The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-05-17
In Vain Did the Emperor Of Rome
Offer Premiums for Families Anon
the Mobiles and the Vigorous VAN
dals and Gotfls Swept Down Upon
the Doomed Nation.
(Chciago Tribune.)

(ChciaSO I~rlDune.)
Society and club women who shun
motherhood and perhaps lavish their
ELECTION on a pug dog. came under
the verbal lash Of an eloquent priest
| last night at the mission Of the Paul
ist fathers in Holy Name cathedral,
Father Isidore, whose travels as a
missionary have taken him into many
countries Of the world, discussed
Grace Suicide with combined fervor
and bIuntness that at times startled
the large audience, even thought it
had come prepared for plain speak,
ing,
Aside from his warnings to indivld-
| uals, both men and ONE he pre-
dicted-and even now saw coming to
Ipass-the destruction OF the ace that
first possessed this country, driven
out Of power and displaced in it's pos
session by the more vigorous child
bearing immigrants from foreign
lands. ignorant Of the tricks by
which UP to date Americans escape
the burdens and duties OF parent
hood" AS Rome fell so will the Uni
ted States fall before the in%rushing
vandals, he said.
Il have noticed that there are
nan crusaders who show an inten-
perate zeal against such petty vices
as cigarette smoking. card playing,
| Sunday baseball and other matters
iAAoS&L tIAA LIZ "a
Often these critics are politicians
who seek to curry favor with a class,
vet deny outright their own sin.
What Is the secret motive behind
these noisy reformers, these intern
perate fanatics? Why do they de-
vote their lives to hypocritical attacks
on the incOnSequential?
"One nan said to me, when I was
seeking the explanation, that II was
because these persons had lost their
hold on the people and SO were try
ing to attract attention by taking up
fads. Another man said they were
merely PhariSees, but the man who
seemed to me to hit the nail on the
head said they We're casting sops to
their own cOnscienceS. These meddIe-
some persons, he said, are commit
ting sins In secret and square it by
Incorporate public zeal against beer
drinking, baseball, etc.
These are the persons that strain
at a gnat and swallow a camel. One
woman rants a the boys are al
lowed to play marbles for keeps, yet
she never had a child OF her own, al
though old enough to have had a
dozen. Another woman goes through
the streets piucking cigarettes from
the lips Of boys and tells falsehoods
about priests. A MAI who is divorced
and has two living wives would de-
stroy the juice Of all the vines and
the rye.
"AN OF these incidents Indicate a
national warped conscience. What are
the practices and sins these hypocrites
are trying to hide IN their own lives?
First In importance Is race suicide,
Whfch Is the most destructive evil
among civilized nations. Those who
are guilty are worse than the dive
Keepers. Under their cloak Of respec-
liability they are more wicked than
the M92d9lnnA in TIA dives Dn.o 49,.
eide defeats the purpose OF creation.
which is to reap a crop Of souls for
heaven The sin weighs heavier in
the scales Of God than the utmost
W~lckedness Of the profiigate.
Il as / think of the possi-
bic Shakespeares. the W~aahingtons
the IAncoins, that are sacrificed to the
modern hatred of paternity. But ma
ture will turn and avenge. What
worse fate can befall a nation than
to be exterminated? Yet all OF the
proud nations Of the world SO ner-
ished- The emperor Of the Romans
offered premiums for families among
his mobiles. yet all in vain. The Wig
orous vandals n Goths, who knew
not the tricks OF race suicide, swept
down upon the doomed nation and II
persisted from the face Of the earth
Look now at our own ha1ghtv
nation. 1t, too, is perishing, it's lead
) ership is vanishing. The rugged men
and women Of foreign lands are pour
ing into this country, and soon viii
have possession themselves OF Ire
power and wealth. It is d reuibution
/ Of heaven.
Society women. club ONE say
they will lose their beauty of face
and form if they raise large families.
that maternity will compel them 70
remain away from their clubs and
{ out of society. What greater happi-
|. ness than to see your own eautv ~,
tiply in your children"
In illustration, Father Isidore cited
several families. He quoted Mme
: Schumann-Heinck as saying her yo,cs
improved with motherhood.
"And she has eight" he added q,
which there was laughter.
without children women often are
Mithered hays at 40. ,rhaso aa.