Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1914 — Public Schools Not Founded to Furnish Clinics For Sex Mad Fanatics [ARTICLE]

Public Schools Not Founded to Furnish Clinics For Sex Mad Fanatics

By Bishop WARREN A. CANDLER of Methodist Episcopal Church South

X LONG process of reformers (so Called) have sought to bring to pass all sorts of machine made “millenniums.” If they deal with the social evil they proceed on the notion that purity is only possible to those who are above want or have good wages. They are never deeply concerned to work on the souls of men and women, but they are absorbed in trying to improve surroundings. THEY HAVE MORE FAITH IN' THE POWER OF ENVIRONMENT THAN IN THE STRENGTH OF CONSCIENCE. They have done much to lead multitudes of men and women to wait for something to be done for them rather than by them before undertaking to live virtuously. 1 . NOW OUR REFORMERS, WHO HAVE BEEN GIVING SUCH ATTENTION TO ENVIRONMENT FOR MANY YEARS AND WHO HAVE FAILED, TURN TO A VAIN ATTEMPT TO REGULATE HEREDITY. HENCE THIS HUGE SCHEME OF EUGENICS, WHICH IS, INDEED, A BLUNDERING WITH SACRED THINGS. ALREADY IT HAS YIELDED A CORRUPTING BULK OF SALACIOUS TALK ABOUT SEX HYGIENE AND SEX INSTRUCTION IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. THE WHOLE DISGUSTING MOVEMENT RESTS ON THE ASSUMPTION OF MAN'S SAMENESS WITH THE BRUTES. IT LEAVES ENTIRELY OUT OF THE ACCOUNT MAN’S FREEDOM OF WILL, WHICH DIVINE CHARACTERISTIC LIFTS HIM INFINITELY ABOVE ANY AND ALL BRUTES. It is time to tell these pretentious mechanicians to stand aside. Let them KEEP THEIR HANDS OFF OUR SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL CHILDREN AT LEAST. Our' public schools were not founded to furnish clinical opportunities for sex mad fanatics.