The Irish standard., 1915-10-09
Unnatural Remedies Proposed for Un.
Natural Social Diseases.-How an
Evil Grows and Grips Society.

To study the growth and develop
ment of the evils which have produced
the moral and physical decay of ma
lions is most profitable and interest
ing occupation. Such evils do not
spring forth in a society like Minerva
from the head of Jove, but are the re-
suit of little seeds sown here and
there among the people. At first the
proposal of their acceptance is frown-
ed upon by the masses, then little by
little they are taken up in certain
quarters and put into practice, timidly
and in private, until gradually. they
come to be accepted by the great bulk
of a population and are in the end
boldly heralded as the ideal practices,
tending to the production of true so.
cial progress and betterment.
This has been the story in our own
day of the spread of the unnatural
practice of race suicide among our peo-
pie. 1t was about 1880 that newspa-
pers in this country quietly began to
advertise methods by which the limita-
ton of offspring could be accomplish
ed. The higher classes in particular
induced by the most ignoble and sell
fish of reasons, fastened to make use
of this information, and We're gradual
ly followed by the middle classes. To-
day men and women are teaching this
degrading idea to the American work.
ing people, and it is even proposed
that in the near future the state,
through law or education, bring about
an intelligent birth CONTROL" as the
matter is now scientifically" termed.
1t is the New Republic" wild and
woolly organ of radicalism, which, in
its issue of Sept. 25th, regales us with
this latter proposal. The occasion for
the utterance was the recent trial of
William Sanger, an artist of New York,
for circulating information on this
subject among the working people.
ALREADY we live in an age of birth
CONTROL" declares the New Republic,
and instances the spread of family linn
itation throughout the globe. ITO
have 13 children is no longer fashion
able, the old woman who lived in the
shoe has become a quite impossible
old person" All of which, according
to this estimable magazine, is highly
desirable, making for true progress.
In order Ito attain to s"!f-direction
and to real civilization, we must stem
the brutal tide of babies"
But alas for such ideas, it has al
ready been found by those nations
which have practiced them the long
est, that these things, shining against
the Divine and natural laws, make in
reality for the death and destruction
THE IRISH REAPERs' HARVEST
HYMN.
All hail Holy Mary, our hope and our
Joy!
Smile down blessed Queen! ON the
poor Irish boy
Who wanders away from his dear be-
loved home;
o, Mary! be with me wherever roam.
Be with me, o Mary!
Forsake me not, Mary!
But guide me and guard me wherever
I roam
From the home of my fathers in an.
guish go,
To toll for the dark-livered, cold
hearted foe,
Who mocks me, and hates me, and
calls me slave,
An alien, a savage-all names but a
knave.
But blessed be Mary!
My sweet, holy Mary!
The bodach he never dare call me a
knave.
From my mothers mud sheeling an
outcast I fly,
With cloud on my heart and tear
in my eye;
Oh! l burn as l think that II Someone
would say,
Revenge on your tyrants!" but, Mary
pray
From my souls depths. o
Mary!
And hear me, sweet Mary!
For union and peace to old Ireland l
pray.
The land that fly from is fertile and
fair,
And more than I ask or wish for Is
there,
But must not taste the good things
that l see
There's nothing but rags and green
rushes for me.
O mild Virgin Mary!
o sweet Mother Mary!
Who keeps my rough hand from red
murder but thee?
But sure in the end our dear freedom
wo'l1 1afn