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I N ancient Egypt the Apis bull was fanned with a feather ; to-da y hi s stately brother is knocked down with a sledge . J ob skin hi s , to grow a velvety , raked slimy pelt with a potsherd . The surgeon ’s kni fe explores the anat omy o f man and destroys the haunts of u h ni u sk lking life , w ile the pen of ge s , di u pped in the ink of fact , lifts the co nter in pane from the bed of s . Social laxity has never been more ram at pant than the present day, and the cod dl in g methods n ow 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 u hi u the h man ghway, check free , po nding with his steel- rimmed hoofs the pagan methods that have outlived the Christ

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u m It is so ght to environ the home , fa ily, and fireside with precepts that will cleanse the body and la cquer the soul against the ur f in b rowing power o s . Where tear gas is used the subject in u f the j dgment o 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 techn i cal science en

t e re d.

’ While standing on the summit of man s activities and casting hi s eyes across the

world, a lawyer saw the moral dreariness of the children of God and the contempt law il dr for among the ch en of men , hence set out to lash the money changers our from social temples , and the seven l our M devi s from agdalens . Shoul d any reader behold himself in ir of u —or z the m ror tho ght, recogni e any ’ of his sins in the inventory of man s cu iditie s is fl p , it hoped that he will not ame but il l into a passion, w swallow it as he u n is all wo ld physic, o the theory that it PREFACE vii

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

CO N T EN T S

EUGENY

II MATRIM ONY

I I I MATING

I V MATRIM ONIAL BUREAU

MYS TERIES or CONCEPTION AND GE STATION

CONTROL or O FFS PRING STERILIZATION

I NTELLECTUALS GENERALLY UNTEETILE

SOCIETY

SHRINKING PROGENY

E Y E O PENING AT PUBERTY

DIVORCE

MAT RIMO NY MINUS MATERNITY

CHAPTER I

EUGENY

I N lighting up the burrows of the v er min ou the family tree and in locating stains on the social linen of this day and — generation in the words of Garrison : u un I will be as harsh as Tr th, and as u compromising as Justice . On this s bj ect or or I do not wish to think , speak , write ! with moderation . No No ! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm ; tell h im to moderately rescue hi s wife from the hands of the ravisher ; tell the mother t o gradually extricate her babe from the fire into whi ch it has fallen — but urge me not to use moderation in a u co rse like the present . I am in earnest 2 Mat rimon y Min us Mate rn ity — — I will not equivocate I will not excuse — — I will not retreat a single inch an d I ll f i wi be heard . The apathy o the people s 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 hi wors pers at the shrine of Pandora . M - l ual any well meaning , intel ect people , u of fl d ring all the ages , by attery, desire of or for praise , hope renown temporal advancement ; together with many honest seekers of truth with the betterment of u ui man at heart , have la nched their inq si t ori al barks upon moral seas of unknown hs al i dept , conce ing monsters wh ch 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 whi ch the h u man fl ort race may be improved , and the e to give practical effect to those agencies by cons cious and deliberate action in fa f vor o better breeding . E ug en y 3 It has been settled that animal s and vegetation can be improved by the gui d ance o f man . Such interference is f u known to us as the science o e genics . B ut when the sexual progressives under take the application of the barn-yard rules to man, they are confronted with their u of l eq als, and since the laws civi ization accord to men and women alike security in u u l their n ptial selections, sex a scientists , u nwittingly 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 fascin at u ing s bj ect 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” For the in tended purpose they will be as futile as the sanitary laws against spitting or the

Mosaic laws against adul tery and idolatry . They will be in constant conflict with the x innate laws of love , hate , se attraction, an d free will given to man with his first a bre th. 4 M at rimony Min ns Mate rn ity

u Long before St . Patrick b ilt a fire of u ni icicles and d ring the interve ng years , sincere men ascended the mountain of thought and in the haze of its summit un avail ingly struggled with the mystic prob u lems of life . Some have had brass eno gh in their blood to ofl e r amendments to the laws of progeny worked out in the Car f “ O . us den Eden There God said , Let our m our make man in i age , after 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 hi s the image of a monkey, and in day,

strange as it may seem , many Of the lead in i i ut g th nkers worsh ped at his shrine , b t o- day the be st thought rej ects thi s theory

as a scientific folly. i u The an mal called man, now nder con 240 sideration, has bones , skin 1 200 u 98 pores , breaths per ho r , degrees o f 33 u n ers ira heat , o nces of i sensible p p u tion a day, an average brain Of po nds, u 2500 ua of 1 0 abo t sq re inches skin , yards of 46 u t of bowels , q ar s water, and a pas Eug en y 5

i n at u of s o e longing for the da ghters Eve , which has pranced in his blood for sixty u i cent ries , and been calmed by onan sm, u ul b ggery, rape , incest, fornication, ad

t e r . y, and matrimony Man on , which the scientists propose a social operation, infests every part of the i known world . Cl matic and social condi tions have bred in the human famil y a u f an m ltiplicity o distinct races . As an tidote for the mi series of life about four hundred spiritual specifics have been for mul at e d u - by man, which ass re cold stor u ul h age sec rity to the so w ile in the body, and a bed of down after it has gone over the t op . Creeds and superstitions have so burrowed into man that they unalter ably afie ct his habits of life and beliefs u to ching matrimony, monogamy, polyg a ofl s rin amy, const ncy, and p g . Hence by o l common c nsent and in spots on y, can the eugenic scientist ever hope to influence people to statutory mating or regul ated fi rin o sp g . As well attempt to teach Greek to a gorilla as to e ugenize people who believe 6 Mat rimon y Min us Mat e rn ity

that they can save their soul s 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 o f lemon peel over the nerve where the j aw bone j oins the skul l ; 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 t ern ally ; 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 . S u ex al relations never have been, and ll ul never wi be , f ly controlled by man ut made laws . The divine law even has t erly failed to bring to its observance any con siderable portion of the human race .

The propaganda , now abroad in this l fair and , having reached us from other u u - shores , seeking to nb rden woman kind mi u l by dam ng p the materna stream, has found some congenial cente rs in whi ch to Eug eny 7 build its nasty nest and hatch from its l eggs social vipers , physica cripples and midget soul s who will satiate the fires of lust on the armored altar of love and fi l n hi dl na ly si k into a c l ess rottenness , then with no evidence that they have bene fite d ll the world, they may be ca ed to render to God an account of their steward l “ ship and hear the fina words , Depart M ” e u . from , ye c rsed l of u An orderly hand ing E geny, the u u ui s h s bj ect nder consideration, req re t at u it be treated under s bdivisions. CHAPTER II

MA TRIMONY

E! UAL l S re ations , not prefaced by mat rimon y, always have been condemned by

the laws of God and civilized man . As u l u E geny anticipates wedlock, the ev o u tion thereof m st be considered, as well as s the motive that inspire it, in order to determine man ’s power to forecast its

frui t . 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 ” hi n fl unto s wife ; and they shall be o e esh . l This language exc udes polygamy . Evi dently on e man and one woman was the divine plan for compani onship and s

1 0 Matrimony Min us Matern ity con sul t the wife before they j ointly sacri f fice t o th e goddess o love . The relations of the cook Hagar and the Patriarch Abraham furni sh us with the m as first recorded fa ily scandal , well as the earliest instance of the wildness of a wife ’ s j ealousy by whi ch Abe was forced t o drive hi s dark-skinned mi stress of low origin from his bed and board with no l of other heritage than a bott e water, a f o . loaf bread, and a bastard Had Abraham obeyed the promptings of eugenics and continued hopefull y to ob ’ m “ mul serve God s com and, Increase and ” f tiply, the illegitimate progenitor o a — “ great nation whose hand was against ” every man - and from whom Mohammed c u claimed des ent, wo ld have been lost to the world . S on e of G olon, the seven sages of reece ,

t t u B . C. am in the six h cen ry, , chained the bul at ory laws of marriage to a fixed st at

ute . u l The h manity, wisdom, and mora ity ’ fl hi s re ected in t s pagan conception, when compared with our own famil y safe Matrimon y 1 1

ul our u guards , sho d make evol tionary twentieth-century Christians feel as h humble as Job on his as hill . The Solon Law provided : That the bride and bridegroom shall u ui be sh t into a chamber, and eat a q nce together ; an d that the husband of an heiress shall consort with her thrice a u month ; for tho gh there be no children , yet it is an honor and due afie ction which u u u u an h sband o ght to pay to a virt o s , chaste wife ; it takes ofl all petty difie r n ce s l e , and will not permit their ittle u quarrels to proceed to an er ption .

Plutarch says In all other marriages Solon forbade doweries to be given ; the wife was to have u three s its of clothes , a little considerable us stufl ho ehold , and that was all , for he woul d not have marriages contracted for or but u gain an estate , for p re love , kind ff f a ection, and birth o children .

In China a married woman was without u u of respect ntil the ho r her travail , and was particularly honored if sh e brought n to the nation a so . 1 2 M atrimon y Min us Maternity

u u u Happy, says Conf ci s, is the nion with wife and children ; it is like the music ” of lutes and harps . The moral pendul um is constantly swinging from one extreme to the other . of The tendency the idle , passionate ,

St . u u hi s restless rich, like A g stine in u out in yo th, is to try all of the old and u ll vent new sex al thri s . Many of our godl ess weal thy heads of famil ies do not pretend to confine them n u selves to o e household . They look pon as a wife a domestic convenience , the chan nel for an occasional heir and the means of maintaining a hypocritical appearance o f re s t a il it u exterior pe C b y, while co rte sans in queenly apparel walk out from palatial apartments, covertly maintained u by ch rch , financial , and social leaders , u or u re ntil anger, revenge , death, a s icide all of veals their villainies to the world, which evidences a return to pagan prac tices on the part of a startling numbe r of r ou leadi ng men . The sexual fil th that rides the matri monial tide seems to ooze from the mor Matrimon y 1 3

i of ally weakened cond tion men, con stan tly diluted by neglect of the ever will u ing graces abo t them, who spring from their knees at the beck of a coozie ni ggling i on the h ighways of s n . u u J dge Hopkins , of the Chicago Co rt of u Domestic Relations , recently so ght 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 hi m ; 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 . on He said, 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 n n lis died o e by o e . Day after day I tened to nothi ng but the sorrows and f tragedies o married couples . I began to wonder whether any such thing as marital O happiness existed on earth . S I asked as to be transferred . It w a last measure 1 4 M at rimon y Min us Mat e rn ity — 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 j ust as soon as a mar ried woman begins to ease up on the corset i t u str ng of vir e by permitting a man , not own on her , to linger her lips, or to pass to her a cocktail across a rose-shaded table au in a gay rest rant , or seemingly to acci u dentally to ch her amative centers , that moment sh e receives into the parlor of matrimony a guest who may pick the lock o f for S s chastity ; , as hakespeare ays, “ u u u to ches , tho gh gentle , still conq er ” u chastity, and with that conq ered , the of hen matrimony soon begins to brood, u cl ck, and show temper . Connubial restlessness is stimul ated by z vitali ed fiction and photo plays , now used hi to entertain the people , w ch are often u on ni fo nded matrimo al blisters , or the of u webbing females , with s ggestive sen li sua ty as the chief attraction . Any show house management will tell you that it woul d much prefer to place before the Mat rimon y 1 5

but public clean entertainments , that the general condition of society is such that or snappy stories in the magazines , the p ’ t ra al y of woman s downfall on the stage , her emulation of the undraped stat ue in o z dress , and her growing tendency to b o e i and bridge , with an exterior cleanl ness all and an interior moral rottenness, and approved by the hunters of corseted s u of shoat , have forced all so rces enter t ain me n t u u , incl ding show ho ses , hotels u t o l and resta rants , to cater the socia l - u dr swi l h nters , or die of monetary y rot . u u u u u Tho gh cr elly nj st, it is q ite the habit to condemn a lapse in woman in spite of the fact that sh e must breast the of l hi a storm wi d desire wit n , and p rry u the sed ctive , passionate , embracing, heat charged pleadings of the courageous mal e 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 sh e meets in society and works with in busi 1 6 M at rimon y Min us Mate rn ity

or ness , who are forever , openly covertly, te mpting her to adventure along the prim

rose path with them .

u or u wn By wine , c riosity, thro gh her o u wo passionate ntrained heart , many a l i man has been tempted , ke fish, to nibble till hooked . It has been published that a note d l h as c ergyman, who personally explored u the s bways of immorality , asserted that on e -half the husbands and wives of New York are unfaithful to their marriage vows . i i Th s proclamation, com ng from the moral night- soil man of the great metrop u u olis , wo ld lead one to concl de that the human race is gliding down hi ll to hell and e sin u to b lieve in original , and do bt the perseverance o f the saints and even the f chastity o Mary . Much of the carbon whi ch tends to un seat the matrimonial val ves is found in that part of the press of the country whi ch seems t o be will ing to do anyt hing but i be respectable for the alm ghty dollar . With the general news of the day are also

1 8 M at rimon y Minus Mate rn ity n oun cemen ts n flam ; the lyi g, bombastic, boyan t wedding write- up ; followed by Copious extracts from the nastiest por tions of di vorce proceedings ; church no ’ t uff M Pe ices sleeping beside D y s alt, u S i S r na , wamp Root, Tw light leep , Tape worm poisons ; a sermon on the seventh u of commandment, balanced by the pict re a medical degenerate barking h is wares and will ingness to clean sexual sewers for n a nomi al sum. Su u ost A nday edition of the Ho ston P , ul a widely circ ated paper , carried into the homes of its readers the following ad v e rtisemen t of a prominent merchant

’ Our Ladi es Garter Department We can give you an All Silk Garter for 50 cents with nice buckles with such reading on them as “ Private ” un S M Com Gro ds ; top , amma is ” “ ” “ u ing ; Look Q ick ; Good Night , ” “ ” Call Again ; I am a Warm Baby ; “ ” fi ur h n . Take o Yo T i gs, etc

l on u 7 A New York City dai y Febr ary , 1 91 6 u , anno nced that conversation hose a di h o for Palm Be ch dames, splayed by M atrimon y 1 9

ll e ll u t el shops and seen at ba s , t m ch . Some are of hand made lace and cost up to one hundred dollars a pair . One has a l mouse at the skirt line , whi e its mate “ ” u . says , Watch yo r step Another says , “ ” its Delighted, while companion shows a cl ock face with the hands at twelve and “ the words Good Night . 1 5 on e of our On May , Utica papers published this A neighbor told my mother about Lydia ’s u E . Pinkham Vegetable Compo nd and

I took it and now I feel like a new person . I don ’t suffer any more and I am regul ar every month .

If the lucre-loving press continues to la n emb zon fakes , Father Joh may yet be “ ” crown ed King of the Gul let and Lydia “ ” P u of M inkham Q een the atrix . If men and women woul d bow to the u of f ll meaning the wedding ring, the false gods of to -day woul d be cast from l u l t ul their pedesta s , tranq il i y wo d nestle in the lap of matrimony and the horrible effects of ravishing sexual il l s .woul d cease ff f to deface the o spring o man . CHAPTER III

MATING

ATING our u u sub M , in social str ct re , is a j e ct that has been periodically cufie d about since the ancient days of Th e ognis by fluffy intellects and by university men with less practical brain than the angora u on goat, and whom an asinego might t tor the tricks of the mattress and social de

ce it s. Yet these God-forsaken modernists cry out u that mating m st be controlled, if need be , by legislation .

- Only a farding bag brain, where green u u ul u st ff lies ndigested , wo d s ggest, even, such an impossibility . u u u The stat tory strict re c lt , engaged in i - u h gh brow development, wo ld have those ffl a icted with love , with generation in view, submit their family tree and sexu al ma 20 Mating 21

chi nery to a physician and in the sombe r

shadows of doubt await his certificate . Commun ities woul d soon learn that spe cial n examiners , politically appoi ted, and ul n with an itching palm, wo d pass o to the portals of matrimony every lun g Spitter and blood-poisoned applicant that u u co ld pay the price , and wo ld do it with as little qualm as the present professional murderer experiences when he presses the u u of so nd thro gh the door the temple , gen e rall y sealed by illicit contact , and feeds to i f u maggots the embryon c temple o a so l . Y ou cannot legislate virtue into a whole people nor will they long submit to ob

noxious laws . i u Lovers w ll ascend a high mo ntain, if i on need be , to comm t matrimony the

summit . u ad Legislative enactments, s ch as are v ocate d sex by maniacs, with the nasty a u ul provisions for person l expos re, wo d tend to dry the fountain of matrimony and u ’ m ltiply celibates , who , with God s com “ ” u u mand , Increase and m ltiply, reso nd ul l k ing in their ears , wo d, i e the cats, in 22 Matrimon y Min us Mate rn ity

the soothin g still ness 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 i the dreary centuries since . Th s female i - - magnet h gh browed and low browed, in u gorgeo s attire , mean attire , and in no u attire , within the law, witho t the law

and against the law, has always drawn men from every station of life to the lap

of her yearnings . -fil t e rs The social sex who , in book form , spew their mental indigestion upon the of world, seek application the Holstein ’ - u breeder s rules to man . The ten tho sand dollar bull and the fiv e - thousand-dollar cow can be mated and occasionally will u B t increase th e mil k s pply . u how are ou y going to keep the wealthy, social , blood- poisoned scrub out of the nest of

the wayward woman, attractive common u u actress , or the sens al , socially ambitio s female ! Will it ever come to pass that onl y the -in - - dyed the wool type shall bring forth, Mating 23 while the ever oncoming amorous women o f l ow origin shall be denied the thrills l f . u o maternity As a general r e , in every phase of animal life dependent upon coi for ur tion progeny, the amative male p 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 subj ects . S ex u attraction, for mating p rposes ,

among men and women, will forever defy ’ - ul the stock breeder s r es . If mating were practical there is no way to limit the sexual activities to the pair

mated . From the sparrow to the virt uous queen for mating purposes the mal e will be

selected .

For if perch an ce th ey fe el th e amorous flame ’ N ch oice h a e th e —for e er man s t h same 0 v y v y e .

Mate those wh o meet the requirements of a the most esthetic sexologist, and what assurance is there that they will breed at 24 Matrimon y Min us Mat e rn ity ll a , and if they do , how can the mind and physique of the o fl sprin g be defini tely in flu n ce d - rul of e by man made es , in view 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 m ul refor , else they wo d not have been led to conceive that which they cannot bring forth because of the natural barriers that f plug the orifice o generation . The greatest present need is a richer mixture of morality for the engine of love . Myriads of times has virtue been will in gly sacrificed on the altar of ambition for and secretly bartered place and power . Incontinence has led men across lands and u mur seas ; bent them to intrig e, larceny, u der and s icide ; wrecked hearts , homes and thrones ; bred wars ; wiped out na tion al boundaries and many times changed l the map of the wor d .

26 M at rimon y Min us M at e rn ity Start the experimental station where the trial marriage candidates may test w ul their fitness ith no res tant Obligations , and society will soon become about as or rl de y as a harem in hell . I imagine that the matrimon ial trial sta ul u tion wo d soon become very pop lar, and the sh e -pearl of virtue a very cheap article ’ of commerce in the marts o f man s will . u u u J st as soon as the nbelievers , sex al l idolaters , and the moral y torpid men of science succeed in prying the fig leaf from of the goddess chastity, and lifting the u of co nterpane marital constancy, as u ou woven by the Christian Ch rch , y will se e the Syrian cities o f S odom and Go our own morrah revitalized in fair land, our k and men, li e the snail , shall leave behind them a slimy track on whi ch they will have wasted thems elves away. ur Of co se , the great power of the Chris tian world will continue energetically to war upon all devil ish and socially baneful flu i on u in ences , wh ch the s rface seem harmless yet tend to sterilize the moral soil of the human heart and disrupt the Mat rimon ial B ureau 27

t fir social trini y, the home , family, and e

side . Many know how hard it is for morally

inclined men and women, with passion i s n . charged blood, to resist the call to Since virtue carries in her lap her own ” of - order sanctity, and hard working meandering lust warningly burdens her anatomy with nauseating droolin gs an d

- weeping scab capped sores , why, then, should righteous indignation swell into a smothering billow at the approach of an “ — alleged improved sexual doctrine t ask f ur n the disciples o the new school . O a - od- swer is , that well meaning and G fear ing men may stand in the narrow highway of morality and flap their shi rts 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 n uptial e d sen sualists can at will have their ties sun 28 Mat rimon y Min us Mate rn ity 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 son e d ul our ul sho d not add to pop ation, but s to prevent thi , we need not become un u n u l d ly exercised , as at re soon cal s all of home her weaklings . CHAPTER V

MYSTERIE S OF C ONCEPTI ON AND GES TA TI ON

VOTARrEs of a controlled and more per fe ct ofl s rin h ow p g , tell me it happened that the blear- eyed Leah and fair Rachel f r came from the same shell . Account o au the velvety Jacob and the shaggy Es , twin sons of Isaac the Patriarch and f Rebekah the Venus o Israel . Gestation is subject to so many mysteri ous influences that every child is carried n to birth with fear a d trembling . The l of u to f aws nat re y with the powers o man . u k of u B Lo is II , ing H ngary and o b i u em a , was born witho t a scarfskin .

. of l Dr Harvey, the father the princip e of ul blood circ ation, is said to have be lie v e d in and written of a race of men with tails . of The kings Denmark have descended, 29 30 M at rimon y Min us Mat e rn ity

sa Ulfo as some y, from one , the son of a

bear . In the family of Lepidus at Rome there u but i were three , not s ccessively, by nter

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 so a lance , and children not marked il were looked upon as legitimate . hi s on Galen, in treatise the measles, says the disease was brought by a woman

who had no father . of Lord Bacon , treating the period of of u a gestation vario s animals, s ys gravely x t w h u that an o goes elve mont s with yo ng . Livy speaks of a woman brought t o bed sh e in a desolate island, where had not seen

a human face for nine years . Diodorus Sicul us mentions a sorce ress of Egypt who had passed for the ce le brate d u of i Isis , pon the strength ch ld

bearing without the aid of man . It is recorded that whil e a princess was watchin g skil lful Egyptian craftsmen cut of P ting down the Persea trees haraoh, Mysteries of Con ception an d Gestation 31

i fl u hi h a ch p ew into her mo th, w ch s e l sh e swa lowed, and after many days bore

a son . ’ In Robinson s R eadings in European Hist or u y, it is recorded that d ring the u cr sades a woman, after two years of ges t ti n u son a o , bro ght forth a who was able to talk at birth ; and that a child with a u se t of t wo do ble limbs , another with w - heads , and t in 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 u but sh e interco rse with his father , that had been strangely infl uenced on e even

ing whil e walking in the garden . We can all understand the doctrine of animal ap e ten c n ot aflin itie p y, if of the chemical s

controlling these strange births . Before mi u u u a ad tting the mirac lo s , I s ggest th t these mystifying instances of nativity may have followed pious or patriotic coz n in e g . ’ l a hi s a Samson s strength y in h ir, 32 M at rimon y Min us Mate rn ity

may be thus concealed on the suggestion of the angel who apprised hi s barren f mother o her approaching fertility . No disciple of eugeny woul d recommend a J ob m ting with the scabby , 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 S miniature painter . Ann heppard was u M the court dwarf to Q een Henrietta aria . These mites were happily married and broke an established opinion that dwarfs u ni do not reprod ce , by having ne chil of u dren , five whom lived to mat rity and were of ordinary stature . Professor Preyer in 1 859 says that a u mamm e occ rred on the back , in the arm on e on pit , and the thigh ; the mamm e the last place having given so much milk that

the child was nourished . u u u u ui To proc re f t re h sbands, s table to di of the altered con tions society, cross with Lemurs some of whom are well known to have two pairs of mammae on

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museums and side-shows wil l be mul ti li d p e . If the eugenists woul d seriously address of i themselves to the correction these ev ls ,

they woul d be most welcome in our mids t . S ex-control by feeding was on e of the fads of some of the burnished intel lects of the past who occasionally sug t ut re scri gested to the Almigh y, b the p p of di u tion a proteid et to prod ce males , a fatty diet for females , has been relegated t o of u u the realm q ackery, tho gh it was the Opinion of the great Verul am that when mothers ate qui nces and coriander seed the children woul d be witty. Plutarch on this subject says :

We find that women who take ph ysio l il whi st they are with ch d , bear leaner and smaller but better shaped and prettier il ch dren .

