly advise all young men and women
about to marry to avoid having any chil-
dren.

Another writes :

After this (suffering from childbirth)
I said to a friend one day, "If only I
could feel that this was my last I would
be quite happy." "Well," she replied,
"why don't you make it your last?" and
she gave me advice. As a result of this
knowledge I had no more for four and a

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half years. I sometimes think that the
Great Almighty has heard the poor wo-
man in travail, and shows her a way of
rest.

Another woman wrote :

When at the end of ten years I was
almost a wreck, I determined that this
state of things should not go on any
longer, and if there was no natural means
of prevention, then, of course, artificial
means must be employed, which were suc-
cessful, and I am happy to say that from
that time I have been able to take pretty
good care of myself.

The noted English priest, Father
Bernard Vaughan, in an article of recent
date upon this subject, gives the following
extracts from letters received by him
along the lines under discussion.

If mothers will be wise, they will try not
to bring poor boys into the world ; let the
ones that talk have the boys ; give us food
and we will have children.

Another one wrote :

If you want the cradles filled, shut up
the shops in . Render it by legisla-

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tion impossible to buy anywhere artificial
checks on population. Young people, and
just now many soldiers, marry with the
deliberate intention of preventing fam-
ilies.

Still another wrote :

If the shops in were shut up and

the vending or possession of the things
they sell made a penal offense, it would
tend to prevent the decline in births. I
can point to one fellow living at the rate
of fifteen hundred pounds per annum,
said to be a partner in such a business.

Another one wrote :

If I had my time over again I would
have an empty cradle. I love my children
and they love me, and I miss my pet every
day. I am pleased to say I have only two
little girls; I hope they will never fill a
cradle.

And one wrote :

Why are you so down upon the women ?
Blame the men. But for the men, who
want a good time and money to bet on
horses or anything at all, there would be
thousands of more babies born in Eng-
land.

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Another one wrote :

Before you begin to preach from the
text "Fill the cradle/' kindly arrange
with Government and municipal authori-
ties to provide standing room for the
cradle. I have four kiddies of my own,
and my husband somewhere in France.
Do you think people will let me rooms'?
Not a bit of it — me and my children are
beggars and wanderers. Nobody will have
my children, and municipal tenement
houses are no better. Wherever I go I
am told, "We can't have them," and I
am turned into the streets.

Another one touched upon an actual
condition so apparent in the social centers
of our own country that it has a peculiarly
strong and convincing application here,
which should be condemned by all sen-
sible and morally inclined people. This
woman wrote :

I have three lovely children, and my
husband is always asking for more, but
if you knew the ridicule and banter it has
subjected me to from my women friends
you would not blame but pity me. They
swarm around you, and just when you

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need sympathy most of all they pour out
vitriol into your soul, saying, "How can
you be so silly? It is so middle-class to
have more than two, so vulgar and im-
moral. Why, you surely don't want to
take your ideals from the farmyard, or
from the rabbit-warren?" Is it really
immoral, Father, to have a big family?
Anyhow, nothing in this world would in-
duce me to go through these sneers and
jeers again.

Sounding brass, tinkling cymbals,
church organs, vesper bells, the hope of
heaven and Christ crucified should lead
this nation to the shrine of William Al-
bright at Clearfield, Pennsylvania, who,
on March 3, 1917, at the age of sixty-five,
offered himself and fourteen sons to Presi-
dent Wilson for service in the army and
also his seven daughters for Red Cross
work in case of war.

Of almost equal value to the nation is
Ike Sims, of Atlanta, eighty-seven years
old, who had eleven sons in the service,
and proudly awaited the call of three
more at home.

E. C. Bland, a Carolina farmer, vigor-

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cms at sixty-five years, twice married, is
the father of thirty-four children of
whom twenty-six are living.

The second Mrs. Bland is the mother of
nineteen of these children and says that
"it is as easy to bring up fifty children as
it is to raise ten. "

One woman who can make a loaf of
bread, patch trousers, milk a cow, and lov-
ingly reign in her home as wife and
mother, is worth vastly more to this gen-
eration than all the poodle-combers, side-
walk gigglers, footlight favorites, social
swill hunters, bridge-whist gamblers and
progeny-shrinkers that could be packed
in the Louisiana Purchase.

One plow-holding Bland is of more in-
trinsic value to any woman, or nation, than
all the sponge-brained, cuff-necked, rain-
bow-legged, beer-soaked lust scavengers
that ever sneaked into life from the sand
lots of maternity.

On November 20, 1916, a band of nasty
anticonception device demonstrators were
assembled at the home of their noted
leader in New York City, planning the

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continuance of the birth-control clinic,
for the carrying on of which Mrs. Mar-
garet Sanger was then awaiting trial,
when the shocking news reached them that
at least one married woman had lived and
died clean, and proposed to aid others of
her sex to do the same by setting aside
three millions of dollars to be used for the
training of girls for motherhood. The be-
quest of this God-fearing woman, Mrs.
Lizzie M. Palmer, is accompanied by the
statement

I hold profoundly the conviction that
the welfare of any community is insepar-
ably dependent upon the quality of its
motherhood and the spirit and character
of its homes.

Paul, while developing Christianity,
proclaimed the Palmer doctrine. He
wrote :

I will, therefore, that the young women
marry, bear children, guide the house, give
no occasion to the adversary to speak re-
proachfully.

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Very likely the Birth Control League
would regard the teachings of Christ and
Paul as obsolete, and out of harmony with
the advanced thought of the present-day
disciples of his satanic majesty.

You can't build a nation on a mother-
hood who " conceive chaff and bring forth
stubble," but rather on the wives of the
land who cry out unto their husbands, as
did Eachel of old unto Jacob, "Give me
children, or else I die."

Social conditions have greatly changed
since the sentimental appeal of Rachel.
Now the wife says, "No children"; the
servant says "No children" ; and the land-
lord says, "No children."

Infanticide and abortion were approved
by Aristotle and the legal destruction of
weak and deformed children was also ad-
vocated by him ; as it is now by many who
stand in church and sing: "My eyes have
seen the glory of the coming of the Lord."

These abominations are now practiced
by the sexual blank-cartridge artists, the
doorstep and hallway harlots, and the un-
natural mothers who abandon their illicit

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fruit to the charity of strangers, and are
also advocated by professional fame-
seekers, teatman educators, spurious phi-
losophers and some gospel-pounders.

How many sepulchers, fair without but
foul within, are walking amongst us to-
day, with an M.D. on their breeches, who
feed on the ruptured seals of the temples
of unborn babes, and drink of the drip-
pings of carnality 9

I asked a young man of my acquaint-
ance who had been married for two or
three years if he had any children. He
said, "No, and I thank God for it."

Natural laws are buffeted, statutory
laws are defied, and happiness, health,
sanity, liberty, life, and even death are
gambled with to avoid conception. It is
through such a hell that many expect to
reach heaven.

Men of genius have spent countless
nights in the laboratories of the world in
quest of life elixirs and germicides to pro-
long human existence.

On the other hand, doctors, chemists, in-
ventors, and tradesmen have wearied sci-

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ence in efforts to derail the sequence of
sexual acts.

Millions of dollars are annually spent
to check contagious diseases destructive
of man, but no worthy, effective efforts
are attempted to induce maternity, or to
stay the wholesale destruction of embry-
onic life.

Recently in England the question of ap-
propriating twenty-five thousand dollars
in aid of needy expectant mothers was un-
der consideration, but failed of favorable
action because of the large amount re-
quired, while an appropriation of forty
thousand dollars for dog-breeding passed
without dissent.

How different the world would be mor-
ally if the married could be made to feel
that matrimony without children is like
a vine and no grapes, a lantern and no
candle, a brook with no water gushing and
gurgling in its channel.

Through lack of offspring, in the words
of Solomon, "the memory of the prosper-
ous wicked shall rot."

Colonel Roosevelt, the Lar of the Ameri-

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can households and one of the most chiv-
alrous sons of the goddess of Liberty, in
his sixth annual message to Congress,
upon the subject of home and offspring,
said:

When home ties are loosened, when men
and women cease to regard a worthy fam-
ily life, with all its duties fully performed
and all its responsibilities lived up to, as
the life best worth living, then evil days
for the commonwealth are at hand. There
are regions in our land, and classes of our
population, where the birth rate has sunk
below the death rate. Surely it should
need no demonstration to show that willful
sterility is, from the standpoint of the hu-
man race, the one sin for which the penalty
is national death, race death — a sin for
which there is no atonement.

On his way home from his Egyptian
hunting trip Mr. Roosevelt in Paris, be-
fore a distinguished representation of
every department of French life, with
characteristic courage and boldness, said
to them :

You have every element of leadership
among nations except in population which

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seems to be decreasing. The remedy is
in your own hands. Stop race suicide.

If Paul in his letter to the Galatians,
A.D. 58, truthfully mapped out man's only
highway to God, restricted, narrow, and
rugged though it may seem, the twen-
tieth-century children of the same God
have no license to broaden or feather that
highway. Paul clearly specified the prac-
tices that will close heaven to the guilty.

He wrote:

Now the works of the flesh are manifest,
which are these : adultery, fornication, un-
cleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witch-
craft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath,
strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, mur-
ders, drunkenness, revelings, and such
like : of the which I tell you before, as I
have also told you in time past, that they
which do such things shall not inherit
the kingdom of God.

In defiance of the teachings of Paul, at
a convention in October, 1920, at Utica,
New York, the New York State tiptoe sin
funnels and idle moral bandits, votaries of
a sisterhood who operate through a club

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confederacy, passed a resolution to work
for the abolition of all restraining laws
touching offspring, and for the free dis-
semination among women of the medical
knowledge essential to the prevention and
control of offspring.

To this a vain protest was made by
many of the clean, Christian family-build-
ers who wear upon their breasts the shin-
ing shield of " mother," while the timid
defenders of embryonic life sat chagrined
and mantled with shame.

The tillers of sapless breasts that have
never felt the warmth or thrill of an in-
fant's hand should read and imbibe, if not
for their own, then for their nation's,
good, the sentiments of that clean, intel-
lectual English lady, Margot Tennant, who
was called "The Dragon Fly" because of
her reedlike figure, and the "Woman with
a Serpent's Tongue" by poet Watson be-
cause of her fiery wit, and who was wooed
and finally won by Herbert Asquith, then
Prime Minister of Great Britain. This
noted, well-poised, social queen heard the

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whisperings on the other shore in three
maternal efforts.

In her diary she wrote :

There are many kinds of love, but the
greatest is the mother's for her child. In
spite of France's genius and courage it
would be a greater country if it produced
more children.

The excuse given for limitation of fami-
lies is usually one of expense ; the expres-
sion signifying that a child is an encum-
brance always jars on me. I would like
to have ten children, in spite of the poig-
nant emotion that loving two has caused
and still causes me.

Jacob referred to his offspring as "the
Children which God has graciously given
Thy servant."

St. Luke wrote :

And they brought unto him also infants,
that he would touch them: but when his
disciples saw it, they rebuked them.

But Jesus called them unto him and
said, Suffer little children to come unto
me, and forbid them not: for of such is
the kingdom of God.

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Senator Reed, of Missouri, on June 29,
1921, learnedly and eloquently opposed the
passage of the child-welfare bill, the ob-
jective of which is to subject mothers and
children to the pad-and-pencil guidance of
myriads of she celibates, who couldn't
tell a labor pain from the creak of a wheel-
barrow, but who do know that Congress
appropriated $1,480,000 to enforce the
provisions of this Bolshevik bill, and who
do know that most of it will go to the dry
stock in the herd of maternity bell-ringers,
who will be turned loose upon the homes
of the nation as fast as the system can be
extended.

The doctrine of the right of State visi-
tation and home espionage will not long
be tolerated in a country whose sons re-
cently emerged from a world war fought
on the sublime theory of a world de-
mocracy. Will the sleuthing authorized
by this child-welfare bill extend to the
homes of wealth? If not, the hounds
should be held in leash.

Bills of this character are brooders sit-
ting on vipers' eggs, and the theorists and

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alleged reformers who conceive and bring
them forth, forget, or never knew, that
substituting the new for the old and tried
led to the French Revolution which abol-
ished law and religion, renamed the weeks
and ignored the Christian calendar, closed
the courts of justice and trampled prop-
erty rights, condemned to banishment or
death entire classes of the people, in the
wake of which slaughter followed, until
the guillotine groaned under its labors,
and the gutters flowed with the blood of
the slain.

Senator Reed in his crushing analysis
of the child- welfare bill said :

One of the worst products of the late
war was the idea that the State should
take charge of the individual citizen.
That noxious plan reached its highest de-
gree in Russia. It was asserted there that
every child was the ward of the govern-
ment ; that parents were incapable of rear-
ing their children, according to the high
notions of the reformers; that mother-
hood and birth-control should be estab-
lished by law and the child taken from its
mother's care and turned over to public

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officers. On top of all that the State was
to take charge of the mother and pension
her, so that, being the supporter of the
mother, it could assert the right to dictate
her course of conduct.

