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■ property without any compensa­
tion therefor, and in the same
way, we have not a sterilization
law because the majority of
people object to being sterilized,
or object to such treatment for
their friends who might happen
are established only through business relations. The
to go wrong.
m an'w ho maintains an account with a strong, grow­
I believe there is such a thing
ing bank is building a credit for future use.
as crime against criminals, and
AH good business men agree that the first step
that society has no more right
toward success is to establifh your credit with a bank,
to commit a crime against crim­
inals than criminals have to
but—in selecting a bank you should not only choose
commit crime against society.
one that is trilling to help you, but one with resources
The literature sent out by the
large enough so that it can help you—in good times
Anti-Sterilization League ap­
or bad.
pealed to my sympathies on be­
This bank is willing and able to help you.
half o f the insane people. I, tor
one, am ready to champion the
cause of the under dog, the man
could be cut off this problem o f said, is bound to be the prev o f or woman who is down and
public health would be half solved the first person who attempts to
out, who is behind the bars, who
by that cutting off of the mate­ use her. By the Binet test she is is kicked around by society, by
Resources $475,000.00
Question Discussed For Benefit rial. It’s true that the majority between 9 and 10 years old the people who have conceived
of good people can’t see any dif­ mentally and o f course must go the idea that only the select few
of Public by an Expert.
ference between commercial pros through life as a child, though are fit to propagate the race.
titution
and irregular relations, physically mature.
[Ocorje A. Thacbcr ]
The proposed {Sterilization Act
Here is the question: It is was wrong, and for that reason
You can't always tell good
In reading the denunications but the distinction is very sharp
of the sterilization law to be and deep, and some day will be “ rot,” as our eloquent fellow- was nullified by the people
value by appearances. That
townsman says, to prevent, by despite the endorsement o f the
voted upon Tuesday I am im­ recognized.
is e s p e c i a l l y true o f a
pressed by the probable under­ T w o weeks ago I had tw o re­ an operation that is not serious W. C. T. U. And all the profes­
lying motive, of which the pro- quests to do something about a and not disabling in any degree sed Christians this side of heaven
testants are, o f course, uncon­ matron o f a disorderly house for personal enjoyment, such could never make a crime against
Your trust is well founded when it is placed in a
scious. I have not heard any whose family I know to be mothers and daughters and sons criminals less than a crime.
from
propagating
the
race?
Or
Vicious laws sometimes work a
calm objections to the measure, mentally degenerate and abnor­
shall
we
bv
high-flown
appeals
mal.
T
w
o
young
women,
one
though I have heard such heated
hardship upon the innocent, as
ones as that the measure would of them engaged to be married, against tyranny and unusual in the case of Daniel, Shadrach,
be productive of criminality; that had been inveigled into this punishment permit these poor Meshack and Abednego.
it is all rot; that it is an in­ woman’s place by partially false creatures, who undoubtedly de­
I can easily understand why
famous measure, and that men representations. This woman serve our care and sympathy, if the Eugenists favor sterilization.
and women will be railroaded to and her relatives are a problem. not our love, to be fruitful and Such laws will naturally appeal
Phone W hite 192
jail and the asylums by enemies A sexualization would not inter­ multiply?
to persons who operate breeding
F. II. GRIFFITH
Shop: 402 First Street
That
is
the
question
which
the
to deprive them o f the capacity fere with their sexual life at all—
farms for the purpose of breeding
and that is the end o f life for voters of Oregon are to decide at human beings along the same
of leaving descendants.
I don’t think very much can be them—but it would stop the the polls on Tuesday. Of course, lines as we breed cattle and hogs,
said for the way in which the breed with this generation. no law is perfect, and no officers but how professed followers of
law is drawn, but certainly no Language simply fails to describe of the law have perfect knowl­ Christ can endorse such a mea­
one can say truthfully that t he what this family does in Port­ edge and judgement, but the sure is beyond my comprehension.
courts will construe it as an in­ land in disseminating disease and making of law and its enforce­
When the woman taken in
strument o f private revenge in teaching boys and girls vicious ment are none the less necessary. adultery was brought before
I fancv that this law will be
even indirectly, for that would sex habits. The Social Hygiene
defeated,
as it ought to be, if £ « « for sentence, he said, “ Let
make superintendents of asylums Society is an academic affair,
him who is without sin cast the
and jails as well as the Health contrasted with these women, there is not a public sentiment first stone.” “ Whatsoever ye
Board, mere passive instrumer ts who day after day for years behind it, but really the public would that men should do to
Public officers have a little care have personally and as a busi ought to know something about you, do ye even so to them.”
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for their reputations, and even ness taught debauchery to the the situation even if it is painful “ With what measure ye mete, it
The Graphic management has made arrange­
disreputable physicians do not youth o f the city. It is unneces­ and shocking. It the people re­ shall be measured to you again.
fuse
to
accept
the
verdict
o
f
the
take grave responsibilities and sary to say that their descendants
ments with the Portland Evening Telegram
We cannot afford to do wrong
act arbitrarily without strong are engaged in the same profes­ Legislature about as important even to criminals, for it is sure to'
whereby we can give subscribers the advantage
sion, though some of them are a matter as this, then the people
motives—usually mercenary.
react.