It has been announced by the Child Wel u fare Association of Pittsb rgh , that beer and bologna are two of the causes of the crescent-shaped underpinning of ch ildren in that city . Mysteries of Con ception an d Gestation 35

It has also been observed by close stu dents that black hens sometimes l ay white eggs . It is claimed tha t Jacob spotted the off ’ spring Of Laban s sheep and goats by the u f timely se o mottled sticks .

In a book written by a Christian bishop , Heliodorus u u u , in abo t the fo rth cent ry, “ it is stated that Ch aricl e a was a beautiful i and fair virgin of Eth opian 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 U in a shed . pon seeing them , the wife who was then pregn ant was so moved and shocked as to afie ct the child in such a manner that he was born without any arms an d with distorted feet , and for pastime , u u l when a yo th , he dextero sly hand ed a ’ cooper s shaving knife with his toes . ’ Haddi n t on s P ms In g oe , there is a case called the Black Case , concerning which the story recites 36 M at rimon y Minus Mat e rnity There was a man who followed the pro fe ssion of an attorney, , who had a very u amorous wife . B t he had not leisure to

attend to all of her gayeties . Once , that he was unable otherwise to free hims elf from u her import nities , in toying with her, he u hi s - h e pset ink bottle in her shoe . S u him u bro ght a black child in conseq ence . but sh e He reproached her , reminded him f - o . the ink bottle , and of his awkwardness

Into families of normal children a giant

or dwarf occasionally drops .

Among the noted dwarfs , the earliest f 330 u o B . C. mentioned was Philet s Cos , , u a poet and grammarian, and t tor to T Ptolemy Philadelphus . o resist the

hi s . wind, it is said , clothes were weighted ul u u u J ia , a niece of A g st s , had as a u Coro as co rt favorite p , who was twenty

eight inches high , also Andromeda , a freed f maid o the same height . Al ius of l yp A exandria , logician and

philosopher, was seventeen inches in

height . ’ d Estrix M hli of John , of ec n, master several languages and about three feet Myste ries of Con ception an d Gestation 37

u of P tall , lived with the D ke arma in

1 592.

fir u u Ge o ey H dson, as a social st nt, was served up in a cold pie by the Duchess of Buckingham before Charles I and Henri

etta Maria . He was then eighteen inches il u l 1 6 53 . ta l , and in he k led a man in a d el Count B orowl aski was an accomplished

- i . Pole , th rty nine inches in height “ S . S or l Charles tratton, Genera Tom ” u of u Con Th mb, Barn m fame , was a n cticut - e Yankee , thirty one inches high , wh o a i married L vina Warren, one nch u taller . Their wedding to r covered parts “ ” u . u of E rope Th mb, wife and child, u with a dwarf, Commodore N tt, revisited 1 8 England in 6 4.

- Mr . Collard at t wenty t wo years of age ” “ u was smaller than Th mb, and sang in 1 8 3 concerts in London in 7 . “ ” f ni u Bebe , the dwarf o King Sta sla s

- of Poland, was twenty three inches tall, and in 1 858 at ninety years of age he di ed P in aris . - l t -fi Che mah, a pigtai , twen y v e inches 1 880 high, was exhibited in London in . 38 Mat rimon y Min us Mate rn ity

Princess Topaze , a French lady, was twenty inches hi gh and weighed fifteen pounds . M t m General i e , an Irish an, was born in 1 New York State in 86 4. His height was - ni u t wenty one inches and weight ne po nds . u Z M i L cia arate , a ex can, was twenty inches hi gh and weighed four and three fourths poun ds . Th e following women never had to look up to any neighboring male z L ska us l Eli abeth y , a R sian ady, who of six at the age twelve stood feet eight . S t Anna Haven wann , of Nova Sco ia, was seven feet in the cl ear . M “ u arian , the Amazon Q een, eight feet two in her shoes . Among men specially noted for their u Mar skin capacity was the Kent ckian, u l tin Van B ren Bates, with seven ineal hi feet to s credit . “ N G Robert Hales , the orfolk iant, was seven feet six and weighed four h un

- dred fifty two pounds .

M . Brice was the same height . h - - ll C ang Woo Gaw, eight feet ta , ex Myst erie s of Con ception an d Gestation 39 hibite d 1 880 Sam in London in ; and Big , porter of Prince of Wales ( George IV! ll of was also eight feet ; and Gi y Tyrol , n was about eight feet o e . Frederick

Swede, of Sweden, and Charles Byrne were each eight feet four . When you go ’ abroad call on Byrne s skeleton in the of u Museum of the Royal College S rgeons . “ ” Patrick Cotter, the Irish Giant, was 1 76 1 u born in , meas red eight feet seven, and wore a shoe seventeen inches long . ink lmaie r of u Joseph W e , A stria, had hi eight feet to s credi t . “ n M Joh iddleton, the English Giant, of was nine feet three , and from the heel his hand to the tip of his middl e finger was seventeen inches . al ara u C b , the Arabian, bro ght to Rome in the days of Claudius is said by Pliny t o have measured nine feet and nine inches . Emperor Maximus was nearly nine feet and of vast bulk . u Goliath of Gath, who was bro ght to “ six u earth by the stone of David, was c ” bits and a span . 40 Matrimon y Min us Mat e rn ity

1 451 O of B . C. ac g , King Bashan, in , di u cor ng to De teronomy, had a bed nine u u cubits long and fo r c bits wide . u Peter, the Wild Boy, was capt red by George I of England while hunting in the u forest . He was abo t thirteen years of on age , walked his hands and feet , climbed i u on trees l ke a sq irrel , and fed grass and moss which he preferred to the fare of the ’ king s table . He never learned to speak f a single word, and died at the age o sev n e ty years . “ Jim S Baby imons, a negro , who at the age of thirty- seven died in Ph il adel 1 91 7 u phia in , weighed eight h ndred hi s pounds . To take 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 M u M law wife at ilwa kee , Wisconsin, arch

The Siamese twins were united at the breast bone by a cartilaginous hose i u through wh ch the umbilic s passed . They

CHAPTER VI

C ONTROL OF OFFSPRING

l UNL ESS you restrain the amative ma e ,

f i n . o fspring, defin tely, ca not be controlled It must be apparent to even the fitful browser along the highway of human ac tiv itie s , that men in every social station il always have been, and always w l be , u sex al rovers . Death by fire for adultery did not deter u - the intrig ing, twin bearing Thamar from kid-bargain ing with willing King Judah

at the crossroads . The death penalty for adul tery fail ed to restrain the Jews ; and on e thousand blows for the man and the l oss of the nose of the woman scarcely

dented the practice in Egyp t . Maternal instinct so dominated the re ’ pulsive Leah that sh e swopped her son s mandrakes with the fair Rachel for the loan of Jacob for a single night . 42 Con trol of Ofispring 43

Pharaoh impounded the Winsome Sarah whil e touring Egypt with her husband . Prince Sh e ckem deflowered the unwill ing Dinah ; and the sexual scent of Reuben ’ led him to his father s concubine . N0 student of anatomy ever ended a more bedraggled career tha n the j aw-bone u warrior Samson . At Timnath his geni s subdued an ogling Philistine ; and at Gaza he attracted another filly . He fell at the u f feet of Delilah , the bewildering bea ty o the valley of Sorek . This trained and se du tiv e u of t ortion his c q een nectared lips , n so fre soothed his massive a atomy, and quently tempted his aphrodisiacal yearn ings that exhausted nature finally yielded her secret . One moonlit z ephyr-kissed night rest u al less David so ght the p ace roof . His ’ trained eye fell upon Uriah S wife laving of u for the homecoming her spo se . An unh oly fire burned in h is soul till his mes n r fi se g e s brought her to him . Soon tful u sl mber mantled the great king, who when he awoke sought a cinder pile on whi ch 44 Matrimon y Min us Mate rn ity he moaned and atoned for hi s undying sins . Psammetich us The Egyptian kings , I of and Rameses II , the Pharaoh the Is raelite oppression, following the example ill u u a of their strio s gods , m rried their own daughters . d The A ch aemidi an kings di the same, of and Artaxerxes , king Persia , also mar ried two of hi s own daughters . The handmaids of Leah and Rachel gave

Jacob four stray sons . son of n Amnon, the David, feigni g Sick hi s i ness, converted chamber nto a bakery, induced hi s beautiful Sister Tamar to take charge , then raped the baker . S of u olomon, the owl the h man race , hooted over the greatest harem that it has ever been the misfort une of a Single t man o assemble . He loved many strange

u of women, together with the da ghters of M Pharaoh, women the oabites , Ammon S i ites , Edomites , idon ans , and Hittites . u “ l A tho sand women called him S o .

The hoary elders of the people, with Control oi Offspring 45

ull Sus cockerel energy, chased the p et anna

through the fence of her garden . u i or The Romans , witho t r me reason, seized the Sabine women and bore them

away on the pinions of lust . Philinn a the dancer gave Philip of

Macedon a male degenerate . The posthumous son of Roxanna came

from the loins of Alexander the Great . u Nero m rdered his mother, divorced mi a Octavia , married his stress Popp ea , a woman of surpassing beauty and of broad u wh o ul sex al training , shod her m es with gold and daily bathed in the milk of five u i h ndred asses , and went to etern ty on ’ for the toe of Nero s boot , a penalty

thoughtless gestation . Mundus profie re d the winsome Paulina two hundred thousand drachmae to sup h im f r and lie with o a single night . The sexual savagery of Tarqui n ius rendered the saintly Lucretia unconscious u and ind ced sui cide . After the angel Gabriel dropped a chap ter of the Koran exhorting Mohammed freely to enj oy his captives and concn 46 Matrimon y Min us Mate rn ity

’ bines in spite of his wives clamors, in a for i solitary retreat th rty days , he honey mooned with Mary to fulfil l the command u of the angel . In his sex al peregrinations the cradl e and the tomb alone escaped u him . His n ptials with Ayesha were con

summated at the close of her ninth year . He woul d have been equal to the thirteenth f labor o the Grecian Hercul es . “ 1 425 In Ferrara , in a Princess was ” beheaded for adul tery with a stepson . u 1 459 When Pi s II came to Ferrara , in , he was received by seven prin ces not on e f n o whom was a legitimate so . Giamfaol o Baglione lived in incest with

his Sister . ZEn a u Pic al min i hi s hi e s Sylvi s c o , in s “ of : M of tory Frederick III , says ost the rulers of Italy in the fifteenth century f were born out o wedl ock . Francesco Cenci was a Roman nobl e man who persecuted his beautiful daugh h ter Beatrice until s e yielded her person , and for which unnatural crime hired assassins drove a nail into hi s head S ep 9 1 59 tember , 9. Con trol of Offspring 47

of u Casimir, King Poland, whose q een was an intolerable shrew, took the beauti ful ewe ss Esther, a J , to fill an aching void . Her influence with the King secured an enduring toleration for her people an d the education of her two illicit daughters as

Jewe sse s. Abrot on on u of n , pro d her bastard so , exclaimed

I am n ot of th e n ob e re cian race l G , I am oor Abrot on on an r p , d b o n in Th race Let th e ree wome n scorn me if th e ease G k , y pl , I was th e moth e r of Th emist oc es l .

The passions of C aesar broke the chains of restraint when his eyes beheld the unrugged Cleopatra ; and Antony forgot his Octavia when this pile of voluptuous lust amidst bewil dering oriental odors beckoned him t o her boat on the river n S cyd us. M z a eppa, immortalized by Byron, and hl u be lavis y endowed by nat re , pranced of fore the alert Theresa , the wife the u i richest co nt in Poland , and th rty years n u his j uni or . A Spreading chest t tree soon drooped from the heat of these pant 48 Matrimon y Min us Maternity in g lovers and while Maz eppa was claiming

A n d yet I fin d n o words t o t ell Th e sh a e of h er I ov e so we p l ll ,

’ the count s guards seized and bound him to the wil dest horse that ever kicked sand

on . a desert With nostrils shooting fire , u he Split the winds , leaped the mo ntains , ll spanned the plains, ti he dropped with hi s burden

oun d n a e d b ee din an d a on e B , k , l g l T ass th e r t o a h ron o p e d se t t e . Peter the Great was attracted by a ’ u mi peasant s da ghter, while the stress of a prince . “ ” - u u The Grey eyed Q een G inevere , Ar u wife of King th r, and of ravishing u Sir bea ty, shared her charms with Lancelot du Lac and graced the free-l ove f altars o other seductive males . ’ Jul ius Caesar at his aunt s funeral said

My aun t 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 famil y trace their

50 Mat rimon y Min us Mat e rnity

stance o f her enraged uncle . They Sleep side by side and their graves are fro quently watered by pitying and pensive lovers . For Several years Voltaire basked in the sensual sunshine of Madame du u Chatelet, noted for her bea ty, talent , and immoralities . M u irabea , French orator and states in 1 776 man, left his wife and eloped with u for hi an advent ress , w ch he was con demn e d to death but released after four years in prison . Descartes al ways was attracted by women with a squint because hi s first

- mistress was cock eyed . Goethe loved eight difl e ren t women of u vario s ranks, among them a married one , and fin ally the low- born fascinating Vul pius shared his bed as a mistress . Charles II o f England sighed for the orange girl and actress Nell Gwynne , whose bastard son by him was made Duk e f “ ’ i o St . Albans . Don t let poor Nell e ” a hi u st rve , were the last words of t s sex al rover . Control of Offspring 51

Mrs. a Mary Robinson, the actress , t tracted the attention of George IV of mi England and became his stress . u of Fair Rosamond, the da ghter Lord f u f Clif ord, was the paramo r o Henry II . Sh e dwelt in a secret bower known onl y hi to the king, w ch he reached by following

a silken thread . Edward III of England quarreled with his parliament and saw publi c dis content sap the loyalty of his subj ects while he wallowed in the sensual mire of P rr r his rapacious mistress Alice e e s.

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 con t empora u - ries in sex al energy, blood letting and - u i nuptial b st ng . of Emma Hamilton, the wife a tottering on ambassador, at Naples , fell the breast of Lord Nelson in a paroxysm of hyste ri u h f cal rapt re . S e was a woman o extreme e u u c b a ty, sex al ardor, shady ante edents, 52 Matrimon y Min us Mate rn ity

the mother of two strays by a navy cap

tain and of on e by Nelson . ’ u u John Howard , England s q eer, q aint, u u man delicate , and st dio s , who reformed of the prisons the world, died while administering medicines to the poor u wretches in R ssian hospitals , and whose

memory is preserved by every nation, at the age of twenty married a lodging-house

keeper hi s senior by thirty years . S helley, the English poet, married an ’ u M innkeeper s da ghter, eloped with iss

Westbrook, and later married her, soon ’ on f h is left her, and hearing o first wife s ui M s cide , married ary Godwin with whom

- he was globe trotting at the time . Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria matched Hercul es in j udging amative

petticoat tenants . The actress Katharina Schratt wil l umbra his memory so long hi as story endures . ’ O h a u u The S e rose bro ght to her co ch, u an d t to the divorce co rt , to dishonor , o l an early tomb, the great, si ent Parnell . - of P u u An ex king ort gal , now red ced t o rabbit-raising on a ten acre l ot in Eng Con trol of Offsprin g 53 l u and, lost his throne thro gh startling ao dissipations, and princely gifts to an tress . u hi s John Rolfe , n ptially mixed blood u an d m with the sq aw, Pocahontas , fro this mongrel fountain the Randolphs and many of the first families of Virginia

claim descent . fi mi of John C . Fremont, the rst no nee u for the Rep blican party the Presidency,

z and Governor of Ari ona , eloped with the fifte en -year-Old daughter of Senator Ben

ton . f Croker, o Tammany fame , crossed the

Shamrock with an aboriginal feather . The Beecher- Tilton mutual yearnings is onl y an in stance of the growing number of a cleric l lapses .

Now of St . u comes a minister Lo is , u mi son of grad ate of a theological se nary, u m a disting ished clergy an, eloping with , - -old n e and marrying , an eighteen year “ l : gress , and still no great poet ye ls Oh, ” u wicke d ! Freedom, tho dream Pontano plainly suggests that a wife 54 M at rimon y Min us Mat e rn ity had better shut her eyes to the relations bet ween her husband and her maids . As further evidence that offspring l Mr. : cannot be controlled, E lis asserts It has been found that of nearly r u Ma women, who passed th o gh g 2500 dalen Homes in England, over were

- definitely feeble mi nded . The women b e longing to thi s feeble -minded group were known to have added 1 000 illegitimate ul children to the pop ation . If bastardy is evidence of low mental ’ ity, then weaklings among England s females are as num erous as Mosaic lo cust s for u , the p blic press has recently estimated that ill egitimates is the net result of women frequenting the i f train ng camps o the soldiers . t u u ni If there is vir e in e ge cs, then there is hope for England in this large u u - sp rio s increase , as these low brows were mated with the best fighting blood fl of and physical ower the Empire . Some of these chil dren of love may yet straddle the woolsack in the House of

Lords . Con trol of Offspring 55 While common bastards are barred a u from the t bles of royalty, I do not nder stand that they are excluded from the trenches of the warring nations . i of In his h story the Popes , Pastor says in 1 490 there were 6 800 prostitutes in

Rome , and that in Venice in the beginning of the sixteenth century there were not less than publicly immoral wo men in a popul ation of ’ - u England s man made religion , fo nded u u by a sens alist, has finally prod ced a ma t e rialistic people comparable with the — Jewish Sepul cher fair without but foul — within whose genital wanderings pe n um r e fl ort s of b a the best pagan Rome . Shed the light of your own experience upon the question of regul ating mating ll and controlling the mated , and it wi at

once appear to be a scientific folly . These human frailties are not disclosed and collated for pastime but rather in support of on e phase of a very far-reach ing subject which has engaged the atten tion of men for many centuries and was ably analyz ed by the Grecian poet Theog 56 Matrimon y Minus Mat ern ity

dv an 550 . w a B . C sa nis in , who clearly the tage of applied selection as well as the u of fl r r f tility the e o t . He thus w ote

Wit h in e an d h orses Kurn us ! we rocee d k , p B re ason ab e ru e s an d ch oose a bree d y l l , For rofit an d in r ase a an rice p c e , t y p ; Of a soun d s oc wit h ou d fe c or i t t e t ce . k, v But in t h e dai mat ch e s th at we ma e , ly k , ’ Th e price is ev erythin g ; for mon ey s sake Me n marry : women are in marriag e giv en Th e ch ur or rujh an t h at in we alt h h as t h ri en l v , May mat ch h is ofl sprin g with t h e proudest race ; ’ Th us e v er thin is mix d n ob e an d base ! y g , l If h n in ward man n er form an d mi n d t e out , , Y ou fin d us a de rade d mot e in d g , l y k , Won der n o more m frien d ! t h e cause is ain , y pl , An men t h e con se uen ce is ain d to la t q v .

5 8 M atrimon y Min us Mate rn ity

i u being . Its ntensity depends pon the strength of the being harboring it and the degree of provocative stimul ant which un chains its fury . If a surgical switch had been put in ’ Cain s seminal railway because he origi n ate d fratricide, then Jabal , the father o f tent- dwellers and cattle- herders ; and u of or J bal , the progenitor harpists and ani sts u u of g , and T bal Cain , the instr ctor rtifi rs ul a ce in brass and iron, all wo d have taken the switch and still be lyin g in the wreckage by the roadside of anthropologic ll fo y . The votaries of a perfect race woul d knock on the head all such defectives as were denied holy orders by the Mosaic law n i di for gover ng can dates the priesthood, whi ch provided that

Whatsoever man he be that hath a mi ble sh, he Shall not approach ; a blind a or flat man, or a l me , he that hath a nose , or i u flu u or anyth ng s per o s , a man that is brokenfooted , or brokenhanded or bone or or headed, crookbackt , or a dwarf, mi hi s or be that hath a ble sh in eye , S te rilization 59

u or hi s sc rvy, scabbed, or hath stones ni O fie r broken, shall not come gh to the bread of the Lord .

Until the wild men of science can tell us why it is that perfect eyes, cock eyes , ui sq nt eyes , watch eyes , sore eyes ; pert cars ul fl ears , lopped ears , no , ca i ower u ears ; well formed, h mpbacked ; knock u knees , bow legs , cl mp feet ; high brows , low brows ; straight noses , convex noses , flat u concave noses , noses , sn b noses ; black u u hair, golden hair, a b rn hair , red hair , u i straight hair , c rly hair ; diotic, deaf, u z d mb , blind , epileptic, bright, sane , cra y, u u large , small , powerf l , weak, th gs , hi u n t eves , freaks , m rderers , si ners , devils , and saints may gestate in the same womb , they had better roll the edge on the steril i iz at on knife . The following stars in the intellectual firmamen t have been scientifically classed - fl as semi insane ; hence , if now in the esh, u u u wo ld be proper s bj ects for the s rgery . é N G rard de erval , political writer and u poet, from his yo th was a mystic, a 6 0 M at rimon y Minus Mate rn ity

ul ul believer in the occ t, a noctamb ist , i drinker , nomad, bohem an, and the most u u hi s precocio s yo th of time , who dragged a live lobster at the end o f a blue ribbon about the Palais Royal and hung himself

in a brothel , probably with a garter of the

Queen of Sheba . u The gifted Ba delaire , whose writings

were deodorized by the police , exclaimed “ My soul soars upon perfumes as the ” soul s of other men soar upon music . Only the stench of putrefaction gave him

olfactory delight . Before his death he dyed hi s hair green and took a strangle n -in - hold o his father law .