Senator Reed, at another point in his
speech, vibrating under the spell of a
righteous indignation and aglow with pat-
riotic fire, exclaimed :

When we employ female celibates to in-
struct mothers how to raise babies they
have brought into the earth, do we not in-
dulge in a rare bit of irony? I repeat I
cast no reflection on unmarried ladies.
Perhaps some of them are too good to have
husbands. But any woman who is too
refined to have a husband should not un-
dertake the care of another woman's baby
when that other woman wants to take care
of it herself.

A wise man places all important tasks
in experienced hands. He does not en-
gage as a civil engineer a man who has
never seen a level; as a doctor, a person
unacquainted with anatomy; or as an in-
structor in music, an individual ignorant
of its notes. Is it not the height of un-
wisdom to delegate the solution of prob-

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lems of child-bearing and child-care to a
woman who has not had the experience of
motherhood, and very possibly does not
so desire, or to a bachelor girl who never
beheld in a baby's eyes the mirrored vision
of a mother's tender love, nor watched the
loving dimples in a baby's cheek gather to
welcome a mother's rapturous kiss?

What I have said and shall say I mean
to apply to the members of the Children's
Bureau, including its servants, agents, and
employees, substantially all of whom en-
joy the blissful and seemingly perpetual
state of single blessedness.

I care not how estimable the office-hold-
ing spinster may be, nor how her heart
may throb for the dream children she does
not possess, her yearnings cannot be sub-
stituted for a mother's experience. Offi-
cial meddling cannot take the place of
mother love. Mother love! The golden
cord that stretches from the throne of
God, uniting all animate creation to divin-
ity. Its light gleams down the path of
time from barbarous ages, when savage
women held their babes to almost fam-
ished breasts and died that they might
live. Its holy flame glows as bright in
hovels where poverty breaks a meager
crust as in palaces where wealth holds

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Lucullian feasts. It is the one great uni-
versal passion — the sinless passion of sac-
rifice. Incomparable in its sublimity, in-
terference is sacrilege, regulation is mock-
ery.

The great Mohammed, foreseeing that
the perpetuity of his creed would depend
upon the offspring of his followers, wrote :
" Paradise lies at the feet of mothers."

On Sinai's blazing mount Divinity
traced on stone: "Thou shalt not kill."

The bravest battle that ever was fought !

Shall I tell you where and when ?
On the maps of the world you will find it not —

'Twas fought by the mothers of men.
0 ! Spotless woman in a world of shame ;

With splendid and silent scorn,
Go back to God as white as you came —

The kingliest warrior born.

CHAPTER XII

PREVENTIVES

THE agents of race annihilation extend
their activities to the most unexpected
places. Good authority states that a pur-
veyor of artificial checks on births sent
advertisements to a clean English lad just
out from school, advising him to begin at
once to learn all about indispensable out-
fits for young men wishing to see life.

In the leading cities of the world wo-
men have become hardened upon this sub-
ject to the extent that they stop at the
shop windows, particularly in Europe,
where the devil's implements lie in plain
sight, and very quietly discuss the quality
and effectiveness of the various articles
with each other, without a twitch or a
blush showing on their enameled and
powdered faces.

The renowned Cardinal Mercier, in a

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pastoral to his people before the War,
warned them that :

An abominable propaganda, carried on
by means of lectures, pamphlets, newspa-
per articles, and practical demonstration,
encourages the suppression of child-bear-
ing, and induces parents to adopt homi-
cidal practices, in circumstances and to an
extent hitherto unheard of. Little by
little, into every class of society, there ni-
ters a series of rotten, unwholesome ideas,
which threaten danger to the child, if they
do not render parenthood wholly con-
temptible. Very soon parenthood will be
viewed not as a duty but as a burden so
inconvenient that it may be, nay, ought to
be, thrown

The British Medical Association in
alarm passed the following resolution in
1905:

That the growing use of contra-concep-
tives and ecbolics is fraught with grave
danger both to the individual and to the
race, and that the advertisement and sale
of such appliances and. substances, as well
as the publication and dissemination of
literature relating thereto, should be made
a penal offense.

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The eminent priest, Bernard Vaughan
of England, in a recent lecture to his
people on the subject of the "Empty
Cradle, ' ' said :

These moderns, therefore, with their
new-fangled doctrines concerning what
they call the just and hygienic limitation
of families by artificial checks, are charged
with spreading an immoral doctrine that
degrades the individual, that ignores sin,
and defies God. They are endeavoring by
their propaganda to bring this Christian
country of ours, with its splendid tradi-
tions and with its multitudes of justice-
loving, law-abiding, God-fearing citizens
to a shameful and nameless tomb.

Our only hope of a future fertile, rug-
ged race lies in a reversion to the God-
given rules of Adam, who, having been
lifted from Eden on the toe of the boot of
sin, and dropped in an untamed world,
seems to have; successfully met the re-
quirements of the Divine law, " Increase
and multiply," without special instruc-
tions, first aids, or satanic tutorage. While
Adam, like the beasts, had but one un-

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frilled rule, still after he was eight hun-
dred years he begat sons and daughters;
but it is quite likely, the shifty, scientific
sexual progressive of our day would re-
gard his methods very crude.

Divine guidance of man never hurries.
God has no dials, calendars, nor clocks.
Time ends the mortal. Eternity is the
home of the soul. On the highway of the
fleeting centuries an occasional John the
Baptist appears to warn man of his sins
and of the wrath which awaits the human
viper satanically engaged in buffeting
Divinity.

Mohammed, St. Augustine in his youth,
and England's Henry VIII never
wrought a sensual thrill that has not been
augmented and refined by the pagans of
to-day.

Archbishop Patrick J. Hayes, like John
.the Baptist, seeing the myriads of social
vipers in the present generation, on the
seventeenth of December, 1921, issued a
Christmas pastoral to be read in more
than three hundred churches of the arch-
diocese of New York, in which with an

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herculean club lie bangs the heads of the
pagan sin patriots of to-day, who bathe,
perfume, and bandage their poisoned and
scabby bodies in which their sin-seared
souls are housed.

The Archbishop commands his "faith-
ful" to keep from their homes any litera-
ture on birth-control as they would an evil
spirit.

The salient features of his warning are
as follows :

The Christ-child did not stay His own
entrance into this mortal life because His
mother was poor, roofless, and without
provision for the morrow. He knew that
the Heavenly Father who cared for the
lilies of the fields and the birds of the air
loved the children of men more than
these.

Children troop down from heaven be-
cause God wills it. He alone has the right
to stay their coming, while He blesses at
will some homes with many, others with
but a few or with none at all. They come
in the one way ordained by His wisdom:
Woe to those who degrade, pervert, or do
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the eternal decree of God Himself ! Even
though some little angels in the flesh,
through the moral, mental, or physical
deformity of parents, may appear to hu-
man eyes hideous, misshapen, a blot on
civilized society, we must not lose sight of
this Christian thought that under, and
within, such visible malformation there
lives an immortal soul to be saved and
glorified for all eternity among the blessed
in heaven.

Heinous is the sin committed against
the creative act of God, who through the
marriage contract invites man and woman
to cooperate with him in the propagation
of the human family. To take life after
its inception is a horrible crime; but to
prevent human life that the Creator is
about to bring into being is satanic. In
the first instance, the body is killed while
the soul lives on; in the latter, not only
a body but an immortal soul is denied ex-
istence in time and in eternity. It has
been reserved to our day to see advocated
shamelessly the legalizing of such a dia-
bolical thing.

In the name of the Babe of Bethlehem,
whose law you Christian fathers and
mothers love and obey, stop your ears to
that pagan philosophy, worthy of a Herod,

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which ignoring revelation and even human
wisdom sets itself above the law and the
prophets of the old and the new dispensa-
tion, of which the Christ-child is the be-
ginning, the bond, and the end. Keep far
from the sanctuary of your Christian
homes, as you would an evil spirit, the
literature of this unclean abomination.
Sin not against children, who, after all,
are the noblest stimulus and protection
to marital affection, fidelity, and conti-
nency.

Another Christian lesson the world
needs to learn is God's law against di-
vorce. Disastrous beyond possibility of
description to society is the condition
when women measure their lives not by
the number of their offspring but by the
number of their husbands. Let us thank'
our Heavenly Father for the valiant wo-
men we all know — and their name is le-
gion— who with the highest ideals of wife-
hood and motherhood carry on heroically
the honor of the family. Neither height
nor depth, nor sorrow nor pain, nor sin
of husband nor ingratitude of children,
nor privation, nor loss, nor opportunity of
comfort, nor lure of pleasure can tempt
such noble women to shirk their duty or
break up their home.

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To shirtless Satan, and Ms willing
scribes, I say: "One thing still blocks
your way: * Revealed Religion,' — not sired
by reason nor born of knowledge, but
rather the child of love and pain which
* lives between the rosy breasts of Hope'
— this drive, a crushed and bleeding vic-
tim, from the garden of the human heart
and then your triumph will have been
complete.''

CHAPTER XIII

EYE OPENING AT PUBERTY

THE muckologists are of the opinion
that until they succeed in wiping out the
human race, or in greatly limiting pro-
geny, the children, during budhood, should
be taught in school or elsewhere, the
meaning of sexual fragrance, so that at
puberty they may understand the process
of procreation.

A knowledge of the history of the little
Lacedaemonian girls in the gymnasiums,
where their limbs were trained to grace,
and their modesty to ruinous familiarity,
should lead any clean man to cast such a
suggestion from his mind with the energy
with which he would expel a viper from
his lap.

Those who would have the bob veal, in
theory, as wise as the two-year old bull in
practice, succeed only in arousing curi-

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osity and prematurely stimulating irre-
sponsive functional tests which unseat the
valves of the nervous system, choke the
mind with the carbon of sensuality, sow
the land with fillies, fray natural laws,
burst the confines of morality and place
the sparrow's price upon chastity.

The young of animals are born without
midwives, suckled without rubber, teethed
without dentists, evacuated without doc-
tors, matured without hygiene, and repro-
duced in kind, — as the result of a passive
observance of natural laws, — and without
the aid of the smoky, nasty sexology which
infests the minds of some of our so-called
advanced thinkers, who have not yet
caught up with the reasoning of the an-
cients, but whose inflated egotism prompts
them to attempt a reconstruction of the
race.

The fly, even, gives irregular but fre-
quent attention to the subject of seed
time and harvest, not only without the
suggestion of man, but in spite of him.

Rational and irrational animal life is
governed by the same natural laws f ormu-

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lated by a supernatural power, and if ani-
mals profit by an instinctive observance
of them, why, then, should not children,
unprompted, be permitted to learn each
function from the book of nature or from
parents.

A mature person who would plant noxi-
ous weeds in the kindergarten of inno-
cence under the guise of essential knowl-
edge, or prematurely kindle the fires of
lust in the breasts of youth, should be
told, as was Socrates, who was charged
with corrupting the youth of Athens, that
he had better save the state the expense of
his execution.

Dean Jones of Yale in the World of
May 30, 1920, on this subject said:

Sex education is much better than for-
merly ; but this is one task that I believe
very firmly must be done in the home and
not by outsiders.

Let the well-meaning thinkers and
teachers on this subject beware, lest, by
too early an application of the poultice of

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knowledge, corruption be prematurely
drawn to the surface, for

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste,
And lose the medium in the wild extreme.

THE Law-giver Moses laid the ax at the
root of woman's domestic security and
turned the battering-ram of man's pas-
sions against the temple of virtue when
he wrote :

When a man has taken a wife, and mar-
ried her, and it come to pass that she
find no favor in his eyes, because he hath
found some uncleanness in her: then let
him write her a bill of divorcement, and
give it in her hand and send her out of his
house.

From that hour the sea of woman's de-
gradation grew deeper and its restless
waves finally rose to submerging bil-
lows of sensuality on the crest of which
she was tossed and buffeted until, in the
centers of the highest culture, gauged by

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the moral thermometer, she ranked be-
low the beast.

Thus did the human race continue to
sow the winds and reap the whirlwinds
for centuries until Christ explained that
Moses suffered the men to write a bill of
divorcement because of the stony condi-
tion of the hearts around him, and, after
reaffirming the law proclaimed on the com-
pletion of Adam and Eve, He laid down
the following law on marriage:

What therefore God has joined to-
gether, let no man put asunder. Whoso-
ever shall put away his wife and marry
another committeth adultery.

With the expansion of Christianity this
divine precept sank deeply into the hu-
man heart; it swept from the lap of the
Christian woman the nasty accumulations
of centuries; it illumined her brow with
the halo of purity and indelibly stamped
thereon the ennobling titles of wife and
mother ; it also rescued from the dark and
somber night of sin and reestablished in

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pristine purity God's first social institu-
tion, the human family.

The Church of Rome for more than fif-
teen dreary centuries, during which time
the human mind was pretty generally
coated with sensual and monetary soot,
successfully fought the crowned and un-
crowned stallions within her fold.

During the Middle Ages virginity and
conjugality were fiercely assailed by vas-
sal and castle guarded Christian princes
and barons whose constantly pampered
and ever-welling lusts led them to intimi-
date the local clergy and defy even the
bishops. Strange as it may seem, these
sin-soused, intestinally pampered sexual
gluttons spewed with fear when threat-
ened with the Pontifical anathema.

