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T H E TO M A HA W K. A SATURDAY JOURNAL ...
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No. 165.] LQN'&ON, 'JULY 2, 1870. [Price...
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BAJZY-IVlJZMIArG.
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The nineteenth century Is a dreadfully b...
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T H E To M A Ha W K. A Saturday Journal ...
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No. 165.] Lqn'&On, 'July 2, 1870. [Price...
No . 165 . ] LQN' & ON , ' JULY 2 , 1870 . [ Price Twopence .
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The nineteenth century Is a dreadfully bad century . Its sins are enormous , and can Tie counted by the thousand . It is full of hyppcrisy , malice , and all un ^ haritableness . But of all the blots with which it is stained- ^ the worst , the most disgusting-, the most diabolical , is the prevalence of Baby-Farming . A woman who has once lost her claim , to " honesty" can never be expected to have the ordinary feelings of a human being . Intensely sensual , intensely selfish , her one idea is to enjoy sin , and escape the consequences that follow , as a rule , the breaking of the Seventh Commandment . From her we can * expect nothing but cruel indifference—her future in life is clouded is over necessary by the presence tfoat the little of her one little should one . disappear This being . Voila the tout case . it 3 efore we go further it will be as well to define the exact meaning of " Baby-Farming . " We have only to refer to the police reports to discover that tike magist rates call it " murder . " An wgly word enough , and yet one well suited to the crime . Our ^ religion tells tis that the smallest of children are born with souls- —and the killer of the dwelling-house of the soul is a murderer . So the magistrates are quite right when they describe Baby-Farming by the two syllables of most dreadful import in the Enclish laneruacfe .
And now it is necessary to find out those who are acceswith sories the to the Baby fact -Farmers , and are themselves thus worth , y Jjt of is hanging not onl y the compa hag ny s who take the mother ' s gold and the infant ' s life-breath , that should be punished , no , the hand of the Law should reach- the husseys and those who intrigue with them . These Baby-Farms have . been fed by the rich . The children who have been sent to them to die have been the children of sin—the result pf some shameful liaison . It is well-known that in spite of our mock morality the tone of our higlier classes is immodest and bad . The Smoking-rooms at the < £ Jubs , the Promenade in the Park , are redolent with stories-of scandal affecting noble names . It seems to be recognised that a woman can do no wrong . We appear to have drifted back to tlie days of Charles IJ ., when it was the thing to be vicious , actually honourable to be dishonoured ! no The starving customers mothers of the , b | it Farmers brazen are , silk no -wearing poor strugg , fan ling -tossing wives — , ladies ! The daughters of noble fcpuses , the children pf wealthy merchants These are , they the who offfspring fcavr of broken fat vicars the S eventh and opulent Commandment parsons . assist the Farmers , in selli ^ ng a * nought tjie Sixth . These are ,
they who , in spite of their names and dresses , are fit only to herd with wantons , to hang with assassins S They are unknown as yet j cannot their crimes be brought home to them ? Is there no detective who would follow up the thread , and discover the shameless murderess in her peaceful home ? What has become of that most admirable association , the Society for the Suppression of Vice ? Will not they hunt these unmarried mothersthese girl-fiends—to earth—prison earth ! What is the use of hanging the convicted child-murderer , if we cannot get at the throat of the fair-haired brute , who , with delicate hands , consigns her poor gasping offspring to death and torture ? But still there is another class of people who deserve punishment—the proprietors of those papers that insert the advertisements of the Farmers . There can be no excuse for them . The " Head of the Advertisement Department" has no right to be absent from his post any more than the Editor . Supposing a libel crept into the body of the paper , would the excuse tendered , that the Editor was away at the time of the publication , have any weight with the party aggrieved ? We think not , we know not . This being the case , we , on behalf of the publicthe aggrieved party on this occasion—cannot rest satisfied with tna 1 inc 01 01
me excuse . cause me appearance a quesuonaDie . announcement is to be attributed to the inadvertence of the " Head of the Advertisement Department . " No , the canvassing tout to whom the proper production of the advertisement sheets are generally entrusted , should be as wary as the Editor himself . But perhaps it would be as well to teach this lesson in a little rougher fashion . When they want to recollect anything important , some people are fond of tying knots in their handkerchiefs ; why should we not teach proprietors of newspapers not to insert the advertisement of murderers by tying knots round their throats ? This is , perhaps , rather too strong a remedy , still , there is the idea ! We have scarcely alluded to the Baby-Farmers themselves , because our course is so very simple when we have to deal with them . 11 is a mere question of rope . We leave the argument to Calcraft , who will quite represent our views . It would be as well , however , in future that the police were more wakeful to the foul deeds of these monsters . Surely a Baby-Farm ought not to exist without the knowledge of the Force . Surely an intelligent constable would be able to discover such a house at once , and report it to his superiors for surveillance . And still a question remains unanswered—what is the best way of stopping the horrible crimes proceeding out of Baby-Farming ? Let us suppose all the convicted murderers and murderesses comfortably hanged—still , a great deal remains to
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Tomahawk (1867-1870), July 2, 1870, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_02071870/page/3/
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