Tolstoy, at eight years of age , was w l fl hi seized with a i d desire to y. From s window sill he beat the air with hi s fe ath e rl ess wings and a fall of sixt een feet physically unfitte d him if it di d not con vince h im of the futility of an early re f fi r newal o the e o t . He reasoned that a man accustomed t o pain could never be u un hi nhappy ; hence , to bring s light into s somber life he would hold a large di c tionary upon hi s outstretched arm for fiv e S t e rilization 6 1

r ul u minutes , o in the barn wo d sco rge his back with a rope till the tears came to his u eyes . Beca se of these eccentricities it is claimed that thi s noted Russian novelist

- u was semi insane . This geni s 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 . hi s Pascal , before the close of first year , nearly died of languor charged t o the in fluen ce of a sorceress who consented to hi s relief by casting the spell upon a cat which was thrown from a window and killed by

. u u the fall To complete his c re , at abo t of the age seven years , there were gath u ered by the sorceress , before s nrise , nine leaves of three di fferent kinds of herbs whi ch were worked into a poultice and u ’ placed pon the child s stomach . From childhood he coul d not endure the sight of water without falling into a fit of ul passion, nor co d he bear to see his father and mother together . From his eighteenth year he never spent a painless day . Partial paralysis l ll below the waist, with inabi ity to swa ow 6 2 M at rimon y Min us Mate rn ity liqui d except hot and then onl y on e drop

at a time, together with volcanic head u aches , incessant heart b rn, and many lesser comforting ill s for all of whi ch u him Descartes bled, bathed, and p rged till his life was endangered . He wrote out a vision of a runaway and sewed it in hi s u clothes, and ever wore aro nd his body an iron girdl e set with sharp points which he woul d press into hi s flesh on the approach of temptation or broken hi thoughts . Towards the close Of s life at times he lost his speech and conscious ness and was affli cted with vertigo and convul sions . An autopsy disclosed cavi fil r fi i ties led with put e e d blood . The med frontal suture still open was regarded by most anthropologists as a mark of mental u ‘ hi s periority . The great Size of s brain led the physicians to believe that it pre vented the frontal suture from closing . He came into the world without an ce s tral taint and was sired by a man of high character and pronounced capacity . In u u of prof ndity of tho ght, grace expres di fla in sion, wisdom of ction, y g irony, and S t e rilization 6 3

u out keenness of thr st , he Stands as the central figure in the great galaxy of intel lectual luminaries that France has given to the world . Wh at surgically trained Ishmaelite shall say that the fountains of this mighty genius shoul d have been dried by steriliza ul tion, or that he sho d have been allowed hil u hi fi to die , w e in a decline , d ring s rst year ! u of z The m ckers science place Mo art , the beacon light of harmony, among the semi -insane because at the age of ten he ul fle e u ur wo d from a tr mpet, and if p

u u . s ed , wo ld hide We have all heard buglers capabl e of u s fur aro sing the microbe of in anity . A 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 1 79 works and died at

- the age of thirty fiv e years . His operas D on n n T i F ut n Giov a i, h e Mag c l e a d Fig aro will endure until the harmony of 64 M at rimon y Min us Mat e rn ity the world shall be thrown into chaos by u u the b gle call to j dgment . Thi s bulging n u ge i s played the harpsichord at three , u composed concertos at five , and cond cted a concert tour at six. He flashed his u u fi R e uie m dying so l into an n nished q , which remains a noble monument to his

- poverty hampered genius . No friendly w hi n eye sa s remai s covered . His wife hi coul d not find s grave . Vienna let him starve but finally erected a beautiful u monument pon his empty stomach . Beethoven Stood five feet five inches i u h gh, very broad and strongly b ilt , with i large head th ckly coated with black hair,

ul . with dark, very bright, pec iar eyes His father was of a tempestuous temper and led an Irregul ar life and sang tenor in a

- band for twenty fiv e pounds a year . His mother was so ordinary that sh e has been sa referred to as of no account . They y 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 n otic

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epileptic . The evidence against him seems to be tha t he held the garments of the n assassins of St . Stephen ; o the road to Damascus a Heavenly light clothed him for r u and th ee days he was witho t food, drink or sight ; he escaped from the walls u l of Damasc s in a basket ; co lided with St . Peter at Antioch ; failed in his defense before Agrippa by appealin g to Caesar ; talked himself into many j ails ; frequently wrote epistles to strange peoples that were never answered ; had a mania for tramp i fla in ing, preach ng, y g hypocrites, rib

roasting the Jews , and a very marked carelessness in the use of langua ge when u —all of cul deno ncing sinners , which mi n at e d in hi s arrest and led to hi s e xe cu tion by Nero as a felon . son of u Rossini , the a town tr mpeter u u and inspector of sla ghter ho ses , stands at the head of Italian composers for the hi stage . In Vienna s music and attractive personality raised a wave of popul arity which swept everythi ng before it . Paris gave him such a cordial reception and storm of applause that he resolved again S te rilization 6 7

to se e her vivacious an d appreciative peo i ple . The k ng and aristocracy of England with open arms extended to him a most

generous welcome . In nineteen years he -six William Te ll wrote thirty operas , and

is the on e most likely to endure . He is classed among the irrational and hi s mem r u o y blackened beca se at times he wept, despaired, complained of cold hands and sleeplessness ; and because he once said : “ mi of I feel all the series a woman , the l ” on y thing that I lack is a uterus . Edgar Allen Poe is classed as a psychic u dr degenerate beca se he ank like a savage , u ul u had deliri m tremens , wo d drink liq or u or u u witho t water s gar, and g lp it down without tasting it ; that hi s life was on e so dark b , and that the paralyzing terror of hi hi in all s stories evidenced s madness . “ ” “ ll ” “ The Raven, The Be s , The City ” “ Se a in the , and Lenore , are not strag fl hi gling poetic owers, w ch, by chance , sprang up in the crevices of a whisky cracked brain . Only Emerson and Lowell hi contest s poetical primacy . Edwin “ Markham says of him that he is the most 6 8 Matrimon y Min us M ate rnity

tragic figure in our literary history and the figure that casts from our shores the

longest shadow across the world . He was sad a great intellect and a heart . I woul d 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 anthr opologists who h ave delved in the frailties of man since frogs ’ u leaped into Pharaoh s so p . In death his lips moved for the last time upon these “ : sanctifying words Lord, save my poor ” soul ! The critics of this imm ortal genius in hi m prose and verse , compared with , are “ as mud-balls stuck on the radi ant front ” of the rainbow . of ma Frederick II Ger ny, at the age of i eighteen, wrested the mperial crown from Otto IV ; spoke sev en languages and was on e of the first to write Italian poems he was a patron of the arts and a diligent I n t ll student of national science . e e ctu ally he was perhaps the most enl ightened man of hi s age ; still he is classed as semi insane because he had such a dislike for S t e rilization 6 9 changing his coat that he did not have r hi more than two o three during s life . The following noted men have been shadowed mentally by scientific cynics who never se e a good quality in a man and never fail to se e a bad one : u Schiller, beca se when meditating he woul d put hi s feet on ice and sniffed the of i aroma decaying apples , wh ch he kept in his bureau drawer for that pur

pose . Paisiello coul d not compose unl ess he was wrapped in six blankets in the sum in mer and nine the winter . Byron had an attack of convul sions when he heard Kean recite , and some times imagined that a ghost visited him . Darwin seems to have suffered from u u n serio s chronic ne rasthenia , and at o e

- time from monkey mania . Chopin ’s affliction was extreme ner v ousn e ss hi so him , w ch affected that the fl merest tri e , the wrinkle in a rose leaf, or the shadow of a fly woul d make him bleed . Van Helmot had th e aid of a spirit in 70 Matrimon y Minus Mat ernity

all important matters and looked upon

his own soul as a resplendent crystal . Richard Wagner was a degenerate b e u ca se his writings show incoherence , fl of ight ideas, and a tendency towards

Silly puns . Berlioz failed to coordinate mentally hi s u a hi s and kicked g it r , then grabbed pistol to end all because his thoughts u failed to flow freely. Intestinal ne ral gia wore him down and epileptic con v ul sions preceded his death . Lombroso says that the list of great men who have ended their lives is inter mi nable , and he classes as epileptics M of oliere , called by Voltaire the father u u a French comedy ; J li s C esar, the greatest l of hi s mi itary commander time , peerless t u as a politician and sta esman , and virt ally the founder of the Roman Empire ; w u of Petrarch, cro ned poet la reate Italy in the capitol in Rome and died Sitting ul 1 8 1 374 e among his books J y , ; Pet r the f u u o St . Great , Czar R ssia , who fo nded u hi s m Petersb rg on a bog, married istress , changed the manners of the Russians and S terilization 71

fill h r l u ed t ei ives with ind stry, and when drunk with wine would strike ofl twenty heads in succession to Show his dexterity with the sword . u Napoleon, whose geni s shook the earth, suffered from an habitual twitching of the ul f right sho der and o the lips . He be liev e d in presentiments and horoscopes , credited sorcerers who promised good for u t ne , despaired when he broke a mirror, was superstitious about Friday and the u 1 3 l m h n mber , and the etter e considered fatal . hi s - Grasset, in work on the semi insane, demi ou classes Newton as a f , which in “ popul arized English means a damn ” l hi s foo , and that he became insane in

Old age , the evidence being that he dcliv u h is ered fantastic lect res , clenched fists fi ll while driving, de ed Vi ars and chal l t o u t enged him fight, wrote obsc re let ers , e b came melancholic, had been absent all hi s ll u minded of life , and that the i stri ous astronomer sufiere d from dementia in

1 6 94.

N t f t u l hil oso ew on, the greatest o na ra p 72 M atrimon y Min us M ate rn ity

h e rs 1 6 42 of Ga p , was born in , the year lil ’ u M e o s death . He s cceeded to the athe matical Professorship of Trinity Coll ege and delivered a course of Optical lect ures

- in Latin at the ag e of twenty fiv e years .

A new telescope was invented by h im . The incident of a falling apple brought from his wonderful mind the marvelous f law o uni versal gravitation . He was a of master the mint , twice a member of ni u Parliament, k ghted by Q een Anne and at his death had been president of the -fi Royal Society for t wenty v e years . 1 6 96 hi s In , two years after alleged de ’ mentia it is recorded in Chambers En cy “ clo e dia u p , that in the interval of p blic u t ill d ty, however, New on showed that he st retained the scientific power by whi ch hi s hi great discoveries had been made . T s was Shown in hi s solution of two celebrated u 1 6 96 problems prepared in J ne , , by John uill ‘ Berno i , as a challenge to the mathe ’ m i i n f u at c a s o E rope . A similar mathematical feat is recorded of 1 71 6 of him as late as , and at the age - u seventy fo r years .

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is ll ally represented in each case, sti a

mooted question . S ome dogmatic inquirers have sug gested that these visions may have been

the children of hysteria , fright, dyspepsia , n or ambitious cun ing . What Mohammed had conceived after l u a ong, painf l , and solitary confinement h e finally brought forth amidst such fear f ully exul tant physical vehemence that u his d ring his revelations eyes Shot blood, his lips foamed, and he steamed with sweat . Thi s book- made lunatic fought super stition th e of u , killing newborn da ghters , u u h gambling and s ry, ex orted the people u to pio s moral lives , and to the belief in all - i -w an m ghty, all ise , everlasting, indi - u visible, all j st God, the throne of whose mercy coul d be reached principally u n thro gh fasti g , almsgiving and prayer . In the zenith of hi s power he lived in a mi h ut hi s serable , freed Slaves, and hi mended s own breeches . In a civil-service test for humil ity and contempt of the world he woul d outclass S t erilization 75 any disciple who ever cus sed fish on the f l Sea o Gali ee . Freeing him from the sins and errors of u him his s ccessors , and taking all in all , human hi story records the achievements of but sin few more earnest, noble and “ ” 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 ful ly comprehended by themselves . M m on l If, however, oham ed were tria u for m rder in this day, the lobcock alien ists , who prance on the mental horizon for i ul ffi u of h re, wo d a rm that the fastigi m h is intellectuality had irrevocably slipped into the storm center of irremediable mad ness . u Like ho nds, they often take the wrong u scent and cry o t along a false trail , never perceiving their faul t The noted Thaw was the victim of the u monetary alienist Flint , who , conscio sly or u thro gh olfactory defectiveness , for years bayed along the trail of this alleged paranoiac . That they are not dependable 76 Matrimon y Min us Mat e rn ity was shown in the last trial of Thaw at i u u wh ch Dr . Flint called pon the co rt to save hi s great mind from the hypnotic

powers of hi s victim . These are only a few of the intellectual of lights that shine in the window time , who have been classed as defectives by ni alie sts . By all the gods and bobtailed chi ckens

that infest mythology and the barnyard , I most solemnly affirm that no sane man is safe who has ever Stepped on one of the m u u Ten Command ents , sho ld he fall nder the paid Observation of any of these scien tific v ul tures . CHAPTER VIII

S TANDARD

CON CEDE that mating can be controlled to the point of matrimony, then, I ask by what standard Shall fitness be determined “3

Will intellect , physical lines , and pedi gree govern as among breeding animals ! W u ill honesty, sense , and so ndness , di v o f a ested dowery, t ke the applicants past the censor ! “ Plutarch says : Seldom honesty and ” beauty dwell together . If physical perfection shall be the pri u i mary req irement, the an mal in man will soon dominate the intellect and we will ultimately have a race of gobblers and stallions uproariously displaying their a t ra charms before their queens . If an t c u u tive stalwart physiq e , with s ch brain as chance may have lodged in it, shall finally l a become the Standard, then it wi l follow s 77 78 M at rimon y Min us Mate rn ity

the night the day that genius must sleep

alone . Physical abbreviation and imperfe c tions have attended many of the most noted men of the world . How many deformed or physicall y de fe ctiv e princes , kings , emperors , poets , e u prophets, philosophers , stat smen, m si cians ul , orators, generals , and wits co d I enumerate ! e cte d fa When that little , lean, poor , dej u u Mussus mo s preacher in Italy, Corneli s , stepped into the pul pit in Venice the peo u hi ple were abo t to depart . He threw s beautiful voice into their ears and with his wealth of intellect soon doped them - u into an admiring spell bo nd aggregation . Happy was the senator who coul d sit in hi r hi s company o have him at s home . but on e Mul easse Hannibal had eye ; , u f King of T nis ; John, King o Bohemia ; u u i u Tiresias , the prophet ; Appi s Cla d s ;

i l . An T moleon and Homer, were b ind g elus Politian us had a leakin g tetter in in - ds of his nose , yet he wrote wor gold ; S s a l -l ur ocrate was h iry, ong egged and p S tan dard 79

D u blind ; emocrit s, shriveled ; Seneca , l u harsh, ean, and gly to the eye ; Horace , - JEso M l a red eyed shrimp ; p, deformed ; e an chth on - Mar , a short hard favored man ; silius Ficinus and Faber Stapul en sis were l l dwarfs ; Ga ba, the emperor, had spina u u u l c rvat re ; Epictet s was ame , and Lord u - a l Byron , cl b footed ; the gre t A exander and Augustus Caesar were sawed ofl Na “ ” pol e on was called Puss in Boots ; Pope measured less than five feet ; Age sil aus was mean in form ; Prince B occharis physically was the crookedest and men f ’ tally the wisest o Egypt s royal blood . of Ul ade sl The pigmy King Poland, aus u l u C bita is , fo ght more battles and won more victories than any Stalwart pre deces r h so w o ever strode a horse . Z a u nl acch e s , the o y rich Sinner honored ’ u S s so at l nch by the avior presence , was ’ c all that he viewed h is Master s ap r p oach from the crotch of a sycamore . “ ” k The Great Commoner, the sic ly and u - u S lk cl b footed Thadde s tevens , wa ed from humble obscurity to a seat in Con gress. 80 M at rimon y Min us Mate rn ity

Yet Show me so many wits and such divine Spirits in any other intellectual as em l a s b ge . S u u u ottish, d ll , and leaden minds are s al

in large bodies and comely features . Fat and fame are not often covered by the same skin About the only great statesman on e can recall who was really as a fat man was Charles J . Fox, can be seen by his effigy in the palace of West ul f hi minster . He wo d make three o s u great rival Pitt the yo nger . The only fat poet on e can recall is Jami e f “ ” u o S . Thompson , the a thor The easons

He was a comfortable , lazy, slovenly man , o f whom it is related that he woul d eat O R u peaches the tree , not taking the tro ble to take h is hands out of his pockets to

u . z pl ck them Yet, despite his la y dispo sition on , he managed to write e of the “ longest of English poems as well as The ” hi Castle of Indolence, a castle in w ch he habitually dwelt . When ominous clouds were hovering above the head of Caesar he said t o his u n s tr sty friend, Anto iu

CHAPTER IX

INTELLEC TUALS GENERALLY UNFERTILE

“ THE sexologists who seek to mate in ” tellectuals know that thereby they can l ff imit O spring and spare the wealthy, socially inclined the burden and in con v en ien ce of children and without sexual restrictions because of the well-known law laid down by Ellis that “ in the races and l a so among animals generally, fertility di minishes as the organism becomes highl y

developed . That matchl ess mind and divine favor M so ite , oses , ran to intellect that he early soured on matrimony and sent hi s wife to her father that his time might be given u P to plag ing haroah , legislating against u idolatry and ad ltery, evolving a sanitary of i system diet, foot baths, and wh skers , u di his ru of l expo n ng ten les sa vation, 82 I n telle ctuals Gen e rally Unfertile 83 regulating the quail and manna supply l and clubbing water from tear ess rocks . “ - S u The lily faced olomon, with b shy ’ ” locks dark as the raven s wing, chased bugs for a thousand hens and l eft for his l l ll l throne a sing e Cockere , menta y s im, but u l b of sex al y strong , who , y aid u eighteen wives, and Sixty conc bines pro duce d twenty-eight sons and Sixty daugh ters . M f t . ichael Angelo , the architect o S P ’ ul ut eter s , sc ptor, painter and poet, p 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 . Ar for iosto , noted his vivid imagination, of u - vivacity, fertility reso rce , word paint u l di ing and bea ty of sty e , was called the l a vine by Gali eo . By Florentine widow he had two sons . ” ’ “ u l - ll T mb e down Dick, was Cromwe s u son, a poor, feeble creat re , shooed from the thr one in about three weeks . n fi A . Vo Humboldt, the great scienti c 84 M at rimon y Min us Mate rn ity

son li traveler and of nobi ty, never mar “ : ried . Of him Goethe said I may say hi s u he has not eq al in knowledge , in liv ing wisdom . n Napoleon III gave royalty a single so . The bigot Edward Gibbon was the son of a member of Parliament , and in a fam ily of seven he was the onl y on e who sur

v iv e d h . ur child ood He was low in stat e , i feeble in health , with large head , th n legs , r i big feet , sh ill voice , Shy and tim d ; and yet bridged twelve centuries with a hi s tory whi ch is Still the highest authority on most of the periods of which it treats . u u Ferdinand , of Col mb s fame , begat z cra y Johanna , the mother of Charles V f o Germany, whose two sons were con stan tly pursued by squirrels . M Napoleon I , the modern ars , was twice ul u married, res ting in a single scr bby

son . Dean Swift never knew the passion of u for hi -fiv e love , tho gh t rty years he was the virt uous co mpanion of the beautiful and intellect ually fascinating Stella . Withi n on e hour after his death hi s ad I n telle ctuals Gen e rally Unfe rtil e 85

mire rs clipped hi s head as clean as the

dome of the Colossus of Rhodes . Lord Bacon in quest of wealth found it l dl i in a chi ess matr mony, as sketches of

him make no references to children . One child bore the name of the noted u Edm nd Burke . u Alexander Pope , healthy, pl mp , pret t u of y, and precocio s, at the age twelve was attacked by a serious ill ness induced ” “ u i u by perpet al application, wh ch r ined h i s health and distorted his body . His “ ” on Man ll Essay , alone wi carry his memory undimmed through the coming

. M ages He left no descendants, and artha Blount was the onl y woman who in the l east swayed this mental marvel . M ul i Lord aca ay, whose ntellect from early infancy burned with unusual bril

lian c . y, 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 . “ l Oliver Goldsmith, who wrote ike an 86 Matrimon y Min us Mate rn ity

” but l l had angel , ta ked ike poor poll , no taste for matrimony . To say that Bismarck built the modern German Empire is a sufficient tribute to hi s hi greatness, still t s towering master of statecraft added but three to the ’ Kaiser s subj ects . u S u an d Lo is Agassiz , a wiss nat ralist

but . Harvard professor, had one son From the intellectual aristocracy Of New England came Ralph Waldo Emer ’ son a S wh o , mild man with a scholar face , , l t u ike Haw horne , despised explosive la gh il l u oil ter . His writings w l ong s pply ’ “ u for other men s lamps . Hitch yo r ” on e of im wagon to a Star , is his many i ni perishable sayings . His matr mo al rec ord is two wives and two sons . Will iam Cullen Bryant was of Puri a son ul ur tan ncestry , the of a c t ed physi cian and a weakling at birth, with a head u m ch too large for his body, rendered normal by brook bathing on which some times the ice had to be broken for the daily i Am a Spartan bath . Th s first famous eric n poet knew the alphabet at the age of six I n telle ctuals Gen e rally Unfe rtile 87 teen months and left two daughters to bask in the sunshine of his fame . The historian Francis Parkman was of u son of disting ished ancestry, the a min u ister and the father of two da ghters . Two wives and one chil d is the matri l u monia record of James R ssell Lowell, ' u poet, scholar, h morist, and ambassador . hn Jo G . Whittier, former shoemaker, u j o rnalist, agitator, and poet, asked no woman to wear his name . hi Was ngton Irving, lawyer, traveler , ’ in S on f m ister to pain, and e o America s l most gifted writers, ived the trying life of a bachelor . Chauncey Depew of distingui shed an str u u ce y, a serio s or playf l orator at will , a Uni ted States senator and the most - i noted after dinner entertainer of his t me ,

though twice married, and called nearly

everything else, was never called father . l w U David B . Hi l , la yer, governor, nited States senator and candidate for Presi u u i ni l dent, st dio sly avoided the matr mo a

toga . 88 Matrimon y Min us Mat e rn ity

The great white- soul ed Washington left u hi s image on no h man clay .