No mortal, high up or low down, with
fair skin or sexual itch, by military
threats, flattery, bribes, or bludgeons has
ever been able to pass the portals of St.
Peter 's with a decree of divorce.

Henry VIII tugged violently and long
at his connubial fetters but could get no
aid from Rome. The Church chose to

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lose Catholic England rather than to
break the law of her founder Christ.

Pope Innocent III compelled Philip
Augustus, the king of France, to recall his
discarded lawful wife Ingelburga of Den-
mark, and to dismiss from his palace the
consort of his bed Agnes de Meranie.

Pius VII stood like a wall of granite
against the dissolution of the marriage of
Jerome Bonaparte with Elizabeth Patter-
son.

Count Boni de Castellane of France
wearied law and precedent in a fruitless
effort to have Rome dissolve his marriage
with Anna Gould.

Luther and his brother reformer Me-
lanchthon decided that the Landgrave of
Hesse was entitled to have two contem-
poraneous wives.

The Calling of a Christian Woman by
Rev. Morgan Dix, a Protestant bishop of
Maine contains this candid affirmation:

Laxity of opinion and teaching on the
sacredness of the marriage bond and on
the question of divorce originated among
the Protestants of continental Europe in

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the sixteenth century. It soon began to
appear in the legislation of Protestant
states on that continent and nearly at the
same time to affect the laws of New Eng-
land. From that time to the present it has
proceeded from one degree to another in
this country, until especially in New Eng-
land and in states most directly affected
by New England opinions and usages the
Christian conception of the nature and
obligations of the marriage bond finds
scarcely any recognition in legislation or
in the prevailing sentiment of the com-
munity.

The Western Reserve is a colony
founded by New England settlers in Ash-
tabula County, Ohio, concerning which
the census shows that one marriage out
of every eight is sundered by divorce.

In the Northern Baptist Convention on
May 24, 1916, upon the subject of divorce
Dr. John A. Earle, president of Des
Moines College is reported as having said :

I don't believe this convention should
dictate to the ministers. There are many
just causes for divorce. I will tell this
convention that if my daughter should

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marry a drunkard I would help her get a
divorce, and drunkenness is not recognized
by the Scriptures as a just cause. A reso-
lution censuring ministers who officiate at
the marriage of divorced persons is not
in accord with Baptist democracy.

Christ likely had not heard of or antici-
pated " Baptist democracy" when he said,
" Whosoever shall put away his wife and
marry another committeth adultery. ' '

The Bureau of the Census of the De-
partment of Commerce and Labor made a
report in 1908 on marriages and divorce
for the twenty years preceding 1907,
which showed that one in every twelve
marriages ended in divorce ; and that the
divorce rate is higher in the United States
than in any other country furnishing sta-
tistics. In the year 1906, there were
granted 853,290 divorces.

Rev. F. M. Moody of Chicago on June
25, 1916, while urging upon president
Wilson the necessity for controlling mar-
riage and divorce by constitutional amend-
ment, informed him that 125,000 divorces
had been granted in 1916, and that during

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the past sixteen years of this century the
United States led the world by granting
1,400,000 divorces. Since 1914 five mil-
lions of American women have run their
husbands through the divorce mill.

Let your imagination picture the sad,
demoralizing effect of this social condition
upon the children of these dissolved
unions.

Yet the Episcopal Church will not
change its canon on divorce. There is
a strong movement in the Church by con-
sistent members, ashamed of this pagan
practice perpetuated by Protestantism, to
forbid the clergy to perform a marriage
ceremony for a divorced person with a
wife or husband living. When the propo-
sition came up before the convention at
St. Louis recently, it was voted down. The
clerical delegates approved it, be it said
to their credit, but the lay delegates re-
jected it on the ground that it " would
drive Christian men and women out of the
Church."

How can a man or woman, who believes
in divorce, be a Christian, or a follower of

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Christ, since He so plainly condemned di-
vorce and alleged it to be adulterous to
marry the one put away?

In Canada from 1867 to 1886, inclusive,
only 116 divorces were granted. During
the same period of twenty years there
were only 11 divorces in Ireland.

Does not a sort of progressive Mormon-
ism result from the divorce law 1

Millions of women demanded the vote
as a matter of justice.

Millions of men and women are demand-
ing the abolition of alcohol as a beverage
because of its disastrous effect upon hu-
manity and the untold and far-reaching
misery that it brings to mothers and help-
less children. Divorce destroys the home,
breaks up the family, instills hatred in the
children for one parent or the other, and
often throws them into the cheerless lap of
civic charity to be taunted at maturity
with having been an almshouse product,
yet how many dry throats can be found
outside of a single Christian denomina-
tion who consider the ill effects of the di-
vorce, or any other sexual evil, in their

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relations to mothers and children as wor-
thy of the notice of veiled puritans who
hypocritically caw from a popular perch
in a cause which does not expose or re-
strict their secret sins or threaten their
temporal welfare !

Occasionally a cry from the wilderness
of social sin is heard. N,ow and then a
John the Baptist will take a chance on his
head and denounce illegal marriages and
the adulteries found in divorce stews.

In a news item there is suggested par-
tial remedy based on the remarks of a
disgusted and courageous Judge, which
reads as follows :

TOLEDO, Ohio, November 4, 1917. — A
law that will provide that married folk
cannot obtain a divorce until after they
have had five years of married life to their
credit : This is the solution of the divorce
problem offered by Common Pleas Judge
Bernard Brough.

"It has reached the shameful point
where there is one divorce out of every
four marriages," Judge Brough declares.
" Three times as many women as men ap-
ply for divorce. This may indicate more

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men than women are responsible for dis-
turbance in the household.

"Some marriages are really no more
than trials," says the Judge. "Couples
make no pretense of establishing a home
and living as sane married people should.
They fight the first week and in a month
are seeking divorce. Hasty marriages
bring about this situation. I believe the
only solution to the divorce question is a
five-year marriage."

Under date of April 1, 1920, a leading
New York paper published the following :

Judge Joseph B. David to-day quit the
divorce branch of the Supreme Court here
and asked to be transferred to some other
Court. On being interviewed he said,
"Far from being a stigma on a woman's
name, a divorce now seems to be regarded
as an asset by her, in that with one she
can attract more men. Marriage means
but little in this day and age, causing
laughter rather than solemn regard.

"Sitting in this court every day, I have
at last concluded that the more divorces
a woman has, the more men she can at-
tract. All that couples have to do at pres-
ent to get around the divorce laws is to

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cross a few state lines. I believe that
many women seek divorces just for excite-
ment. They have too much idle time on
their hands."

The wild beast of divorce that roams
the fields of matrimony and feeds on hu-
man passions should be lashed from this
Christian country with a scourge of scor-
pions.

The divorce law has been gradually
limbered up by statutory enactment till
now, in the different states, about twenty-
five grounds for absolute divorce exist.
The plea of cruelty or desertion has
wrecked more nuptial couches than all of
the other statutory causes.

Recently a woman in quest of a divorce
on the ground of cruelty charged that her
husband had his dog's teeth filled with
gold and hers with silver.

In another case a woman claimed that
after her marriage her husband would
say, "Put up your little tootsie wootsies
and get them warm," and that before the
year ended he would say, "Take away
your damned old hoofs."

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Another woman was "cruelly crushed
and her heart made to bleed" by her hus-
band's insisting on keeping the picture
of an old flame on the dresser in their
sleeping room, and when she objected to it
he would throw kisses at it and say, "I
wish I had married that rosebud mouth
instead of a garage entrance."

Another wife alleged:

We were married scarcely a year before
I began rapidly to take on flesh and lose
the physical lines of my girlhood. His
whole demeanor toward me gradually
changed. I took him to task in a kind way
for his coldness and neglect. He said — * ' I
have seen better shaped animals on a farm
and your eyes are buried in pork." He
put a dead mouse in my stocking and when
I drew it on I thought I would lose my
life before I could free myself from the
horrid thing. He laughed in irony during
my desperate struggle and said, "I put
it there to scare some of the fat off:."
That experience haunted me for weeks and
filled my nights with horror. I would leap
from my bed in a cold sweat to escape the
imaginary pursuit of myriads of mice.
We always retired in the dark. One

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morning on opening my eyes I beheld a
frightful black spider swaying about two
feet above my head suspended from the
ceiling by a white thread. I ducked under
the clothes and screamed to John to re-
move it before I smothered. He said,
"Sweat away; it will reduce your flesh."
I went into a nervous decline and soon be-
came very thin. When I asked him why
he put the leather table cover in my bed,
he said, "To prevent your bones from
splitting the sheets."

The defense was that he married her
for her beauty when she was poor ; brought
her to an attractive home ; that the ymouse
and spider episodes were intended as
practical jokes; that constant attendance
at the movies had unseated her nerves and
brought on nightmare and nocturnal
twitching ; that she still had the outlines of
a Eehan ; that the leather table cover was
used because of a physical weakness, and
that, as her husband, he wished the privi-
lege of paying the expense of her burial.
The case was never tried. He supported
her at her mother's thereafter.

Mrs. Starstack in her action for divorce,

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testified that her husband, after six try-
ing months of rigid matrimony, destroyed
her dreams of love and turned every ante-
nuptial pledge into a lie by splitting the
air with a heavy silver wedding present
aimed at her head ; testing the timber of a
chair upon her frail anatomy; viciously
lacerating her wedding waist; heaving a
powder box against her abdominal wall;
slopping her face with hot soup and deny-
ing her movie and bridge money because
of the high cost of living.

Gladys Patience, the mother of an adult
son and daughter, sought to have her mat-
rimonial fetters judicially melted because
of her husband's refusal to communicate
with her except through postcards, some
of which read :

Any old barn that's painted, looks good,
and that's you.

Life is just a slaughter house and we
furnish the bull.

I am a happy man. Why? Because
I 'm alone.

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If you want to be pecked clean, marry
an old hen.

A painted, artificial, hand-made, stringy
female, the result of nature, nonsense, or
desire, will breed he matrimonial chil-
blains.

Cicero divorced his wife Terentia that
he might marry an heiress whom he later
repudiated because she failed to weep at
her stepdaughter's funeral.

Cato sundered his ties with Attilia after
the birth of two children, and loaned his
second wife to his friend, Hortensius,
upon whose death he remarried her.

The Emperor Augustus drove Livia's
husband away and made her his wife.

Sempronius Sophus divorced his wife
because she went once to the public games
without his consent.

The mother of Scipio without cause was
thrown out by her husband Paulus ^Emil-
ius; and the heartless Sylla repudiated
his wife while ill and sent her to a neigh-
bor.

Catherine and Josephine, devoted and

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beautiful wives, were divorced by their
respective husbands Henry VIII and
Napoleon, because of their alleged steril-
ity; and Charlemagne sent his wife back
to her father Desiderius because she bore
him no children.

Yet Cato, Cicero, and Augustus were
moral censors, philosophers, and states-
men, while Henry VIII wrote a book in
defense of the Catholic faith ; and Charle-
magne was the greatest church-builder
that ever mussed plush on a throne.

The French King Philip married the
daughter of the King of Denmark, and
after a single night sent her to her father
with an unpublished letter of explanation.

Louis XI of France returned his wife
Margaret to her home, explaining that her
stagnant breath roiled his stomach.

Women seeking a divorce for every do-
mestic ill should know of the experience
of an Afghan lady who sought to discard
her husband for baldness. She applied to
the Ameer of Afghanistan, who, recog-
nizing the importance of domestic as well
as governmental unity and authority, de-

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cided, after due reflection upon the demor-
alizing tendency of feminine disrespect
for intellectual men with barren domes,
that an example should be made of the
complainant. He accordingly ordered a
vial of sour milk poured upon the hus-
band's head and forced the wife to lick it
off with her tongue. She was then placed
upon a donkey's back facing his tail and
ordered to ride through the bazaar. Do-
mestic tranquillity has reigned since in
the dominions of the Ameer.

Of ninety-four representative women,
during 1910, conversant with affairs, and
members of the Women's Co-operative
Guild, of London, to the question whether
or not they were in favor of divorce by
mutual consent, eighty-two deliberately
answered in the affirmative.

These thoughtless and perhaps moral
women may have been quite unaware that
they were advocating a licensed commerce
with the other sex.

American social conditions are fairly in-
dicated in the following news item —

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NEW YOKE, October 24, 1918.— Frank
J. Gould, youngest son of the late Jay
Gould, has started divorce proceedings
against his second wife, Miss Edith Kelly,
according to reports received here from
Paris by his friends. Incompatibility of
temper is understood to be the ground for
the action.

At the time of her marriage to Frank
Gould, Miss Kelly was a well-known ac-
tress and had appeared in leading parts
in Havana and in The Girls of Gotten-
~burg.

The marriage took place in 1910, a year
after Gould was divorced from his first
wife, Miss Helen Margaret Kelly.

Mrs. Helen Kelly Gould later married
Ralph T. Thomas of New York who died,
and then married Prince Noureddin
Vlora, an Albanian nobleman.

Another phase of social activity among
the wealthy, is described in the New York
Tribune of October 27, 1918. A new use
of the kiss as an instrument for sustained
thrills has been disclosed.

