The Printing Department of the "North-China Daily News" produces the following variety of commercial printing IHE Catholic Church, which has a curious habit of being right on moral questions, has been ridiculed as out-of-date on that of contraception; but we hope to show that it is really the ultramoderns here who are behind the, times, We disagree with contraceptionists chiefly because their propaganda has been built on emotion and not on rational analysis; on a short-sighted pandering to selfish in vidualism under the plea of economic necessity, Southern blader have been held by these without proper regard to the true interests of society and of the Ulstermen. moral principles involved.
A. J. H. Coney. nary be-that of morals. Contraception is a the ea-Malthusian us con-the world. is overpopulated," deliberate thwarting of nature in a matter which is vital to the human We are told that already race. As such it is a serious trans-population is pressing bard on tne gression against nature and is con-food supply. That is sheer demned unequivocally by the Catho-nonsense. The is that we live lic Church, which holds that it is in an ego of plenty, an age capable ethically wrong not merely for of producing food for a world popula-Catholics but for all men, since all tion fantastically greater than that bound by the laws of Nature. which actually exists. The difficulty is not underproduction but bad ais-Against Nature tribution. Such enormous surpluses When we argue that contraception No Ship Under Protection are being produced in America, el, is against nature, precisely what do Sunk by Enemy.
at the government has had to pay mean? Here we are using nature riners to plow under various crops. in a particular sense: we mean that Ottawa, Oct. 21.
And while human ingenuity is only contraception or artificial birth con-of the war, hone beginning to for more rational trol is the perversion of a function carrying passengers or methods of distribution, the world which a moment's reflexion shows population instead of increasing is nature clearly intends for a specific going down. The panic about "stand-end, Marriage, like other. instituing room only" has changed to tion, has primary and secondary pur-"empty houses." It needs no expert to poses. The Catholic Church teaches, prove toa hardheaded business man at and her teaching is rationally, biolotaken by the Canadian least, that contraception as a great tically and medically sound, that social and economic policy is as the primary purpose of marriage with other Empire coun-anachronistic today as the horse and is the procreation and education buggy. of children She in no way
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