The disastrous consequences of such a crusade to further the cause of
race suicide are very forcibly brought home to us by an article which
appeared in "The Call," May 10, 1914, on "The Conscious Limitation of
Offspring in Holland":

"Our headquarters at The Hague and our subdivisions in all our
greater towns are spreading theoretical leaflets and pamphlets; but
the special pamphlet giving practical information in the prevention
of conception, is only given to married people when asked. We are
lecturing everywhere. But the essential missionary work is done
privately and modestly, often unconsciously by showing the happy
results in their own families, by the nearly 5,000 members of our
league spread over the whole country, among whom are physicians,
clergymen and teachers, etc. Every day information is asked by
letters and still more by our printed postcards; all information is
given cost-free and post-free. Almost all younger doctors and
midwives are giving information, and are helping mothers in the
cases when it is wanted on account of pathological indications.
Moreover special nurses are instructed in helping poor women.
Harmless preventive means are more and more taking the place of
dangerous abortion. So, merely by our freedom of giving
information, we have reached the desirable results proved most
brilliantly by the statistical figures of our country."

On May 21, 1914, "Woman's Sphere" of "The Call" devoted two more of its
columns to the race suicide propaganda in the form of an article by
Sonia Ureles under the caption, "Hats Off, Gentlemen, The Law!" Since
many parts of the production are too foul to permit our quoting them, we
shall give but a few short passages:

"But the doctors only scowled, and the nurse told her gently that
the law did not permit poor people to regulate the birth of their
offspring....

"To the thought of a private practitioner she gave no heed; it was
to her a luxury undreamed of....

"The nurse, a well-meaning honest creature, writhed uncomfortably
under her gaze. 'It's--it's against the law to give out such
information,' she stammered.

"'I don't care about the law,' came the stubborn reply. 'You
promised. Now tell me.' Nevertheless she left the hospital without
the information....

"She applied to the women of her neighborhood fo