The plaintiff in a divorce action charges
that her husband, a wealthy manufacturer,
in company with the wife of a dentist, en-

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tered an auto at Gedney Farms Hotel,
destined for Bed Brook, miles away ; that
as soon as their anatomy struck the seat
the pair entwined and in a sensually be-
wildered delirium, he siphoned the lava
from the responsive, torpid lips of his
companion, though dedicated to the ser-
vice of another. It is further charged
that this osculatory facial grazing feat
was developed in silence, and in the pres-
ence of others, and prolonged to the jour-
ney's end without breaking holds.

The noted Olga Nethersole kiss, as
Sappho, which she bestowed on her favor-
ite, in comparison with this lip-locked
pair, would be, in heat, as a lambent flame
to a fire-tossed forest.

Matrimonial dyspepsia, treated in di-
vorce courts, is a menacing ill that yields
to no moral serum.

Divorce is a social microbe that has in-
fested marital relations since Abraham
tickled the chin of Hagar, and which con-
tinues to roam and fatten in the anatomy
of man in defiance of popes, pulpits, pen-

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alties, and a threatened inferno, sulphuric
and flame-lapped.

Some one wrote that "the chain will
gall tho' wreathed with roses." When
the leaves of the rose of matrimony are
no longer be jeweled by the gentle dews of
love, soon flaws appear where formerly
perfection reigned, and nectar-sweating
lips, the price of bartered realms, pout de-
fiance at the approach of a crumbling idol,
while divinity in form no longer moves a
lash of the Apollo of a blighted love.

Mites are magnified, remarks willfully
distorted, explanations fall upon unwill-
ing ears, guilt grows defiant, and finally
the statutory key to the connubial lock
drops into the lap of matrimony.

Divorce is now crowding the banks of
the Protestant social stream throughout
the world, and elbowing for room in the
civil courts.

Recently, the following appeared in the
public press, —

LONDON, January 28, 1920. — The post-
war divorce crush is steadily increasing
and it was declared to-day that no diminu-

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tion is in sight. There were 1325 unde-
fended cases in the January list of di-
vorce court, and a new list is being pre-
pared to take care of the surplus cases.
The big increase in divorces is attributed
to the upheaval in social conditions caused
by the war.

At the November, 1920, special term of
the Supreme Court, held at Utica, New
York, of the seventy cases on the calendar
twenty-five were divorce actions.

A number of he-sexual-prowlers found
themselves sitting on hot sand, when, in
November, 1920, at the close of a revival
in the City of Washington, Rev. B. F. Mc-
Lendon, a noted evangelist, leaned over
the pulpit and said, " There is a certain
man here who has not been true to his
family or his religion. He is in the con-
gregation to-night. If he will deposit a
ten-dollar bill in the collection plate it will
be taken as a token of his repentance and
nothing further will be said. If he fails,
I will announce his name."

The collection included eighty-five ten-
dollar bills and five notes asking the evan-

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gelist to keep quiet, and promising the ten
dollars in the morning.

Divorce and remarriage is nothing short
of rotary polygamy so strikingly exempli-
fied in the lives of many luscious social
pushers, eye-sought entertainers, and
bare-skin idolaters, whose chirping ama-
tiveness frequently calls for a change in
male sedatives.

We are rapidly approaching the condi-
tions in pagan Rome when, matrimonially,
men and women were bound by ropes of
sand. Martial speaks of a woman who had
hooked her tenth husband. Juvenal re-
fers to one who had introduced her nup-
tial couch to eight different husbands in
five years. St. Jerome says there lived in
Rome a wife who had married her twenty-
third husband, she being his twenty-first
wife. Seneca, in despair, exclaimed:
" There is not a woman left, who is
ashamed of being divorced, now that the
most distinguished ladies count their years
not by the consuls, but by their husbands. ' '

Hence woman — the Lord's answer to
Adam's wish and the primeval channel of

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sorrow and sin, and at the same time the
sweetest flower in the garden of the world
— must gird herself with the armor of
chastity ; heel the heads of the serpents of
her environment; wax her ears against
the constant calls to evil around her ; use
every art, muscle, and available grace to
bar the lecher from the temple of virtue,
and by will power so calm the surging
waves of illicit desire that every word and
act will reflect the moral cleanliness of her
soul ; then and not till then will the hand
of the sensual leech be stayed; then and
not till then will husband and wife really
be two in one flesh ; then and not till then
will mankind cease to rain miscellaneous
mamzers upon the world.

CHAPTER XV

SEQUENCE

THE votaries of sensual pleasures with
definite action against progeny to check
"the vulgar aim of reckless racial fertil-
ity," as advocated by the Ellis propagan-
dists, certainly will succeed in eliminating
their kind from the human family and in
multiplying beyond their control that very
element which they seek to check.

The Birth Control League may success-
fully work the easy soil of wealth and
make some progress with the so-called
middle classes, but when they strike the
hardpan of the orthodox Jew, Mormon,
Mohammedan, Roman Catholic, socialistic
German, and willfully prolific Japanese,
their crop hardly will be worth the har-
vesting.

In point are the remarks of Mrs. Lulu

Loveland Sheppard, of the National Re-
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form Association, who on December 21,
1916, said:

Mormonism has grown more rapidly in
the last fifty years than any other church,
and to-day one person in every sixty is a
Mormon, and it holds the balance of
power, politically, in eleven states. If it
gets control of two more western states it
can hold the balance of power in Congress.

Under date of October 20, 1920, the
Japanese Exclusion League of California,
in its report states :

The Japanese birth rate in California is
three times that of the whites, although
the proportion of adult females among the
Japanese is less than one-third that among
the whites.

Those who look upon the Mormons and
Japanese as a social menace because of
their breeding propensities should realize
that the only way to prevent their over-
running the United States is to out-pro-
geny them.

Puritanic New England, with her cloud-
capped granite hills, once bore upon her

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nourishing bosom a narrow-minded but
God-fearing people who raised large fami-
lies and frowned on frivolities till their
offspring commercially and politically
dominated that vast territory.

The law of the easiest way, stimulated
by a spreading prosperity, finally wormed
into the very foundation of a once uncom-
promising faith.

Here and there the eggs of divorce
found nests in the laps of affluent idleness
and hatching warmth in the sunshine of
luxury and lust.

The countenances of men and women
made rigid by pious thoughts and elon-
gated prayers ultimately beamed upon the
shattered moral shackles at their feet.
Water and soap, the early symbols of so-
briety and cleanliness, finally abdicated in
favor of sugared rum and pious inconti-
nence. That society might be served and
its pleasures fully absorbed, the wearying
burdens of maternity, one by one, were
laid on the altar of a suppurating faith,
till now the New England " Yankee" is
being gradually swept into the sea of

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oblivion upon the submerging tide of
moral laxity.

It has been the history of the world
that the Goddess of Virtue is less lonely
in the shrines of poverty than in the
gilded temples of wealth.

The moral sloughing and progeny-
shrinking of Protestant New England un-
fortunately is due to a withered faith, a
rapidly encompassing rationalism, doubt
as to mail's accountability to God and the
expurgation of the noxious doctrine of a
sulphuric hell from the Plymouth Rock
creed.

Catholicism, for nearly two thousand
years, has unswervingly taught the doc-
trine of rewards and punishments, and
consistently condemned divorce, abortion,
and sexual deceits.

The sinner on his knees is pledged to a
new life in the confessional, the most pow-
erful arm of the Church.

While among her children and within
her fold are many secret rebels who re-
fuse to tread the paths of spiritual peace,
and sin for sin, can, and do, match the

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votaries of any other creed ; still the per-
centage of her obedient ones is so great
that she is rapidly acquiring a numerical
ascendancy over the combined Protest-
antism of the United States.

The religious census of the United
States taken in 1906, for sixteen years
back, showed an increase of 93.5 per cent
in the Roman Catholic churches; and an
increase in all Protestant bodies of 44.8
per cent for the same period.

A non-Catholic minister, Rev. W. E.
Evans, in the Accrington Observer, made
this pronouncement:

Unless a miracle happens, according to
the law of population England and the
whole Christianized world will some time
in the future — sooner than some of us
think — be overwhelmingly Roman Catho-
lic.

In the first place, religion has had
throughout the ages a very remarkable ef-
fect upon the birth rate. While Prot-
estant England, Calvinistic Wales, and
Presbyterian Scotland bewailed the fact
of the decreasing birth rate, Ireland re-
joiced in an increased birth — three per

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1000. Roman Catholicism is like the Jew-
ish religion in that it places great value
upon child life.

A committee of the association of Irish
Nonsubscribing Presbyterians and other
Free Christians recently prepared a state-
ment for circulation amongst the clergy
on the subject of social morality, which
reads as follows :

In Great Britain, and especially in Ire-
land, Roman Catholicism has an immense
advantage over Protestantism. In Ire-
land venereal disease may be said to be a
Protestant disease. . . . Among Euro-
pean cities we find Dublin at the top of the
moral ideals and Paris at the bottom.
London as a whole is bad; but Bethnal
Green, which contains a large proportion
of Catholics, is good. Social conditions
and poverty afford no explanation of the
bad state of things. In Catholic countries
the decay in morality, as shown by race-
suicide, coincides with diminution of the
influence of the Roman Catholic Church.
The state of things in Canada is particu-
larly instructive. There we have a Catho-
lic and Protestant population, both
equally prosperous, living under exactly

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the same conditions in every way except
in regard to religion. The French Cana-
dian is a moral man as far as race-suicide
goes, while his Protestant neighbor is ap-
proaching the moral abyss of the Yankee.
In respect to race-suicide Ireland, Aus-
tria, and French Canada are the brightest
spots.

Protestant sexual frosts, the world over,
are blighting their progeny fields and,
whether they will it or not, their necks will
ultimately bear the yoke of Rome.

While Rome would welcome evidence
of increasing influence and moral power,
we feel sure that she would greatly regret
the gradual but final disappearance from
the human family of a class who have done
so much in the past for the moral and
national advancement of humanity, by
willful recourse to connubial deceits,
which, eventually, must necessarily great-
ly reduce them numerically and finally
eliminate them as a potent factor in the
affairs of the world.

Family after family are becoming ex-
tinct, and their estates are passing to col-

Sequence 209

laterals or to charities. The Russell Sage
estate is a noted instance. The list might
be carried to the point of tediousness.

Perhaps the greatest curse of the race,
and the one that constantly cries to heaven
for vengeance, is the refusal of those who
are comfortable and intellectual fully to
yield to the untrammeled laws of progeny.

Let some of the leagued assassins of the
human race traverse the streets of social
centers and note the pervading chilly still-
ness, then enter the homes of the care-
takers of wealth and of the spindle and
wheel-turners of the world, and there, in
the midst of rollicking children, contem-
plate the time that it will take them to
eliminate socially and politically the hand-
picked from the highways of life, — as has
the Socialist in Russia, Germany, and in
other parts of Europe, by crumbling
thrones and driving crown-wearers into
exile.

In the early development of the State
of New York a rope necktie, sanctioned
by law, was given to any priest who ven-
tured within its boundaries, and active

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hostility against Catholicism very gener-
ally pervaded the colonists.

By obeying the teachings of their
Church the Catholics rapidly increased,
while their Protestant backsliders gradu-
ally drifted from their rigid moral stand-
ards until the old custom of large fami-
lies amongst them was honored only in
its breach.

A Catholic Mayor of Boston, a Catholic
United States Senator from Massachu-
setts, a Catholic Governor of that state, a
Catholic Mayor of Greater New York, a
Catholic Governor of the Empire State,
a Catholic Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States and Catholic
Foch Generalissimo of the Allied armies,
must make Cotton Mather fume and spit
as he paces the floor of eternity.

Colonial whiskers and wisdom have long
since been divorced — they no longer dom-
inate the councils of the East.

The heat of prosperity gradually melted
the ice of Puritanism, till now shackle-
free, it has become a social-dress and pray
affair for the women ; while the men chant

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that love is potent, but money is omnipo-
tent, and that Hell even can be locked with
a golden key.

A new social era is rapidly enveloping
the earth. The international war just
closed has uncovered to the proletariat his
vast powers which are being used with the
zeal of youth to wipe out the long endured
and slavishly burdensome political and
military autocracies of Europe, and to
force a more just distribution of wealth in
this country.

Upwards of thirteen millions of for-
eign-born are now living in the United
States, who do eighty-five per cent of the
work in the slaughtering and meat-pack-
ing industries; mine seven- tenths of the
coal ; do seven-eighths of the work in the
woolen mills ; manufacture more than half
the shoes ; construct four-fifths of the fur-
niture ; make half the collars, cuffs, and
shirts ; turn out four-fifths of the leather ;
manufacture half of the tobacco, cigars,
and gloves, and refine nearly nineteen-
twentieths of the sugar. Add to these the
millions of citizens who live by their labor,

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then tell this vast army to check propaga-
tion as their vulgar offspring is no longer
desired and that they are a social menace,
and that the Birth Control League and
their disciples have decided that the fu-
ture citizen must come from selected par-
entage— then I warn the preventers and
assassins of the innocent to flee from the
wrath to come and seek their dugouts, as
the cyclonic rage arising from the inva-
sion of human rights will sweep the devil's
league, talented vipers, she- vampires, pur-
veyors of sperm traps and embryo las-
soes from the face of the earth, and with
less formality than that which hurled the
Czar from his throne and sent his wailing
soul into No Man's Land.

