The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-01-28
RACE SUICIDE.


injustice done to children in large families, where
the parents unable to support them properly,
and after due consideration, those present came
out strongly in support of 'race suicide"
The members of the society may be very amiable
ladies, well meaning and devoted to the refor
nation of the world than to reforming their own
homes and families, if there be any. Their mania
for reform is progressing backwards to pagan
civilization which was supplanted by Christian
civilization that made the home and the family the
basis of society. Women societies when divorced
from Christian principles in all their movements
become restless, capricious, and changeable. Never
satisfied with "well enough" imaginary evils must
be discontinued. Society since the introduction Of
Christianity, has been topsyturvy, no innovation
that has been tried and partly settled. has
ceeded, so experiments have be introduced.
Only last year the President of the United States
deplored what the "WOMEN'S SOCIETY for
Political Study this year condemns. Nearly all
the papers and periodicals commended the Presi-
dent for his bold stand and Christian principles in
defense OF the family. This year the ''Wonien's
Society may cause a revolution in public sentiment
which is always fckel and changcablc Why! Be
cause people are never satisfied with what they are,
with what they possess. The dispatch says
"The discussion was started by the reading of
the weekly municipal report 1t developed that The
society desires antpauperism laws that shall
restrict the propagation of the human species. The
speakers expressed the belief that such laws would
furnish the solution of the child labor question, OF
over-crowded schools and all other complaints that
hang upon the rapid increase of children"
Poverty discussed in the club of the
"Women's Society" is regarded as an evil. But
every evil that affects society should be egislated
against. Therefore, ETC. How establish the first
proposition From pagan standpoint, it may be
true, but not according to Christian ethics. Many
Kings, Emperors, mobiles and wealthy persons under
the benign influence of the gospel. and example of
our Lord gave up their wealth and chose poverty
voluntarily, vowing to possess no earthly goods
Yet possessing nothing they had all things" Ac-
cording to the logic of the "Women's Club all
these abandoned good. and inflicted evil ON them
selves. But" say our modern women" poverty
breeds discomfort and leads to vice and crime, They
are menace to our school which they overcrowd.'
How establish this. Were all, like St. Anthony,
st. Phillip Nero, St. Francis of Assist, and thou
sands of others who observed evangelical poverty to
the letter criminals because they were really poor!
Are all, who poor, disconnected. Judged from
the standard of The Women's Society for Political
Study which means political aetheism, it may be
true but from a Christian standpoint no. The
rich man, mentioned in the gospel lived sumptousy,
Lazarus begger full of sores Frustrated himself
at his feet, and begged for the crumbs that fell
from his table Was the wealth of Dives a good
in itself and Lazarus poverty an evil But the
i L Il.
lieve in it. the people demand political and social
reforms, and whatsoever wants to be abreast of the
times must conform to the spirit of the aye. But
the spirit of the age, expressed by our New York
female society is, that society desires antipaupef
ism laws that shall restrict the propagation of the
human species" Those estemable ladies. like the
London tailors make a demand of the legislators
presumably of the entire country to enact laws
that viii restrict births. Will this be an anti
nuptial law! Do they want to abolish Christian
and give as a substitute what is termed !
Free-Love! Even this satanic movement could not
succeed" in restricting the propagation of the hui
man species" Are our young men and women. al
ready toerably well instructed in 'the race suicide
science" to be still more enlightened by the law
makers of the country.
w 1lL OuI uoucTu Free Lovers WHAT tneN term
marriage is simply love stripped of duty and obi
cation. This love- they teach is transient sent-
ment beyond the control of man and woman When
it ceases, the sacred tie of marriage is dissolved
and it is longer lawful to live together as hus-
band and wife. With our free lovers there is no
marriage without love, and where love ceases mar
riage relations is crime. But where this mutual
love is, and long as it lasts, marriage relations
is pure and holy. This is the doctrine of Free
Love-" which THE Women's Society for Political
Study" would adopt for their race suicide scheme"
For the wife and mother-two sacred names-thev !
would substitute the barren mistress for the home
the club room and all this in order to restrict the
propagation of the human species" Then they
want legislation that would make the mistress more
honorable than the wife, though not more secure in
retaining that love for the mistress who too. in
time. will likely fail to please her ordy master not
husband.
One more remedy, to prevent the over crowdne |
of the schools might be suggested 1t marked the |
last glimpse of the civilization of Pagan Greece |
and Rome. 1t to allow the father of the infant
born to decree whether the child should be allowed
to live VIII the members of "The Women's Society