New Britain herald., 1915-05-24
Powerful Organizations Heads to
 Fight Advocates of Birth Control
Tanpering With Present La Afront to Decency-Will Result of Greater morality and Race
 Suicide the Claim.

I taken away from the well-to-do peo-
 ple-that is. if they have it. But
 have they? How do these advocates
 of birth control know they have it? That is something which I would like
 answered. Of course"-with a little snile-.'this is a subject I am not in the habit of discussing. That may account for the fact that I have not the information which these people who would limit families have. 'tIs the last barrier against inn
 m orality to be taken away? With the consequences removed, I feel this would result.
 There is one more thing I'd like to say. l think the poor people about whom these people are talking so much are very we'll taken of. 1 have worked for years in day nurseries and other charitable organizations, and it seems to me the children of the poor are taken care of. If they are not, these agitators, instead of pushing this propaganda of theirs, might better de- vote themselves women how they might go against the laws of nature and not have children. they should teach them how to rear their chil- dren properly" Will you attend the meeting at the Academy of Medicine Wednesday night?' asked Mrs. Dodge.
 No said Mrs. Dodge, smilingly. II have been brought up to believe do without doing that. But if they really organize this movement and carry it to the legislature I will meet them there, to fight it.''
 f,~ac "a v.,1,o f t.. opinions on the subject said "Ihave been brought up to believe that the public discussion of this sub 1ect is indelicate. Moreover. how can an unmarried woman talk about 1t ?
 But if do talk about it at all. I want
 to ask this question: By what right
 Or authority does any group of people sgt itself up to regulate Gods <, or
 natures laws?
 The repeating of the present law
 would bring about two bad effects
 the increase of immortality and the
 decrease~of population. There can be
 no doubt that it would lead to
 greater inlm orality. I do nor mean to
 say of course, that fear of the conse-
 auences is the only thing which makes
 people moral, but it is one thing.
 Race suicide would follow the
 SpTeadlnE or information on birth con-
 trol. All we need do IS to look at
 France to see the results There they
 are alarmed at the falling orf of the
 birth rate.
 As to this talk about large families
 --let there be large families, I say
 Many of the worlds greatest men have come from large and poor families. Napoleon is one of them. Then there
 Is our own Lincoln His parents would have been listed as poor and uneducated. Certainly advocates of birth control would have said there should be no more children in that family. They would have gone to Mrs. Lincoln and given her informa- ton which would have deprived the world of one of its greatest men. How can any one ten whether the eleventh or the thirteenth or the fif- teenth child may not be the one which will make the whole ramily worth while? 1t is silly to say that people, because they are poor, cannot bring I'D as good and as healthy faIailieis as the .well-to-do and the rich Children are the natural and the moral result of marriage. So instead of teaching men and women 10 sub- vert the laws of nature. We should | teach them to desire children and to
 rear them properly