S u . fift am el J Tilden , attorney for y so hi hl in tell e c two corporations , was g y tual that he never built a nest in the lap

of matrimony . S The war governor of the Empire tate, S u Horatio eymo r , closed his career with n r u out a so o da ghter . President M cKinl ey was the seventh son in a family of nine and his two daugh

ters died in infancy . u u Lolita Armo r , the inc bator baby of of twenty years ago , is the only heir the

u l . J . Ogden Armo r mi lions hi s u l Poe married co sin Virginia , ess u il than fo rteen years of age , who died ch d - ur Sh less at twenty fo . e was the only magnet that drew and held the love of thi s intellectual wilderness in all of his oscil a i n u l t o s from the skies to the g tter . nl on e l u O y child cal ed the imperio s , l match ess Conkling father . ’ The dazzling splendor of Franklin s in t ell e ct gave him membership in all of the l eading scientific societies of the Old

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of u u Beecher, Plymo th Ch rch fame , a m - but ud ball in boyhood, a bright star in

u . manhood , had fo r children f “ Samuel S . Clemens o Tom Sawyer f fame , and the most recent assassin o sad il ur . ness , had fo ch dren u hi James A . Garfield st diously obeyed s ’ ‘ mother s behest, Remember thy God and ” u u st dy books , ntil called from the rein f ul f o the m e to the reign o the people . Of his six children on e has written his name hi of in the story the World War . h . u u Thomas A Edison, who resc ed the of man voice from the Sleep the tomb , and , z - ul wi ard like , robbed the occ t of her treas u u ix res , fo nd time to dance s children

upon hi s knee . COO er James Fenimore p , whose tales on d raised the hair bald hea s , had seven

chil dren . l Horace Greeley, the father of seven chi mud on hi s l dren, with his boots , world y fl c New e e ts in his bandanna , entered 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 ' I n telle ctuals Gen erally Unfe rtile 91 case to the Democratic nomination for f President o the United States . P e fie rson was sur eter J a planter, v e or of of y note in the Colony Virginia, f f and a member o the House o Burgesses . Thomas Jefferson was his third child and son i hi eldest in a fam ly of ten c ldren . Lyman Beecher was the second genera tion of one of the most noted of American “ i ix on I n tem fam l ies . His S Sermons pe ran ce 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 hi hi U S . nited tates Of his t rteen c ldren , seven became clergymen . The most noted

hi s . of family are Catherine E Beecher,

Thomas K . Beecher, Harriet Beecher

S . towe , and Henry Ward Beecher M u Thomas arshall , in the Revol tionary of War, rose to the rank colonel , and John M u u arshall, that peerless j rist, who fo nd the Constitution a civic dogma and l eft it a bar of steel, was the eldest of fifteen children . 92 Matrimon y Min us Mate rn ity

Intellectuality in woman is also a bowl hi dl der in the ghway of the cra e . Mi al u of S ul ch , the da ghter King a and f first wife o King David, never felt her ’ born S breath . ’ The Six wives of England s genital ath t u but of lete ma red three children, all whom woul d have filled unknown graves

had they not been born to a crown . u ul The bea tif , talented Katharine Parr,

who composed both in Greek and Latin, mat rimon ie d u at fifteen, was herself fo r r of times a widow, th ice widowers , and the ’ sixth wife of England s most scat urient u l hil l royal sens a ist ; She died c d ess . 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 distil led a gall in her soul whi ch sh e un stintingly poured into her literary stream . M Su um u aria sanna C mins , the da ghter of an able j udge and the author of L amp li ht er ill t g , st widely read, had no tas e for matrimony .

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ll r a co ege professor, was twice mar ied, had two sons both of whom di ed in chil d

hood . f Clara Barton, whose deeds o mercy covered t wo continents and won for her l the Iron Cross of Germany, Sti l failed t o

attain the greatest title known to woman, f “ ” that o Mother . Lucy Stone worked her way through u u Oberlin College , and d ring her fo r years course had but on e new dress and

h e that was calico . S became a noted abo litionist sh e in , and when was to speak Mal den, 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 i r seven She entered Platonic matr mony, e t ain e d her maiden name and died chil d l ess . These noted women are a typ e of myri of sex u e ads their , who for cent ri s past l have chosen the convent, teaching itera u il l t c t re, ph anthropy, po i i s , professional I n t elle ctuals Ge n e rally Unfe rtile 95

r u o intellect al activities , rather than the ’ calling of tilling God s flowers in the gar den of the heart . A modern silo woul d hold the increase f ’ u o America s social q eens , from the mod M i est, gifted artha Wash ngton, to the

- - present day bare back type . To further support the theory of Ellis l and others , that ferti ity decreases with u of organic development, tho sands the mi dead ght be called from their tombs , and of the liv ing from their palaces and l banquet hal s . ul ni l The same r e obtains among a ma s . f Dan Patch , with a pacing record o descended in the male line from George Wil kes with a record o f Patch as a sire has to his credit twenty n but o e pacers all good none famous . u Cresce s , the trotting king, with a rec of 2 £21 ord 4 , was sold for a fabul ous sum to the Russian Government for breeding purposes and proved such a fail ure that he was put to work on a commissary

wagon . 96 M atrimon y Min us M at e rn ity Good trotters have come alike from the u M di thoro ghbred, the organ, the Cana an, M and the Indian pony . organ , a Vermont horse , did not come from fast ancestry, yet left numerous fast- trotting descendants ; u on e o f our and D tchman , best trotters , out ut was taken of a clay yard , and p on the turf from a Pennsylvania wagon team . r M . Galton says

I regret I am unable to solve the Simple u q estion whether, and how far, men and women who are prodi gies of genius are u f infertile . The da ghters o parents who have produced single children are them selves apt to be sterile .

u al Recent investigation s pports Mr . G ton . Times of 1 6 In the London October , 1 91 6 , it is reported that a voluntary confidential census among a “ ” u of class of intellect als, showed that 1 20 1 07 “ ” marriages , were limited , the average number of children to each mar ria u 2 hi ge being considerably nder . If t s were to become the average number of children to every married couple thr ough

CHAPTER X

S O CIETY

SOCIETY l , in its broad and tempora ll - -do sense, comprehends the poor, we to ,

and wealthy . l u hi ff The sexology of Mr . El is to c ng O spring seeks to introduce into society the “ ideal of quality in place of the ideal of “ u t u aim q anti y, and to cr sh the vulgar l Of reckless racia fertility. “ ” By the phrase ideal of quality we r i assume that M . Ellis has in m nd an e du cate d and financial ly comfortable paren all in tage . He evidently intends that crease shall ultimately come from the up per layer of society as that layer will read ily subordinate itself t o the doctrine that ” reckless racial fertility ought to be all a checked . We know th t the men and women of this portion of the human fam ily are not much given to progeny-hunt 98 S ocie ty 99

ing . They may have become disheartened by the comparison of their best efforts with the children of those socially be u ll neath them . If the f ture pi ars of this republic are to be hooked from the ocean of wealth it behooves us to examine its depths . There is but little reveal ed that greatly us u of hi s interests o tside man and works, u l h u n and n ike the c ipm nk, it is hard for o e to burrow into the human famil y wi thout leaving some dirt at the hole . Since Noah sang “ Rocked in the Cradl e ” of the Deep while hi s kidn eys worked on of ill l the blood the grape , t noisy s umber alarmed his menagerie an d hi s wine soaked body became the rendezvous of fli u gnats , es , hornets, wasps , p nkies , mos uit oe s u c - q , libell las , s arabs , spring tails , rhi i ters l n e cro h a an s p p , so dados, p g and um h pbacked worms , man has changed but l hi s ittle in tastes, habits, and passions, f hi h save possibly, in the intensity o s y pocrisies and in the refin ement of his v il

l ainie s. ’ Trimal ch io fed hi s guests on peafowl s 1 00 Matrimon y Min us Mat ern ity eggs taken from the straw under a wooden u hen, and startled the gl ttons with a cir cul ar tray containin g food representa of of Z fin tions the signs the odiac, and ’ ally washed sow s haslets to the second staf u n tion with cent ry wine , and reclined o the down of partridge wings ; Since then he has had some feeble imitators . u v ic A New York l st scavenger, the - u tim of a moral low brow, to ched a spring and di sclosed a human pul let who stood on the banquet table robed only in a smile and as impert urbed as an ass of Corin thi an metal . u of Herod, when so sed, gave the head John the Baptist to a leg- twisting favorite wh o thrill ed the Old fool by a climactic hi f leap from a table to s lap . Many o us can recall modern instances of cane-suck ing sons of weal thy men who have been l eaped upon by terpsichorean artists . If the reports that ha ve come to us of the social broodings at exclusive Atlantic seaboard resorts are on e -half as depend ’ ’ able as a sparrow s chastity or a harlot s a u dl dan dre m, then, ass re y, no bedtime

1 02 M atrimon y Min us Mate rn ity t omi cal exposure sufficient to glut the monetary and sensual cravings of whin u ul nying st ds , who spend their wakef hours plucking blooms from the garden of virt ue , later to cast them aside , scent less and dead . a u The p gans, in the days of their j iciest u ul sins , co ld have learned from these fo lemans who nocturnally infest the reek o f ing sewers shady resorts , and, like the u nl nclean birds of the night, retire o y with the breaking dawn . The dollar has been the yardstick of so — cie ty since Abraham paid Ephron four ’ hundred Shekels of silver for Sarah s — tomb whether picked from the ham of a r l Harpy o the hand of an Ange . Socially the clean wife of a poor intel lectual brill iant woul d n ot in these days be given standi ng room with those en kl sau riched by pic es , bonds , hams , or sages . Gold is the counterpane for grammati cal errors and genital sins . S t u ociety, as now consti ted the world is c s of is ll e over, a pottage ompo ed m ce an S ocie ty 1 03

u u o s meats , incl ding bob veal , sweet u bread, lamb fry, choice c ts , capon and buttocks with a vegetable adj unct of u bur sk nk cabbage , pig weeds , cowslips , a l docks, c rrots , lenti s and an occasional u sweet herb and all spiced with gold d st . A calico printer founded the famed Peel i fam ly . u Baron Reading, who has j st been North clifie created an earl , and Lord , who V u of has been made a isco nt, are both the r h ifi humblest origin . No t cl e was a re porter, and Reading, now Lord Chief u son of J stice , is the a Jewish storekeeper . l P i M L oyd George , r me inister of England ’ sold groceries in his father s store . son The of a section boss , born in a little shanty in a western boom town , John J . hi f Pers ng, in command o the American Army in the greatest war that ever shook

- the earth, drove the blood reeking Hun l of from the soi his Alsatian ancestors . u Clemencea , who kissed every stone al ong the highway Of poverty, the recent P remier of France, is accredited on e of 1 04 Matrimon y Min us Mate rnity the broadest and shr ewdest of living statesmen . on The Socialist Ebert , who 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 h arn essmake r bed for two nights , is a by trade . In the business world the men that have emerged from the gloomy shades of pov e rty into the sunlight of prosperity consti tute a vast army .

Notable amongst them is Charles M . S of chwab , who entered a mill at the age eighteen and fin all y performed the mar v el ous U feat, as head of the nited States S u of u hipb ilding Corporation, prod cing on e hundred and twenty-four ships in the of ul 1 91 8 month J y, . Let the descendants of these and other noted men of humble origin refrain from ll n on u of si y boasti g the s bj ect ancestry, but rather pride themselves on the humbleness of their antecedents and the greatness attained by them . We are all well aware that thi s social

1 06 Matrimon y Minus Mate rn ity The Normans who went over to England with Will iam the Conqueror and consti tute d the proud English nobility were mi u set of u simply a scellaneo s advent rers, of u professional fighting men nknown, and no doubt for the most part un di stin

ui sh e d . l a u g , lineage Wil i m the Conq eror d Bur himself was a bastard, accor ing to ton . To get a little nearer home let me call attention to the root of some of the so l f called first fami ies o the present day. The Vanderbil t root paced the deck of a ferry ; the Astor root bought pelts from the Indians ; the Goul d root was a sur v eyor and mouse-trap inventor ; the Mackey root was a bartender and gold prospector ; the Lincoln root, a rail split l ter ; the Garfield root, a cana driver, and

G . the rant root , a tanner u There are h ndreds Of others , nameless u fl fin an beca se still in the esh , who have ciall but y emerged from the most abj ect, l generally respectab e , poverty, and their descendants who bask in the sunshine of inh erite d wealth shoul d not forget whence S ocie ty 1 07

u l they spr ng, and that their pi e may rest on sui bleeding hearts , wrecked homes , cides , and financial cripples, the victims

f v . o grasping, thie ing ancestors Still as the world vi ews them they con titute fi s the gentry, and Agrippa de ned “ gentry as a sanctuary of knavery and u na ghtiness , a cloak for wickedness and u u exc sable vices , of pride , fra d, contempt , ul u boasting, oppression , dissim ation, l st, u ul i gl ttony, malice , fornication, ad tery, g ” n oran ce . , and impiety How many of the white-trousered gen try and degenerate princelings wh o scorn a its labor , yet we r and eat sweat, have de scended from the church-robbers of the sixteenth century “l u ’ The right to r le is man s gift, and it is n ot vested in some driveling son of a u - or ro gh neck ancestor , 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 1 08 Matrimon y Min us Mate rn ity

Show me a money-bag who dares invite all of hi s relatives to any of his social u f nctions .

Some disown their parents , deny broth u f ers and sisters , and will not s f er kindred and friends to approach lest they umbrate u mud their pomp , acco nting it a stain on their greatness t o have ha d such beggarly n begin ings . i u f S mon in L cian, in the day o his hi s S wealth, changed name to imonides u hi s beca se of beggarly kindred , and set the house of his birth on fire that no man u u Sho ld point it o t . m u l Sickness is a great com oner, and nti u it enters the banq et hall of wealth, the money idolater and the snobs from the womb of wealth are un mindful that the wood is drying in the sun that will make their coffins , and that the despised hand f i o toil will d g their graves . The resul t is the same whether on e is strangled by a chain of gold or a‘ rope of or ll l é hemp , the be y is fi led with clairs or mush and milk. “ i all t is Van ty of vanities ; is vani y,

1 1 0 M at rimon y Min us Mate rn ity — to -day by the economy of nature they

are physical equals . In social di stinction founded on money u al one there is a vast vol me of froth . di nk A crooked overseer, shonest ba er , M designing petticoat, onte Carlo , storm at e fl of s a, ash lightning , financial panic, u s e cu dro th, cyclone , sickness , invasion, p u u an lation, loc sts, b gs, or booze , may at y time force a Dives to the level of a

Lazarus . When a social pill ar has whiskied his

- thirst to the point of an Old rose nose, and stretched his anatomy at the feet of Bac u hi s ul il ch s , and finally expelled so in a w d u - un deliri m, the fee h gry doctor saves the family name by announcing that dipso mania was the cause of death . In a me h an i ul c c it wo d have been tremens . If one of the common herd shoves an ar tiele from a counter into her muff sh e is hi or but fur-l a t ef Shoplifter, when a aden, powdered Sister of the social set is caught the poor soul is sufl e rin g from klepto ni ma a . A l l ll c s a ru e, the working gir wi arry S ocie ty 1 1 1

to maturity her social indiscretion and ’ clothe it with a mother s love ; but out of the rustling silk no h uman cry is ever f r f heard, o the blight o gold has parched the plant and cast it to the lap of mother earth . One pines in repentance and piety or ’ fil ls a harlot s grave ; the other shines in her sins and society and holds her secrets u till j dgment day . A noted example was a wealth-crazed of M hi u spinster Detroit , ic gan, who lo dly rang the social bell on two continents . Her be auty was fodder for both clowns h and kings . At seventeen s e married a

Belgian prince , deserted him and eloped with a café fiddler . Soon wearying of his u sh e h im catg t notes , erased from her c for alling list, then a time dropped into obscurity with another bee that had been u - attracted to this m ch sucked rose . A - hl u self willed, hig y ed cated, physically of u i ul perfect dynamo mischievo s mp ses , and with eyes that would lift a saint from u m en his knees, she tantalized and tort red

‘ of of u l in all the capital cities E rope, til , 1 12 Matrimon y Minus Maternity

worn down by the fury of her passions and di c ssipations , de orated with three di v orces u u u sh and c rsed by fo r h sbands , e recently cl osed 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 il u ev , a nat ral temptation, a desirable mi l cala ty, a domestic peri a deadl y fas i cinat on ill . , and a painted How many matrons of our day can be ’ seen in Juv enal s mi rror of the Roman matron of hi s day !

All owin all ath irst gl g , For win e wh o e fl as s of win e an d swal ows first , l k , l Two quart s t o cle ar h er st omach an d excit e i v n ous n un boun de d a et t e . A ra e , a pp

Maids of obscurity are freel y selli ng their accumul ated be auty and form to bloated guzzlers for chariots and gems . If the be ds in the palatial homes of bachelor libertin es through thi s land coul d give the names of the crushed and bleed ing hearts of former innocence whi ch bur den e d them till required for another vic

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slayer are fair samples of an army of so cial l - u fla hel doomed , carnal s gs, who y

chastity and worship sin . How many h e -aristocrats molt away their physical substance and drearily end their days groaning an d Sighi ng over their u emasc lated powers , and exclaiming in “ u u : the words of the e n ch Behold, I am ” a dry tree . u Two ed cated, wealthy, and to the eye , for m refined sisters , years aintained the “ ” palatial Whi spering in the Meadows of ua in the city Chicago , where every sens l diversion known to Sodom was practiced ul by themselves and stim ated in others . It was in this annex to hell that the son of a noted merchant of Chi cago was kil led while furthering hi s creed that no mar ried woman coul d long withstand hi s as u u sa lts pon her virtue .

Daily, social , financial cripples yoke themselves to any old rickety female S o domite who can stay the sag in their fin n i a c al backs . In all of the hi story that has been writ ten on the walls of time the single fact S ocie ty 1 1 5

stands out that whenever gold wrested u the throne from honor and virt e , deca dence followed . l : The devi , as a teacher, is tireless He but never sleeps . He works 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 u n fad , with s rface in ocence , is the ex change of husbands by married women at the Shows, dances , theaters, and other gatherings . There is a well-defin e d percentage of parasitic sons of wealth wh o are distin ui h d g s e by red eyes , pearly teeth, daily u bath and linen shift , perfect mo th, glove — u and cane manners , with a sens al scent, u a er pted hides and bandaged an tomy, and who contaminate and poison everything hi u u u wit n the radi s of their nholy mo sing, and yet these harpies are permitted to roost on and besmear their ancestral perch and enter the homes of refin ement and cleanliness thr ough the power of a gol den j immy . How few amongst them with a 1 1 6 M atrimon y Min us Mate rnity

u wi u nose witho t a rose, and a skin tho t a scab ! They roam among the highest social peaks and seek victims even in the huts u of the lowly . From the records of co rt trials and the pages of medical works it se x seems that their own and animals , u i even, are not imm ne from their m as matic touch . S ociety, in its restricted sense , is made up of everyt hing 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 f o noted Athenians . An English novelist of Chrysanthemum fame on a balmy morning entered the har r For bo of New York . months he was wined and dined and sighed over and l ater spent three years in a London prison for u u m an nnat ral cri e . The devil in his warfare upon unstained s ul has ll o s had in his service , and sti has, quite as many women as men . l u l for The fema e sed cer to ewdness ,

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— ui saw the front r ned 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 .

hurch Times of u 1 8 The C Febr ary , 1 91 6 an u u , English p blication, disc ssed u u n the s bj ect, and the p blic co science was painfully shocked to learn that

on e in ten persons in large towns is in fe ct e d with acquired or congenital syph hi ilis, and a far larger percentage than t s , on e a f gonorrhea . In gre t city o the Em hi pire , w ch 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 foregoin g is supported by the fact that married men in the English army home on furlough were not permitted to wi re consort with their ves . It has been ported that within a year t wo hundred Canadi an nurses returned from the front burdened with the evidence of sexual pa i i m t r ot s . S ocie ty 1 1 9

ll - . N Mrs evi e Rolfe , in an article in the in e te en th Ce n tur 1 91 8 n N y, in October, , o the subj ect of “ The Changing Moral ” S u tandard, is a thority for the following condensed observations , which apply to

England . Those who pursue a course of conduct in keeping with the be st interests of the communi ty include onl y a small propor tion of the men and probably onl y about - t wo thirds to half of the women . The “ rapid numerical increase of the ama t eur is reducing with startling rapidi ty the proportion of women living up to our f past ideals o chastity . Available records Show that from 1 91 4 to 1 91 7 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 , u u nmarried women, and yo ng married women of all classes have in very large numbers j oined the ranks Of the “ ama ” t eur.

r M s . Rolfe wrote 1 20 Matrimon y Min us Mate rn ity It is a severe shock to be forced to the recogni tion of such depravity as is indi cat e d by the following well - authenticated o f ni story . A girl neteen, who entered a un - u co try ho se party, when asked by her hostess where sh e was staying the week s before , an wered glibly, in a mixed com “ pany, Oh , I was at and had a top ” ping time ; Openly boasting of promis u cuous immorality d ring the visit . That such an announcement coul d be made with out the maj ority of those present feeling tha t anything out of the ordinary had oc u u m c rred, shows that the social c sto s and tradi tions 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 b e cause I was kind to a friend who came home on leave the other day and now my fian cé is reaching London next week and ” we are to be married . Or , the domestic servant who writes for information of the u u same nat re in great distress , beca se she “ n i can ot magine who I got it from , as all my boys are such ni ce boys and it is ” not as if I was a bad woman ; all indi cate the changing standards .

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hi us the statutory cow . T s animal m t be n dl addressed ki y, and have her hair combed and bag handl ed with clean hands u al and in full dress . N merically the c ves 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 l h as fa len to decay . Nearly every man is hi s own clergyman and without the con - u of u stant gospel po nding a Pa l , 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 pre cipi t at e d a mad Struggle for riches and its u u - a pleas re , res lting in a bold and far re ch ing demoralization o f both men and WG l men . The farm is too lonely and s ow for u mi yo ng men, and the lk pan is no longer u u the mirror, nor the co ntry yo th the n of l u compa ion, the gir schooled pon the ll z f crysta i ed sweat o doting parents . S ocie ty 1 23 The Ten Commandments are sent to

the attic and the golden calf wheeled out . The red- light district of life at first is u u ca tio sly 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 L ost sold for t wenty-fiv e dollars and a western bull for on e u u l u h ndred tho sand do lars , the p blic press has fairly reeked with accoun ts of l mur domestic woes , social evi s, crimes, u ders , and s icides . Men and women in all stations of life are dail y indicted and daily convicted of a f i all m nner o cr mes . We see the wealthy broker Eddy swap ping wives with a liveryman followed by murder and suicide ; the Reno di vorce court j udge resigning from pure e xh aus 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 chil d s 1 24 M at rimon y Min us Mat e rnity prattle ; feticide to maternity ; a slumber ing ovary to a wakeful womb ; a calci mi ned face to a clean skin ; unbosomed ’ charms to a veiled existence ; a dog s trous ’ seau to chil dren s gowns ; Th re e We e ks in literat ure to The Courtship of Mil es S tan dish ; the touch of a panderer to a h us ’ band s kiss ; the sensual arms of a thi ck lipped ebony pugilist to a sun l it face of her own race ; the stage clout to a ma t ronl y dress ; and finally the street is pre ferred to the home , where we see them “ ul lewd , pet ant, and reeling ripe with — wine a condi tion in whi ch the armor of virtue is readil y vulnerable to the tor f pedo o lust . of nk We lately read ba ers , moral teach e rs u , professional and b siness men, mem of r se c bers a Ch istian association, in a of u S o tion the West, having o tsinned dom and Gomorrah . u flux Civilization is in a contin al , and much o f the new-world aristocracy has f reached the stage o ooze . Probably the seed of more sowers is now cast by the wayside , more tenanted

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u off the b stle from every drab who seeks , like the cowbird , to deposit her eggs in the nests of others . If clean husbands woul d 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 .

