The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-01-20

not in a position to maintain itself.
 Yet owing to the ignorance, care
 fully encouraged by the law aganst
 the dissemination of knowledge on the subject, among the working
 classes, those are generally the fa-
 miles which are largest; and Mrs.
 Sanger who is a strong revolutionist
 admitted that it was to reach this
 scandalous ignorance that her pam phlet intended The rich can consult
 a physician, pay their fee and oD- tain what they want to know. But the poor are not in this position. They are, therefore providing society in all the big and populous centers , with the spectacle of huge unlimited , families, badly nourished, indecently : housed, improperly clad, improperly
 cleansed, wallowing in filth ana travelling the road that leads to all | kinds of vices and all kinds of dege- , neracy.
 What happens then is enough to
 make love himself burst his fat . sides in ironic laughter at the folly of mortals. Then another set or , faddists some indeed who have 5 favored large families, enter the lime-light in the mummery of up- } filters. They go to the asylums r and the warehouses and the peni- T tentiary. They say "Lo, hore are
 dofectives. They are or will be a 5 menace to society. If when they l are better morally, mentally or phy- sically they are released; they may | increase and multiply, producing still more defectives to menace us l and our children"
 5 Thereupon laws arc passed, laws,
 mind you, which not only limit the 5 families of such people but actually l prevent any families at all. And : while the Birth Control people are
 bounded and prosecuted and jailed 3 for the dissemination of what is q : very useful end often very health . full as we'll as helpful matter of knowledge, lest they lessen the num- r Der of family otherwise might be- 5 come defective, the same lew ap- 3 proves emasculation of all defec. . tives in public institutions, very : many of which certainly can be traced almost directly to oyer-large = families among the very poor.
 Conditions as we find them un- s der capitalism make the arguments ! of the supporters of family limita- y ton, despite what is said to the 1 contrary, the more decent, the more Q reasonable and the moro intelligent : To raise only such a family as car n be supported in decency through s out youth and infancy. is a duty
 that those who do raise families ows :, to society.
 [ To make the slums a rabbit war - ren where the fecundity of human 9 inhabitants overtakes the supply ot e food, or the possibility of obtaining y it, is surely an outrageous ideal.
 But inasmuch as those who favo1 l. limitation of the number of off 0 springs take it for granted that thi' l. capitalist system is to beseternal l they are like all the rest of the up T filters merely dallying with eftects ..l The sss.er, it is which Is at ,eaul G and nothing else. It is surely ter
 rible condition wherein the infant Il Iare born to surroundings wher, f Ithey are denied everything in life |, wholesome food. clothing. warmth }. fresh air. adequate shelter, cleanli D mess. Nature has endeavored t, It solve the problem by providing di
 sease which would kill off many J. leaving those that survive the littl e that is to be obtained. Infant nor n tality among the poorer classes il 7. the great cities is a shocking sham l- and notwithstanding that, the yer tt poor are urged to breed still mlor y that nature may have the pleasur d of killing them off. F There is enough in this worl' y for everyone. But every one on l. does not get enough. There 'e enough food. enough shelter b enough clothing. enough ,leispr
 with all these things to assure eve ai in the largest family satisfactor ,r up-bringing. But these things ar a. denied under capitalism. Wealth let et|ceacentrated ltntp fewer and ,fewe ,ri hands. The many suffer fer wan