Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-06-29
Plain Eallc On g Plaln subject.
The question Of child murder In
al stages.
a Lady in he slg0uEney NeWal

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social victim Of a man, and the poor /
girl, the female gossips say, las there /
are no acknowledged male ones) a
few months ago was an intense relig-
ious enthusiast, which only proves /
she was q negative person and easily
influenced by magnetism or psyche
logical surroundings, which in a
measure accounts for the result which
memorable nature, true TO itself, has
revealed to the world, and the world
has come down with its usual Judge
ment In a most unchristain manner.
One sister, who processes to love
Jesus, (womsn's true friend would
prefer burying her daughter to such
disgrace. No mother has been
heard from yet who would prefer
burying her son to having him bring
disgrace and ruin on some other
woman's daughter, according to the
present oOnventionalism of society.
7 would like to ask all such mothers
what the world would have done for
an Admiral Farragut, an Abraham
Lincoln, a Stephen A. Douglass, Fred
Douglass and many others? If the
mothers Of such men gifted as they
were, had died without the crown Of
womanhood in the shape Of such
worthiee, would the world have been
the gamer or loser? That is the
question; each can decide for them
selves.
I can fancy some prudish soul ex-
claiming: That sounds like an en-
dorsement of llegitimacy." Not so.
These things have and are occurring,
no one will deny. No one person can
control the masses and in view ofthat
/ fact, let every woman who has gone
through the valley and shadow Of
death 20 bring human soul into the
world be treated humanity, for she is
/ just as good IN the sight Of God rs
] any dne lady who rides in her car
riage and pays her hundreds to her
/ physician to enter the inner temple
and destroy the unborn germ. Ac-
cording to statistics there are annual
] " $4,000 infants, IN all stages Of en-
bryotic life, destroyed In the general
holocaust by mothers that to all ap-
pearance lead Christian lives and pay
literally to foreign missions to en-
Tighten baathen mothers and prevent
them from throwing their children
into the river Ganges.
I believe that the woman who gives
her child to the world, though illegit-
innate, should have more respect than
the foeticidal sinners Of the present
generation, and their name Is legion.
All true women viii be startled by
these statements, but they are facts
nevertheless At present, society has
two moral codes for the same sin.
Under one the man goes scot free
lis merely sowing his wild oats
first rate fellow though, so many
women and most men think. Under
the code, the woman is UNANIMOUSLY
branded and wears the scarlet letter
as Hester Peryne Of Puritanic fame
wore it; if not embroidered IN cloth
still the mark is there for evermore
A lifetime Of generous deeds and no
bic acts viii not effaee the stain from
poor woman's character.
Let all parents welcome the prOdi
gal daughter as well as the prOdiga
son. The seducer and traducer o
women may hold the highest Office Ii
the land and is fawned upon ans
petted by women themselves. bl,l
; sympathy is with fallen women an,
! against men, as women, under al
: circumstances, are the greatest suffer
ers from a physical standpoint an
mental also. Let every mother Sc
to It that her children, and especial
her daughters, are educated In regar
/, to sexual science nov do not vote m
= vulgar). lit is vulgar TO teach you
children important truths IN regar
;, to the relation Of the sexes, you migi
as well cali the fact Of the sex vulgl
which no physiologicaily informe
mind viii for a moment think Of d
ing Children properly informed q
this question which, IN Imp0rtanc
a underlies all other questions, VIII
G. fortified against injuring themselv
q OF others.
5s Task al women 60 at least ire