Show OUR CHICAGO LETTER CHICAGO dec 21 1888 editor news divorce dynamite and drunkenness are not the only industries which flourish in chicago there is one other which promises to eclipse the three great adjuncts of law license and liquor this Is ie abortion the chicago has been investigating the extent to which the vile industry is carried A corps corpe of reporters male and female explored the city thoroughly and d visited a great majority of the doctors dedore and nila wives of chicago I 1 the result of the investigations thus prosecuted is horr horrifying Wing the times has found that ethere there are about three hundred doctors and about an equal number of midwives engaged in this terrible destruction of infantile life there can be no question as to the veracity of the aymes statements it publishes the names and addresses of the doctors and midwives who have volunteered for pay to relieve young ladies in trouble 11 the charges are am very moderate ranging all the way from 5 to per case this la Is cheaper th than an cremation and nearly as cheap as pig sticking or ox butchering so flourishing has this business become that an institution on a large scale is specially devoted to abortion the institution is called a hospital but it ought more properly to be called a packing house or a slaughter pen or some such title suggestive of the stockyards dockyards stock dock yards one odthe of the do doctors actors vouches for the institution and for the ability and discretion of its conductors duc tors here is what he says in an yesterdays times the girl reporter gave the particulars of her visit to dr hale of 69 fast east twenty second street it will tie be remembered he said to her after agreeing to commit the abortion you we see it is this way when you go to this hospital you axe are expected to remain the full time should anything g occur soon it would be indispensable to be able to state that you had taken medicines previous to going there but had given them up because they had no effect that would explain the event its itis it Is a mere technicality you see me but bu t this is an institution in which whiple preachers preach ers and physicians both are interested and is run on very conservative principles now I 1 will give you some pill to begin taking this very ve ry night night take two before going to bed and two in the morning they will probably do no more than act as a purgative it fills the bill however of of having taken medicine to bring about the event you desire before going to the hospital I 1 will give you re au a note to the superintendent he is a very considerate man nian and his wife is an excellent cellena ex cel lent woman they both know how to keep silent take this note and go there tomorrow he will take you luand and I 1 will car call tomorrow or monday ay aft this is a subject that cannot be very wen well touched on without violating much that is considered decent the tinei however has gone into the matter minutely and has published the details of the dreadful dread fal trade in a manner comprehensible hen sible to the dullest intellect there are six hundred practitioners male and female engaged in this trade of abortion that is this number is actually known how many others there are under cover it is hard to estimate allowing one patient per day to each practitioner that will give us about young women per week who are victims of immorality and Irrell gion of course chicago does not furnish this vast sacrifice no the victims come all the way from memphis to minneapolis from denver to buffalo Buff klo the strangest part of all this is that the doctors do not consider themselves engaged in anything immoral or reprehensible they do express a fear of the state law but gods law has no terrors for them these doctors look upon an infant much as charles lamb would look upon a young roast pig ella says see him the sucking pig in the ieh his second craddle how meek he uethel thou have this innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany I 1 1 the chicago abortionist asks wouldga Would FA thou have this innocent grow up to become a preacher an alderman aye perhaps a family executioner like myself I 1 what a realm of thought this horrible chicago trade opens cupl up it takes one away to the banks of the ganges to the malarial malaria swamps of africa and to the rice fields of china what a vista of social and philosophic questions does not it propound what a woeful state of religion and morality does it not illustrate with such a terrible evil at the bottom vain are all the schemes emes and systems of social regenerators and scientific the poor wretch who with a perverted religion throws her newborn new born into the ganges nuy may be a murderer but silla still she remains a woman because of the mistaken sacredness of other her deed the maternal instinct is still preserved to her but the unfortunate young woman who comes to a chicago butcher to hide bide hershamn her shame is no longer a woman in her the maternal instinct is killed she goes back to her place in society a fiend a murderer no longer one of gods creatures she may settle down get married raise children but from her will come your Gite aus your jack the rippers dippers Rip pers your white CAPS cape your atheists anarchists and all your pests of society the basis of all progress the ibe foundation of all morality the acme in fact of all eugenics eu genies is the purity of woman revelation teaches this and evolution must admit its truth the primary duty of a religion founded on revelation is the care the fostering the preservation of the instincts of motherhood implanted imprinted by god and nature in comans womans bosom the promotion and purity of these instincts should go hand in hand with a moral training repressive of the physical the carnal the criminal desires with this type of woman to is society regenerated civilization perpetuated religion made possible a millennium on earth established and a glorious heaven in prospect pursue the reverse course destroy the instinct of motherhood and forward the animal and carnal and what kind of woman would you have you wm will have a monster neither man nor woman neither brute gorhum nor human n a catherine de medici with such a type no progress is possible no civilization possible and no religion practicable your man of science your evolutionist ti your historian all alike must admit the truth of this there Is another view to be taken of the question these young women who fall weekly into the hands bands of our scientific are it may be safely said mad the brightest the healthiest and most superior of the sex we all know that the brighter and better a young woman Is esthe the more earnestly is her seduction sought by the dissolute of the male sex parents and guardians of such young women cannot be too careful in the preservation and protection of their charges it is a duty to society to the community and to the state to protect these young women to educate and instruct them in the duties of womanhood and to establish them in their rightful spheres take any of our small towns in illinois or michigan and atu btu study dy the people of that town you will be surprised at the evident degeneration of the race it will occur to you as if propagation went on entirely among the riffraff riff raff to a certain extent this is so if in a femi famil lyone yone or two bright smart young girls happen to exist the great ambition of these girls is to become typewriters typewriter stenographers or bookkeepers book keepers and then bury themselves in one of our ur large cities the same rule holds with the boys they if smart and bright want to become lawyers and doctors the result is the weak and sickly are left at home to propagate while the bright and healthy come to chicago to be brutalized sterilized and demoralized galton attributes the brutality ignorance and tyranny of the middle ages to the system of celibacy in the church this took away the men most calculated for paternity and progress the quiets quiet mild moral young man was wae the one chosen for the priesthood or the monastery while the wild rude and reckless were left to propagate the race there is such a thing as evolution in eu eugenics genies but after all it is only duly the evolution taught by revel revelation reve latton atlon the religious revolution of the sixteenth century brought into existence a married priesthood but this did not solve the question we find that a married priesthood devoted entirely to ecclesiasticism is a much worse evil than a celibate priesthood similarly situated what we want is a religion that in its priesthood unites both the secular and the religious where the priest and the farmer are combined in one where muscle and intellect are equally developed we vant a religion in which all shall be interested and to which all shall contribute on a distinctly understood principle we dont want a religion with a begging bagging petition at the end of every sermon we dont want a religion that every time we sit in a pew a box at the end of a long jong pole is thrust under our nose such a religion is degrading to both priest and layman layma and in fact it Is only su such ch a religion that can have in it the classes of priests and laymen while glancing over the chicago advance of dec I 1 noticed a communication from utah it was a report of some church convention in salt lake it appears there are as many church organizations out there as there are secret societies in st louis I 1 read about the utah union the utah association the A H M 8 the Y P S C E and a half dozen others but i at t th the e end of the rev mr baileys report is the significant sentence if the churches and schools which have been asked for help for this thio church would send in their offerings for the church it would help the pastor who has assumed a large amount trusting to such response for ald aid such pitiful begging as this would destroy manhood manhot d even in a mule |