| Show ft our social evil judg judge zo Tin finletter ietter Jetter deserves credit far king out ont plainly and boldly 1 indis in his charge to the jury in the sper pente case upon the frightful erime crime for which the defendants in this case were indicted the sub jeet is one that people usually do not like to talk about they have a vague idea that the crime is ter ably prevalent and occasionally when the evil is forced upon their attention by some bome case like the present they demand that something be done to check chee chec it but no one cares to go very deeply into the subject and the few who venture to sp speak 1 eak ead plainly upon it must expect to bo be rebul rebuked red ced by the many who think that crime may be belbat abat ed by covering it up and assuming ig ignorance norance of it and all this time the P poison polson son is at work weakening 1 and abd threatening death to t our social system abortion and infanticide grow every year more com corn aidon monand and men and women carry on their work of death more boldly and openly the very newspapers that enter many homes contain the flaunting advertisements ti of professional abor zionists and scarcely a week passes that these papers do not d the death of some poor foolish woman who has hag in sacrificing the life lire of her offspring by the vile arts of these people paid the penalty with jerown he rown vown ant nothing is done we have laws enough but they have 1 llever liever been enforced arrests are i nade made but prosecutions have not sot followed the abortionists trade has ba enjoyed an actual immunity if not a virtual protection and its terrible results have grown more apparent from day to day the crime of is not con ened fined to those whom wo call the J and th thel e lout outcast cast lit it is not resorted to only to cover or escapa escape the consequence of illicit passion the case is far worse than this and wo we only temporize with clime crime in pretending to shut our eyes to it so called reformers may give us reasons and excuses without number and wo ve would not have society shut its ears to what they say but still the awful fact remains that human lives are daily sacrificed to selfishness and the pride and glory of maternity is becoming obsolete among us this is the real evil the great and growing evil that we have to meet it is undermining the whole social fabric of this country the safety of the family the sacredness of married life and weakening every moral bond that holds society together wo we must not dare not shut our eyes to it or cease to battle against it with every weapon that knowledge civilization religion or law will put into our hands bands the nation whose mothers trifle with infant life is ii without a future i philadelphia rimes times |
