Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-02-14


Germany herself was one of the big
gest opponents of the large family
idea, we will not make reply, but give
the paper to our readers for what it
is worth. Whatever else might be
said, we accredit the author with sin
cerity and the best of motives.
Here is the communication:
Editor Iron County Record, Dear
Sir.-In your valuable paper of Fri
day, Dec. ~, 1918, appeared an ar
ticle headed, High Prices and Large
Families" And as you have been
just and brave enough in the past to
condemn or reprove anything or any
body that you believe to be in the
wrong, and speak in favor of anything
or anybody that you believe to be
right, ! trust that you will give pub
LEGATION to the few comments on and
answer to, the same, from a religious
standpoint.
The article seems to have been writ
ten from the opposite.
1. As to the professor who accuses
the educated people Of being SLACK
ers on the job Of parenthood." 1
think he is like the farmer who be-
lieves in planting every year whether
everything is favorable for raising a
crop or not, and chance it. But the
ones he refers to are burdened with
30 much useless education that they
are like the farmers who cannot see
their way clear to combat the diff
culties, and will not plant much for
fear that It will grow and they will
have to harvest il. Their education
does not solve the vital problems Of
life. s ''g''--' '--
2. Society and the child are one
and the same, and each are respon-
sible to the other. However, as you
have them separated, society from
parents and children, unless society
does help to provide for the children,
It has no claim on them, but is a
slacker or an idler, and God says that
an idler has no place in the church.
Also, an idler shall not eat the bread
or wear the garments Of the laborers.
And for anyone but God to say who
are fit to bring rhildren into the
world, and how numerous families
should be, would only be another at
tempt Of Lucifer to take away the
agency Of man.
3. The good-meaning people, re-
ferred to, who clamor for large fam
lilies as religious and social duty,
know that God has furnished them
the earth and that il they do not
multiply according to His command
ments, that they will not be able 70
subdue the earth and gain the bless
ings promised thereby.
4. It is true that well do parents
with few children can give them an
easy life and educate them for soci-
ETY., that they may be well thought
OF in their circles, but whether they
will add any new thing to the world
Ia questionable.
8. You ask: Suppose the human
family were to unanimously decide in
favor Of the large family and live up
TO the ideal, how long do you suppose
the world could provide for them
unless wars and pestilence were sent
to relieve the congestion?"
answer that such conduct by all
the people. and living up to the ideal
would bring down the blessings OF
Almighty God upon them until they
would be stronger than the everlast.
ing hills. And having no enemies
they would go forth and subdue the
waste places until they would actually
have a heaven on earth and would
have everything that their hearts
could desire. For if living up to the
IDEAL, they would want only the con-
structive and hfe-protecting things
and would have no use for ammuni.
ton, guns or anything to kill the 9th.
er fellow. For all would be love, as
our Father in Heaven is love.
And If they ever did get so numer.
Gus, as suggested, that the WORLD
could not provide for them, wars and
pestilence would not do it.
Then you further ask. "And who
can say that the recent great worlC
war and the influenza scourge which
has practically swept every part Of
the earth, have not been ordered by
an all-wise Creator for this very pur
pose"
In answer to the above, I can say