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T, they were deaf to the voice of mercy, and the press quietly reports
(March 18) that "Inexpedient was reported by the House judiciary
committee on equalizing the respective rights of husband and wife in
relation to their minor children, and on equalizing their interest in
each other's property." The ladies who are so active in behalf of woman
suffrage might have taken more interest in this vital question, which
was so easily disposed of. A great wrong remains unredressed. The
barbarous policy of the church of Rome, which has been finally abolished
even in Catholic France, where divorce is now permitted, our clerical
bigots would revive in this country, as if it were the business of the
state to encourage or compel the propagation of the worthless and
criminal classes! It is not the interest of the state to encourage human
multiplication at all, for it is already too powerful and progressive.
It is the public interest to check all propagation but that of good
citizens, and to protect all women from enforced maternity, whether
enforced under legal powers or by the arts of seduction and libertinism.
Prostitution, in the light of political economy, is far less of an evil
than the enforced maternity of wretched and discordant families, which
becomes the fountain of an endless flow of crime, while prostitution
shows its evils only in the parties immediately concerned, and
effectually purifies society in time by arresting the propagation of its
most worthless members. In the same manner it may be said that some
epidemics are an advantage to society, by cutting off the feeble and
worthless constitutions so as to leave a better race. Any one who
recollects the history of the Jukes family, and the number of criminals
infesting society who were descendants of one depraved pair, will not
believe that such a propagation of crime should be permitted. The
worthless class should not be allowed to marry, and the criminals whom
the state finds it necessary to confine in the penitentiary should be
permanently deprived of the power of parentage. Few ever reflect upon
the necessary consequences of the growth of population. The great wars,
famines, a
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