THE NEWLANDS DISCLOSURES.

Shannon News, 29 May 1923, Page 2

THE NEWLANDS DISCLOSURES.

* (TiO the Editor.) Sir,—-The above mentioned disclosures must present to the view of every thinking man and woman a condition of matters that is both appalling and disgraceful. In these massacres of the innocents who is th 6 first cause, and the most guilty? Not. certainly, the unfortunate unmarried mother, who in addition to the pains and terrors common to all for months before the final agony, has had to face humiliation, the loss of every friend, and finally the impossibility of earning for herself and child. No loving compassionate relatives sur- , round her, no medical assistance, no j anaesthetics to mitigate her pain What a punishment, most unjust as well as cruel! Yet she has but succumbed to the powerful call of Nature to all womanhood. And tne State—to whom she has presented its most valuable asset, a nation-born citizen —turns its back .and says “You and your child may die of slow starvation for all we care.” What, wont der if in mad despair she lends its j life and hers? Or wildly dreams of ! giving it what she in her ignorance 1 deems a chance, by placing it with {these baby-farmers? Not even the creatures who conduct this nefarious business are the chief criminals. It is ‘you, John or Tjhomas, Jane or Anna, respectable citizens as you think yourselves, who are wholly responsible. It is you who are guilty so long ‘as you sanction this negl-ct on the part of your representatives in Parliament to provide the food, Nothing and shelter for fhe new citizen who has cost them nothing in immigration subsidies; yes, for the n-w citizen .and for his mother until the State can provide bier with the opportunity of earning for both. When this is done, there will be no child murderers, no hapless, friendless girl suicides. Ah! That 'an abler pen might add whatever this poor scribe omits. —I am, etc., SPECTATOR. P.S.: What of the mad folly that | spends lavishly to bring strangers to our shores to stultify ouP votes, and can find no funds for this. Truly, "man plays such fantistic tricks before high Heaven, as make the angels weep.”. —Spectator.

(Our correspondent’s observations upon one of the great scandals of the time were penned some months ago, but could not be published until the Newlands murder trial had run its course.—Ed. “News.”)