D . n M . l . Wa te r D Bieberach , , con ected c i with the Chicago Vi e Comm ssion, esti mated that the profits from vice in that city were fifteen million dollars per an n m di u u u , vided among fo r gro ps com

- posed of the brothel keeper, the property u - u u owner, the liq or p rveyor and the am se

- ment purveyor . It woul d seem that among the contend ing nations social barriers have been badl y

crippled by war . Birth- control and eugeny have been mired by the sexual whirlwind whi ch is

lashing the world . Stokes shot Jim Fisk in a fit of j e al on sy over that voluptuous sun burst Jose s phine Mansfield . Thi is only a well S ocie ty 1 27 kn own instance of the thousands of trig ge r-pul lings involving the possession of some queen of filth . The world well knows that from the c u of heerless h ts the lowly, from the b i of leak w lderness poverty, from the bar ren shores of illiteracy, from the deserts — of Opportunity but generally from the l lap of c ean maternity, sired by piety and — purity have come the stellar intell ects which gradually ascended the horiz on into the clear blue field of knowledge whence their scintillations illumined the somber ’ of highway man s activities , harnessed the untamed powers of nature and fer re te d from their burrows secrets tha t baffled man since the dawn .

President Harding, with the patriotic z of con eal a Washington, the sensitive of u science a Lincoln, the silent co rage n of and te acity a Grant, the temperament of McKinl e u of a y, the piety and p rity ul 1 5 1 920 M a Pa , on December , , at arion, in an address to the Ohio Child Con a u l servation Le g e , c early indicated that 1 28 M at rimon y Min us M at e rn ity 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 shi p from the soil of America which will t be the guaranty of American securi y .

u hil oso To the social st dents , moral p h e rs u il mon ers p , and p p g who are honestly o f ul seeking the betterment man, I wo d suggest that they give the people more of

Christ and less of Ellis . A greater number of the stalking evil s of the da y can be withered through men t al u sanitation and moral s rgery, than by the specialized well- known an ticon ception u ul deceits and sex al form as . The human mind always feel s for the popul ar breeze disregarding the source nmi ul f it f and u ndf o s ef ect . In the year of grace 1 91 8 it was quite in harmony with American sentiment to con sign the Kaiser to hell as the typification o f u u f the acc m lated barbarity o centuries . Y et burning accused negroes at the stake

1 30 Matrimon y Min us Mat ern ity terin g sores in the side of world- democ racy and obstructing bowlders in the high f u way o e geny. 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 il of mon people, the da y associates the M l of essiah, who have a ways in times great Social stress and oppression rescued humanity and relit the taper of hope in the human breast . If we escape the extreme penal ty 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 exampl e that there can be no hope for those in whose hearts the grace

Of God is a stranger . One of the most elucidating mental fl on ashes , present social conditions , is the f following from th e pen o Hon . Byron

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Vul ar of man n ers v erfe d g , o , O erdresse d an d un de rb red v , ’ Heart ess od ess He s de i ht l , G l , ll l g , Rude b da an d ewd b n i h t y y l y g , e dwarfe d t h e man ov er rown th e brut e B , g , Rul e d b b oss an d rostit ut e y p , Pur e -rob e d an d au er-c ad pl p p l , Rav in rott en mon e -mad g , , y ; ’ A s uirmin h erd in Mammon s mesh q g , A wi dern ess of h uman flesh l , Craze d with av arice ust an d rum , l ’ N Y r Th n ame s de iri ew o um. k, y l 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. Th Task o Havelock Ellis , in his book e f H i n e 23 : S ocial yg e , at page says

” Increase and mul tiply was the legen dary inj unction uttered on the threshold u out of of an empty world . It is sing larly se a pla ce in an age in which the earth and , n ot if indeed the very air, swarms with countless myriads of undistinguished and u u u u u ndisting ishable h man creat res , ntil the beauty of the world is befouled and i the glory of the heavens bed mmed . To stem back that tide is the task now im ou our posed heroism, to elevate and u uc p rify and refine the race , to introd e the ideal of quality in place of the ideal f h a run so o quantity which s riot long , 1 32

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and the best governed republic that the sun has ever smiled on since thrown into space from the maj estic hand of God ! The greatest struggle that ever rocked i l the earth, since Cain k l ed Abel , and whi ch fertilized the battlefields of Europe u u i with h man blood , was fo ght by ch ldren

grown to manhood . S a When Babylon, part , Greece , Rome , and many other nations which have l ong at since perished from the earth , had t ain e d the zenith of their greatness and u u u w c lt re , they so ght the idest possible u l but set u o sex al iberality, bo nds t their f l ul of spring, and wi lf ly permitted their i ch ldren to die or be eaten by beasts , thus unwittingly sapping their man and wo h u ni man ood, and n merically weake ng their nationality by ill attention to pro i hi geny, thereby hasten ng the approac ng 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 ’ 1 8 0 u sleep , and in 7 , fell cr shed and bleed S hrin king Prog en y 1 35

i of ing before the invader, a vict m sen u u s al and rioto s living , and with her death sh e rate above her births, in alarm then took a paternal interest in her pregnant u u da ghters and p blic morals , and pro v ide d matern ity homes for dependent or afflicted women who were moldin g assets for the nation ; hence in less than fifty so years , we behold a new France , regen u crated that her people, in geni s, patriot ism u u m hi , co rage , reso rces, states ans p , u versatility, and end rance are now the f marvel o the world . A female German socialist boldly an n oun ce s the doctrine that every woman, dl regar ess of social relations , having a yearning for maternity Shoul d select a n mal e and bri g forth young . The government of Germany is liberally socialistic and with a bounteous hand of i of takes care her ch ldren chance , de pendent mothers and the unemployed . Her net increase in population is about on i 1 906 u of e m llion a year . In the n mber il licit births was and now t wenty per cent of all increase are the children 1 36 M at rimon y Minus Mat e rnity f l o ove . 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

. u rear them all Hence , Germany is n meri cally and intellectual ly on e of the great

- est nations on earth, and single handed, ul in 1 91 6 co d have , , wrested the crown from any king or rul er then burdening his u f people with the humb g o royalty . To check the reckless mul tiplication of ofl sprin g Richards on and others appear to advocate the special cultivation of n on

- . ds child bearing women In other wor , these godless sexologists want a scentless rose , stoneless cherry, and ovarian desert .

If the doctrine of Ellis and others , that ” l ul racial fertility is a reck ess v gar aim, ever e fl e ctiv ely roots itself in the hearts o f - l the pale face nations , the time wil as sur ely come in the fut ure as in the past when the boasted civilization of the whi te

- man, defended by machine made men on of ill grown the deserts maternity , w vanish before the onrush of that nation

1 38 Matrimony Minus Matern ity wh o make up the Supreme council of t h e organization state their views on birth control .

The eugenic view of the subj ect is most

r. clearly seen by Elder Joseph F . Smith, J , “ who points out : I feel only the greatest u contempt for those who , beca se of a little worldl y learning or a feeling of their own u a s periority over others , advoc te and ‘ endeavor to control the so- called lower classes ’ from what they are pleased to ‘ i ’ call indiscr minate breeding .

The old Colonial stock that on e or two cent uries ago laid the foundation of our great nation is rapidly being replaced by due i another people , to the practice of th s “ ” erroneous doctrine of small famili es . Accordi ng to Statistics gathered by a lead u ing magazine p blished in New York, a or u year two ago , the average n mber of children t o a famil y among the descend ants of the ol d American stock in the New England states was only t wo and a frac

tion , while among the immigrants from

European shores , who are now coming into ur o land, the average family was com f ix posed o more than s . Thus the old stock is surely being re S hrin king Prog eny 1 39

“ u placed by the lower classes , of a St r hi dier and more worthy race . Wort er e u b ca se they have not learned , in these modern times , to disregard the great com mandment given to man by our Heavenl y of sur Father . It is , indeed, a case the vi v al nl of the fittest, and it is o y a matter of time before those who so strongly ad vocate and practice thi s pernicious doc “ ” trine of birth- control and the limiting of the number of children in the family will have legislated themselves and their f hi kind out o t s mortal existence .

Our government in 1 91 7 was demand ing a trained force of five millions of men for the World War in anticipation of the u very danger that I have o tlined . Let us thank God that we to- day can give to our il national defense , if need be , ten m lions for of men, the reason that those who have our so- come to shores , except the called “ ” ul nearly extinct Yankee , have ind ged “ ” in the old- fashioned vulgar physical progeny methods , rather than in the cap ers of those who burn in their lusts on e toward another and burrow in the fil th of u u m nnat ral com erce , rendering abortive 1 40 M atrimon y Min us Mate rn ity sexual enterprises and salting maternal plants . s fl A frontier defen e , composed of esh u and blood, s ch as the World War pre is u r sented, not sp n from th eads of silver or n or gold, does it come from Richard ’ “ - - son s non child bearing women . Unl ess those amongst us who corres pond to the ancient burghers and peasants are encouraged by social laws to marry ul our and m tiply, who will man dread u our u on in no ghts , sight coast g ns the ili vader, enforce an orderly civ zation, z u keep the idle , la y wealthy from h nger fil run our and th , mines , Shops , factories , nia and railroads, and do all the me l work Of the nation ! Y ou cannot grow an oat crop on an as ph alt pavement ; neither will progeny Sprout in a sandy uterus nor spring into being in a surgically raked ovarian gar den . Unless those endowed by nat ure for progeneration are permitted frequently dl of mil to test their virility , regar ess fa y or u E l an tree physical conto r , the Lady g tines of the future may as well save the

1 42 M at rimon y Min us Mate rn ity quently lead lambs to their doom and u sheep to a change of past re . S u i b In New o th Wales , dom nated y sufi ra ist s socialism and g , the evidence mm b given before the Royal Co ission, y u doctors , clergymen, and dr ggists , and u - in s bj ected to a sifting cross exam ation, proved that the women generall y ex pressed the desire to avoid maternity and took positive action to that end . i n . A femi ist , Lyd a K Commander, in u u her book pon this s bj ect, says

The kn owledge of how to control fam ily scarcely existed in America t wo gen e rations ag o . Now it is practically un i - u f h i ans versal . To day tho sands o p ys c in th is country make a practice of di sse min ating the knowledge of how to avoid chil dr en . The vast maj ority know how to control the Size of the family and do so l de iberately.

Let me add that the old custom of going downsta irs head first on the hands and knees and taking pennyroyal tea have long since been abandoned as emmena o ues g g . S hrin kin g P rog eny 1 43

The greater the female liberty and in t ell e ctual attainment the more dormant is the maternal instinct . “ One authority states that hal f the col u lege woman grad ates do not marry, and a quarter of those who do marry are chil d ” less . u u l The social p llets , and engaged co p es , discuss with amazin g frankness the n um ber of children they will have , if any, and the conditions under whi ch they will con sent to bear them . M u u iss Gertr de Barn m, connected with of the Federal Department Labor, refers “ deploringly to what sh e terms the thi rd x ” i se in industry . Her defin tion is

u di In general , it is a gro p, vorced from the women who believe that women ’s u sphere is the home , and from the coed ca tionist s in labor who believe that women should receive labor education with men and shoul d coOpe rat e with men in raisin g the working standards of both men and u ul women . This gro p believes it sho d work primarily for women and against M of n men . ost the active ones are u mar

ried . 1 44 M at rimon y Min us Mate rn ity li There is in the world a lot of mi tant, u l for mo thy hal trees petticoats, who are u u generally sex ally nemployed, and who dis spend their time advocating the torch , n ul ur di s seminati g socially banef literat e , charging cargoes of soap - box gas upon u street gro ps , and in breeding discontent amongst a class of women who would be happy if let alone, and finally advising those under the conn ubial yoke to sand the copul atory track and sexuall y starve their husbands into buglers in the cause of equal rights . How many inflammatory h e -orators and cupbearers are in the ranks of the “ ” e ruptionists through sexu al starvation a r u n rather th n th o gh any i nate 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 u l vader , protect its instit tions estab ished by the blood of the sons of heroic women and to continue to secure to her citiz ens peace and plenty ! Persistent attempts to parry the laws

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u “ best prod ctions, observed It is only a question of time before people will un r n de st a d. I felt that we owed a debt to

society . We are seeking to lighten the ” burden of womankind . Sexual eunuchs are increasing rapidl y among church patrons and society-hunt

- ers, while free love tendencies and yearn di ing for social freedom, are bree ng a vast ” f “ u army o ne ters among the women, “ fl n or who are neither fish, nor esh, good ” red herring . Those women who dodge maternity and dl dl fon e poo es , and leave their dogs with u the check maids in ch rch basements , whi le they proclaim on the floor above that they are glad that they are not like u the poor p blican at the door, recently u received a shock from Rev . George H gh n Bir ey, of Cleveland , pastor of the fash i l u u onab e Euclid Aven e Methodist Ch rch . He astounded his wealthy and practicall y childless congregation by deploring the absence of chi ldren in the homes of the “ ” rich and the development of a third sex amongst the women . S hrin king Prog en y 1 47 If I were asked to indi cate the one u of u most omino s Sign the times , I wo ld ” u . indicate the nsexed woman, said Dr “ for Birney . In the craze freedom from u all restraints , both religio s and social , the new woman is under the temptation of disregarding both her nature and her u so l . “ ‘ ’ We are told of a third se x created u due by the E ropean war, to the changing u articu stat s of both women and men, p l arly the women outgrowing their mat e rn al instincts . “ ‘ ’ Such a neuter sex has been affli cting n America for two generatio s . It is rep resented by the woman who cares more for puppies than babies and who thi nks it more genteel to coddl e a cold-nosed poodl e ” than to sing cradle lullabies . It is well known to all students of social conditions that there is a steadily grow hi - ing revolt against c ld bearing . The world-wide decline in the birth rate of our people is n ot so much due to temporal condi tions as to volitionary sterility or the use of artificial preventives . The 1 48 M atrimony Min us Mat e rn ity

massacre of the innocents by the tools o f the devil shows how widely neo-Mal th usiani sm has rooted itself in the hearts and homes of our people ; and the time is not so far di stant when we may be called to realiz e that thi s canker is th reat e ni n g not only our nationa l life but the

paleface with extinction . Letters from the working women pub lish e d Mat e rn it 1 91 5 94 i in y, , page , conta n these sad and devastating confessions from women who have taken a defini te ni stand against mater ty . One writes :

uni ll If ever I have the Opport ty, I sha certainly advise all young men and women about to marry to avo id having any chil

dren . Another writes

After thi s ( sufi e rin g from chil dbirth! “ I said to a friend one day, If only I coul d feel that this was my last I woul d “ ” ui . be q te happy Well , She replied, ’ ” why don t you make it your last ! and sh e u i gave me advice . As a res lt of th s knowledge I had no more for four and a

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tion impossible to buy anywhere artificial

on ul . u checks pop ation Yo ng people , and u j st now many soldiers , marry with the deliberate intention of preventing fam ili es. Still another wrote If the shops in were shut up and the vending or possession of the things l ofl en se u they se l made a penal , it wo ld

tend to prevent the decline in births . I can point to on e fell ow living at the rate of u u u fifteen h ndred po nds per ann m,

said to be a partner in such a busine ss .

Another on e wrote If I had my time over again I woul d

have an empty cradle . I love my children mi and they love me , and I ss my pet every a l day . I am pleased to s y I have on y two little girls ; I hope they will never fill a cradl e .

And on e wrote Why are you so down upon the women B ut Blame the men . for the men , who want a good time and money to bet on n ul horses or anythi g at all , there wo d be thousands of more babies born in Eng land . S hrin king Prog eny 1 51

Another on e wrote

Before you begin to preach from the “ ” te xt Fill the cradle , kindly arrange with Government and municipal auth ori ties to provide standing room for the u cradle . I have fo r 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 ill beggars and wanderers . Nobody w have hi u my c ldren, and m nicipal 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 shoul d be condemned by all sen sible and morally inclined people . Thi s woman wrote l I have three ovely children, and my u ut h sband is always asking for more , b if you knew the ridi cul e and banter it has subj ected me to from my women friends ou ul n ot u y wo d blame b t pity me . They r u ou ou swa m aro nd y , and j ust when y 1 52 M atrimon y Min us Mat e rn ity need sympathy most of all they pour out u ul “ vitriol into yo r so , saying, How can you be so Silly ! It is so middl e- class to so u im have more than two , v lgar and ’ ou ur moral . Why, y s ely don t want to ur or take yo ideals from the farmyard , ” from the rabbit-warren ! I S it really ! immoral , Father , to have a big family ul in Anyhow, nothing in this world wo d duce me to go through these sneers and j eers again .

S u di o n ng brass , tinkling cymbals , u l of ch rch organs , vesper bel s , the hope heaven and Christ crucified should lead thi s nation to the shrine of William Al Cl e arfield i bright at , Pennsylvan a , who , on M 3 1 91 7 -fiv e arch , , at the age of sixty , O fie re d himself and fourteen sons to Presi dent Wilson for service in the army and also his seven daughters for Red Cross of work in case war . Of almost equal value to the nation is S t - Ike ims, of Atlanta , eigh y seven years

Old , who had eleven sons in the service , and proudl y awaited the call of three more at home . i R . C . Bland, a Carol na farmer, vigor

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u - l ni contin ance of the birth control c i c, n of hi r M r for the carrying o w ch M s. a S garet anger 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 mi llions of dollars to be used for the training of girls for motherhood . The b e f - r u o M s. q est this God fearing woman,

z M . P l is Li zie a mer, accompanied by the statement

I hold profoundl y the conviction tha t the welfare of any community is in separ ably dependent upon the quality of its motherhood and the Spirit and character of its homes .

P ul il ni a , wh e developing Christia ty, proclaimed the Palmer doctrine . He wrote

ll u I wi , therefore , that the yo ng women u u marry, bear children, g ide the ho se , give no occasion to the adversary to speak re f proach ull y. S h rin king Prog eny 1 55

Very likely the Birth Control League woul d regard the teachings of Christ and ul out Pa as obsolete , and of harmony with the advanced thought of the present-day Of disciples his satanic maj esty . ’ Y ou can t build a nation on a mother “ hood who conceive ch afi and bring forth ” u but on of st bble , rather the wives the out u u land who cry nto their h sbands , as di d u “ Rachel of old nto Jacob, Give me ” or . children, else I die Social conditions have greatly changed f since the sentimental appeal o Rachel . “ l d ” Now the wife says , No chi ren ; the “ ’ servant says NO children and the land “ ” l 0 . ord says , N children Infanticide and abortion were approved by Aristotle and the legal destruction of weak and deformed children was also ad v ocat e d by him ; as it is now by many who “ stand in church and sing : My eyes have ” of th i f seen the glory e com ng o the Lord . These abominations are n ow practiced u - by the sex al blank cartridge artists , the un doorstep and hallway harlots, and the natural mothers who abandon their ill icit 1 56 Matrimon y Min us Mate rn ity

u fr it to the charity of strangers , and are also advocated by professional fame u u u seekers , teatman ed cators , sp rio s phi

- l osoph ers and some gospel pounders . ul u bu How many sep chers , fair witho t t ul hi us t o fo wit n, are walking amongst

an MD . on day, with their breeches , who feed on the ruptur ed seals of the temples of u th e nborn babes , and drink of drip pings of carnality ! I asked a young man of my acquaint ance who had been married for two or three years if he had any children . He “ ” NO God . said, , and I thank for it u bufl ete d u Nat ral laws are , stat tory l fi aws are de ed , and happiness , health, ni sa ty, 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 germi cides to pro l u ong h man existence . in On the other hand, doctors , chemists, ventors, and tradesmen have wearied sci

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can households and one of the most chi v al rous sons of the goddess of Liberty, in hi s t u six h ann al message to Congress , u u of pon the s bj ect home and offspring, said

When home ties are loosened , when men and women cease to regard a worthy fam i u u ily l fe , with all its d ties f lly performed its s u and all respon ibilities lived p to , as l the life best worth living, then evi days

for the commonwealth are at hand . There our f are regions in land , and classes o our u i u pop lation, where the b rth rate has s nk u h below the death rate . S rely it s oul d need no demonstration to Show that will ful is h u sterility , from the standpoint of the on e hi l man race , the sin for w ch the pena ty —a sin for is national death, race death hi w ch there is no atonement .

On his way home from his Egyptian

u Mr. b e h nting trip Roosevelt in Paris , fore a di stinguished representation of

every department Of French life , with u characteristic co rage and boldness, said to them Y ou have every element of leadership among nations except in population whi ch S hrin king Prog eny 1 59

seems to be decreasing . The remedy is n u in your ow hands . Stop race s icide .

ul h i If Pa in s letter to the Galatians , ’ D 58 u u a out A . . , tr thf lly m pped man s only t o God highway , restricted, narrow, and u u r gged tho gh it may seem , the twen tie th - century children of the same God have no license t o broaden or feather that ul ra highway. Pa clearly specified the p c l tices that will close heaven to the gui ty . He wrote fl Now the works of the esh are manifest , : u un which are these ad ltery, fornication, l u c eanness , lascivio sness, idolatry, witch ul craft , hatred , variance , em ations , wrath, mur strife , seditions , heresies , envyings , u k u ders , dr n enness , revelings , and s ch : ou like of the which I tell y before, as I ou have also told y in time past, that they whi ch do such things shal l not inh erit of the kingdom God .

hi of ul In defiance of the teac ngs Pa , at 1 920 U a convention in October , , at tica , S New York , the New York tate tiptoe Sin u di of f nnels and idle moral ban ts, votaries a sisterhood wh o Operate through a club 1 6 0 M atrimon y Min us Mate rn ity

u confederacy, passed a resol tion to work for the abolition of all restraining laws u o fis rin di s to ching p g , and for the free semi nation among women of the medi cal knowledge essential to the prevention and

control of ofisprin g . To thi s a vain protest was made by

of h il - uil many the clean, C ristian fam y b d e rs who wear upon their breasts the shin hi “ ” mi ing s eld of mother, while the ti d 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 ’ fan t s u i hand sho ld read and mbibe , if not ’ for their own, then for their nation s , i of i good , the sent ments that clean , ntel t u M nn lec al English lady, argot Te ant, who “ ” was called The Dragon Fly because o f l u “ her reed ike fig re , and the Woman with ’ ” a Serpent s Tongue by poet Watson be

of cause her fiery wit , and who was wooed won ui and finally by Herbert Asq th, then ni f Prime Mi ster o Great Britain . Thi s

ll - u noted, we poised, social q een heard the

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M u on u 29 Senator Reed, of isso ri, J ne , 1 921 dl u , learne y and eloq ently opposed the of - ll Oh passage the child welfare bi , the j e ctiv e Of whi ch is to subj ect mothers and children to the pad- and-pencil gui dance of ul ’ myriads of she celibates , who co dn t tell a labor pain from the creak of a wheel but barrow, who do know that Congress appropriated to enforce the of v k provisions this Bolshe i bill , and who do kn ow that most of it will go to the dry of - stock in the herd maternity bell ringers , wh o will be turned loose upon the homes of th e nation as fast as the system can be ext ended . The doctrine of the right of State visi tation and home espionage will not long be tolerated in a country whose sons re ce n tly emerged from a world war fought on the sublime theory of a world de r l u hi u moc acy. Wi l the sle t ng a thorized by this child- welfare bill ext end to the f ! u homes o wealth If not, the ho nds shoul d be held in leash . Bill s of this character are brooders sit ’ on ting vipers eggs , and the theorists and S hrin king Prog en y 1 63 alleged reformers who conceive and bring them forth, forget, or never knew, that substituting the new for the Old and tried l e d to the French Revolution whi ch abol i h d s e law and religion, renamed the weeks and ignored the Christian calendar, closed the courts of j ustice and trampled prop rt or e y rights, condemned to banishment of death entire classes the people , in the of u u l wake which sla ghter followed, nti u u the g illotine groaned nder its labors , and the gutters flowed with the blood Of the slain . Senator Reed in hi s crushing analysis Of the chi ld-welfare bill said :

One of the worst products of the late war was the idea that the State shoul d 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 shoul d be estab lish e d by law and the chi ld taken from its ’ mother s care and turned over t o public 1 64 Mat rimony Minus Mate rn ity

fii r of S o ce s. On top all that the tate was to take charge of the mother and pension so u her, that , being the s pporter of the ul mother, it co d assert the right to dictate u her course Of cond ct .

