The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-08

whereby she can preserve both them aud her
own reputation. And il is probable that not
many married women who are too poor or
even who are too hesrtless to rear their own
children are heartless enough to pursue such
a course or courageous enough to run such q
risk when the burden and the peril may be
alike avoided. No possible facilities that the
public might provide for the disposition of
illegitimate children would do much towards
encouraging the immortality in women against
which such heavy social penalties are already
in force But very limited facilities to that
end would suffice to check the graver crimi-
nality of child-murder. The moralists who
denounce any attempt to limit the spread of
contagious diseases, and who belong TO the
same school as those moralists who used to
denounce and possibly who still denounoe
the erection of lightning-rods as flying in
the face of Providence" will doubtless
object to this device for relieving innocence
from the penalties of guilt. But objections
from such quarter we can afford to dlsre-
gard. The Tribune, which expressed while
ago q desire to secure the infliction of an in
evitable penalty of mortal disease upon any
man guilty of proaigacy, and also, by infer
ence, upon his wife and his children to the
third and fourth generation, would doubtless
insist, as it is logically bound to insist,
equally upon booming to death the children
of unmarried parents. In that positon't the
class which makes its living by the murder of
unborn or newborn infants is with it. But
we trust to see it made manifest that the
common sense and the humanity of New
York are against it.
An opportunity is now, by a curious coin
cidence, opened to New York TO manifest its
benevolence in the most practical way. The
revelation of this grievous social bane is fol-
lowed by tidings of its social antidote. With
flna nn,,N &c Nlo NI,a
probable punishment of the child-murderers
comes the announcement of the progress of
the child-savers. The nucleus of Found
ling Asylum which already exists, thanks to
private charity, now appeals to the public for
the means to expand itself into public and
permanent institution. The Sisters of Charity
of the Roman Catholic Church, whose asy-
lum, straitened and obscure as it has necessa-
rily been, has already wrought incalcuable
benefit, have taken for its uses larger build
ing than that which has heretofore housed it.
They have obtained grant from the Legisla-
ture of 500, 900 for their noble work upon
condition that an equal sum shall be other
wise contributed. quarter of this sum has
already been privately subscribed, and a fair
is to be held at the armory of the 22d Regi-
ment in Fourteenth street, during next week,
of which the proceeds are to go towards
raising the remainder. 1t is not to be sup
posed that the deficit will not be nearly, if
not altogether, made up. 1t is to be hoped
that no sectarian feeling may be allowed to
interfere with the exercise, so freshly proven
to be a needed exercise, of the Characteristic
munifcence of New York. Other sects may
properly be stimulated by this example to go
and do likewise. And a public institution,
altogether unsestarian, may properly be pro-
jected But the field is ample for many more
laborers than are now employed, and, what
ever we may afterwards design or do, our
first duty in the premises is clearly to
strengthen the hands of those who are already
WORKING in it,