Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-04-05


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bAFrler 70 laer absolute freedom. she
! considers 4 most yexat.oQs tang 10
have happened Aad processes thai shs
cAanos understand il At all. TIE con
astson having been admitted she pro-
eseds % change q aud tnsart the en-
TIRE plan and purpose of the Creator
shen be commanded the Inhabitants
OF tae earth to Increase aud mGltlplY.
/ The dla1elieal deed Is dous- The white
hands are stained with blood. TIE
good woman h4s committed murder
zone tue lsss certainly than has the
man VINO shoots . fellow mortal
/ through the heart. For time al goes
vel. oDs participates IA the pleasures
| for which she battered her soul, and
wnlle che dances 10 vosup.aous orehes-
trial music her soul dances ~ the
| devils tune OF death. Her health gives
way under lnsidious disease and the
surgeons knIte brings only temporary
relief. Ia her d2rkened chamber the
guilty creature Lee and suffers I'll
death brings = changes ls for the
better, think your
sswiax the seeds sf Crime.
These women are not 10 be pited.
They should be plainly branded with
the word Cam, the nsm OF the first
murderer. Criminals such as they
should De Stunned, feared, hated. IL
: such women As these who, when they
do labor, bring forth the soul distorted
beings wnose inevitable goal 10 the
prison cell. They are the mothers or
fools, OF beings intellectually ana NOR
ally weak.
When did this crime first suggest
itself to your asks the father eonfessor
10 the condemned murderer.
My mother endowed me with u
when abe conceived me-" answers the
wretch who was doomed before birth.
pebauchery OF the moral sense Is not
the least OF the evils resulting from IN
fanticide. Humanity IS slowly but
surely awakening Ia the fact that ante
natal murderOus instincts cannot be
| obliterated. No method OF training, no
teaching however careful can erase the
mothers mark or the fathers imprint.
Master of the Woman.
There are wonderland q most pitt
able class are they-who are the vic
Tins OF their lords pleasure in more
senses than one. He recognizes no
rights but MS own, aud will brook no
abridgment of them. He Is man. He
IS master of the woman. He will as
sert mis- rights and embrace all his priv
Ileges. 10 Is be who breads the coming
OF the little stranger, for the maternal
instinct Is inherent IN her nature. In
shame and agony she carries out the
base and cruel plans OF her protector.
Then, with failing strength and broken
health, she ceases to be an attraction
for him. and he for whom she has
slnned irrevocably goes in search of
new pastures. Her reward IS intidel-
ity-and perhaps It IS better so; then
may other women see and take warn
| ing. The man who deliberately ruins a
woman and then causes her death Is
usually punished by law; but if death
comes only 10 the less helpless he
escapes with good conscience. Pub
lie opinion, fortunately, will not toler-
ate the death OF the mother.
A Case In Point Cited.
The Mcdowell case is . notable ex-
ample in point. This man deliberately
ruined the lovely daughter of a How
ard City physician. He brought her to
this city and kept her in a room rented
for the purpose. There he tried by all
the desperate means known 10 rascality
tn prevent the girl becoming an
acknowledged mother. In that room
she suffered the agonies of thousand
deaths, neglected as she was. and un-
supplied with the most common COM
| forts. She died. The authorities IN
/ vestigated, and for once bastard
wretch met his partial deserts. His
trial ended IN conviction, and there
were bitter regrets that he could not
be swung from the borrid gibbet. The
prison walls closed upon him for n
time, but gubernatorial leniency set at
| large q man whose bones should have
been picked TO glistening whiteness by
the crows. Oncelfree ne had the temer-
| Ity TO venture into the town where
F, his lecherous nature first ruined the
white soul of the girl whom he after
wards murdered. Ii can be related
with satisfaction that mis- reception wa
totally unlike anything he had ever an
| ticipated. The citizens rose up en-
masse and pelted him with sticks. stones
and every effective missile available.
He entered the town by rail. and he de
parted by the same route pursued by
an angry and justly vengeful mob who
could not brook his existence upon this
fair earth. A few more such scenes
and child murder will fall into disre-
pute.
Thou Shalt Not Kill.
When Will women learn that crime is
no less a crime because it is has become
habit with them. When will they
learn that God intended the mandate
Thou shalt not kill" to be obligatory
from the first inception Of life. He did
not forbid the killing of those VINO had
passed n certain age, nor did he say
that any person under n certain age
might be killed. He forbade the tax
ing Of humanlife. The mother who has
borne ten children may excuse herself
for killing the eleventh, but she will
find IL difficult matter to explain atis-
factorIlv 10 the Deity. The woman
who sees poverty and want staring
her in the face at every turn, may
deem that a good reason to evade the
additional burden by killing IL. In
curry and little attention 90 the sub
iect will prove. however, that such
women are not the ones who system
atlcally sacrifice their own offspring.
The woman who has borne ten children
q beyond reproach in that respect.
She cAnnes be called n murderess. for
her ten living issues bear witness to the
fact that she permitted them to live.
And everybody knows that poverty IS
no incentive to tie crime though II
furnishes occasional examples Child
rem are called the poor mans blessing,
and be IS usually supplied with a
soodly allowance.
The Penalty OF wealth
Investigation and statistics viii show
that n - the vell-to-do middle class and
wealthy upper class who invite horrors
IN this way They love ease and pleas
ure and shrink from pain and care