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

When we employ female celibates to in struct mothers how to raise babies they u in have bro ght into the earth, do we not dulge in a rare bit of irony ! I repeat I fl n cast no re ection o unmarried ladies . Perhaps some of them are too good to have B ut husbands . any woman who is too refin ed to have a husband should not un ’ dert ake the care of another woman s baby when that other woman wants to take care f o it herself . A wise man places all important tasks en in experienced hands . He does not 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 st ruct or u v u in m sic, an indi id al ignorant of its notes . I s it not the height of un wisdom to delegate the solution of prob

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on Lucul lian feasts . It is the e great uni — versal passion the sinless passion of sac rifi u m in ce . Incomparable in its s bli ity , t rf r n ul is e e e ce is sacrilege , reg ation mock r e y. M The great ohammed , foreseeing that the perpetui ty of h is creed would depend u O fl s rin of his ll pon the p g fo owers , wrote : “ ” Paradise lies at the feet of mothers . ’ On Sinai s blazing mount Divinity “ ” on : u ill traced stone Tho shalt not k .

Th e bravest b at t le th at ev er was fought ! Sh all I t ell you wh ere an d wh en ! On th e maps of t h e world you will fin d it n ot ’ Twas fou h b h e moth e rs of men g t y t . 0 ! Spot le ss woman in a world of sh ame ; With s en did an d si en t scorn pl l , GO b ack t o God as wh it e as you came s ri rn Th e kin glie t war or bo . CHAPTER XII

PREVENTIVES

THE agents of race annihilation extend their activities to the most unexpected u ur places . Good a thority states that a p v eyor of artificial checks on births sent advertisements to a clean English l ad j ust ut i o from school , advis ng him to begin at once to learn all about indispensable out for u h e fits yo ng men wis ing to s e life . In the leading cities of the world wo men have become hardened upon thi s sub j ect to the extent that they stop at the ul u shop windows , partic arly in E rope , where the devil ’s implements lie in plain u u u l sight, and very q ietly disc ss the q a ity and e fl e ctiv en e ss of the various articles u or with each other, witho t a twitch a blush showing on their enameled and powdered faces . di al c The renowned Car n Mer ier, in a 167 1 6 8 M at rimon y Min us Mate rn ity

hi s pastoral to people before the War , warned them that

An abominable propaganda , carried on u hl n ews a by means of lect res, pamp ets , p

per articles , and practical demonstration, encourages the suppression o f chil d-bear u mi ing , and ind ces parents to adopt ho cidal u practices , in circ mstances and to an u L extent hitherto nheard of . ittle by of fil little , into every class society, there u ters a series of rotten, nwholesome ideas , r which th eaten danger to the child , if they do not render parenthood wholly con i l t empt b e . Very soon parenthood will be v iewed not as a duty but as a burden so i u nconvenient that it may be, nay, o ght to be , thrown off. The British Medi cal Association in alarm passed the following resolution in 1 905

That the growing use of contra - con cep tiv e s and ecbolics is fraught with grave danger both to the individual and to the race , and that the advertisement and sale u an d u Of s ch appliances s bstances , as well as the publication and dissemination of u ul literat re relating thereto , sho d be made n a penal ofl e se .

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il ul h fr led r e, still after he was eight un dred years he begat sons and daughters ; but is u it q ite likely, the shifty , scientific sexual progressive of our day woul d re

gard hi s methods very crude . u Divine g idance of man never hurries .

God has no dials, calendars , nor clocks . ni Time ends the mort al . Eter ty is the hi home of the soul . On the ghway of the fleeting centuries an occasional John the Baptist appears to warn man of his sins and of the wrath whi ch awaits the human viper satani cally engaged in buffeting

M St . u us in h is u ohammed , A g tine yo th, and England ’ s Henry VIII never wrought a sensual thrill that h as not been augmented and refined by the pagans of

- t o day .

P . Archbishop atrick J Hayes , like John h e t Baptist, seeing the myriads of social

vipers in the present generation , on the of c 1 921 u seventeenth De ember, , iss ed a Christmas pastoral to be read in more than three hundred churches of the arch di c i o ese Of New York, in wh ch with an Pre v en tiv es 1 71 hercul ean club he bangs the heads of the of - pagan Sin patriots to day, who bathe , u e perf me , and bandage their poison d and scabby bodi es in whi ch their sin -seared u soul s are ho sed . The Archbishop commands his “ faith ” ful to keep from their homes any litera ture on birth-control as they woul d an evil spirit . The salient features of hi s warning are as follows

The Christ-child did not stay His own entrance into this mortal life because His fl u mother was poor, roo ess , and witho t provision for the morrow. He knew that the Heavenly Father who cared for the lil ies 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 l wil some homes with many, others with or but a few with none at all . They come in the on e way ordained by His wisdom: Woe or to those who degrade , pervert, do violence to the l aw of nature as fixed by 1 72 Mat rimon y Min us Mate rn ity

the eternal decree of God Himself 1 Even u fl tho gh some little angels in the esh, u or thro gh the moral , mental , physical h u deformity of parents , may appear to hi u a on man eyes deo s , misshapen , blot u civilized society , we m st not lose sight of u u this Christian tho ght that nder , and hi u wit n, s ch 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 of u the creative act God, who thro gh the marriage contract invites man and woman to coOpe rate ' 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 i the first instance , the body is killed wh le ul nl the so lives on ; in the latter, not o y a body but an immortal soul is deni ed ex ist n i n e ce in t me and in eter ity . It has been reserved to our day to se e advocated shamelessly the legalizing of such a di a oli l b ca thing . of of In the name the Babe Bethlehem, whose law you Christian fathers and u mothers love and Obey, stop yo r ears to that pagan philosophy, worthy of a Herod,

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hi S ll To S rtless atan, and his wi ing “ : ll scribes , I say One thing sti blocks ‘ — your way : Revealed Religion, not sired of but by reason nor born knowledge, rather the child of love and pain whi ch ‘lives between the rosy breasts of Hope ’

“ r u this d ive , a cr shed and bleedi ng vic u tim, from the garden of the h man heart and then your triumph will have been

complete . CHAPTER ! III

EYE OPENING A T PUBERTY

THE muckol ogists are Of the opinion that until they succeed in wiping out the u h man race , or in greatly limiting pro u budh ood u geny, the children, d ring , Sho ld u or be ta ght in school elsewhere , the of u so meaning sex al fragrance , 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 , u u and their modesty to r ino s familiarity, shoul d lead any clean man to cast such a suggestion from his mind with the energy with which he woul d expel a viper from

his l ap . ul Those who wo d have the bob veal , in two- old u theory, as wise as the year b ll in u nl u u practice , s cceed o y in aro sing c ri 1 75 1 76 M atrimon y Min us Mat e rn ity osity and prematurely stimulating irre spon siv e functional tests whi ch unseat the o f u valves the nervo s system, choke the i of su sow m nd with the carbon sen ality, fil ur the land with lies, fray nat al laws, burst the confines of morality and place ’ the sparrow s price upon chastity . The young of animals are born without mi u u u dwives , s ckled witho t r bber , teethed i u u u w tho t dentists , evac ated witho t doc u u tors, mat red witho t hygiene, and repro duce d n — ul of in ki d , as the res t a passive r u al — u obse vance of nat r laws , and witho t of the aid the smoky, nasty sexology which infests the minds of some o f our S O- called hin advanced t kers , who have not yet caught up with the reasoning of the an cie n t s but fl , whose in ated egotism prompts them to attempt a reconstruction of the

race . fl ul but fre The y, even, gives irreg ar quent attention to the subj ect o f seed i u t me and harvest, not only witho t the

u but . s ggestion of man, in spite of him Rational and irrational animal life is governed by the same natural laws formu

1 78 Matrimon y Min us Mate rn ity k u be t u l nowledge , corr ption prema re y ur drawn to the s face , for

Yout h is ev e r a t t o ud e in h ast e p j g , And os h e me di um in th e wi d ext reme l e t l . CHAPTER ! I V

DIVORCE

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 sh e ried her, and it come to pass that u find no favor in his eyes , beca se he hath found some uncleanness in her : then let of di him write her a bill vorcement , and give it in her hand and send her out of his house .

’ From that hour the se a of woman s de gradation grew deeper and its restless waves finally rose to submerging bil lows of sensuality on the crest of whi ch uff u she was tossed and b eted ntil , in the of i ul u centers the h ghest c ture, ga ged by 1 79 1 80 Matrimony Min us Mate rnity

l the mora thermometer, she ranked be l ow the beast . Thus did the human race continue to sow the winds and reap the whi rlwinds for cent uries until Christ explained that Moses sufl ere d the men to write a bill of divorcement because of the stony condi of s u him tion the heart aro nd , and , after reaffirming the law proclaimed on the com l etion of p Adam and Eve , He laid down the foll owing law on marriage :

What therefore God h as j oined to

ut u . gether, let no man p as nder Whoso ever shall put away his wife and marry mi another com tteth adul tery .

With the expansion of Christianity thi s divine precept sank deeply into the h u man heart ; it swept from the lap of the Christian woman the nasty accumul ations of centuries ; it ill umined her brow with the halo of purity and indelibly stamped thereon the ennobling titles of wi fe and mother ; it al so rescued from the dark and somber ni ght of sin and reestablished in

1 82 Matrimon y Min us Mat e rn ity lose Catholic England rather than to f u break the law o her fo nder Christ . Pope Innocent III compelled Philip u u u of his A g st s, the king France , to recall discarded lawful wife I n gelburg a of Den mark , and to dismiss from his palace the f hi r n i con sort o s bed Agnes de Me a e . Pius VII stood like a wall of granite against the dissolution of the marriage of Jerome Bonaparte with Elizabeth Patter

son . Count Bon i de Castellane of France wearied law and precedent in a fruitless e fiort to have Rome dissolve hi s marriage with Anna Gould . Luther and his brother reformer Me l an chth on decided that the Landgrave of Hesse was entitled to have two contem r po an e ous wives . The Calling of a Ch ristian Woman by M of Rev . organ Dix, a Protestant bishop 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 Div orce 1 83

the sixteenth century. It soon began to appear in the legislation of Protestant states on that continent and nearly at the same time to afie ct the laws of New Eng land . From that time to the present it has proceeded from one degree to another in u u this co ntry, ntil especially in New Eng land and in states most directly afie ct e d by New England Opinions and usages the Christian conception of the nature and obligations o f the marriage bond fin ds scarcely any recognition in legislation or in the prevailing sentiment of the com

The Western Reserve is a colony founded by New England settlers in Ash ul u tab a Co nty, Ohio , concerning which the census shows that on e marriage out f u di o every eight is s ndered by vorce . In the Northern Baptist Convention on 24 1 91 6 u u May , , pon the s bj ect of divorce of Dr . John A . Earle , president Des Moines College is reported as having said

I don ’t believe this convention Shoul d i dictate to the m nisters . There are many f r l hi j ust causes o di vorce . I wil tell t s convention that if my daughter shoul d 1 84 Matrimon y Min us Mat e rn ity marry a drunkard I woul d help her get a unk divorce , and dr enness is not recognized u u u by the Script res as a j st ca se . A reso l ution censuring ministers who ofli ciate at the marriage of divorced persons is not in accord with Baptist democracy .

Christ lik ely had not heard of or antici “ ” pated Baptist democracy when he said, Whosoever Shall put away his wife and ” ul marry another committeth ad tery. The Bureau of the Census of the De partme n t o f Commerce and Labor made a report in 1 908 on marriages and divorce for 1 907 the twenty years preceding , whi ch Showed that on e in every twelve marriages ended in divorce ; and that the divorce rate is higher in the United States than in any other country furnishing st a

tistics. 1 906 In the year , there were grante d divorces . M o f n Rev . F . M . oody Chicago o June 25 1 91 6 il ur u “ , , wh e ging pon President Wilson the necessity for controlling mar riag e and divorce by constitutional amend i h im ment, nformed that divorces 1 91 6 u had been granted in , and that d ring

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so l nl Christ, since He p ai y condemned di vorce and alleged it to be adulterous to marry the on e put away ! 1 86 7 t o 1 886 lu In Canada from , inc sive, nl 1 1 6 di o y vorces were granted . During the same period of twenty years there l 1 1 i were on y d vorces in Ireland . Does not a sort of progressive Mormon ism resul t from the divorce law ! Mill ions of women demanded the vote f u as a matter o j stice . Mill ions of men and women are demand ing the abolition of al cohol as a beverage because of its disastrous effect upon h u manity and the untold and far-reaching misery that it brings to mothers and help less children . Divorce destroys the home, s u break p the family, instills hatred in the hi for on e or c ldren parent the other, and often thr ows them into the cheerless lap of civic charity to be taunted at maturity s u with having been an alm house prod ct , ye t how many dry throats can be found outside of a single Christian denomina tion who consider the ill e fl e cts of the di or xu l l vorce, any other se a evi , in their Div orce 1 87 relations to mothers and children as wor thy of the notice Of veiled puritans who hypocritically caw from a popul ar perch in a cause which does not expose or re strict their secret sins or threaten their te mporal welfare ! Occasionally a cry from the wilderness of social sin is heard . Now and then a John the Baptist will take a chance on hi s head and denounce illegal marriages and ul u the ad teries fo nd in divorce stews . In a news item there is suggested par tial remedy based on the remarks of a u u u u disg sted and co rageo s J dge , which reads as follows — T OLEDO N 4 1 91 7. A , Ohio , ovember , l aw that will provi de 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 ofie re d by Common Pleas Judge

Bernard Brough . “ It has reached the shameful point where there is on e divorce out of every ” ur u u . fo marriages , J dge Bro gh declares “ Three times as many women as men ap f r ply o di vorce . This may indicate more 1 88 M at rimon y Min us Mat e rn ity men than women are responsible for di s t urban ce in the household . “ S ome marriages are really no more ” “ al a u . u than tri s , s ys the J dge Co ples make no pretense of establishing a home and living as sane married people shoul d . 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 ” - fiv e year marriage .

1 1 920 l Under date of April , , a eading New York paper published the following

- u Judge Joseph B . David to day q it the di vorce branch of the S upreme Court here and asked to be transferred to some other

ur . Co t On being interviewed he said , Far from being a stigma on a woman ’ s name , a divorce now seems to be regarded sh e as an asset by her , in that with one M s can attract more men . arriage mean but u little in this day and age , ca sing laughter rather than solemn regard . “ S u itting in this co rt every day , I have at last concluded that the more divorces at a woman has , the more men she can u tract . All that co ples have to do at pres ent to get around the divorce laws is to

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Another woman was cruell y crushed ” and her heart made to bleed by her h us ’ band s insisting on keeping the picture of an Old flame on the dr esser in their sh e sl eeping room, and when obj ected to it “ ul i sa I he wo d throw k sses at it and y, wish I had married that rosebud mouth f ” instead o a garage entrance . Another wife al leged

We were married scarcely a year before I began rapidl y to take on flesh and lose f the physical lines o my girlhood . His whole demeanor toward me gradually

changed . I took him to task in a kind way hi —“ I for s coldness and neglect . He said have seen better shaped animals on a farm ” u ur and yo r eyes are b ied 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 coul d free myself from the hi u horrid t ng . He la ghed in irony during u “ ut my desperate str ggle and said , I p f ” it there t o scare some o the fat Off. That experience haunted me for weeks and l fi led my nights with horror . I woul d leap from my bed in a cold sweat to escape the

imaginary pursuit of myriads of mice . l We a ways retired in the dark. One Div orce 1 91

morning on open ing my eyes I beheld a frightful black Spider swaying about two feet above my head suspended from the u u ceiling by a white thread . I d cked nder 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 b e him came very thin . When I asked why ut he p the leather table cover in my bed , “ u he said , To prevent yo r bones from ” splittin g the Sheets . The defense was that he married her for her beauty when Sh e was poor ; brought her to an attractive home ; that the mouse and spider episodes were intended as practical j okes ; that constant attendance at the movies had unseated her nerves and brought on nightmare and nocturnal twi tching ; that sh e still had the outlines of a Rehan ; that the leather table cover was u u of sed beca se a physical weakness , and u i that, as her h sband, he wished the priv lege of paying the expense of her burial . u The case was never tried . He s pported ’ her at her mother s thereafter .

. ar ack f r Mrs St st in her action o divorce, 1 92 Mat rimon y Min us Mate rn ity

u six testified that her h sband , after try of ing months 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 ; testin g 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 movi e and bridge money because

of the high cost of living . ul Gladys Patience, the mother of an ad t son u u and da ghter , so ght to have her mat rim oni al fetters j udicially melted because ’ of her husband s refusal to commun icate u with her except thro gh postcards , some of which read

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

Life is j ust a Slaughter house and we

furnish the bull .

h ! c u I am a happy man . W y Be a se ’ I m alone .

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u ul bea tif wives , were divorced by their respective husbands Henry VIII and u of Napoleon, beca se their alleged steril ity ; and Charlemagne sent his wife back to her father Desiderius because sh e bore

him no chil dren . u u u Yet Cato , Cicero , and A g st s were s moral cen ors , philosophers , and states a men, while Henry VIII wrote book in defense of the Catholic faith ; and Charl e magne was the greatest church-builder u u that ever m ssed pl sh on a throne . The French King Philip married the u of of a da ghter the King Denm rk, and after a single night sent her to her father un u of with an p blished letter explanation . Louis XI o f France return ed his wife M argaret to her home , explaining that her l hi stagnant breath roi ed s stomach . Women seeking a di vorce for every do me stic ill should know of the experience of an Afghan lady who sought to di scard u h her h sband for baldness . S e applied to of h o the Ameer Afghanistan, w , recog ni zin g the importance of domestic as well al u i u as government n ty and a thority, de Div orce 1 95

due fl u demor cided, after re ection pon the aliz in g tendency of feminine disrespect u for intellect al men with barren domes, that an example Should be made of the complainant . He accordingly ordered a vial of sour milk poured upon the h us band ’s head and forced the wife to lick it h Off with her tongue . S e was then placed ’ upon a donkey s back facing his tail and ordered to ride through the baz aar . Do mestic tranquillity has reigned Since in f the dominions o the Ameer . - u Of ninety fo r representative women, u 1 91 0 f d ring , conversant with af airs, and ’ members of the Women s Co- operative u l of u G i d, London, to the q estion whether or not they were in favor Of divorce by u u l - m t a consent, eighty two deliberately answered in the affirmative . These thoughtless and perhaps moral women may have been qui te unaware that they were advocating a licensed commerce x with the other se . American social conditions are fairly in dicated in the following news item 1 96 M at rimon y Min us Matern ity 2 1 — NE ORK 4 1 9 8 . W Y , October , Frank l u J . Gou d, yo ngest son of the late Jay u a Go ld , has st rted divorce proceedings h is M against second wife , iss Edith Kelly, accordin g to reports received here from il Paris by hi s friends . Incompatib ity of temper is understood to be the ground for the action . At the time of her marriage to Frank ul M - ac Go d , iss Kelly was a well known tress and had appeared in leading parts in Hav an a and in Th e Girls of Gotten ur b g . 1 91 0 The marriage took place in , a year after Goul d was di vorced from hi s first

M M . wife , iss Helen argaret Kelly r ul M s . Helen Kelly Go d later married

Ralph T . Thomas of New York who died , and then married Prince Noure ddin

Al a . Vlora , an banian noblem n

Another phase of social activity among l the wea thy, is described in the New York 1 Tribun e of 27 1 9 8 . use October , A new of the kiss as an instrument for sustained thrills has been disclosed . The plaintiff in a di vorce action charges u u u that her h sband, a wealthy man fact rer, of e n in company with the wife a dentist,

1 98 Matrimony Minus Mate rnity alties ul u c , and a threatened inferno , s ph ri

- and flame lapped . “ Some on e wrote that the chain will ’ ” gall tho wreathed with roses . Wh en the leaves of the rose of matrimony are no l onger bej ewel ed by the gentle dews of l fl a ove , soon aws appe r where formerly

- perfection reigned, and nectar sweating l of l u ips , the price bartered rea ms , po t de at of u fiance the approach a cr mbling idol , whil e di vinity in form no longer moves a f of lash o the Apollo a blighted love . fi ill ul ! Mites are magni ed, remarks w f ly ll u u ill distorted, explanations fa pon nw u l fi fi ing ears , g i t grows de ant, and nally the statutory key to the connubial lock f i drops into the lap o matr mony. Divorce is now crowding the banks of the Protestant social stream th roughout

the world, and elbowing for room in the l u civi co rts . ll Recently, the fo owing appeared in the u p blic press,

D 28 1 20 — ON ON u 9 . L , Jan ary , The post war divorce crush is steadil y increasing and it was declared to day that no dimin u Div orce 1 99

1 325 u tion is in sight . There were nde fended cases in the January list of di u vorce co rt, and a new list is being pre pared to take care o f the surplus cases . The big increase in divorces is attributed to the upheaval in social conditions caused by the war .

1 920 of At the November, , special term u u U New the S preme Co rt, held at tica , of on York, the seventy cases the calendar

- twenty fiv e were divorce actions . A number of h e - sexual-prowlers found on themselves sitting hot sand, when, in 1 920 of November, , at the close a revival f hi o . . . in the City Was ngton, Rev B F Mc

Lendon, a noted evangelist , leaned over ul “ the p pit and said , There is a certain man here who has not been true to hi s i hi fam ly or s religion . He is in the con r ati n - g e g o to night . If he wil l deposit a ten- dollar bill in the collection plate it will be taken as a token of his repentance and u nothing f rther will be said . If he fails , ” ll u I wi anno nce his name . The collection included eighty-fiv e ten doll ar bil ls and five notes askin g the evan 200 Mat rimon y Min us Mate rn ity

list u m g e to keep q iet, and pro ising the ten dollars in the morning . Divorce and remarriage is nothing short of rotary polygamy so strikingly exempli fie d in the lives of many luscious social

u - u p shers , eye so ght entertainers , and - i i bare skin idolaters , whose ch rp ng ama tiv en e ss frequently call s for a change in male sedatives . We are rapidl y approaching the condi tions in pagan Rome when, matrimonially, men and women were bound by ropes of f m sand . Martial speaks o a wo an who had uv l r hooked her tenth husband . J en a e fers to one who had introduced her n up tial couch to eight difie ren t husbands in

t . five years . S Jerome says there lived in Rome a wi fe who had married her twenty us sh h is -first third h band , e being twenty S wife . eneca , in despair, exclaimed “ l wh There is not a woman eft, o is a of di h shamed being vorced , now t at the most di stin guished ladi es count their years

sul but u . not by the con s , by their h sbands Hence woman—the Lord ’s answer to ’ Adam s wish and the primeval channel of

CHAPTER ! V

SE! UENCE

THE votaries of sensual pleasures with defini te action against progeny to check the vulgar aim of reckless racial fertil it ” l i y, as advocated by the E l s propagan ll u dists , certainly wi s cceed in eliminating their kind from the human family and in mul tiplying beyond their control that very

element which they seek to check. The Birth Control League may success ful ly work the easy soil of wealth an d make some progress with the so- called mi dl but i d e classes , when they str ke the of M hardpan the orthodox Jew, ormon, M m l s ohammedan, Ro an Catholic, socia i tic u German, and willf lly prolific Japanese , their crop hardly will be worth the har

vesting . u u In point are the remarks of Mrs . L l S of N l Re Loveland heppard , the ationa S e quen ce 203

21 form Association, who on December , 1 1 6 9 , said Mormonism has grown more rapidl y in u the last fifty years than any other ch rch, and to day one person in every Sixty is a M of ormon, and it holds the balance power, politically, in eleven states . If it gets control of two more western states it of can hold the balance power in Congress .