Bear
in
mind
that
this
o f a gigantic combination offer for a limited
The purpose o f the law is sim­ to o weak mentally to be active. must dig in the slums and learn world will never be reformed by
When I read a few days ago the facts about degeneracy and surgical operations for one class
ply to bar propagation o f ab­
period. You can get a Metropolitan evening
normal, insane and feeble- minded Colonel W ood’s statement that sexual perversion and what they and breeding farms for another.
paper with all the latest news from all over
parents, whom the state, under this sterlization law was an cost in taxes for insane asylums, I trust I may be forgiven if 1 step
jails,
homes
for
the
feeble-minded
the world and all the news o f Newberg and
present conditions, has to con­ “ engine of tyranny and oppres­
on the editorial toes, as in one of
and
reformatories.
Of
course,
if
fine in institutions “ after they sion” and that "it is rot,” it
vicinity in the Graphic at a remarkably low
your recent issues you stated
have committed offenses on brought vividly to mind a scene it is seriously believed that gen­ that all criminals would vote
price.
innocent persons.” It seems to that I witnessed within a few ius and madness and degeneracy against the law to sterilize their
The Evening Telegram is the best paper in
me that some of this overwhelm­ months in a miserable hovel, are bound together, then it be­ kind, but that it was to be hoped
comes
a
question
of
values
and
ing tenderness for the supposed practically without furniture,
the state, market reports unexcelled, Saturday
there were enough supposedly
desire o f the abnormal to leave where a feeble-minded mother Mrs. Little and Colonel Wood good people to put the measure
edition contains a magazine and comic section
progeny (which probably never with her brood o f feeble-minded and Dr. White and Judges Munly through. It now appears that
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in colors.
exists) might be transferred with children lived on the earnings of and Bloomfield are perhaps the the criminals outnumber the
profit to their victims, or to the her prostitute daughter. This best persons to say what the supposedly good people to the
taxpayer who may have some mother, being feeble-minded, had voters should do at the polls.— extent o f some lour thousand, so
THE PORTLAND EVENING TELEGRAM $5.00 PER YEAR
desires of his own about children. naturally mated with a disrepu­ Oregonian.
permit me to suggest to the good
THE NEWBERG GRAPHIC
$1.50 PER YEAR
The sexually abnormal and table, but she admitted that her
people that they be careful as to
weak-minded seek simply per­ second child was the son of
the kind o f laws they pass as
TOTAL $6.50
sonal gratification, for it takes a herself and her brother. (Cases
they might be administered by
normal person to be interested in o f this sort are fairly common Enos Ellis Votes With Majority some of the criminals and the
Both papers through
with the feeble-minded as the
posterity.
Against Sterilization A ct
good people be the victims.
Society must deal kindly with police, the District Attorneys and
this office if paid in
These are my reasons tor tak­
the present generation o f per­ social workers know, though it Editor Graphic:
ing the stand I did in the matter
advance for 1 year,
verts, but why get into such a is not regarded * as proper and
If you kindly allow me space o f the Sterilization Act, and for
on or before De­
fury o f sentiment about their polite for the public generally to in your paper, I would like to once in my life I am with the
cem ber 31st, 1913
increasing their kind? There know.) The daughter and bread­ submit to your readers my rea­ majority.
have been half a dozen “ Sadistic” winner in this family is pretty son for the active part I took in
With good will to all,
murders in the Willamette Valley and physically vigorous and the campaign opposing the
Enos A. Ellis.
within some tw o years, and the while not yet 20 years old is a Sterilization Act passed by the
perpetrators have never been bigamist as well as a professional last legislature. Some of my
caught, and there have doubtless prostitute. There is a man in friends have asked me for the
been others where the victims’ McNeil’s Island on her account reason o f my action, and as I
bodies have been destroyed by and tw o others have served believe it right to give a reason
fire, for these perverts are the terms in the penitentary at Salem for such matters as effect the
most cunning and clever criminals for exploiting her as a source o f general public, I will answer by
that live. Why not a little income.
saying that, the reason I opposed
sympathy for the prospective
T o see this feeble-minded moth­ the Sterilization Act was that I
victims in the next generation, er with her three feeble-minded considered it a pernicious piece of
for the Sadistic murderer of to­ children standing at the door of legislation and not in harmony
day, if he begets children, will be­ their hovel to see how much the with twentieth century ideas of
get his own kind.
daughter brought home from prison reform. Some people do
There is another matter in her “ adventure,” as I witnessed not stop to consider that such a
Close in but away from the dust
which society professes to be in­ it, was a rather striking picture, law savors of barbarism and the
The best natural drainage in town.
terested, whether hypocritically which I shall not be able to for­ time of Nero. Surely, if this is
Cement walks laid and streets graded.
or not, and that is commercial get. For some reason, talk the proper method o f dealing with
Building restrictions insure a good class o f
prostitution, which directly dis­ about pride o f prosterity in fam­ degenerates and moral perverts,
seminates diseases that tend to ilies of that sort does not take God would have so instructed his
residences.
destroy posterity as well as the hold o f me. They can make their people in the days o f Sodom and
If you are interested your inspection is in­
participating individuals. It is mark on society undoubtedly, as Gomorrah. There are reasons
vited.
safe to say that about one-half this family is doing, but it is a why some laws should be passed,
of the women in this profession mark of disease, degeneracy and and reasons why others should
are weak-minded, and their chil­ death, as well as expense to the not be passed, or having been
dren will be like their mothers, community.
passed, should be set aside by the
This daughter was examined voice of the people. We have a
^thus providing recruits for the
contamination o f the business by an alienist and is reported to law forbidding murder because
from which vicious men and be lacking in judgment and with­ people object to being murdered;
women make big money. If the out will power. She is also very we have a law forbidding theft,
supply o f feeble-minded women suggestible and as the physician because people object to losing
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