It must be apparent to one of thought
that this limitation doctrine must ulti-
mately die from the weight of its own
waste.

Wedding bells, a happy couple, one
child, social ambition, maternity revolt,
five abortions., twelve years of crushing
misery, a neat grave in Forest Hill Ceme-
tery, a second wife, two children and a

Sequence 213

happy home is the condensed history of a
family well known to the writer.

Let the nefarious Ellis creed of a lim-
ited offspring spread, with an occasional
child from the physical and intellectual
perfectos, whose breeding machinery has
become tangled by frequent conflict with
natural laws, and there will be spewed
upon the world a brood of weaklings ut-
terly unable to contend with the myriads
of gladiators who are constantly spring-
ing from the lap of poverty into all of the
avenues of human activity.

The stars in law, medicine, theology,
science, business, politics, and in the cal-
endar of the saints, in childhood, practi-
cally all grazed on the sand lots of poverty.

That which is true of pugilism is borne
out by investigation of the various callings
of man.

Jess Willard, Luther McCarty, Stanley
Ketchell were cowboys ; Dan Creedon, Jim
Hall, Fred Fulton, plasterers ; Peter Jack-
son and Jack Johnson, stevedores; Jim
Flynn and Carl Morris, firemen; Jack
Boot and John Coulon, piano-movers;

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Marvin Hart, plumber ; Bill Lang, miner ;
Jack O'Brien, teamster; Tommy Burns,
hockey-player; Billy Murphy, tailor;
Jack Dempsey, cooper; Bill Squires,
wood-chopper ; Peter Maher, brewer ; Joe
Choynski, candy-maker; Jim Corbett,
bank clerk; Bob Fitzsimmons, black-
smith ; Jim Jeffries, boilermaker, and the
greatest Roman of them all, John L. Sul-
livan was a tinner's apprentice.

The noted sons of poverty, standing
side by side, would encircle the globe.

A. E. Waterson, who in boyhood
begged his bread from door to door, is
now a member of the House of Commons.

Julius Rosenwald advanced from a
"chromo" salesman to a partnership in
the noted firm of Sears, Roebuck & Com-
pany, and has given millions to charity.

Glen Curtiss, the errand boy, is now a
millionaire bird-man.

In the criminal and reckless war on em-
bryos that has been waged for centuries
how many dormant buds of genius in
every line have been cast into the sewers
of sin !

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While in our nation the divorce viper
spits his virus on budding childhood from
the lap of countenancing law, the recently
conquered Hun is planning to retrieve nu-
merical losses by government supervision
over prospective progeny.

A triune scheme provides for maternity
grants, increased work in welfare centers
for women and children, and special pro-
vision of suitable food for expectant or
nursing mothers and for growing children.

Let our own national and state govern-
ments make haste to war perpetually upon
every enemy of offspring, whether in the
form of doctors, diseases, deceits, devices,
devils or disciples of Sappho, remember-
ing that no nation, yet, has long endured
under the spell of sexual wile-weaving.

The weasel-souled women, who dole
canned technique for fencing the ovarian
fields against virility, peddle scandal itch
and seminal germicides on the humani-
tarian theory that God, at last, has heard
the cries of the poor mother in travail,
should be cantoned by the government
and condemned as Herodian descendants,

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uterus burglars and vampires of the in-
nocent.

The towering intellects that have
swayed and dazzled the world, have usu-
ally sneaked into life unheralded except
by a neighbor or a midwife.

A single congested connubial act might
rob the nation of a savior.

The parable of the Samaritan has lost
its pinchers, it no longer grips nor guides
limber Christianity contentedly lying in
the gold-kissed lap of the growing ma-
terialism of the present day.

In a press report of a gathering of noted
Methodists on December 10, 1918, the
headline read :

Methodism Faces Future in Doubtful
Manner Unless Some Movement
Changes Present Trend, Says Cler-
gyman.

Dr. Burns of Philadelphia said :

In a period of heart-searching and in-
vestigation we discover the weak places
in the church life. Unless some centenary
or similar movement changes the trend
of churches very soon we won't have

Sequence 217

churches in American cities. I think the
day of theology is gone.

Yet Christ said :

And it is easier for Heaven and earth
to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.

That Protestantism is gradually de-
parting from the hearts of men, and as
the Methodists claim, "the day of theology
is gone," is startlingly shown in an ar-
ticle in the Cosmopolitan of March> 1919,
by Ben B. Lindsey, in which he gives his
experiences with the soldiers on the west-
ern front in France, and from which I
quote the following:

The Salvation Army had no money to
spend on motor cars and gasoline and com-
fortable billets for its workers ; and those
workers were not of the social class that
has afternoon tea at conspicuous hotels
and inevitably gets its pictures in the
newspapers. They practiced the dough-
boy's religion, and the boys loved them.

I had heard that the war had brought
a great religious revival among the war-
ring people of Europe, and I had ex-
pected to see signs of it among the soldiers.

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There were none of the traditional sort.
I asked the officers of most of the Allied
forces in France, and they replied that
there was no religious revival. "Go to
the churches," they said, "and see." So
I went to church after church and found
them empty. I attended a service at West-
minster Abbey, and saw a few conven-
tional church attendants scattered
throughout the chill gloom and echoing
emptiness of that great tomb of England's
dead. And when the clergyman mounted
the pulpit, it was to bemoan the fact, as
he said, that "the Church seems no longer
able to lead," that it had "lost its influ-
ence with the toilers of the world," and
that the loss was "mostly the fault of the
Church."

Among the soldiers the two cardinal
virtues were courage and self-sacrifice,
and the two greatest sins were cowardice
and selfishness.

The creed of the soldier was thus ex-
pressed by one of them:

Look at that bunch of roughnecks there !
Not a one of them has seen the inside of a
church in years, but I tell you they're real
Christians. They love one another, and

Sequence 219

it's the real thing in loving, for they'd
lay down their lives for each other and
divide their last crumb with a comrade.

The following from Judge Lindsey's
Cosmopolitan article further illustrates
the impression made upon the soldiers by
preachers who could not comprehend
them — as did the Savior the fishermen,
with whom he ate on the shores of the Sea
of Galilee :

" We've had six Y. M. C. A. preachers
here in the last two weeks," one of the
men said to me. " They've been joy-rid-
ing up and down the lines, preaching to us
about the dangers of booze, women, and
gambling. And it's the holy truth, Judge,
we're so sore that every one of us is feel-
ing like having a hell of a time with all
three the first leave we get." I heard an-
other soldier announce the arrival of a Y
preacher by singing out, "Well, well;
here comes Old Wine, Women, and Song
again!" Over and over, the boys would
say, "That sissjfied son of a gun is using
up gasoline over here, to warn us fellows
against the skirts, when he ought to be
down in the trenches where he belongs or

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get to blazes out o' here." Or : " What is
that dolled-up guy doing behind a counter,
selling cigarettes and living in the best
billet in town, when he ought to be soaking
with the rest of us ? He's a fake. That's
what he is — a fake!"

April 10, 1919.— The Navy's thanks for
the welfare work during the war were con-
veyed to the Knights of Columbus head-
quarters to-day by Acting Secretary
Roosevelt.

"The department," Mr. Roosevelt
wrote, "desires to extend the gratitude of
the officers and men of the United States
Navy for all the many good things the
Knights of Columbus have done for them
during the war. The efficiency of your or-
ganization has been well matched by the
constant desire of the individual worker
to serve the men to the best of his ability.

"Its helpfulness and efficiency has
proven a powerful aid to contentment and
fighting spirit in the Navy.

"The department is desirous that your
excellent work be continued and that the
naval service whether the country is in
peace or at war, have the benefit of your
splendid cooperation. There is a very
constant need for your services."

Sequence 221

Additional proof that "the day of the-
ology is gone" is found in the morality
shown in the following news item :

Bank Wrecker Is Feted

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, January 9, 1916.
— William J. Cummins, released from
prison recently by pardon of Governor
Whitman after having served three years
for his part in the wrecking of the Car-
negie Trust Company of New York, was
the honor guest here last night at a dinner
attended by several hundred persons, in-
cluding state and city officials, members of
the Legislature and delegates from other
cities. A rising vote of thanks was given
Governor Whitman for the pardon.

The truth is that embroidered, silk-clad
and diamond-decked female wealth, as a
general rule, has but little use for the
poor, except to use them as a means of
exploiting a pretended, insincere, worldly
charity, and for jaw exercise at their clubs,
and an occasional headline in the society
columns.

The socially wearied uplift hypocrites

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believe that the only safe place for booze
is in their own sideboards.

All the thrills and sunshine of a drink
shoulji be denied the poor. Like the horse,
they must be kept in condition constantly
to slave for their hay and occasional oats
and for the social swine who revel in drink
and wallow in waste. These drug-store
beauties and dog-fondlers can never ap-
preciate the wounds they make when they
hand to a poor honest girl their cast off
finery. She might gladly accept a new
garment from the hand of charity, but one
that has been sinned in and bears the
finger marks of the lecher leads the noble
soul of pure womanhood to shrink from
the unclean offering. The working girl
more highly prizes the calico of chastity
than the silk of sin.

According to Royal S. Copeland, Com-
missioner of Health of New York, the
"400" there have taken to the lethifer-
ous drug habit and are vigorously defend-
ing it.

In an address, on December 11, 1918, in
Chicago, he said :

Sequence 223

We are experiencing considerable dif-
ficulty in fighting this nefarious practice,
and are forced to meet powerful obstacles
put in our way by the wealthy and influ-
ential. I know a prominent New York
City society woman who is interested in
the anti-drug campaign, who is herself an
addict.

Another phase of creeping social cor-
ruption, due to willful, though well-in-
tended efforts at juvenile sex precocious-
ness has made its appearance in the schools
of fashion and wealth. At the conven-
tion of the Illinois Federation of Wo-
men's Clubs, recently, Miss Lutie Stearns
charged that in many fashionable girls'
schools there are " underground" libra-
ries filled with unwholesome sex stories.
She said:

In my niece's school they placed the
books on the lower part of the lockers in
a place meant for rubbers. As soon as a
girl got through with one book she put
it back and got another. One book my
niece brought home was Three Weeks,

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Literature designed to gnaw through
the bars of virtue and to teach budding
womanhood that her lips are for he-pas-
turage, and that in the words of the old
song, everybody is doing it, and that the
less she wears the more flies she will at-
tract, is the kind of printed slush that sells
and corrupts.

The public press under date of April 2,
1920, contained the following :

LONDON, April 2. — Prevailing fashions
in women's gowns were vigorously as-
sailed in a sermon, recently, by the Rev.
Bernard Vaughan, the widely known Jes-
uit Father, whose essays and sermons on
morality and home life have for the last
twenty years attracted great attention
throughout the world.

Among other things he said: "In days
gone by ladies dressed for dinner, now
they undress for it. Women's clothing
ought to serve three purposes, of decency,
of warmth, and of ornament. Women in
their mad craze for what is known as
'emotional gowns' sin against every canon
of good taste. Such dresses are immodest,
unhealthy, and as ugly as they are expen-
sive. Girls who follow the up-to-date

Sequence 225

fashions are ruining their own and their
neighbor's souls as well as their own bod-
ies. Designers of fashions seem to be de-
void as much of taste as of principle. ' '

Kissing, in the days of Louis XII of
France, attained its greatest popularity.
A wave of revulsion finally checked and
withered it.

Since Venus said to Adonis, "Graze
on my lips," there has developed, as a part
of the white man's civilization, a more in-
tensified osculatory contact, generating
amatory thrills which are wantonly pro-
longed by facial burrowing and neck
rigidity.

The kiss has become a moral pestilence
in social centers, and as now administered
it quite properly may be called Platonic
concupiscence.

Mile. Walska, the noted opera singer;
speaking for many of her sex, said: "I
hate a man who does not kiss well. "

Shall women smoke, is another live ques-
tion on both sides of the Atlantic. The
Y. M. C. A. of London, under pressure,

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has opened smoking rooms for the young
women who have demanded it.

London physicians declare that there
never has been so much smoking by wo-
men as at present. It is a common ex-
perience to see well-dressed women smok-
ing as they leave the theaters, and in the
daytime many women smoke in limousines
or taxicabs. From Palm Beach hotels, the
Vampire Queen's studio, and Vassar Col-
lege comes a chorus of approval.

Another result of developing social be-
devilment, through propaganda and per-
sonal contact, is the female chromo.

Roseate pigments worked in by the elec-
tric needle, in the hand of the tattoo ar-
tist, to have a blush rose tint permanently
stamped on their features, is the latest
London fad amongst so-called " society
ladies." About three-fourths of the aris-
tocracy carry tattoo marks — generally
just above the knee — and the designs are
invariably dragons, butterflies, snakes, or
the family crest.

A leading London professor of the art
asserts that his patrons belong generally

Sequence 227

to the * 'upper classes," and include ladies
of title and even royalty.

