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Knteretf as second class matter March 1, 1911, a* the post office at
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Nome. Alaska, January 120, 1910.
The return of Margaret Sanger to
New York where prosecution await;
her for writing a pamphlet on the
tabooed subject of birth control
entitled 1 Family Limitation finds
conditions somewhat changed since
the death of Anthony Comstock. Dr.
Sanger, her husband, was fined one
hundred and fifty dollars with an
alternative of thirty days in jail
which he promptly accopted for giv
ing to an agent, at the latter's re
quest, a copy of his wife’s book
after Comstock's man had persist
ently urged him to do so, in order
to prosecute him. When he an
nounced his decision of going to
jail rather than pay a cent of fine,
the entire court room vigorously ap
plauded him.
Sanger was denied a trial by jury
twice, and whon applause broke out
the judge. M'Inerny, ordered the
epurt cleared.
The dispatch aays:
It was a well dressed crowd,
deadly serious over the issue in
volved .Anthony Comstock
and Charles Bamberger were the
witnesses who testified against San
ger. Bamberger called at the office
pf* Dr. Sanger, represented himself
«.s a man named A. Heller, a poor
man with too large a family.
He sought aid of Mrs. Sanger’s
pamphlet. Ur. Sanger protested
that it might get him into trouble;
“Heilor’’ persisted and thereupon
Sanger gave him a copy of the book.
Agents of'Comstock descended upon
Sanger’s office and seized five more
copies of his wife’s work”.
The audience included numerous
members of the Birth Control
J«©ague including Mrs. Amos Pin
chot.
There aro two claesoo of people
Jo this country who have widely se
•parated opinions on this very sub
ject, one set believes in families be
as large as It is possible for
j^eoi tp be. Births and more births
are constantly urged and women are
Tipgftrflo.fl somewhat after the man
ner of brood mares in tho estima
tion cf such as thoee. Any other
concept is regarded as highly im
moral, highly lndocopt nnd dis
tinctly obscene. The se$ relation is
a ,-tqpic that should be discussod ii*
qln&pcs “for men only”, and prudery
rules the roost, with tin warm blush
of shame delicately mantling the
cheek of the purist who is unwont
»#ly excited by a discussion with
any freedom on such a subject as
eugenics.
Now all know about this subject,
and all talk about this subject, but
In a very ignorant and very mis
leading way. And this ignoranc?
has led to more diecaso and more
suffering and more deaths than any
other neglected matter in nature.
Tho other class are out and out Mal
Uiuslonists.i They believe that where
health requirements domand sterili
ty, sterility should obtain, and
whore poverty prohibits tho proper
raising of m. large family a large fa
mlly should be decently out of the
question.
As usual prominent and powerful
people are found on t>oth sides qf
this cox and this family question,
aqd for eptirely dlfforent reasons.
Apd ftljjo ap qsual (he law catqrp to
both aqd ,ip pn eptirely different
manner.
The most prominent cause of de
goneracy the Birth Control people
point out is poverty and tho evil!
conditions surrounding poverty.
Uhls may be an excessive or an ex
aggerated view, but in the main it
correct. A badly nourishod bodji
generally loads to a badly nourished
brain, with fantasies of a more dr
lees deleterious nature, socially
speaking, running rampant therein.
Thus the ancients recognized the
tenth of the -case by their proverb
a sound mind In a sound .body.
It .Is therefore certainly ,natural
that the families of the very poor
Should belf ^possible restricted with*
In Buch limits as will secure to the
progeny In some fashion proper
maintenance, when that progeny Is
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
classy, those are generally the fa
milies 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 ob
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 centors
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 ah
kinds of vices and all kinds of dege
neracy.
What happens then i3 enough to
make Jove himself burst his fat
sides in ironic laughter at the folly
of mortals. Then another set ot
faddists sonte indeed who have
favored large families, enter the
lime-light in the mummery of up
lifters. They go to the asylums
and the workhouses and the peni
tentiary. They say "L.O, here are
defectives. They are or will be a
menace to society. If when they
are better morally, mentally or phy
sically they are released; they, may
increase and multiply, producing
still more defectives to menace 11s
and our children.”
Thereupon laws are passed, laws,
mind you, which not only limit the
families of such people but actually
prevent any families at all. And
wnne me uirm uoniroi people are
hounded and prosecuted and jailed
for the dissemination of what is a
very useful and often a very health
ful as well as helpful matter of
knowledge, lest they lessen the num
ber of a family otherwise might be
come defective, the same law ap
proves emasculation of all defec
tives in public institutions, very
many of which certainly can be
traced almost directly to over-large
families among the very poor.
Conditions as we find them un
der capitalism 'make the arguments
of „the supporters of family \imita
tlon, despite what Is said to the
contrary, the more decent, the more
reasonable and the more intelligent.
