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THE PUBLIC FORUM
PLEASE, BIG BILL, lend us a
hand! Come out in the open, let's see
where you stand. -Js your heart with
the toiler, or with big biz alone?
Good Lord! We're afraid you have
left us and gone. We all know your
chief, Sir Healey, is yellow, and made
to our slave drivers' order, poor fel
low! But are you with them, also;
against the poor striker? Then all
of us know that our mayor's a piker.
And also we know and that's well
worth to note that we acted like
fools when we gave you our vote.
It's, alas, too late now, but we shall
remember the whacks on our backs
from the cops this November. But,
Willie, wake up! You have time yet
to choose, if the strikers shall win
what they fight for, or lose. If your
brutal police, with the slavedriver's
might, shall throttle the workers'
freedom and right. Against us, oh,
Bill! the trust press will lead you, and
afl the world's tyrants most heartily
applaud you; but all the workers
from sweatshop and store, will damn
you, betrayer, and trust you no more.
So, Big Bfn, speak up; take a stand
in this fight for the workers' good
cause or the slavedriver's might! And
as I have ended all the lines of this,
I will close up my story and sing,
Anton Kivist.
LET RICH RAISE DEFORMED
I fully agree with Dr. Haiselden and
parents m the case of Baby Bollinger.
Let our society leaders and multimil
lionaires, if they happen to be pa
rents of such defective children, ex
periment m such cases. They may
succeed, with wealth and science at
their disposal, to transform and de
velop in them such superior minds
as Steinmetz, Edison and others. And
even if they fail it will be for them a
better divertisement than their pres
ent hobby of raising superior stock
of dogs and other pets. Under the
present system there are thousands
of thinking workers, who, due to un-
steady employment, cannot afford
the luxury of having even one
healthy child. A. J. P., 903 Diver
sey Pkwy.
FAVORS STERILIZATION. I ad
mire your open method of discuss
ing timely topics without fear or fa
vor, but was somewhat surprised at
the leading article by G. A. DeWitt
on sterilization.
Considering the great harm such
erroneous ideas spread broadcast
may have by forming adverse opin
ion upon a topic frought with as
great possibilities for good as the
subject here criticized gives promise
Of, I feel it is a mistake to let it pass
without comment
I am surprised that the writer has
not made more investigation before
writing upon the subject.
In the first place, the sterilization
of defectives and criminals of the
more depraved classes is no new pro
cedure, having been carried on in
some states for several years with
good results.
The article would convey the idea
that humans were sterilized in the
same manner as stock upon the
farm. This is not true, as no organ
or part is removed, the operation
consisting simply in the severing and
effectual' blocking of a minute tube,
m this way stopping certain secre
tions, but in no way interfering with
any of the internal secretions which
are thrown directly into the blood
and are so essential to the mental
equilibrium of the individuaL
These individuals do not differ in
any way from hundreds of our child
less fellow citizens who from early
indiscretions have produced the
same condition in themselves and do
not realize there is anything wrong
with them.
The ultimate effect of articles like
the one referred to is to create sen
timent against the enforcement of
lawS intended, to benefit the human
race in future generations, laws
which are the outcome of years of
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