According to government war-tax re-
turns American women paid $750,000,000
for rouge, powder, perfume, and lip sticks
during 1919.

Mrs. Grace W. Humiston, a noted New
York City lawyer, in a recent address,
treating of wayward girls and present day
social conditions, said :

If the girl appeals to the police she is
sent up ; if to the church she is set aside,
segregated, as not the person for other
girls' companionship, and if she goes home
she is scolded.

School girls to-day know more about
sex relations than older women starting
out in married life. In Chicago alone
there are 2000 girls between the ages of
thirteen and seventeen " missing."

Show girls in a New York City theater
were forced by the manager to witness an
obscene motion picture show or lose their
jobs.

It has been published that the " White
Door," in New York City, is a resort con-
ducted for the purpose of training young
girls for immoral purposes. The house-

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keeper of this haven of sin gave the keys
to the District Attorney with the request
that he end its existence. This he refused
to do, saying that "the best men in New
York went there."

Mrs. Humiston relates the pathetic ex-
perience of a young girl which, likely, has
been duplicated throughout the country
thousands of times during the war for
democracy by uniforms on the backs of
eager libidinists.

The man in question was a major in the
United States Army. He said to the girl
before he left that he did not expect to
come back and that in the eyes of the Lord
they were man and wife. He did not lose
his life at the front as he expected, and
when he returned home he found that the
girl who trusted in him was a mother. He
was astounded at the news and said to her,
"You ought to be ashamed of yourself."

This should lead the most hardened to
exclaim: "Oh, military uniform, how
many crimes are concealed in thy folds!"

Our Constitution should be a gushing
fountain of justice; and our flag a shel-

Sequence 229

tering mantle for all of our people; and
our military uniform, on the back of an
American soldier, a woman's shield rather
than an incantation in the pathway of
virtue.

On April 10, 1919, Mrs. Ellen O'Orady,
deputy police commissioner of New York
City, announced a crusade by women de-
tectives against proprietors of moving-
picture theaters displaying such " sugges-
tive, immoral, and filthy films" as she
discovered on a tour of the movie houses.
She said:

The clergy, educators, judges, and wel-
fare workers might as well lock up the
churches, shut the books, and close the
courts, if they are going to permit the
filthy motion pictures that are being
shown in New York and throughout the
country.

Juvenile delinquency is increasing rap-
idly and is largly due to the poison being
instilled into juveniles in moving picture
houses.

Two girls of 14 years, the children of
foreigners, were brought into my office.
I asked them what was the matter — what

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they intended to make of themselves.
They answered: "We want to be Amer-
ican girls like the moving pictures. Have
a good time, automobiles, and nice
clothes."

Imagine the kind of Americanization
these children have had.

Then, there was the case of two girls of
fifteen, who started to flirt with a man of
forty on a street car. This is what they
said to each other: "Say, kid, let's vamp
the guy."

If something is not done to safeguard
the morals of our boys and girls I don't
know what will become of them.

In 1914, the black eagle of Germany
entered the dark clouds of war with a bird
of Paradise, called Democracy. For four
years, with vulture beaks and talons at
each other's hearts, they rattled all of the
thrones of Europe and lacerated all of the
constitutions of the world and sent ten
millions of souls to eternity, in an effort
either to expand the national hogyard, or
to disseminate the blessings of democracy.

At the end of the conflict the eagle came
tumbling to the earth, a badly rumpled

Sequence 231

and bedraggled mess. The bird of Para-
dise had lost many of her gaudy feathers,
her topknot, and the quills from her tail,
and while perched on the ruins of mon-
archy billing and oiling the fragments of
her once radiant plumage and surveying
the devastation wrought, the serpent of
Bolshevism uncoiled in the city of Petro-
grad and since has been extending its
monstrous and slimy trail to various parts
of Europe with a view to encircling the
globe and crushing within its mighty folds
the tottering bird of Democracy. This
new social Behemoth has annihilated mo-
rality; declared sin to be a social myth;
woman the servant and plaything of man ;
children the wards of the state; matri-
mony a social relation subject to the will
of the parties and the Ten Command-
ments too arbitrary for the limber moral-
ity of the new school.

The days of monumental wealth, pinch-
ing poverty, imperial fops, crushing
trusts and sable coats for queens of fash-
ion are surely passing.

The Bolshevik hen is laying her eggs

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upon our shores and hatching vipers that
are spreading, like a pestilence, through-
out the land. Their doctrines and pur-
poses are clearly disclosed in a circular
scattered in the streets of Seattle during
the recent shipyard strike, which reads
as follows:

RUSSIA DID IT

Shipyard Workers — You left the ship-
yards to enforce your demands for higher
wages. Without you your employers are
helpless. Without you they cannot make
one cent of profit — their whole system of
robbery has collapsed.

The shipyards are idle ; the toilers have
withdrawn even though the owners of the
yards are still there. Are your masters
building ships ? No. Without your labor
power it would take all the shipyard em-
ployers of Seattle and Tacoma working
eight hours a day the next thousand years
to turn out one ship. Of what use are
they in the shipyards?

It is you and you alone who build the
ships ; you create all the wealth of society
to-day; you make possible the $75,000
sable coats for millionaires' wives. It is
you alone who can build the ships.

Sequence 233

They can't build the ships. You can.
Why don't you?

There are the shipyards ; more ships are
urgently needed; you alone can build
them. If the masters continue their dog-
in-the-manger attitude, not able to build
the ships themselves and not allowing the
workers to, there is only one thing left
for you to do.

Take over the management of the ship-
yards yourselves; make the shipyards
your own ; make the jobs your own ; decide
the working conditions yourselves ; decide
your wages yourselves.

In Russia the masters refused to give
their slaves a living wage too. The Rus-
sian workers put aside the bosses and
their tool, the Russian government, and
took over industry in their own interests.

There is only one way out; a nation-
wide general strike with its object the
overthrow of the present rotten system
which produces thousands of millionaires
and millions of paupers each year.

The Russians have shown you the way
out. What are you going to do about it1?
You are doomed to wage slavery till you
die unless you wake up, realize that you
and the boss have not one thing in com-
mon, that the employing class must be

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overthrown, and that you, the workers,
must take over the control of your jobs,
and through them, the control over your
lives instead of offering yourselves up to
the masters as a sacrifice six days a week,
so that they may coin profits out of your
sweat and toil.

The common people will no longer bear
the burden of Kaiser wardrobes worth
half a million, cared for by a dozen valets
and a corps of tailors, nor of fabulous
salaries paid by the consumers' coin.

The vast army of clean men and women
the world over must unceasingly struggle
against the powers of evil or be over-
whelmed in its turbulent billows.

Those of us who are of the Protestant
faith might as well look at conditions as
they are. The stones, one by one, are
dropping from the walls of our temple,
and its very foundations are threatened
by our own spiritual indolence, monetary
idolatry, matrimonial cozening and di-
vorce paternity. We are now harvesting
mostly cockle through accumulated neg-
lect of our wheat fields.

Sequence 235

Our perversity is stampeding the
shepherds of our flocks, who in despair,
behold Thor marshaling the spirit of evil
from out the gathering clouds of a brood-
ing, godless materialism.

A wail comes from out the heart of a
self-confessed, slipping and withering
Christianity, which is magnified in the
thousands of crumbling churches at the
country crossroads, tenanted by bats and
owls, a lingering rebuke to the pagan de-
scendants of former Christian founders,
who, centuries ago, chafing under God's
ten restraining laws and boiling with re-
bellion, like birds, chattering and turbu-
lent, bent on a less burdensome moral
hygiene, spread their wings and with their
doctrine: " Faith is sufficient unto salva-^
tion" pushed their beaks, charged with
the poison of falsehood and bigotry, under
the counterpane of a creed, which had
successfully buffeted the storms of schism,
the powers of thrones and the legions of
darkness, for more than fifteen centuries.

In time, entirely ignored by their for-
mer Christian associates, and hungry

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from eating out of the empty bowl of
"faith" without "works," they soon grew
quarrelsome and fell to pecking each
other's heads. New denominations and
church buildings gradually sprang up in
centers of civilization, — all calling them-
selves Protestant, with each sect protest-
ing against Rome and each other, until,
under its ceaseless discords, and grace-
less imitation sacraments, it has finally
winged itself.

In point are the observations of Dean
Welldon, of England, who, on February
4, 1920, said:

The world is rocking under men's feet.
Society is threatened by forces which re-
pudiate the Christian faith and the Chris-
tian moral code. The Church runs grave
risk of losing her influence upon national
life. The decadence of regular church-
going has long been a cause of anxiety.
The statistics of divorce are alarming, and
it may be necessary to rebuild human mor-
als from the foundation. Meanwhile the
Church is disregarded because she is di-
vided. It is too much to expect the world

Sequence 237

to listen to her when she speaks with
many discordant voices.

Dean Welldon's postulation as to mod-
ern Protestantism presents a striking pic-
ture of the ungovernable evolution of man-
made creeds. The foundations are break-
ing up and the wreckage is drifting on the
tide of monetary idolatry out into the
calm, congenial ocean of Christian Sci-
ence.

After the Battle of Waterloo an army
chaplain went to Wellington and said:
"What am I to do now that the war is
over? I was a chaplain in the army."
Wellington replied: "You are a minister
of the gospel. What are your marching
orders ? ' '

In Mark 16 :15 are found the marching
orders.

And He said unto them, go ye into all
the world, and preach the gospel to every
creature. He that believeth and is bap-
tized shall be saved ; but he that believeth
not shall be damned.

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How many ministers dare, from the
pulpit, to tell their people that unless they
keep the commandments they " shall be
damned."

With too many fair-weather Christians,
going to church is a social affair, and not
a place to have one's sins inventoried or
one's conscience pricked. If a courageous
preacher, with a proper concept of his
clerical duties, should cry out to the low
necks and snowy shirt fronts before him,
as did John the Baptist, in the wilderness,
to the Pharisees and Sadducees : ' ' O gen-
eration of vipers, who hath warned you to
flee from the wrath to come?" like the
" Golden-mouthed" John of Antioch, he
would be told that in Pontus is a good
place to die.

,Are not mental drippings consciously
concocted by too many preachers for the
purpose of securing the loaves and fishes
rather than as a moral specific ? The min-
ister must preach to please the people,
and does his best on an empty stomach.

In a second-class city of the state, ten
clergymen have resigned within a year.

Sequence 239

One Baptist clergyman has taken to can-
dy-making, and two of other denomina-
tions have thrown up their commissions
and entered politics.

Since Henry Ward Beecher sold a slave
girl at auction from his pulpit, many fads
have been unavailingly introduced to cen-
tralize interest.

"Babe" Euth on the diamond, and
"Billy" Sunday on the platform are now
the leading swatters of balls and sins.

Prohibition — the offspring of cranks,
the forger of chains, the illicit still and
home-brew incubator, the assassin of ora-
tory, the mental bug-breeder, the friend
of the grave-digger, is the prolific mother
of a vast army of hypocrites, sneaks,
criminals, and Bolsheviks, who, Samson-
like, will uproot the pillars of faith, and
beslime the goddess of morality as did the
viper the hand of Paul.

The weeds of the fields, for a time, flour-
ish and scatter their baneful seeds which
spring up and choke the plantings of man,
till harvested by the frosts of autumn.
Fads and frivolities, like the weeds, will

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bloom in church, state, and nation until
the grace of God, when He shall be so
pleased, shall again lacquer the souls of
men against the corroding attacks of sin,
and lift them from the "Slough of Des-
pond" into the clear blue of a resonant
faith and a rosy hope.
' The appendix-extrication fad, which
enabled women to talk of their operations
instead of their neighbors at social func-
tions, has run its course, and this intes-
tinal switch will be permitted to serve na-
ture hereafter instead of the surgical ex-
pert in quest of fat for his bank account.

The Oregon State Medical Association
at its convention in Portland, reported,
under date of June 5, 1920, that " opera-
tions for removal of the appendix are go-
ing out of style. Much that was called
appendicitis in recent years was not that
at all, but plain stomachache."

The smoke of immorality is very dense
in France. Under date of Paris, March
26, 1920, we find this printed:

The League for the Reform of Dress
and Theatrical Morals issued a protest

Sequence 241

against the advertised appearance of
Kenee de Bauga, the " modern Venus," in
a revue at the Olympic Theater to-night.
The advertisement stated that Mile, de
Bauga would appear on the stage nude,
and the reform league demanded that the
police prevent this " disgraceful exhibi-
tion." The Olympic caters largely to
Americans and other foreigners.

Seven centuries back we find the fore-
going paralleled.

In the thirteenth century more than
once the Government suppressed the sa-
cred plays in France on account of their
evil effects upon morals. In England mat-
ters seem to have been if possible worse ;
and Warton has shown that on at least one
occasion in the fifteenth century Adam
and Eve were brought upon the stage
strictly in their state of innocence. In the
next scene the fig leaves were introduced.

