The Taihape Daily times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1918. REPLENISHING HUMAN WASTE.

Taihape Daily Times, 24 June 1918, Page 4

The Taihape Daily times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1918. REPLENISHING HUMAN WASTE.

(With which is Incorporated The Taihape Post and WaJnramo News).

Germany seems to have launched upon a scheme for scrapping everything civilisation has hitherto held to be sacred, in addition to all religion and moral codes that our present day civilisation is based upon. If what is freely reported from Germany be true with respect to changes in sex relationships being officially recognised and encouraged in an effort to replenish war losses the home as hitherto understood is doomed to extinction. Our only intention in referring to that question now is to juxtapose such an insane, calamitous exigency with what is happening from year to year in New Zealand, much of which the general public in cities and large centres hear little or nothing about. From what information is to hand about the newly established German department for officially controlling sex relationships, the Germans have not exercised anything like the thought and thoroughness of organisation that characterises their prosecution of the war. It seems that, promiscuity and license have simply been allowed to replace a moral code; to render oblivious, or to thrust into disuetude, the developments of thousands of years in all that is highest and holiest; all that is essential to human progress towards the great ideals set by the foremost civilised peoples. Germany has officially established sex chaos, whioh, we believe, is fraught with as. much danger to race perpetuation and stamina as the war now raging. . One could have understood a resort to some form of limited polygamy, bu'fc to abandon all reserve and control, and to officially countenance, ond encourage unbridled procreative promiscuousness is demoniacal in the extreme, and more likely to spread ' contagion thaJfc may possibly lead to a deterioration, physical and mental, such as followed the break up of the Roman empire, known as the dark ages, than to effect tha/t which the German Government is seeking to attain. At one fell swoop German officialdom would destroy the home and family .and leave the genus homo in that sexual condition with respect to relationship in which we now find the lower animals, entirely devoid of love and home. The alarming nature of Germany's latest official developments has prompted us to mentally review what we are doing in New Zealand towards the repletion of our lost manhood; are we offering any premium to people to increase tK© number of homes, or to those who have homes, to enlarge their families? Are we all enlisting under the banner of tho lunatics who have instituted a policy to curtail home-making; who encourage men to remain single as much as they do to establish homes and live as nature or Almighty God intended they should live? Shall we continue, with our lunatic leaders, in taking men and women and children off the land; in closing down schools because the children have gone for whom they were built? Last week we were appealed to by three heads of families for homes in Taihape; we could only tell the distracted men and women that Taihape, like the general government, did not encourage men and women who want homes; that Taihape's actions disclosed that men and women encumbered with children were not wanted, and that, consequently, no provision was made, or was being made for them. Germany, rendered socially insane by huge war losses, has gone the whole distance in cutting out the home ond instituting sex promiscuity, but are we not travelling towards similar finality by another road, that of greed and lust? We contend that men like one of our Legislative Councillors should be taxed

to 99 per cont of, bis income; his example is a menace to the vitals of the race. The B'ritish Empire is being bled white, losing the flower and beauty of its manhood, and wo at home are thoughtlessly and insanely making destruction more complete by our discouragement of home and family life. During last week three examples of what our,.lunatie leaders are doing in destroying human family instincts came under notice. Our attention was drawn to what men and women in backblock settlements have to contend with who have become victims to their human, instincts in establishing a home, and in filling those homes with-a number of healthy children. The first family mentioned was that of a wage-earner, up Hihitahi way, who Sow has nine children. As his story was unfolded by our informant we realised the cruel treatment of the State to the full. We realised that man and his family were doomed .to lives of hardship, as well as to semistarvation. That man and woman have brought into the world a child very nearly on an average of one each year. Where they live is very many miles removed from a source of medical and expert nursing .aid, the consequence is that the woman has to undergo a period about once a year in a private hospital in Taihape, or elsewhere, which, with other incidental expenditure runs into a liability of twenty pounds. This does not include the costs of engaging;,assistance to look after the mother's home and her family while away, which, at a moderate estimate amounts to another ten pounds. The result is that the head of that family cannot get out of financial depths to which this annual charge, coming in addition to the upkeep of his family and home, thrusts him. In Taihape we are obviously insincere in our expressed desire for progress of settlement; if we wanted families to settle here we should undoubtedly find means of providing houses for them;' the lie direct recoils upon people as they drive from the town the hundreds of married people who have sought, a home in. sheir midst. What, can be said by'the'lunatic leaders in extenuation" iof their crime against society, the><State j and the Empire*?' Are wo any less savages than the Huns, whose demonical actions we anathematise; -;are we any less barbarous in bringing home and society to ruin by a slow death than Germany is by accomplishing it with one fell swoop? If nothing else is done we trust the Minister in charge of the Department of Public Health will make the utmost use of hi 3 Department to render the home life of such a case as we have mentioned more endurable. Two other families were brought under our notice, ea,ch of eight children, both being mulcted in the poll tax of about thirty pounds for presenting His Majesty the King with each new subject as it arrived. Our country will support a population of a hundred millions; we are prospering to an almost unthought of degree, but in the : .sub;ject under notice we meet our ne plus ultra. Our greatness cannot ; be maintained; .weakness and decay must overtake the empire that offers a premium to childlessness and penalises the man and women who live sacred, natural lives # Here is a principle of decay, the operation of which can only prove fatal. What are we, and what is the State going to do about it?