U of 20 1 920 nder date October , , the u u Japanese Excl sion Leag e of California , in its report states The Japanese birth rate in California is of l u three times that the whites , a tho gh the proportion of adul t femal es among the Japanese is less than on e -third that among i the wh tes .

Those who look upon the Mormons and Japanese as a social menace becaus e of their breedi ng propensities should realize that the onl y way to prevent their over running the United States is to out-pro geny them . u New wi u P ritanic England, th her clo d ll u capped granite hi s , once bore pon her 204 Mat rimon y Min us Mate rn ity nourishing bosom a narrow- mi nded but God- fearing people who raised large fami lies and frowned on frivolities til l their ofl sprin g commercially and politically dominated that vast territory . of ul The law the easiest way, stim ated fi by a spreading prosperity , nally wormed into the very foundation of a once un com

promising faith . Here and there the eggs of divorce found nests in the laps of affluent idl eness 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 ul timately beamed upon the

shattered moral shackles at their feet . of so Water and soap , the early symbols brie t a y and cleanliness , fin lly abdicated in favor of sugared rum and pious in con ti n n e ce . That society mi ght be served and u ul its pleas res f ly absorbed, the wearying u of on e b rdens maternity, by one , were on of u u laid the altar a s pp rating faith, “ ” til l now the New England Yankee is being gradually swept into the se a of

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votaries of any other creed ; still the pe r centage of her obedient ones is so great tha t sh e is rapidl y acquiring a numerical ascendancy over the combined Protest an tism of the United States . The religious census of the Uni ted 1 906 States taken in , for sixteen years of back , showed an increase per cent in the Roman Catholic churches ; and an increase in all Protestant bodies of per cent for the same period . - i i A non Catholic m n ster, Rev . W . E . Obse rv e r Evans, in the Accrington , made this pronouncement l i Un ess a m racle happens , according to the law of popul ation England and the whole Christianized world will some time — in the future sooner than some of us — thi nk b e overwhelmingly Roman Cath o lic .

In the first place , religion has had throughout the ages a very remarkable e f il feet upon the birth rate . Wh e Prot e st an t England, Calvinistic Wales , and Presbyterian S cotland bewailed the fact of a re the decre sing birth rate , Ireland — j oice d in an increased birth three per S e quen ce 207

1 000 l k e w . Roman Catholicism is i e the J ish religion in that it places great value upon chil d life .

A committee of the association of Irish Nonsubscribing Presbyterians and other Free Christians recently prepared a state ment for circulation amongst the clergy n u of l l o the s bj ect socia mora ity, which reads as follows ll In Great Britain, and especia y in Ire l i and, Roman Catholicism has an mmense advantage over Protestantism . In Ire land venereal disease may be said to be a u Protestant disease . Among E ro pean cities we find Dublin at the t op of the ‘ moral ideals and Paris at th e bottom . London as a whole is bad ; but Bethn al hi Green, w ch contains a large proportion f o . Catholics , is good Social conditions and poverty afiord no explanation of the f l bad state o things . In Catho ic countries al the decay in mor ity, as shown by race u i u s icide , coincides with dim n tion of the flu in ence of the Roman Catholic Church . The state of things in Canada is particu l arl u th o y instr ctive . There we have a Ca ul lic and Protestant pop ation, both u u u l eq ally prospero s, living nder exact y 208 M atrimon y Min us Mate rn ity

the same conditions in every way except

in regard to religion . The French Cana dian is a moral man as far as race- suicide hi s a goes , while Protestant neighbor is p

proachin g the moral abyss of the Yankee . - ui Aus In respect to race s cide Ireland , d tria , and French Cana a are the brightest

spots .

P u rotestant sex al frosts , the world over l are blighting their progeny fie ds and, ll l whether they wi it or not, their necks wil ultimately bear the yoke of Rome . While Rome woul d welcome evidence n flu o f increasing i ence and moral power, we feel sure that sh e woul d 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 u it national advancement of h man y, by ill ul u u w f reco rse to conn bial deceits , i u u wh ch , event ally, m st necessarily great ly reduce them numerically and finall y elimi nate them as a potent factor in the fiair a s of the world . Famil y after family are becoming ex co tinct, and their estates are passing to l

21 0 Matrimon y Min us Mat ern ity hostility against Catholicism very gener ally pervaded the colonists . By obeying the teachi ngs O f their ur dl Ch ch the Catholics rapi y increased, while their Protestant backsliders gradu ally drifted from their rigid moral Stand ards until the Old custom o f large fami lies amongst them was honored only in its breach . M of c A Catholic ayor Boston, a Catholi United States Sen ator from Massachu G of setts , a Catholic overnor that state , a M a Catholic ayor of Gre ter New York, a of S Catholic Governor the Empire tate , a Catholic Chi ef Justice of the Supreme Court of the Uni ted States and Catholic ll Foch Generalissimo of the A ied armies , must make Cotton Mather fume and spit as fl of n he paces the oor eter ity . Colonial whi skers and wisdom h ave long since been divorced— they no longer dom in at u of e the co ncils the East . The heat of prosperity gradual ly melted of Pu n ill kl the ice rita ism , t now shac e

- free , it has become a social dress and pray affair for the women ; whil e the men chant S e quen ce 21 1

but is mn i that love is potent , money o po a tent, and th t Hell even can be locked with a golden key. A new social era is rapidl y enveloping u the earth . The international war j st closed has uncovered to the proletariat his vast powers which are being used with the z eal of youth t o wipe out the long endured and slavishl y burdensome political and u u military a tocracies of E rope , and to force a more j ust distribution of wealth in this country Upwards of thirteen millions of for e ign -born are now living in the United S - fiv e of tates , who do eighty per cent 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 hal f the shoes ; constru ct four-fifths of the fur n it ure l uf ; make half the co lars , c fs , and shi rts ; t urn out four-fifth s 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 wh o live by their labor, 21 2 M at rimon y Min us M at e rn ity then tell thi s vast army to check propaga tion as their vul gar ofl sprin g is no longer a desired and th t 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 — e n t age then I warn the preventers and assassin s of the innocent to fle e from the u u wrath to come and seek their d go ts, as the cyclonic rage arising from the inva sion of human rights will sweep the devil ’ s u - r ur leag e, talented vipers , she vampi es, p v eyors of sperm traps and embryo las an d soes from the face of the earth , with less formality than that which hurled the Czar from his throne and sent his wail ing ’ soul into No Man s Land . It must be apparent to on e of thought that this limitation doctrine must ul ti mate ly di e from the weight of its own waste . u l on e Wedding bells, a happy co p e , il t ch d , social ambition , materni y revolt, s u five abortion , twelve years Of cr shing misery, a neat grave in Forest Hill Ceme t er il y, a second wife , two ch dren and a

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u Marvin Hart , pl mber ; Bill Lang, miner ; ’ O B rien u Jack , teamster ; Tommy B rns , - Mu hockey player ; Billy rphy, tailor ; S ui Jack Dempsey, cooper ; Bill q res , - M wood chopper ; Peter aher , brewer ; Joe

- Choynski , candy maker ; Jim Corbett, bank clerk ; Bob Fitzsimmons , black e firie s smith ; Jim J , boilermaker , and the of ul greatest Roman them all , John L . S l ’ ivan was a tinner s apprentice . of The noted sons poverty, standing ul side by side , wo d encircle the globe .

A . E . Waterson , who in boyhood b his egged bread from door to door, is a of u of now member the Ho se Commons . Jul ius Rosenwald advanced from a ” chromo sal esman to a partnershi p in of u the noted firm Sears , Roeb ck Com

ll . pany, and has given mi ions to charity u is Glen C rtiss , the errand boy, now a l - mil ionaire 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 ! S equen ce 21 5

While in our nation the di vorce viper Spits his virus on budding chil dh ood from f u the lap o co ntenancing law, the recently conquered Hun is planning to retrieve n u merical losses by government supervision over prospective progeny . A triune scheme provides for maternity grants , increased work in welfare centers r for women and children , and special p q 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 ofl s rin every enemy of p g , whether in the of form doctors , diseases , deceits , devices , or of S devils disciples appho , remember u ing that no nation, yet , has long end red u of u - nder the spell sex al wile weaving .

a - ul The we sel so ed women, who dole canned technique for fencing the ovarian t dl fields against virili y, ped e scandal itch and seminal germicides on the humani a tarian theory th t God, at last, has heard of the cries the poor mother in travail , shoul d be cantoned by the government i and condemned as Herod an descendants , 21 6 Mat rimon y Min us Mate rn ity uterus burglars and vampires of the in nocent . The towering intellects that have usu swayed and dazzled the world, have 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 u its pinchers , it no longer grips nor g ides limber Christianity contentedly lying in the gold- kissed lap of the growing ma rialism of t e the present day . In a press report of a gathering of noted M on 1 0 1 91 8 ethodists December , , the headline read Methodism Faces Futur e in Doubtful Manner Unl ess S ome Movement a Ch nges Present Trend, Says Cler man gy .

u P Dr . B rns of hiladelphia said In a period of heart- searching and in v e stigation 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

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of There were none the traditional sort . I asked the officers of most of the Alli ed forces in France , and they replied that u “ there was no religio s revival . GO to ” “

u s . the ch rches , they said , and ee S o I went to church after church an d found them empty. I attended a service at West min saw n n ster Abbey, and a few co v e tion al church attendants scattered throughout the chil l gloom and echoing ’ emptiness of that great tomb of England s dead . And when the clergyman mounted ul the p pit , it was to bemoan the fact , as “ u he said, that the Ch rch seems no longer ” “ influ able to lead , that it had lost its ” e c h e of an d n e with t toilers the world, “ that the loss was mostly the faul t of the

Church . Among the soldiers the two cardinal u u - sacrifi virt es were co rage and self ce , an d the two greatest Sins were cowardice n and selfish ess . The creed of the soldier was thus ex pressed by one of them : Look at that bunch of roughnecks there ! Not a on e of them has seen the inside of a ’ u but ou ch rch in years , I tell y they re real

h s . on e C ristian They love another, and S e quen ce 21 9

’ ’ for it s the real thing in loving , they d l ay down their lives for each other and i u div de their last cr mb with a comrade .

The following from Judge Lindsey ’ s Cosmopolitan article further illustrates the impression made upon the soldiers by prea chers who coul d not comprehend — S them as did the avior the fishermen, with whom he ate on the shores of the S e a of Galilee “ ’ i x M . . . We ve had s Y . C A preachers on e of here in the last two weeks , the “ ’ - men said to me . They ve been joy rid u us ing p and down the lines , preaching to u of abo t the dangers booze , women, and ’ . u u gambling And it s the holy tr th, J dge, ’ we re so sore that every on e o f us is feel ing like having a hell of a time with all ” h an t ree the first leave we get . I heard other soldier announce the arrival of a Y “ out ll l preacher by singing , We , we l ; S here comes Old Wine, Women , and ong ” a ! u gain Over and over, the boys wo ld “ sa siss fie d son of un u y, That i a g is sing u us p gasoline over here , to warn fellows u against the skirts , when he o ght to be down in the trenches where he belongs or 220 Matrimon y Min us Mat ern ity

’ ” “ get to blazes out 0 here . Or : What is ll -u u u that do ed p g y doing behind a co nter , selling cigarettes and living in the best ll u bi et in town , when he o ght to be soaking ’ ’ us with the rest of He s a fake . That s — ” what he is a fake !

’ 1 0 91 9 - l 1 . N n Apri , The avy s tha ks for the welfare work during the war were con v eye d to the Knights of Columbus head quarters t o-day by Acting Secretary l Rooseve t . “ Mr The department , . Roosevelt “ u of wrote , desires to extend the gratit de the officers and men of the United States Navy for all the many good thi ngs the Knights of Columbus have done for them u f u r d ring the war . The e ficiency of yo r o gan iz ation has been well matched by the constant desire of the individual worker of to serve the men to the best his ability . “ Its helpfulness and efficiency has proven a powerful aid to contentment and n ri fighti g spi t in the Navy . The department is desirous that your excellent work be continued and th at the naval service whether the country is in or u peace at war, have the benefit of yo r ' splendid cooperation . There is a very ” constant need for your services .

222 M at rimon y Min us Mate rnity believe that the onl y safe place for booz e n is in their ow Sideboards . Al l the thrills and sunshi ne of a drink

u ni . sho ld be de ed the poor Like the horse , they must be kept in condi tion constantly to slave for their hay and occasional oats and for the social swine who revel in drink

u - and wallow in waste . These dr g store beauties and dog- fondl ers can never ap pre ciate the wounds they make when they hand to a poor honest girl their cast off h fin ery . S e might gladly accept a new but on e garment from the hand of charity , that has been sinned in and bears the finger marks of the lecher leads the noble soul of pure womanh ood to shrink from rin the unclean ofie g . The working girl more hi ghl y prizes the calico of chastity than the Silk of Sin . di S . Accor ng to Royal Copeland, Com of of missioner Health New York, the “ ” 400 there have taken to the l ethi fe r ous drug habit and are vigorously defend ing it . dr on 1 1 1 91 8 In an ad ess , December , , in : Chicago , he said S equen ce 223

We are experiencing considerable dif fi ul t hi u c y in fighting t s nefario s practice , and are forced to meet powerful obstacles put in our way by the wealthy and influ i en t al . 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 u due u u -in r ption, to willf l , tho gh well tended e fl ort s at j uvenile sex precocious ness has made its appearance in the schools n n of fashi on and wealth . At the co v e tion of the Illinois Federation of Wo ’ u u S men s Cl bs , recently, Miss L tie tearns charged that in many fashionable girls ’ “ ” schools there are underground libra fil u x ries led with nwholesome se stories . Sh e said :

’ In my niece s i 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 on e book sh e put it back and got another . One book my u a Thr e e eks niece bro ght home w s e W . 224 M atrimon y Min us M at e rn ity

Literature designed to gnaw through the bars of virtue and to teach buddi ng womanhood that her lips are for h e -pas tura e o f Old g , and that in the words the is n song , everybody doi g it, and that the less sh e wears the more flies she will at i of u tract, is the k nd printed sl sh that sells and corrupts . u u of 2 The p blic press nder date April , 1 920 l , contained the fol owing 2 — NDON . LO , April Prevailing fashions ’ in women s gowns were vigorously as l in sai ed a sermon , recently, by the Rev . au e s Bernard V ghan , the widely known J uit Father , whose essays and sermons on morality and home life have for the last twenty years attracte d great attention throughout the world . “ Among other things he said : In days di n gone by la es dressed for din er , now ’ they undress for it Women s clothing u u o ght to serve three p rposes , of decency, f o . warmth , and of ornament Women in their mad craze for what is known as ‘ ’ emotional gowns sin against every canon

of . S u m good taste ch dresses are im odest, u u x n nhealthy, and as gly as they are e p e - - sive . Girls who follow the up to date

226 Mat rimony Min us Mate rn ity has opened smoking rooms for the youn g women who have demanded it . London physicians declare that there never has been so much smoking by wo m men as at present . It is a com on ex pe rien ce to se e 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 u ’ u Vampire Q een s st dio , and Vassar Col lege comes a chorus of approval . Another result of developing social b e u devilment, thro gh propaganda and per

sonal contact , is the female chromo . Roseate pigments worked in by the el ec dl tric nee e, in the hand of the tattoo ar i t u t t s , to have a bl sh rose int permanently u l stamped on their feat res , is the atest “ London fad amongst so-called society ” l u r - u adies . Abo t th ee fo rths of the aris — t ocracy carry tattoo marks generally — j ust above the knee and the designs are u fli or invariably dragons , b tter es , snakes ,

the family crest . A leading London professor of the art asserts that his patrons be long generally S e quen ce 227

“ u lu l to the pper classes , and inc de adies

of title and even royalty . According to government war-tax re turns American women paid u u for ro ge , powder, perf me, and lip sticks n 1 1 duri g 9 9 .

Mrs. . u Grace W H miston, a noted New

York City lawyer , in a recent address, treating of wayward girls and present day di a social con tions , s id

If the girl appeals to the police sh e is u u sh e set sent p ; if to the ch rch is aside ,

segregated , as not the person for other ’ hi sh girls companions p , and if e goes home i sh e s 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

j obs . It has been published that the “ White ” Door , in New York City, is a resort con ducted for the purpose of training young u girls for immoral purposes . The ho se 228 Mat rimon y Min us Mat ernity

keeper of this haven of Sin gave the keys to the District Attorney with the request u that he end its existence . This he ref sed “ to do , saying that the best men in New ’ York went there .

r um l M s. H iston re ates the pathetic ex erien c u hi p e of a yo ng girl w ch , likely, has been duplicated throughout the country thousands of times during the war for democracy by uni forms on the backs of i eager libid nists .

The man in question was a maj or 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 hi s 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 u was asto nded at the news and said to her, “ ” Y ou ought to be ashamed of yourself .

This shoul d lead the most hardened to “ i l uni h ow excla m Oh, mi itary form, many crimes are concealed in thy folds ! ” Our Constitution shoul d be a gushing fountain of j ustice ; and our flag a shel

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of they intended to make themselves . They answered We want to be Amer ican girls like the moving pictures . Have u l a good time, a tomobi es, and nice clothes . Imagine the kind of Americani zation these chil dren have had . of l of Then, there was the case two gir s flir of fifteen , who started to t with a man forty on a street car . This is what they “ ’ : a said to each other S y, kid, let s vamp ” u the g y. If something is not done to safeguard ’ the morals o f our boys and girls I don t f know what will become o them .

1 91 4 of G In , the black eagle ermany entered the dark clouds of war with a bird

of . ur Paradise , called Democracy For fo ul u years , with v t re beaks and talons at ’ a each other s he rts , they rattled all of the thrones of Europe and lacerated all of the constitutions of the world and sent ten ll s ul t e fiort mi ion of so s to eterni y, in an or either to expand the national hogyard, f to disseminate the blessings o democracy . At the end of the confl ict the eagle came u u t mbling to the earth, a badly r mpled S e quen ce 231

and bedraggled mess . The bird of Para of u dise had lost many her ga dy feathers , u ll her topknot, and the q i s from her tail , and while perched on the rui ns of mon archy billing and oiling the fragments of her once radiant plumage and surveying u of the devastation wro ght, the serpent Bolshevism uncoil ed 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 withi n its mighty folds is the tottering bird of Democracy. Th new social Behemoth has annihilated mo rality ; declared Sin to be a social myth ; woman the servant and playt hing of man ; children the wards of the state ; matri mony a social relation subj ect to the will of the parties and the Ten Command ments too arbitrary for the limber moral ity of the new school . u The days of mon mental wealth , pinch u hi ing poverty, imperial fops , cr s ng trusts and sable coats for queens of fash I on u are s rely passing . The Bolshevik hen is laying her eggs 232 M atrimon y Min us Mat e rn ity

upon our shores and hatching vipers that i u are spreading , like a pest lence , thro gh u r o t the land . Their doctrines and pu poses are clearly disclosed in a circul ar scattered in the streets of Seattle during hi the recent shipyard strike , w ch reads as follows

RUSSIA DID I T — Shipyard Workers Y ou left the Ship yards to enforce your demands for higher u ou u wages . Witho t y yo r employers are u ou helpless . Witho t y they cannot make — on e cent of profit their whole system of

robbery has collapsed . The shipyards are idle ; the toil ers have withdrawn even though the owners of the u yards are still there . Are yo r masters uil u u b ding Ships No . Witho t yo r labor power it woul d take all the Shipyard em pl oye rs 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 ’ sable coats for millionaires wives . It is ou u y alone who can b ild the ships .

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ou overthrown , and that y , the workers , u of u m st take over the control yo r j obs , u u and thro gh them , the control over yo r lives instead of offering yourselves up to six the masters as a sacrifice 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 z half a million, cared for by a do en valets of u u and a corps of tailors , nor fab lo s ’ 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 u ul ll whelmed in its t rb ent bi ows . Those of us who are of the Protestant faith might as well look at condi tions as

. on e on e ar they are The stones , by , e our dropping from the walls of temple , and its very foundations are threatened our u by own Spirit al indolence , monetary l z idolatry, matrimonia co ening and di vorce paternity . We are now harvesting mostly cockl e through accumul ated neg fi lect of our wheat elds . S e quen ce 235

Our perversity is stampeding the our fl shepherds of ocks , 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 o f a

- self confessed, Slipping and withering

Christianity, which is magnified in the thousands of crumbling churches at the u co ntry crossroads, tenanted by bats and u owls, a lingering reb ke to the pagan de scen dan ts u of former Christian fo nders , u fi u ’ who , cent ries ago , cha ng nder God s ten restraining laws and boiling with re u u bellion, like birds , chattering and t rh On u l lent , bent a less b rdensome mora hygiene, spread their wings and with their “ doctrine : Faith is sufficient unto salva ” u tion p shed their beaks , charged with of u the poison falsehood and bigotry, nder u of the co nterpane a creed , which had u ul bufie te d of s ccessf ly the Storms Schism, the powers of thrones and the legions of

u . darkness , for more than fifteen cent ries for In time , entirely ignored by their r u mer Ch istian associates , and h ngry 236 Mat rimon y Minus Mate rn ity

from eating out of the empty bowl of “ ” “ ” u faith witho t works , they soon grew quarrelsome and fell to pecking each ’ i other s heads . New denom nations and church buildings gradually sprang up in of l — all a l centers civi ization , c l ing them

selves Protestant, with each sect protest u ing against Rome and each other, ntil , u e nder its c aseless discords , and grace mi less i tation sacraments , it has finally winged itsel f. In point are the Observations of Dean Welldon of on u , England, who , Febr ary 4 1 920 , , said

’ The world is rocking under men s feet . Society is threatened by forces which re pudiat e the Christian faith and the Chris u u tian moral code . The Ch rch r ns grave risk of losing her infl uence upon national u life . The decadence of regul ar ch rch going has long been a cause of an xiety . a The statistics of divorce are larming , and it may be necessary to rebuild human mor u M h als from the fo ndation . eanw ile the Church is di sregarded because sh e is di u v ide d. It is too m ch to expect the world

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How many ministers dare , from the u u p lpit , to tell their people that nless they keep the commandments they “ shall be ” damned .

