Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1855-10-24

proceed with the secont hrinch of Mr..
Seymour's investigation, availins ourselves Of
the same condensation of his statements:
,. As to tvegches o. The Ssrenh Commend
n,enf.-Mr. Seymour takes first few of the
great capitals commencing with Lon Ion. The
Registrar Generals returns to Parliament of
the number of births in England and Wales
for 1852; gives 7S 300tor the London division,
which contains a population of ? 362 ,23s. Of
this number 15 ,097 were legitimate, and 1903
iilesitimate, which shows that only -four per
cent of the birthssin that great metropolis Of
the world are illegit,mate; and the returns for
the previous year give the same proportion.
Now. in Paris, twenty years ago, according
to NJ. Query. in the Sict;s'ique Morale, the
proportion of illegitimate to legitimate births
was tol 17-100; and the Prcfect' S returns for
1850. published by the Bureau DIS Longi nies,
give the total number of births in Paris for
that year as % 62S. of which Is 921 were le-
gitimste, 9707 were illegitimate. In other
words. in the c,ptal Of France, twenty years
ago. 35 per cent, or more than one Third of the
native population were bistaris!
Turning next to Belgium, the constant
boast Of Popery Tie government returns for
1850 give the total number of births in BaUs-
sf:Ls at 52S,, Of which the legitimate were
3i4s, and the ilegtinlate 1893. making the
iIegitimate births about So per cent; ne,r-
IL one fhird of the whole Yet, even this de-
p.oralle state of things is better than the con-
dition of ropish MrSIcH, the capital of Bava-
ria. By the returns for the year 1851, the to-
1 r
OF those 1852 were Legitimate, and 17O2 ilegit-
inatel In other words, -forfy-cighf per cent.
or near one half of the population are illegiti-
mate i'la .s't' So
Turning next 10 VIENNA. We find from, ihe
statistical table prepared by the imperial COM
mission, and published there in 1882, that the
totsl number of births in that city in lS49 vas
/ 19 I'll, of which S,sS1 were legitimate, and
/ II. 500, or considerably OVER ONE HALF, were
4 ilIegitimate: and from the same tables, it ap-
/ pears that the average yearly proportion Of
4 illesitimate to legitimate was, from 1880 to
I 1898 Al per cent and from 1889 to 9S47, As
/ per cent; and from 1913 to 1851, FIFTY-oN e
/ per cent In other words, in one of the most
/ Popish capitals in Europe, bastardy
/ stet tdi!y increasing for twenty one years, un-
1 til more than ONE HALE of the births lille
/ gitimate! Does the reader exclsim: Can
I TINS have any parallel in the c:yiiiztd world :
! Yes, it HAS a parallel--aye, and is iar outdone
in another European capitdl-aId that is the
! holy Cisy Of Rome. We have found that the
! Pope and his Cardinals have taken good care
TO publish criminal returns of their coun-
try. Bat from the Italian statistics collected
by Mittern.aier, it appears that the yearly
/ average of toiindlings exposed in the city ct
Rome is $3.50, while the annual average of its
/ births is 1881, This is a city containing
/ exclusive Of priests, monks, and nuns, about
135,OO0 souls. And it is stated in DR.. Bow
strings Report, that 73 per cent of these
wretched toundlings die in the Roman found
ling establishments. One may we'll question
if S dom and Gomorrah exceeded this. And
Yet this is the CT Of Tie Church, containing
Pope. many, Cardinals. % bishops, 12oD
priests, 2yS2 nonks, 169S nuns. besides mum
'bers OF ecclesiastical pupis! Nearly three
fourths, or about sEvENrY-ruKEE per cent OF
: all the h.llrcn born at Rome are .fouadiings,
while in Protestant London the numoer OF IL
legitimate births is only EoUR per cent!! 1s +
Mr.. Seymour, having thus cou;rasted the
moral results oi Z frotestanisIn and Popcry in
the great capitais OF. Europe, proceeds to exiIi-
bit similar contrast bet@eeli len OF the prin-
cipal cities of Protestant England, and as ma
ny OF PopiSh Austria, and shows that in the
former the average Of births Oat. of wedfock is
SIR in every hundred, which is sad enough to
tell while in the LITTER it is for. y-tteo, or Sc
ven times as bad as in the English towns. Mr..
Seymour then inst Itutes similar comparisons
between otli'r countries, with the like disad-
vantase1us results as to the immorlity of the
7 Romisa religioaists. Bat We are disposed 10
shorten these painful details, which only
show too plainly how well Rome mas earned
her apocdlyptic title: 'sBabyiou The Grsit, the
MOTHER OF HARLoTs, and denominations of the
Having exhausted the space we.can ailut tn
the subject in the present number of this mag
azine, We close our facts az to Popery and
prdvity, emitting mass OF others we had in
tended to bring in Where the proofs are so
conclusive a needless accumulation of tn N is
worse than snperhuous. Here. we rest this
3 branch of the subject, reserving for ano, b Il
occasion the presentation of thy causes Of the
degraded s:ate Of morals in Popedon. These
+ W. think, can be set in a clear light, and dis
tinctly traced to the moral theology of the false
Church of Rome. = ss.'N -t9e nl-a+ z s'.~
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