Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1914-01-01
a TIMELY SUGGESTION.
BY +. c. Parker.

Abolish bribery and the cost Of
living will unquestionably be re-
duced Tariff may be a splendid
law, meant TO do well, however, it
il in infancy and self-evidently will
take time to show it's real value.
We trust it will he for the best i.
Some claim it will-others it will
not. Naturally, one may expect
such as this, as it would be impos-
sible for everyone to see good in all
things. Nevertheless, we well know
that if bribery could be done away
with and the trusts cotton under
control, the cost of living would
undoubtedly be reduced. Therefore,
while Congress is spending thous-
ands of dollars of good money on
these investigating committees which
outside of few fiaring headlines in
the daily papers, end with one re-
sult-that there has been huge ex-
penditure of money.
Why not use some of that money
to investigate the necessities of the
motherhood of our land? We must
bear in mind that our motherhood
Is our future country, and upon it
in dependent the happiness of the
land. Is not this sufficient reason
for the country to look after their
needs? Common sense answers in
the affirmative. There is no law
that helps widowed mothers with
their babes, tour future country.
No sane person viii deny that there
is not a real need for such law by
which our motherhood would he pro-
tected when death snatched from
her bosom her husband, her only
support, and the only enc to whom,
when her children are small, she
can look for a livelihood.
Pick up the daily papers and
glance over the headlines. What
do you see? Hardly 4 day passes
but that we read: Mothers Heart
Broken rs She Gives-up Her Babes |
90 Orphan Asylum, Mother Takes |
Her Life and Babes rather than
Part With Her Child" Widowed |
Mother Prefers Death to Separation
From Her Babes" Besides these
headlines OF disgrace to our country. |
do we not read, day after day. |
stories and stories of unfOrtold suf-
ferings experienced by poor. unfor-
tunate women who have had the
misfortune of losing their husbands |
and in many eases are lett with n
house full of children and no avail
able means of support: Ask most
any widowed mother to tell you her
story and see if it does not make
your heart bleed, even though your
heart be of stone.
II is needless for me to place ex-
amples before your eyes of the suf-
ferings and awful experiences which
many of our American women have
gone through with in order to keep
their children and give them the
training of a mothers love. Al
mothers love can do more for
child than all the orphan a>ylums
and friends i'm the in the world.
Look about you and see the ronse-
quences of children raised without
4 mothers love. Look, and you
win see many poor child taken
from an orphan asylum and pat inI
some home. They claim they adopt
hem, bat truthfully they make
slaves of them. Look around us
nere in Maryland, and see if we can
not see the truth in this. oh, how
lust sometime these children would
ike to feel a mothers soft hand.
. mothers tender word or a snother's
'alaable love. Oh, how a mothers
leart bleeds to give that child thai !;
love; one of the most val
fable gifts a child could have.
Remember, i have not attempted
o touch the subject of race, suicide