Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-11-25
WHO is RESPONSIBLE
FOR THE SLAUGHTER
OF THE INNOCENTS
An Unnatural Mother

These words formed an attractive
headline in a recent newspaper.
Information followed concerning the
trial of mother and daughter for the
murder of an illegitimate child.
Where was the unnatural father,
the man who should have been the
murdered her offspring?
1t is reasonable. judging from Gus
tom, to presume that he was safe in
the arms of pure and loving wife.
surrounded by children, acknowledge
ed by the world as legitimate. and who
live in blissful ignorance OF their out
cast or butchered half-brothers and
sisters.
Who is responsible for this whole
sale child-murder. which is reported
daily from every city. village and
hamlet?
Parents who fail to teach their sons
that sin has not sex, are responsible.
The woman who steels her heart
against an erring sister and smiles
upon her destroyer is responsible.
The law that adjudges illegitimate
the child born of unmarried parents
is responsible.
1llegitimate parents there might be,
but illegitimate child there never was,
for who dare deny that the pure soul
OF the child comes in obedience to a
divine law. which sets at naught all
human DEGREES. and the man who fails
to acknowledge and provide for these
gifts direct from the soul of the In
finite, and acknowledge the mother,
charges. is guilty of the chiefest of
crimes.
Shall the Infamous unwritten law of
two standards of morals for the sexes
continue the most blighting curse of
the world. or will pure woman rise in
her might and say that erring woman
is no greater sinner than erring man?
Woman has long enough been the
scapegoat of immoral man.
Is it not time for respectable. hone
and intelligent women and men to
call halt on this atrocious crime
against motherhood and innocence?
Not many years ago prominent
man of this state married woman
who had been considered indiscreet-
not depraved, She had nursed him
back to life from what the physicians
had pronounced a fatal illness He
was a moral leper. but possessed the
saving grace of gratitude. He loved
the woman who had nursed him back
to life; he married her. He believed
that his wealth and position would sus.
tain her against the prejudice of So
ciety. He was mistaken; his friends
protested. His wife was snubbed
and finally ostracised, while he contin-
ued to enjoy the society of pure wo
men and be treated royalty by his
friends.
The persecution of his good friends
against the woman he loved grew too
much for her sensitive soul and she
suicided.
AS he gazed on her lifeless form, he
was stricken with remorse because he
had not turned from the heartless
world to the woman whom he loved.
who had been his friend and worship
per. and who was his moral superior
The attention OF friends failed ia
soothe, failed to bring the cordial of
and one sad day whe,
his burden OF remorse was too great
to bear. he. too. suicided. and joined
the woman he loved in that land
where II is no crime for woman and
man to help each other out of hell.
This is one of thousands of like
cases occurring in our beautiful land
Of equality and justice every year.
Who is responsible for a slaughter
Of the innocents?
Who will take up the battle against |
outraged motherhood?
The sin Of man must be measured |
by the same system as the sin OF wo-
man. Not until it is will the angels |
,ease to weep and Christ to mourn for