FIVE MILLION MURDERS A YEAR
Today criminal abortion is the most
vital problem that confronts our re
public; in fact, it beggars all others
combined. De Lee in the Practical
Medical Series, 1912, volume 5, quotes
Jackson as saying that there are an
nually in the state of Maine fifty
thousand criminal abortions. If this
be true, and Maine is a fair average,
there are, at least five millon criminal
abortions in this country every year.
So startling are these figures that
few outside of the medical profession
will believe that they can possibly be
correct. It is well to remember that
a woman addicted to the abortion
habit may have four abortions where
she would have one labor at term. One
case has been reported of a woman
who miscarried thirty-six times. Ger
many lost in killed, wounded and miss
ing, two and a half million men in the
first eighteen months of the present
war—the bloodiest war of all ages.
Probably less than a million of tne
Germans were killed outright. Dur
ing that period seven and a half mil
lions of our infants were destroyed.
The world is stunned at Germany’s
terrible loss, but takes not the least
notice of America’s heartbreaking
tragedy. Germany’s misfortune will
stagger her for a time, but America’s
if continued, means annihilation.
The moral standard of the nation
must be raised. Here we must be as
sisted by the clergy, and I feel that
we may depend upon every priest and 1
preacher in the land. They are clean,
and abhor crime. No matter how
much they may shrink from the task,
duty will align them with us. Our
patriots must arouse the patriotism
of the women.
While millions of the European sol
diers are cheerfully giving up their
lives for their countries, millions of
American women are as cheerfully
murdering their own offspring from
every motive but a patriotic one. Yet
there is a class almost driven by pov
erty to infanticide that should be pro
tected by the nation. Many a moth
er's eye is filled with tears when she
discovers she is pregnant. Not that
she’£onsiders herself in the least, but
because there is so little for the chil
dren alerady bom—little to eat, little
to wear, and little prospect of equip
ping them for the hard struggle of
life. God help such a woman, her bur
den is indeed heavy. Why do not the
patriots come to her relief? We have
spent billions in pensions for our pa
triotic soldiers and we are driving pa
tient, faithful mothers to starvation
or crime. Why do not our lawmakers
save her and her children when they
are so badly needed ? She is as much
entitled to our assistance as any man
who fought at Gettysburg or El
Caney.—Dr. C. D. Bell, in a paper read
before the Southern California Med
ical Association.
EVENTS AND PERSONS.
A formal farewell dancing party
was given by the Pleasant Hour Club
Tuesday evening at Alamo Hall in
honor of Miss Amelia Singleton,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Sin
gleton, whose marriage to Mr. James
Madden of Chicago, Illinois, will be
solemnized October 10th. Thirty-seven
couples tripped lightly to Desdunes
Saxaphone terpsichorean score. The
decorations of the hall followed the
color scheme of white and pink. The
ladies were handsomely gowned in
evening dress, while the gentlemen
wore the conventional full dress. Mrs.
J. S. Madden, of Chicago, mother of
the groom-elect was an out-of-town
guest.
Mis Hazel Terry left Wednesday |
for Jefferson City, Mo., where she will
enter Lincoln Institute.
“Trooper of Co. K,” thrilling Negro
military-love photo-drama, coming.
Enough said. It’s a Lincoln produc
tion.—Adv.
Mrs. Bertha Stephens died at the
home of her father in Minneapolis
Tuesday night after a lingering ill
ness. Mrs. Stephens left Omaha for
Minneapolis a few months ago on the
advice of her physician. Her husband
and a little daughter survive her.
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The Rev. and Mrs. W. F. Botts re
turned last Friday morning from a
pleasant visit to Carrollton and Ex
celsior Springs, Mo., and Olatha, Kan.
Mr. and Mrs. John Jones have re
umed from Yankton, So. Dak., where
they went a year ago and are now lo
cated at 242314 Lake street.
Latest song hits: “Hurry Back to
My Bamboo Shack,” “I’ve Got a Sweet
Tooth Bothering Me ” “There’s a Qua
cer Down in Quaker Town,” “You’ll
Uways Be the Same Baby.” Ready
it Hospe’s.
Miss Julia A. Jones of 954 North
Twenty-seventh street has returned
from a three months’ visit with her
daughter, Mrs. Milton Jones, at Wich
ita, Kans. She also went to King
fisher, Okla., to look after her farm
property.
CLARENCE CAMERON WHITE,
VIOLINIST, OCTOBER 30
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ing, 2511 Lake street. Miss M. Pol
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Ex-District Grand Master Charles
Burton of Denver, Col., has been the
guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Goff of
911 Forest avenue. He left Friday
for St. Joseph, Topeka and Kansas
City. i
Mrs. E. S. Hughes wishes to an
nounce the opening of her dress mak
ing parlors at 2418 North Twenty
fourth street October 12. The public
is invited to attend.
Monitor advertisers can satisfy all
your wants.
Mrs. Allen, 2816 Pratt, returned
yesterday from a visit to Sedalia, Mo.
Do you know you wear gun cotton ?
Read Science and Notes.
Mrs. W. H. Brooks is leaving Oma
ha this week for Los Angeles, Cali.,
where she will take a course in cos
tume designing at the Los Angeles
Art School.
Mrs. Ellen Sprinks Hobbs of Chi
cago is spending Ak-Sar-Ben week as
the guest of Mrs. Wm. Jackson, 2669
Douglas St.
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Shall We
Discard Local
I Iption and
Adopt State
Prohibition ?
Under the existing Local Option Law, it lies within the power
of the citizens of any community in Nebraska to adopt local prohibi
tion for their own city, town, or village.
In every community in this state absolute control over this
question lies in the hands of the majority of the voters. No inter
ference from the outside is possible; nothing can thwart the wishes of
the majority in the city, town or village,with respect to the question
of license or no license.
Many communities in this state have availed themselves of the
power granted to them under our Local Option Law, and have
adopted local prohibition for their own community. Where there
is a dominant LOCAL public sentiment in support of that policy,
it is possible to make the no-license policy respected and obeyed.
There are, on the other hand, many communities in this state
where it is the opinion of the majority of the citizens that the license
policy is better adopted to their own community. Where that is
the prevailing sentiment, the community is permitted, under our
existing Local Option Law, to license the sale of alcoholic beverages
—subject of course to the provisions and restrictions of the general
state law. |
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IN NEITHER CASE, IS A POLICY FORCED ON A COM
MUNITY FROM WITHOUT. THE PRINCIPLE OF HOME
RULE PREVIALS. I j
It is now proposed to substitute for this policy of local self- j
government, the policy of state-wide prohibition. This prohibition
policy is not intended for the relief of communities in which the
no-license policy already prevails-, but is designed to FORCE such
a policy on other communities against their will.
The result, as the experience of other states has abundantly
established, would be disastrous in every city and town on which
prohibition is forced. It means, where dominant sentiment is opposed
to prohibition, lax enforcement of the law, the dividing of such towns
into bitterly hostile factions, the reign of the spy and of the informer,
the rapid growth of crime—and in the end in means higher taxes.
Against the substitution of such a system for that under which
Nebraska is now operating, everyone having the best interests of
the people of this state at heart, should solemnly protest.
The Nebraska Prosperity League
Opposed to State Prohibition. In favor of Local Option,
High License
President, L. F. CROFOOT Treasurer, W. L. COAD
Secretary, J. B. HAYNES
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