- With too many fair weather Christians , u f going to ch rch is a social af air , and not ’ a place to have one s sins inventoried or ’ n u u o e S conscience pricked . If a co rageo s preacher, with a proper concept of his u u out clerical d ties , sho ld cry to the low h im necks and snowy Shirt fronts before , l as did John the Baptist , in the wi derness , “ to the Pharisees and Sadducees : O gen e ration of ou vipers , who hath warned y to ” fle e from the wrath to come ! like the ” - u Golden mo thed 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 u ister m st preach to please the people , hi and does s best on an empty stomach . - of In a second class city the state , ten cl hi ergymen have resigned wit n a year . S e quen ce 239

One Baptist clergyman ha s taken to can

- dy making, and two of other denomina tions have thrown up their commi ssions and entered politics . Since Henry Ward Beecher sold a Slave ul girl at auction from his p pit, many fads have been unavailingly introduced to cen t ralize interest . ” u n Babe R th o the diamond, and ” Billy Sunday on the platform are now the leading swatters of balls and Sins . — O fl s rin of Prohibition the p g cranks, of the forger chains , the illicit still and - u ora home brew inc bator, the assassin of bu - tory, the mental g breeder , the friend f - i o the grave digger , is the prol fic mother of of a vast army hypocrites, sneaks , mi S cri nals , and Bolsheviks , who , amson l u l of ike , will proot the pil ars faith , and beslime the goddess of morality as did the f viper the hand o Paul . flour The weeds of the fields , for a time , ish and scatter their baneful seeds which u spring p and choke the plantings of man, f till harvested by the frosts o autumn . w il Fads and frivolities, like the eeds , w l 240 Matrimon y Minus Mat e rn ity

u n u bloom in ch rch , state , and ation ntil of the grace God , when He Shall be so u ul of pleased, shall again lacq er the so s 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 . i - The append x extrication fad , which enabled women to talk of their operations instead of their neighbors at social func s run u tion , has its co rse , and this intes tin al switch wil l be permitted to serve na ture hereafter instead of the surgical ex in hi pert quest of fat for s bank account . The Oregon State Medical Association at its convention in Portland, reported, “ u of u 5 1 920 nder date J ne , , that opera tions for removal of the appendix are g o u ing out of style . M ch that was called appendi citis in recent years was not that ” but . at all, plain stomachache The smoke of immorality is very dense

. U of in France nder date Paris, March 26 1 920 , , we find this printed

The League for the Reform of Dress an d Theatrical Morals issued a protest

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The di agnosis of the malady is not diffi hi f ul . a c t There is , first , t s crazy seeking u of ter artificial am sements, generally an unpleasant kin d ; there is a love of di splay that runs to the utmost eccentricity ; there is a wave of criminality ; there is an un u rofit e e rin ni di sre scr pul ous p g , a cy cal o f sufl e rin gard g , a mad desire to get u rich q ickly, no matter by what means , and there is a reluctance to do any genu Y ou al ine work . can visit any capit and you will find these characteristic stigmata . Thi s pathological condition is certainl y f M ’ u the legacy o war . en s mental o tlook in has changed . Those who were sober , dust rious z citi ens , content to rear their families and to walk usefull y and humbly l in the world, are now stricken by the wi d “ ”— notion of ha ving a good time a good time that means the easy earning of ques tionabl e money, its prodig al dispersal , u n on roduc forgetf lness of the family, p of u tion necessaries , hopeless conf sion and ff incompetence , which a ects private as

well as governmental persons , and a low f u of in ering o moral val es , a debasing ll t e e ct .

The limber Christianity of to- day makes no more impression upon their sin- seared S e quen ce 243 soul s than the tread o f a pismire upon a of block granite . At the dawn o f the colonization of this u co ntry, it has been written that

u on The women were rob st, worked the u farms in the b sy seasons, reaping, mow on ing, and even plowing occasion ; and the h um of the Spinning wheel was heard in

u . in domit every ho se An athletic, active , - able , prolific, long lived race . For a u co ple to have a dozen children, and for a u all the twelve to re ch mat rity , to marry, l i to have arge fam lies , and die at a good s ul Old age , seem to have been the r e rather than the exception .

Remember that the mi crobe of immor ality works slowly but fatall y in the dark f u recesses o h man paste . Since the Pilgrim fathers greased their u boots with ham rinds at Plymo th Rock , an d our antecedents dyed their breeches ui of u u ull with the j ce the b ttern t h , and astride of a rail whittled through a horse of i trade , and tacked the pelts the enem es of n on ut the hen ery the barn door, and p u u c u do ghn ts in the ontrib tion box, many 244 Matrimon y Min us Mat e rn ity

a of strange beasts , in the sh pe new tastes , s habit , desires, and passions , have come to or us from other shores, have reached us

on our own . the tide of, blood When it enters a man ’ s head that he can toss flat water cocktails under hi s belt with the safety that a rooster crams corn into hi s crop ; or that he can frequently cast the tappings of his virility into un u u sanitary pockets , and m ss p every Thamar at the crossroads ; and that the “ us r creed of reason is Let eat , d ink , and ’ for - di be merry to morrow we e , and when such sentiments acquir e general ascend u ancy in any nation, that nation is j st as u di e l l s re to of mora and physica leprosy, as is a country parson to pass the plate ’ u when there s a stranger in the ch rch . 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 fi Elysian eld . In my boyhood th e child and its dairy met in the homespun maternal lap ; in my manhood I fin d that spot draped in

246 Mat rimon y Min us Mate rn ity v il — wiggle , constipation pose , and into the stinkin g p al atial odors that have pol luted the air for more than forty cen ri tu e s. How soon these society sprouts feign to forget that many o f the ancestors of un w the social b gholes ith whom they herd, t u worked , and S nk their way across the hi ocean in cattle s ps , while clad in wooden shoes and lin sey-woolsey mother-made so ul of shirts , which were f l crawling , energetic life that it woul d require the spit f t . P o S atrick to banish it . The social flummery that has oozed out f l of of o the bowe s wealth, with all its of enervating tendencies , is the mother a i u t o- moral condition in th s co ntry day, i u wh ch , slowly yet s rely, is sapping the man and womanhood of this republic and preparing it for the day when a warn f hi l ff ing o t s kind wi l be sco ed at, when the m n buffoon will be preferred to the states a ,

- the money lender to the preacher, the u hi of l j g to the c ld , and the song the har ot to the dulcet tones of the vesper bell . S e quen ce 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 t odian of the State seal ; contempt for the t u u di u Consti tion, the co rts and in vid al rights ; pernicious dema gogy on the stumm the Slavery of the political boss ; the monetary corruption of the el ectorate ; 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 bej eweled skirts before the throne of the S dazzled olomon, and then exchanged u u Spices for precio s stones , deceit , fra d, and criminality have prevailed in all the f relations o man . In business we have the tax-dodger and 248 M atrimony Minus Mate rnity

the import-duty swindler ; the scal e-pan doctor and the fresh- egg fraud ; the milk waterer and bob-veal vender ; the paste diamond j eweler and the black-di amond un derwe igh er ; sanded sugar ; wooden n ut megs ; calves-liver coffee ; bastard phos phate ; stone- pasted Silks ; fake corn and pile cures ; oleo butter ; beef lard ; fish - oil l inseed ; plaster- of-paris lead ; Peruna hi u f ’ l w skey ; D f y s hypocritical ma t ; paint, coun ty history and atlas swindlers ; coal tar dye food- 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 swindl er ; worthl ess stock vender ; salted mine exploiter ; short yard stick ; concave dry measure ; impure ru seed, fake art and g dealers ; dishonest road-builder and crooked overseer ; lying auto salesman ; h e av s-doping horse trader ; hard- times match and kerosene merchant ; the grocery pass-book padder ; the j ob u - u bing pl mber, making forty eight ho rs out of each twenty-four ; the Elgin butter

250 M atrimon y Min us Mate rn ity

-fixin - hi Price g , stock gambling , wels ng , ffi un i o cial bribing, commercial pl der ng, u destroying evidence , croaking b siness al - i ul riv s , panic breed ng, forging , defa ting, ur u embezzling, perj ing, sed cing, eloping, and home-busting have occupied the re cent attention Of men in the gilded walks f o life . Social and business tendencies make the outlook as di smal as the e fl orts of the

t . ancient reasoners to locate hell . S Thom as was of the opinion that it was in the f hi center o the earth . W ston contended

that it was the tail of a comet . Swinden w strenuously asserted that hell as the sun . Some early theologians held this and ex plained the spots in the sun by the multi f tude o soul s . u l ifi N mberless , se f sacr cing mothers s and spin ters , living and dead , with lives u ul as clean as the nblown snow, sho d be distinguished from those of their sex who i Shi rk duty and toy with s n . r The clean woman, whether pagan o i l Christ an , always has been, and a ways

us w . will be , with , as the follo ing proves ' S e quen ce 251

While I have shown on e side of the pic u of u ul t re woman, I am not nmindf of the ul M di S on immac ate ary, whose vine , the of personified pledge God to man, by His hi so example and teac ngs, leavened the ’ dough of man s activities that he was fin ally led proudly to adorn the brow of woman with the ennobling titles Of com n pa ion, wife and mother . u In the first cent ries , the hen of Chris tian ity hatched many a pullet that defied sufl ere d u the pagan cockerels , and tort re a fi and death, rather th n to sacri ce to the st ubn osed of or gods the temples , take the rofiere d f p apple from the hand o Satan . Among the brightest j ewels in the mas sive crown of early Christian womanhood we fin d u of fi l Fabiola , the fo nder the rst hospita “ in of St . : h Rome , whom Jerome said S e

was the praise of the Christians , the won of u der the Gentiles , the mo rning of the ” poor , and the consolation of the monks . u dl Dorcas , the q een of the nee e , whose handiwork turned the bleak winds of the 252 M atrimon y Min us Mat ern ity Mediterranean from the poor widows and f children o Joppa . u Genevieve, a pio s and patriotic ur of maiden, whose co age saved the city f l Paris from the scourge o Atti a . u ul l Olympias , the bea tif and wea thy wi nl u dow, vai y so ght in marriage by the u noblemen aro nd her, a princess in liber l u hun a ity, who p rchased the freedom of dreds of slaves and sought the comfort of the sick, the imprisoned, beggars , and

exiles . Moni ca is noted as a wife who never u ul ttered a reproachf word in her home , a mother whose prayers and tears re claimed from Sin and gave to God the

St . u u matchless A g stine . P ul a a , who owned a whole city in Italy, descended from the Scipios and the Grac chi of n , and one the richest women of a ti ui t u - u q y , a fo rth cent ry patroness of u h co- ed cation and philant ropy, a worker f hi s u o St . Jerome in warfare pon the cor u of r ption the age , and who lived as a but u l h os slave gave as a princess, b i t a l u pita , monastery, and three n nneries ,

254 Mat rimon y Min us Mate rnity the bastards of the Sin -busted Antony ; of B oade cia out , who , to avenge the name of raged womanhood, having been stripped u ffi i and sco rged by Roman o cers , rall ed the Britons to her standard and led the conflict till she sent seventy thous and Ro

- ul . man so s howling into eternity TO day, innumerable intellect ual and sain tly wo men can be foun d on every rung of the as social ladder, with moral breaths sweet as the rose , and whose maternal instinct , u oak r gged as the , often has led them into of the valley of the Shadow death, and whose unsullied characters and lofty tues woul d adorn the most exacting civ iliz ation . Since the war closed our American civic i u h ghways have been b rdened, and the public Oppressed and buncoed by a bewil dering number of alleged charity and up u lift fads and schemes , freq ently organ ize d for personal laudation and often in spirited by the vision of a swivel chair i and soft j ob in the d stance . “ America for Americans is bein g pounded into the human ear from all S e quen ce 255

angles both by patriots and paid exhorters , many of whom are mentally un able to sense the frightful resul ts that would fol l ow in the wake of a strict application of

this doctrine . Is there not danger of carrying the agi t ation 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 requi red for f r the production o ou marvelous output . Labor in this country is now at a pre u t o mi m, with a growing inclination

shorter hours and higher pay. The gates of Castle Garden have always swung land ou u ward and if y go back far eno gh, 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 on e hundred years later than some of those us o who have preceded , it does not nec s sarily follow that that citizen is a less f patriotic member o the commonwealth . We have always had agitators and 256 Matrimon y Min us Mate rn ity — tongue traitors in our midst every na i tion has them ; we w ll always have them, but u so out , as a r le , they are few and al spoken that they are gener ly well known . Remember that the wealth at the top of our social struct ure comprehends but ll f ur u a sma portion o o pop lation . The laboring element forming the foundation for our social structure constit ute perhaps n ot to exceed twenty-fiv e per cent of our i i l l people , wh le the great m dd e c asses form the bulk of our population and will always stand as an impassable barrier be on on e tween arrogant wealth the hand , and sometimes unreasonable labor and n agitators o the other . We need as laborers a mill ion or two more men to aid in the basic production f ur u u u o o co ntry . This rep blic has a rep t ation the world over of being the freest and safest habitation for man known to

the human race . A propaganda Spread throughout these Uni ted States to the e f feet that foreigners are n ot welcome or that as soon as they arrive here they must h u f z go t ro gh a system o Americani ation,

258 Matrimony Min us Mate rn ity the first and second loans and fourth r place in the other th ee .

What we need in thi s country is a thicker mixture of morality in our Na tion al carburetor ; fewer divorces and more prayers ; less dry insanity and more mental lubrication ; fewer professional chil d-kill ers and birth- control propagand ist s on e , on the hand, and larger families , on the other ; more S unday church fre quen te rs and fewer bed loafers ; more mi ni sters who wil l preach the gospel of us salvation as it came to from the Cross , rather than the gospel of salvation made easy ; and fewer men who worship at the of wh o shrine the dollar and vastly more , “ out from a contented heart , can cry , Give me neither beggary nor riches : give me f ” only the necessarie s o life . If our nation endures it will n ot be by her armi es and her fleets alone but more u a u u partic l rly thro gh clean , p re men and i fl women in whose veins w ll ow red blood , and in whose hearts will repose a patriot ism such as bo isterously roamed the breast S e quen ce 259 of General Warren when he said ’ ” sweet to die for on e s country . ou for If y want peace , prepare war . The nation with the largest bank account will most likely be the successful warrior u o f the future . B t back of the money and the guns must be the fighter . To have u fighters , mothers m st teach chivalry to their offspring They must say to their ’6 1 sons as they practically said in , and as the Spartan mother was accustomed to “ a M son u s y, y , ret rn either with thy ” shield or upon it . And the fathers must have flowing in their veins the blood of a of Hannibal , who at the age nine years , n in a heathen temple , took an eter al oath of mi o f Al en ty against Rome ; Ethan len, who demanded the surrender of Ticon der “ o a g , In the name of the Great Jehovah ” and the Continental Congress ; of Law “ ’ ” u rence , who said , Don t give p the ship ; o f Perry who sent that immortal message “ from Lake Erie , We have met the enemy and they are ours . u dl u Parents , treat yo r children kin y, b t

fi ml . Set r y before them morning, noon, 26 0 Mat rimon y Min us Mate rnity

of liv and night, the example Christian

ing . Tell them that no nation is greater than its men and women make it ; that the constant bufl e tin g of any immoral ity gradually wears down the finest physique ; that if they hope to be credited with the u of manhood, co rage , and bravery their u an ancestors , they m st live as did their ce stors ; and that no nation can long en dure in the hearts of whose people immo

rality slumbers . In the medical profession there is a of small percentage scavengers , whose imin c cr al practi es , like polecat exhala m of tions, tend to besli e one the noblest callings t o whi ch man has devoted his i u gen us Since the Esc lapian days . The cl ean men of the medical profe s sion, by reason of direct contact with the - o evil do r, 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 resul ts by shack l il ing the prince of ev , the priesthood and of u al ministry this great rep blic, princip

262 Mat rimony Min us Mate rn ity

“ l : u ing wea th Tho fool , this night thy ” u f soul shall be req ired o thee . hl hi The obstinate , fait ess , restless , gh power seeders of sin will not be checked in u their nefario s work by prophecies , par l ab es, commandments , sermons , threats f or u God for o hell , the j dgment of , , like the biblical fool , they have said in their “ ” hearts There is no God . “ ’ ” The sin -fre ely s of to -day feign this belief as a conscience cover . For appearance only are thousands of church pews warmed by canting hypo sin crites , who pray by day and by night, and affiliate with some popul ar satanic move , as a smoke screen . These disciples of the pagan school of matrix scavengers , embryo assassins , ma t e rn ity-regulators and farrow-women n ot breeders , who heed the command, ” Thou shal t not kill ! constitute a greate r menace to our country than any Bolshe vik doctrine whi ch has ever been shaken u from the brain of man by social nrest . ou Oh, atheist, if y are Sincere , stand il l with me before the templed h s , beneath S e quen ce 26 3 l the star it dome , look into that wilderness of worlds moving on without chance or u u change, cast yo r mortal eye pon the blinding light and shriveling heat of the sun u u , color the pansy with yo r br sh , pro duce the scent of the skunk or the musk u deer, chain the lightning, q ell the storm , s control the season , calm the raging bil u u lows with yo r o tstretched hand , heal the

sick, give Sight to the blind, define life , h anni ilate 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 . ou or Whether y believe it not , the fact remains that the Christian religion is all u pervading , and for two tho sand years it has bufie t e d immorality and crime in ll every form, and led the wi ing along the hi f u an d ghway o j stice right . Its ten i conscience wh ps have been its only laws ,

u - and by and thro gh them to day, it mor ally rul es more than a third of the human u ul of race , and the bea tif story the life of Christ has been told to all of the peoples f i o the earth . No race has ever been d s 264 M at rimon y Min us Maternity

covered which did not believe in a super r n atural being O a God in some form . Cardinal Gibbons wrote Every philosopher and Statesman who has di scussed the subject of human gov e rnme n ts has acknowledged that there can i u u be no stable society w tho t j stice , no u u l j stice witho t morality, no mora ity with out u religion, no religion witho t God . The pagan philosopher Plato said It is an incontrovertible truth that if God presides not over the establishment of nl u f un a city, and if it has o y a h man o da al tion, it cannot escape the greatest c ami u ties . If a State is fo nded on impiety and on u governed by men who trample j stice , n u it has no mea s of sec rity . Long before Plato lived the same senti ment was expressed by the Prophet who said U u u nless the Lord b ild the ho se , they uil l labor in vain that b d it . Un ess the h Lord keep the city, he watc eth in vain

that keepeth it .

l mill ns of hi In the Bib e , io of copies w ch u l uni are printed ann a ly, scattered ver

26 6 M atrimony Minus Mat e rn ity

u of f h the destr ction also good faith , o u of ll of man society, and the most exce ent

u u . virt es, j stice

of u u Solon Athens , Lyc rg s of Lace a um of u d emon, and N a ancient Rome , b ilt all social fabrics upon the cornerstone of religion . Voltaire said

It is absolutely necessary for princes and people that the idea of a Supreme B e ing, Creator, Governor, Rewarder and ul on Avenger , Sho d be deeply engraved i the m nd .

Rome flourished under the religious “ f policy of Num a. The vessel o State was held in the storm by two anchors , religion and morality. The great endurance of the Roman re public is traced by historian s to the nat u u l ral virt es exhibited by the peop e , and the downfall of Rome is attributed by Montesqui eu to the doctrine of Epicure an ism , which broke down the barrier of religion and gave free scope to the sea of human passions. S e quen ce 26 7

on Cardinal Gibbons , in his book Our Christian Herita e g , makes this Observa

Toward the close of the last century an attempt was made by atheists in France to establish a government on the ruins of n h ow religion, and it is well k own signally they failed . The Christian Sabbath and u festivals were abolished, and the ch rches f r closed . The only tolerated temple o wo u hi ship was the criminal co rt, from w ch j ustice and mercy were inexorably ban ish e d u sat , and where the j dge only to con n demn . The only divi ity recognized by the apostles of anarchy was the goddess of reason ; their high priests were the exe cution e rs ; the victims for sa crifice were un ofien din g citizens ; the altar was the scafl old ; their hymn s were ribald songs ; u and their worship was l st, rapine, and bloodshed . They succeeded in a few weeks in de molishi n g the social fabric which had ex ist e d u for thirteen cent ries , and De “ L ame n n ais says : They accumul ated more ruin tha n an army of Tartars coul d ’ ” have left after a six years invasion . The old colonial piety which gripped the hand of poverty has dep arted from most 268 Matrimon y Min us Mate rn ity

of the hearts of the now rapidl y vanish f ing, wealthy, low combs o Plymouth

Rock ancestry, whose daily lives are a

gilded lie . Y ou will al ways find God with the hon u hi est, str ggling poor . T s fact was rec ogniz e d by the signers of our Declaration of Independence in which they wrote

An d u of for the s pport this declaration , with a firm reliance on the protection of u u Divine Providence , we m t ally pledge our our u to each other lives , fort nes , and ur o sacred honor .

There are thousands of college-made

sh e - atheistic bachelors , whose social pass port is a shredded ancestry or the gold of u i l b s ness pi ferers , who parade the streets , m u picket their ene ies , assassinate the rep t ation s of opponents , invade Congress and l obby state legislatures in furtherance of schemes to eliminate statutory restrictions upon their nasty work , and , finally to boss di and rect , from a salaried swivel chair , f the social and sexual acts o humanity . hi of Pro bition, the mother crime , the

270 M atrimon y Min us Mate rn ity 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 buil d their hill s in unsen in l t e e d American homes . The social boll weevil and pink bell worm are at work in the tender shoots of u u u yo th thro gho t the land , precipitating e ul a degenerat race of Cagots , who , ti our ll mately, with nation, wi perish from the earth . S l l If the avior amented over. the mora s of u u u the Jer salem Jews , He wo ld s rely give them a passport to heaven after standing on a busy corner of a modern u city for a single ho r . There is a story that the transporting ’ “ ” of Cimabue s Madonna thr ough the ol d streets of Florence , in the days, blocked traffic and stopped business . Can on e of u imagine , even, the enactment s ch a scene in any modern city of the world d ! u or to ay Babe R th, Jack Dempsey S e quen ce 271

M u ul September orn pon a city street, wo d come nearer blocking traffic than any saint or painted concept that ever walked f the earth or bloomed in the brain o art . The writer does not feel that the entire but world is sliding into hell , 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 u u u cl bs and g ns , if necessary, to break p the spawning places of the h e and sh e l sti of our u sce e c enemies race and co ntry . “ BRETHREN : It is high time to awake out of sleep ; for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed . The night

: us is far spent, the day is at hand let off of therefore cast the works darkness, ut n f and let us p o the armor o light . Let us as : walk honestly, in the day not in n un rioti g and dr kenness, not in chamber en ing and wantonness, not in strife and u u vying . But p t ye on the Lord Jes s n ot for Christ, and make provision the ” fl t o ulfil l lu . esh, f the sts thereof

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