The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-01-24
MOTHERS CHAMPION WORKS FOR
POOR MOTHERS PENSION IN EVERY
STATE.

1t is not very much of a lump from
Bibles to mothers, and SO it is perhaps
that Henry Neil. rich publisher of Bibi-
cal literature, has become the greatest
champion of mothers to be found in the
United StateStoday-a champion who is
doing but very little talking and very
great deal of acting.
Neil whom they call out in Illinois.
'the father OF the Mothers Pension Act, "
is the first man who came to believe that
every State in this Union ought to pay
all dependent mothers specified sum OF
money each and every year, upon which
to rear their children. thus putting a
check upon institution bred children.
! whom he declares never reach their full
powers because of the lack of mother
love
God never meant that little children
should be brought up in big groups like
fields of cabbages, else he would not
have given them mothers"
Children respond to love-not to ma
chine made love, but to real, human
mother love, for which there is no sub
! stitute, not even in the most wonderful.
most scientific institution in the world.
And that is the reason that Henry Neil
is giving up a great deal Of his money
and also a great deal Of his time, to go
about the country, asking the Legisla
/ lures of some forty odd States to change
their laws, so as to provide pensions to
! INDECENT mothers.
/ The laws which takes poor mothers
babies from her, and which are now op-
! erative in nearly all of our common
| wealths, " says Neil, "workS this nation
! II Il IL, q
many of our future citizens by running
them all through similar chopper and
it wrecks the lives of the mothers as
WE'LL"
"A child is an anchor to any moral
woman. Take that child away from her
and she has nothing to live for, and moth
ing to strive for So nine times out of
ten she goes to the bad And that
proves not only that we should not sep
arate mothers and babies, but that we
have absolutely NO RIGHT to separate
mothers and babies-that when we do
SO, in most cases we are actually trans
crossing Gods laws.
''But I'm all up in the clouds on this
thing" adds Neil swapping his Jaws.
Pm pretty practical about it too
have figured it all out and find that
every State can save MILLIONS OF
DOLLARS yearly by adopting my
scheme as well as save thousands of
little homes yearly. Small pensions to
mothers enough to allow them to keep
their little flock around them will not IN
a year, amount to nearly as much as it
takes TO run the various childrens' vel
fare institutions that now burden the tax
payers pocket books so unnecessarily
Indeed. | would go SO far in this
work as to let the State place in many
cases children who are entirely orphaned
in the care of the childless women and
spinsters. paying for their care and keep
and seeing that they get the right atten-
ton
Neil is big, quiet, efficient man who
thinks logically and acts directly. His
home is in Chicago, but he is very sell
dom in it. He hates to travel, but he
keeps right on doing it, because, as he
says, he believes in doing what the Bible
tells us"
And as he says this his eyes wander to
card that hangs above his desk, which
reads:
HE WENT ABOUT DOING
GOOD"