To raise only such a family as can
be supported in decency through
out y^iuth and infancy is a duty
that those who do raise families owe
to society.
To make the slums a rabbit war
ren where the fecundity of human
inhabitants overtakes the supply ot
food, or the possibility of obtaining
it, is surely an outrageous ideal.
But inasmuch as those who favor
limitation of the number of off
springs take it for granted that this
capitalist system is to be#eternal,
they are like all the rest of the up
lifters merely dallying with effects.
The system it is which Is at fault
and nothing else. It is surely a ter
rible condition wherein the infants
are borp to surroundings where
they are denied everything in life,
wholesome food, clothing, warmth,
fresh air, adequate shelter, cleanli
ness. Nature has endeavored to
splye the problem by providing di
sease which would kill off many,
leaving those that survive the little
that ts to be obtained. Infant mor
tality among the poorer classes in
the great cities Is a shocking shame
and notwithstanding that, the very
poor are urged to breed Still more
that nature may have ;the pleasure
of killing thepa off.
There Is enough in yd® world
{or everyone. .But every ope one
does not get .enough. There is
enough food, enough shelter,
enough clpthtpg, enough ieispre
With *11 these things to aspire evop
In the largest family a satisfactory
up-bringing. But those things are
denied under capltalispi. Wealth is
concentrated into ;f*w*r apd .tewer
hand*. Xfcft jpapy apffflr % jrant
otimrgn .the neoagaei-tee; we driven
to send children prematurely to la
bor in mines, mills and factories.
They swear to their ' falsely in
order that they nr.. ’ •" thcri
means of sustenance. Womc. ■ /«•: |
to work and rise from child betl
unfit to labor and much more twin,
to attend to their infant children,;
in order to procure the means oi !
living.
Birth Control will not end this
system, because birth control does!
not strike at tjie root of the evil. ,
Sterilization of the unfit in the i
institutions of the land is eveif th*
same dallying wth an effect while
ignoring the cause.
While both these plans for im
proving conditions are being pro
pagated, the system grinds out its
defectives with superfluous generos
ity.
Both these plans are the dreams
of faddists and bring us no nearer
the solution of the various evils ir.
society.
They are the plans in the main
i of the comfortable and the well to
do; of the parlor revolutionists who
discuss questions at cushioned ease,
or who see in the drama the means
whereby the human race may be
liberated!
But they are doing good. They
exercise an educational effect. They
are taking from the prudes the na
tural facts which they smeared over
with an obscenity existed only in
tlioir minds. They are enabling the
people to discuss natural physiologi
cal functions in a natural a^d In
telligent way. They are killing the
vile thing that passed itself as a
spurious purity which itself was the
cloak that veiled the unnatural im
pulse, just as certain fashions in
dress were intended to enkindle
while pretending to defy the sex in
stinct. All those, things help. Bui
they nelp as a means only. They
arc not the end. And they fail as a
means if they for one fleeting in
stant cause us to forget that the
system it to blame, not a natural
instinct or a antural function. That
nature is not perfect plways; that
it is capable of endless perversions
at the hands of men, and faddists
although they are all geniuses with
the ideas of genius, striking at the
evils of Phillistine, are none the less
themselves victims of that artificial
ity which lives, moves and has its
parasitic being upon an ecoonmic
system which is afraid, and alarmed
as well as ashamed of its own liorr
ble results in society.
The system is responsible for ab
normalities which shock and terrify
and which set these up-nfters of
varying shades of bolief considering
pondering and resolving. But to
avoid the effects of the system,
their only hope is to destroy that
system altogether.
Granted that some in society is un
able to- raise its chi’drcn properly;
to secure to every Infant proper care
and proper norlshment, and this is
without any kind of doubt the case,
it must be also granted that society
ha3 evolved to a plane where it can
do so. The productive capacity of
machine Industry is more than suffi
cient to meet human needs. If pro
duction were for human use, and
the gratification strictly of human
needs, society would be well able to
afford all plenty, to afford all ample
leisure ahd to securo to every child
and to the largest family the re
quirements of each and every one.
That this is not tho case Is hot
the fault of the large family; it is
not to be remedied by a smaller fa
mily; it is to remain the same
whether families are large and
small. The family limitation propa
ganda is only a protest and a pallia
tive and a mighty poor and mighty
ineffective and a merely individual
protest and palliative. It dots no’
touch at the root of the evil. The
root of the evil is capitalism—-star
ing every person straight in the
face with its glaring terrors of in
security of living, its drudgeries, its
Uncertainties and its wholly ineffi
cient manner of meeting the social
requirements from day to day from
year to year, with its system of un
fair unequal and unsatisfactory dis
tribution, destroying thousands by
an insufficiency of necessities and
destroying dozens by a surfeit o)
dangerous luxuries.
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