Sisley Huddleston in the May, 1920,
Atlantic Monthly, calls present-day con-
ditions "the menace of the world." He
comments as follows :

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The diagnosis of the malady is not diffi-
cult. There is, first, this crazy seeking af-
ter artificial amusements, generally of an
unpleasant kind ; there is a love of display
that runs to the utmost eccentricity ; there
is a wave of criminality; there is an un-
scrupulous profiteering, a cynical disre-
gard of suffering, a mad desire to get
rich quickly, no matter by what means,
and there is a reluctance to do any genu-
ine work. You can visit any capital and
you will find these characteristic stigmata.
This pathological condition is certainly
the legacy of war. Men's mental outlook
has changed. Those who were sober, in-
dustrious citizens, content to rear their
families and to walk usefully and humbly
in the world, are now stricken by the wild
notion of having a "good time" — a good
time that means the easy earning of ques-
tionable money, its prodigal dispersal,
forgetfulness of the family, nonproduc-
tion of necessaries, hopeless confusion and
incompetence, which affects private as
well as governmental persons, and a low-
ering of moral values, a debasing of in-
tellect.

The limber Christianity of to-day makes
no more impression upon their sin-seared

Sequence 243

souls than the tread of a pismire upon a
block of granite.

At the dawn of the colonization of this
country, it has been written that :

The women were robust, worked on the
farms in the busy seasons, reaping, mow-
ing, and even plowing on occasion ; and the
hum of the spinning wheel was heard in
every house. An athletic, active, indomit-
able, prolific, long-lived race. For a
couple to have a dozen children, and for
all the twelve to reach maturity, to marry,
to have large families, and die at a good
old age, seems to have been the rule rather
than the exception.

Kemember that the microbe of immor-
ality works slowly but fatally in the dark
recesses of human paste.

Since the Pilgrim fathers greased their
boots with ham rinds at Plymouth Rock,
and our antecedents dyed their breeches
with the juice of the butternut hull, and
astride of a rail whittled through a horse
trade, and tacked the pelts of the enemies
of the hennery on the barn door, and put
doughnuts in the contribution box, many

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strange beasts, in the shape of new tastes,
habits, desires, and passions, have come to
us from other shores, or have reached us
on the tide of, our own blood.

When it enters a man's head that he
can toss flat water cocktails under his belt
with the safety that a rooster crams corn
into his crop; or that he can frequently
cast the tappings of his virility into un-
sanitary pockets, and muss up every
Thamar at the crossroads; and that the
creed of reason is : "Let us eat, drink, and
be merry for to-morrow we die," and when
such sentiments acquire general ascend-
ancy in any nation, that nation is just as
sure to die of moral and physical leprosy,
as is a country parson to pass the plate
when there's a stranger in the church.

Character and intellect alone are no
longer passports to the coveted shade of
the social weed. Coin, tin titles, and tog-
gery are the American highways to that
Elysian field.

In my boyhood the child and its dairy
met in the homespun maternal lap; in
my manhood I find that spot draped in

Sequence 245

silks, the dairy farrow, and in place of
the child a perfumed pup.

In '48 a man pushed bock beer over a
pine bar. Later he and companions dug
gold while his wife cooked the corned beef
and cabbage. Soon on the crest of a yel-
low stream we see the physically broad-
gauged daughter Mary ride into the arms
of a worthless, impecunious count from
the throne pound of royalty. The press
from Cleopatra's Needle to the Golden
Gate was full of idiotic drooling over the
social achievements of a prospector's
daughter, who had sold herself, as has
many another, with the same deliberation,
but with less return than comes to a
farmer from a litter of pigs.

The ambition of many suddenly en-
riched and mentally idle females, as soon
as they have shed their pinfeathers, is to
lift themselves by their golden garters
into the festering lap of swelldom, — the
tango, shimmy, turkey trot, grizzly bear,
bunny hug, fountain dip, Texas Tommy,
Harem trot, chicken slide, hesitation
waltz, hitchy-koo, peacock glide, boll- wee-

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vil wiggle, constipation pose, — and into
the stinking palatial odors that have pol-
luted the air for more than forty cen-
turies.

How soon these society sprouts feign
to forget that many of the ancestors of
the social bungholes with whom they herd,
worked, and stunk their way across the
ocean in cattle ships, while clad in wooden
shoes and linsey-woolsey mother-made
shirts, which were so full of crawling,
energetic life that it would require the spit
of St. Patrick to banish it.

The social flummery that has oozed out
of the bowels of wealth, with all of its
enervating tendencies, is the mother of a
moral condition in this country to-day,
which, slowly yet surely, is sapping the
man- and womanhood of this republic
and preparing it for the day when a warn-
ing of this kind will be scoffed at, when the
buffoon will be preferred to the statesman,
the money-lender to the preacher, the
jug to the child, and the song of the harlot
to the dulcet tones of the vesper bell.

Sequence 247

Whither are we tending and what are
some of the signs ?

A United States Senate of millionaires ;
political control of members of Congress ;
graft and bribery in every civic highway
from the municipal dog-catcher to the cus-
todian of the State seal ; contempt for the
Constitution, the courts and individual
rights; pernicious demagogy on the
stump; the slavery of the political boss;
the monetary corruption of the electorate ;
the gradual segregation of the people
under the heads of capital and labor;
socialistic teachings, the mother of female
degradation and of fatherless children;
submitting disputes to the arbitration of
dynamite ; and disfranchising millions of
men because God forgot to brimstone
their skins.

Since the Queen of Sheba whisked her
be jeweled skirts before the throne of the
dazzled Solomon, and then exchanged
spices for precious stones, deceit, fraud,
and criminality have prevailed in all the
relations of man.

In business we have the tax-dodger and

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the import-duty swindler; the scale-pan
doctor and the fresh-egg fraud ; the milk-
waterer and bob- veal vender; the paste-
diamonjcl jeweler and the black-diamond
underweigher ; sanded sugar ; wooden nut-
megs; calves-liver coffee; bastard phos-
phate; stone-pasted silks; fake corn and
pile cures ; oleo butter ; beef lard ; fish-oil
linseed; plaster-of-paris lead; Peruna
whiskey ; Duffy's hypocritical malt ; paint,
county history and atlas swindlers ; coal-
tar dye f ood-dopers ; rotten-egg bakeries ;
New York State Havana; home-made
Turkish cigarettes ; the fur-skin imitator ;
the excelsior hair mattress; curly birch
mahogany; corncob cow feed; the note
shaver; real estate swindler; worthless
stock vender ; salted mine exploiter ; short-
yard stick ; concave dry measure ; impure
seed, fake art and rug dealers ; dishonest
road-builder and crooked overseer; lying
auto salesman ; heavs-doping horse trader ;
hard- times match and kerosene merchant ;
the grocery pass-book padder; the job-
bing plumber, making forty-eight hours
out of each twenty-four; the Elgin butter

Sequence 249

and other combination arbitrary price-
fixing crooks ; bank defaulters ; the arson
trust; insurance-swindlers; trust-betray-
ers; franchise-bribers; criminal monopo-
lists; high-price projectors and food-cor-
nering felons. These furnish some of the
evidences of a growing class of business
black-handers amongst us who carry a
Bible in one hand and a jimmy in the
other, and who superintend Sunday school
one day and criminal business the remain-
ing six.

Since Tarquin was banished from Rome
for the rape of Lucrece, and the temple of
Isis wrecked by the carnal stunt of Mun-
das, myriads of the he-portion of the hu-
man race have worshiped at the shrine of
every immorality and crime known to
man.

The ancient sins of the bath are now
practiced with revelry and relish. Black-
handing, white slavery, grafting, gam-
bling, thieving, robbing, thugging, dyna-
miting, doping, murdering, kidnaping and
incest are some of the occupations of the
denizens of the underworld.

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Price-fixing, stock-gambling, welshing,
official bribing, commercial plundering,
destroying evidence, croaking business
rivals, panic-breeding, forging, defaulting,
embezzling, perjuring, seducing, eloping,
and home-busting have occupied the re-
cent attention of men in the gilded walks
of life.

Social and business tendencies make the
outlook as dismal as the efforts of the
ancient reasoners to locate hell. St. Thom-
as was of the opinion that it was in the
center of the earth. Whiston contended
that it was the tail of a comet. Swinden
strenuously asserted that hell was the sun.
Some early theologians held this and ex-
plained the spots in the sun by the multi-
tude of souls.

Numberless, self - sacrificing mothers
and spinsters, living and dead, with lives
as clean as the unblown snow, should be
distinguished from those of their sex who
shirk duty and toy with sin.

The clean woman, whether pagan or
Christian, always has been, and always
will be, with us, as the following proves.

Sequence 251

While I have shown one side of the pic-
ture of woman, I am not unmindful of the
immaculate Mary, whose divine Son, the
personified pledge of God to man, by His
example and teachings, so leavened the
dough of man's activities that he was
finally led proudly to adorn the brow of
woman with the ennobling titles of com-
panion, wife and mother.

In the first centuries, the hen of Chris-
tianity hatched many a pullet that defied
the pagan cockerels, and suffered torture
and death, rather than to sacrifice to the
stubnosed gods of the temples, or take the
proffered apple from the hand of Satan.

Among the brightest jewels in the mas-
sive crown of early Christian womanhood
we find :

Fabiola, the founder of the first hospital
in Rome, of whom St. Jerome said: "She
was the praise of the Christians, the won-
der of the Gentiles, the mourning of the
poor, and the consolation of the monks. "

Dorcas, the queen of the needle, whose
handiwork turned the bleak winds of the

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Mediterranean from the poor widows and
children of Joppa.

Genevieve, a pious and patriotic
maiden, whose courage saved the city of
Paris from the scourge of Attila.

Olympias, the beautiful and wealthy
widow, vainly sought in marriage by the
noblemen around her, a princess in liber-
ality, who purchased the freedom of hun-
dreds of slaves and sought the comfort
of the sick, the imprisoned, beggars, and
exiles.

Monica is noted as a wife who never
uttered a reproachful word in her home,
a mother whose prayers and tears re-
claimed from sin and gave to God the
matchless St. Augustine.

Paula, who owned a whole city in Italy,
descended from the Scipios and the Grac-
chi, and one of the richest women of an-
tiquity, a fourth-century patroness of
education and philanthropy, a co-worker
of St. Jerome in his warfare upon the cor-
ruption of the age, and who lived as a
slave but gave as a princess, built a hos-
pital, monastery, and three nunneries,

Sequence 253

prayed to die in beggary and to be
wrapped in the shroud of a stranger.

Kindred spirits and God-loving women
can be found at all of the crossroads along
the highway of time from Elizabeth, con-
cerning whose son Christ said: "Among
them that are born of women there hath
not risen a greater than John the Bap-
tist," down to our own American queens
of charity who constantly minister to our
poor and afflicted, and extend their noble
work to other climes.

Even Pagan records tell us of the wifely
Artemisia, who consumed her husband's
ashes mixed with scented water, and hon-
ored his memory with a mausoleum so
wonderful as to startle the world; of
Volumnia, who saved Rome from the ven-
geance of her husband; of Julia Domne,
who cast herself upon an assassin to
shield her son and received the death blow ;
of Hortensia, the suffragette, demanding
justice at the hands of the triumvirs in the
market place; of Lucrece taking her life
to destroy the rape-wrecked temple of her
soul ; of Octavia, who brought to her home

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the bastards of the sin-busted Antony ; of
Boadecia, who, to avenge the name of out-
raged womanhood, having been stripped
and scourged by Koman officers, rallied
the Britons to her standard and led the
conflict till she sent seventy thousand Ro-
man souls howling into eternity. To-day,
innumerable intellectual and saintly wo-
men can be found on every rung of the
social ladder, with moral breaths as sweet
as the rose, and whose maternal instinct,
rugged as the oak, often has led them into
the valley of the shadow of death, and
whose unsullied characters and lofty vir-
tues would adorn the most exacting civ-
ilization.

Since the war closed our American civic
highways have been burdened, and the
public oppressed and buncoed by a bewil-
dering number of alleged charity and up-
lift fads and schemes, frequently organ-
ized for personal laudation and often in-
spirited by the vision of a swivel chair
and soft job in the distance.

" America for Americans" is being
pounded into the human ear from all

Sequence 255

angles both by patriots and paid exhorters,
many of whom are mentally unable to
sense the frightful results that would fol-
low in the wake of a strict application of
this doctrine.

Is there not danger of carrying the agi-
tation of Americanism to the rebounding
point? There are better than thirteen
millions of unnaturalized working people
in the United States to-day who do three-
fourths of the manual labor required for
the production of our marvelous output.

Labor in this country is now at a pre-
mium, with a growing inclination to
shorter hours and higher pay. The gates
of Castle Garden have always swung land-
ward and if you go back far enough, his-
tory will tell you that the earliest white
settlers here were foreigners. Foreigners
have made this country what it is and be-
cause a citizen happens to be born fifty or
one hundred years later than some of those
who have preceded us, it does not neces-
sarily follow that that citizen is a less
patriotic member of the commonwealth.

We have always had agitators and

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tongue traitors in our midst — every na-
tion has them ; we will always have them,
but, as a rule, they are so few and out-
spoken that they are generally well known.

Remember that the wealth at the top
of our social structure comprehends but
a small portion of our population. The
laboring element forming the foundation
for our social structure constitute perhaps
not to exceed twenty-five per cent of our
people, while the great middle classes
form the bulk of our population and will
always stand as an impassable barrier be-
tween arrogant wealth on the one hand,
and sometimes unreasonable labor and
agitators on the other.

