Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1917 — Should Have Died Young. [ARTICLE]

Should Have Died Young.

It is a thousand pities that Mrs. Bruce Liggett, who is styled “one of the social leaders of Duluth, Minn.,” wasn’t permitted to die when she was born. It was cruelty to the public to let a child with a malformed brain and a piece of bone for a heart grow to womanhood. This Liggtet woman spoke her “piece” before some women’s clubs in Duluth recently,and the wonder is that a decent, selfrespecting woman would sit and listen to the blackguardly attack on motherhood which issued from the mouth of this moral degenerate. Mrs. —yes, she is a married woman, but let us hope that no children are so accurst as to call her mother. Mrs. Liggett spoke, in part, as follows: “It is about time we get away from the sacredness of motherhood. There can be no sacredness where there is so much physical suffering. ‘''Science admits that the higher the mental culture of the woman the greater her capacity for suffering. Is it fair to urge our girls to higher education and at the same time allow and expect them . to become mothers? “There is not a baby in the world today worth the suffering which its mother went through to give it life. “Why should we be asked to suffer before we reach our highest possibility? There is no greater lie than that women quickly forget the agony of motherhood in its glory. « “Unless something is done to relieve women of this curse there is no justification for matrimony. The propagation of life should be confihed to women of the lower type who are not capable of suffering.” Right m between the lines of the “Bodies” and the “Allies” is the proper place of a she-wolf like Mrs,Liggett, and to the vultures should be left her sepulture. Her craven flesh would- poison the soil eternally. Bicycle tires, the largest line in the city. All new stock at the old low prices. Also bicycle repairs and re- • pairing.—Main ,Garage.