The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-04-25

man life. The destruction of the life Of the en-
bryonic seed of a living soul, is only the less cruel
that the being has not been and therefore there
has been no means of calling forth that yearnlng
towards their offspring, which even the lower ami
mails share with human creatures The streams OF
infant blood now crying out against this land Will
never be stanched till the blood of those by whom
has been shed has paid the penalty.
With lawless lust, relentless cruelty is ever
associated; and the only way to stop the is to
attack the other in its fastness. The root of the
common infanticde which we deplore, is buried in
the low moral condition of our people That no one
who knows anything about it will deny.
The crimes of germicide and infanticide are
threateningly serious and the question is, How
are they to be dealt with Religious training of
the young religious education and deyout practices
are the only sure grounds of virtue. And this train
ing and education must be given in the school and
in the church. for long experience proves that, in
the present age it is folly to trust to the parents
Then against the professional ahortionists against
the consenting victim and all concerned in pre-
natal murder when the crime is proved the severity
of the law should be unfailing and memorable. No
partial legislation desultory efforts will avail to
decrease this fearful crime of infanticide in the
womb which is deuging our country with innocent
blood, and calling down the wrath of Heaven upon
H.
But this crime, after all, is but the symptoms OF
disease much more widespread; it is but the poi
sonous fruit of a tree, whose roots buried deep
in the rank uneultured soil of the human heart. As
God gives the increase to all spiritual graces so the
Evil One as certainly brings murders out of i'm
purity If then, we are stop the atrocous crime of
prenatal murder. we must strive to check that
which gives rise to it-unbridled lust.
We contend that only by the sacramento system
of the Catholic Church can the human will under
our present civilization, be fortified to resist the
temptations of the flesh. Another time we will
deal with this contention let it suffice for the pres
ent to hear Miss Frances Z. Willard, the phanthro
pist and temperance advocate express herself on
this subject when she returned, years ago. from
visit to England,
Miss Willard has been dead little ten
years.
q am Protestant. but there is no blinking this
fact; the Catholics are. in this country and in Eng
land and Ireland ahead of us in social purity. You
can take Protestant family into London stun
and put them into room at the right hand top
of the stairs, and then put a Catholic family the
other side of the stairs and you will find after two
three or four years. half of the girls of the Protest
ant family have gone to the bad, and all the mem
bers of the Catholic family have retained their vir
tue. How is this ] tell you frankly. it
is because the priests have preached sedulously in
the confessional and in families the duties of par
ents and children. In this matter of purity, the
suit is, | say openly, moral miracle. before which
we Protestants have reason to bow heads in
shame" (The December Ave Maria, quoting from
the New York independently
The reason for the moral miracle lies deeper than
Miss Willard has probed or could with her Protest
ant training probe.