We need as laborers a million or two
more men to aid in the basic production
of our country. This republic has a repu-
tation the world over of being the freest
and safest habitation for man known to
the human race. A propaganda spread
throughout these United States to the ef-
fect that foreigners are not welcome or
that as soon as they arrive here they must
go through a system of Americanization,

Sequence 257

will reach other shores and tend unfavor-
ably to impress those who might anticipate
seeking homes here. Foreigners who have
come to our shores, of every nationality,
have readily become assimilated with our
people and submissive to our laws, and
patriotic in their support of our Govern-
ment. In proof of this I call attention to
an article in the March number of the
National Geographic Magazine in which
William J. Showalter says :

Speaking of the commonwealth of Mas-
sachusetts, two thirds of the people have
sprung from parents one or both of whom
were born under alien flags. Where Paul
Revere lived in revolutionary times, is
now Little Italy, almost as foreign in the
tongue spoken as Naples or Genoa.

With only one third of the State's popu-
lation born of parents who first saw the
light in America, how small must be the
percentage born of full colonial lineage 1

But is Massachusetts less American for
its tremendous foreign stock? Look at
the recruiting records — holding sixth
place in population, but fifth in voluntary
enlistments for the World War. Look at
the Liberty loan records — third place in

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the first and second loans and fourth
place in the other three.

What we need in this country is a
thicker mixture of morality in our Na-
tional carburetor; fewer divorces and
more prayers ; less dry insanity and more
mental lubrication; fewer professional
child-killers and birth-control propagand-
ists, on the one hand, and larger families,
on the other; more Sunday church fre-
quenters and fewer bed loafers; more
ministers who will preach the gospel of
salvation as it came to us from the Cross,
rather than the gospel of salvation made
easy; and fewer men who worship at the
shrine of the dollar and vastly more who,
from a contented heart, can cry out, "Give
me neither beggary nor riches: give me
only the necessaries of life."

If our nation endures it will not be by
her armies and her fleets alone but more
particularly through clean, pure men and
women in whose veins will flow red blood,
and in whose hearts will repose a patriot-
ism such as boisterously roamed the breast

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of General Warren when he said: " "Tis
sweet to die for one's country."

If you want peace, prepare for war.
The nation with the largest bank account
will most likely be the successful warrior
of the future. But back of the money and
the guns must be the fighter. To have
fighters, mothers must teach chivalry to
their offspring. They must say to their
sons as they practically said in '61, and
as the Spartan mother was accustomed to
say, "My son, return either with thy
shield or upon it." And the fathers must
have flowing in their veins the blood of a
Hannibal, who at the age of nine years,
in a heathen temple, took an eternal oath
of enmity against Rome ; of Ethan Allen,
who demanded the surrender of Ticonder-
oga, "In the name of the Great Jehovah
and the Continental Congress"; of Law-
rence, who said, "Don't give up the ship" ;
of Perry who sent that immortal message
from Lake Erie, "We have met the enemy
and they are ours."

Parents, treat your children kindly, but
firmly. Set before them morning, noon,

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and night, the example of Christian liv-
ing. Tell them that no nation is greater
than its men and women make it ; that the
constant buffeting of any immorality
gradually wears down the finest physique ;
that if they hope to be credited with the
manhood, courage, and bravery of their
ancestors, they must live as did their an-
cestors; and that no nation can long en-
dure in the hearts of whose people immo-
rality slumbers.

In the medical profession there is a
small percentage of scavengers, whose
criminal practices, like polecat exhala-
tions, tend to beslime one of the noblest
callings to which man has devoted his
genius since the Esculapian days.

The clean men of the medical profes-
sion, by reason of direct contact with the
evil-doer, can do more to save the race
than can any other combination of civic
or moral workers now engaged in social
betterment.

To attain the desired results by shack-
ling the prince of evil, the priesthood and
ministry of this great republic, principal-

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ly God-fearing and saintly men, must, in
the interest of humanity, join in a cease-
less onslaught upon the evils that are bur-
rowing into the moral fiber of our people
and daily weakening the spiritual power
of the sanctifying story of the life of
Christ.

To save the race we must, as a people,
so legislate and so live that those who dam
or pollute the stream of life will be con-
demned here, and our faith in divine jus-
tice tells us that they will be damned
hereafter.

Let the willfully unfruitful, in whose
hearts there still lingers the slightest
gleam of Christian faith, fearfully dwell
on the fate of the barren fig tree.

The duty-dodger and laggard in every
line may read his destiny in the parable
of the napkin capitalist.

The grafters, profiteers, war hogs, price-
fixers, stock-tricksters, trust-weavers,
money idolaters, food-cornering felons,
and lust-sowers the world over should re-
flect that God said to the rich man, while
planning barn enlargement for his grow-

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ing wealth: "Thou fool, this night thy
soul shall be required of thee."

The obstinate, faithless, restless, high
power seeders of sin will not be checked in
their nefarious work by prophecies, par-
ables, commandments, sermons, threats
of hell, or the judgment of God, for, like
the biblical fool, they have said in their
hearts "There is no God."

The "sin-freely's" of to-day feign this
belief as a conscience cover.

For appearance only are thousands of
church pews warmed by canting hypo-
crites, who pray by day and sin by night,
and affiliate with some popular satanic
move, as a smoke screen.

These disciples of the pagan school of
matrix scavengers, embryo assassins, ma-
ternity-regulators and farrow-women
breeders, who heed not the command,
1 i Thou shalt not kill ! ' ' constitute a greater
menace to our country than any Bolshe-
vik doctrine which has ever been shaken
from the brain of man by social unrest.

Oh, atheist, if you are sincere, stand
with me before the templed hills, beneath

Sequence 263

the starlit dome, look into that wilderness
of worlds moving on without chance or
change, cast your mortal eye upon the
blinding light and shriveling heat of the
sun, color the pansy with your brush, pro-
duce the scent of the skunk or the musk-
deer, chain the lightning, quell the storm,
control the seasons, calm the raging bil-
lows with your outstretched hand, heal the
sick, give sight to the blind, define life,
annihilate death, destroy a single grain
of sand or add one particle of new matter
to the world's bulk — then proclaim:
" There is no God."

Whether you believe it or not, the fact
remains that the Christian religion is all-
pervading, and for two thousand years it
has buffeted immorality and crime in
every form, and led the willing along the
highway of justice and right. Its ten
conscience whips have been its only laws,
and by and through them to-day, it mor-
ally rules more than a third of the human
race, and the beautiful story of the life of
Christ has l^een told to all of the peoples
of the earth. No race has ever been dis-

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covered which did not believe in a super-
natural being or a God in some form.
Cardinal Gibbons wrote :

Every philosopher and statesman who
has discussed the subject of human gov-
ernments has acknowledged that there can
be no stable society without justice, no
justice without morality, no morality with-
out religion, no religion without God.

The pagan philosopher Plato said :

It is an incontrovertible truth that if
God presides not over the establishment of
a city, and if it has only a human founda-
tion, it cannot escape the greatest calami-
ties. If a State is founded on impiety and
governed by men who trample on justice,
it has no means of security.

Long before Plato lived the same senti-
ment was expressed by the Prophet who
said:

Unless the Lord build the house, they
labor in vain that build it. Unless the
Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain
that keepeth it.

In the Bible, millions of copies of which
are printed annually, scattered univer-

Sequence 265

sally, heedlessly read, if read at all, and
rarely followed, Isaiah, said:

The nation and the kingdom that will
not serve Thee shall perish.

Rousseau, who, though classed by the
scientists as a lunatic, showed rare sense
when he wrote:

Never was a State founded that did not
have religion for its basis.

The Greek writer Xenophon made this
observation :

Those cities and nations which are the
most devoted to divine worship have al-
ways been the most durable and the most
wisely governed, as the most religious
ages have been the most distinguished for
genius.

From the mind of Hume came this
thought :

If you find a people without religion,
rest assured that they do not differ much
from the brute beasts.

Cicero exclaimed:

I know not whether the destruction
of piety toward the gods would not be

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the destruction also of good faith, of hu-
man society, and of the most excellent of
virtues, justice.

Solon of Athens, Lycurgus of Lace-
daemon, and Numa of ancient Rome, built
all social fabrics upon the cornerstone of
religion.

Voltaire said:

It is absolutely necessary for princes
and people that the idea of a Supreme Be-
ing, Creator, Governor, Rewarder and
Avenger, should be deeply engraved on
the mind.

Rome flourished under the religious
policy of Numa. "The vessel of state was
held in the storm by two anchors, religion
and morality."

The great endurance of the Roman re-
public is traced by historians to the nat-
ural virtues exhibited by the people, and
the downfall of Rome is attributed by
Montesquieu to the doctrine of Epicure-
anism, which broke down the barrier of
religion and gave free scope to the sea of
human passions.

Sequence 267

Cardinal Gibbons, in his book on Our
Christian Heritage, makes this observa-
tion:

Toward the close of the last century an
attempt was made by atheists in France
to establish a government on the ruins of
religion, and it is well known how signally
they failed. The Christian Sabbath and
festivals were abolished, and the churches
closed. The only tolerated temple of wor-
ship was the criminal court, from which
justice and mercy were inexorably ban-
ished, and where the judge sat only to con-
demn. The only divinity recognized by
the apostles of anarchy was the goddess
of reason ; their high priests were the exe-
cutioners; the victims for sacrifice were
unoffending citizens; the altar was the
scaffold; their hymns were ribald songs;
and their worship was lust, rapine, and
bloodshed.

They succeeded in a few weeks in de-
molishing the social fabric which had ex-
isted for thirteen centuries, and De-
Lamennais says: "They accumulated
more ruin than an army of Tartars could
have left after a six years' invasion."

The old colonial piety which gripped the
hand of poverty has departed from most

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of the hearts of the now rapidly vanish-
ing, wealthy, low combs of Plymouth
Bock ancestry, whose daily lives are a
gilded lie.

You will always find God with the hon-
est, struggling poor. This fact was rec-
ognized by the signers of our Declaration
of Independence in which they wrote:

And for the support of this declaration,
with a firm reliance on the protection of
Divine Providence, we mutually pledge
to each other our lives, our fortunes, and
our sacred honor.

There are thousands of college-made
atheistic she-bachelors, whose social pass-
port is a shredded ancestry or the gold of
business pilferers, who parade the streets,
picket their enemies, assassinate the repu-
tations of opponents, invade Congress and
lobby state legislatures in furtherance of
schemes to eliminate statutory restrictions
upon their nasty work, and, finally to boss
and direct, from a salaried swivel chair,
the social and sexual acts of humanity.

Prohibition, the mother of crime, the

Sequence 269

hospital's friend, the sower of widows and
orphans, and the patron of crepe and flow-
ers, was bludgeoned through the New
York State Legislature by confronting
members with the record of their past
lives. The state legislatures throughout
the Union when in session, are overrun by
he- and she-uplift rats who carry in their
fur the germs of every conceivable immo-
rality, and whose uplift printing estab-
lishments are filling the homes of this
Christian nation with printed stuff so vile
that the perusal of it would cause a blush
in a house of assignation.

Procreation literature, now widely dis-
seminated, together with anticonception
knowledge, has deadened all fear of mul-
tiplication resulting from sexual contact.

It has bred in the rising generation a
social freedom and moral laxity well il-
lustrated by the following: Recently a
respectable girl of fifteen years of age was
dressing for a public dance without cor-
sets. Her mother told her to put on her
corsets. She declined, saying, "I do not
want to go and be a wall flower. If I

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wear corsets the boys won't dance with

me.'

It is generally understood that the girls
who wear corsets to dances park them
after they get there.

The goddess of virtue slumbers while
the ants of evil build their hills in unsen-
tineled American homes.

The social boll weevil and pink bell
worm are at work in the tender shoots of
youth throughout the land, precipitating
a degenerate race of Cagots, who, ulti-
mately, with our nation, will perish from
the earth.

If the Savior lamented over the morals
of the Jerusalem Jews, He would surely
give them a passport to heaven after
standing on a busy corner of a modern
city for a single hour.

There is a story that the transporting
of Cimabue's " Madonna" through the
streets of Florence, in the old days,
blocked traffic and stopped business. Can
one imagine, even, the enactment of such
a scene in any modern city of the world
to-day? Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey or

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September Morn upon a city street, would
come nearer blocking traffic than any
saint or painted concept that ever walked
the earth or bloomed in the brain of art.

The writer does not feel that the entire
world is sliding into hell, but does believe
that it has a very good start, and that it
is about time for our national and moral
patriots to squirt a little Portland cement
into their spines, and to proceed with
clubs and guns, if necessary, to break up
the spawning places of the he- and she-
scelestic enemies of our race and country.

BRETHREN: "It is high time to awake
out of sleep; for now is our salvation
nearer than when we believed. The night
is far spent, the day is at hand: let us
therefore cast off the works of darkness,
and let us put on the armor of light. Let
us walk honestly, as in the day: not in
rioting and drunkenness, not in chamber-
ing and wantonness, not in strife and en-
vying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus
Christ, and make not provision for the
flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof."

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