The Secretary of the National Council of Catholic Women, _Miss Agnes G. Reagan_, claimed that the bill requested Congress “to open the gates that information ruinous to Christian standards of family life may stream through the mails and flood the land.” She asserted that birth control methods are “all contrary to the moral law and forbidden because they are unnatural,” that they were “intrinsically wrong,—as wrong as lying and blasphemy.” As to the effect upon young people, she said: I speak from a rather wide and perhaps a sad experience in investigating conditions among young people who have become delinquent, and in many cases their delinquency was due to the fact that they could secure at the present time information concerning such practices; and that that information will certainly be much more widespread if this bill should be passed no one who has had dealings with young people has the slightest doubt. The United States in opening the mails to this sort of literature will do something that would be fatal to our young people. _Professor James A. Field_ of Chicago University, speaking for the bill, gave some historic proofs that legal attempts to suppress knowledge, especially that connected with sex, only serve to stimulate thought, increase curiosity and promote education. He instanced the situation in England about fifty years ago when obscenity prosecutions were instituted for circulating two hitherto relatively unknown pamphlets (both as it happened written by Americans, “Moral Physiology” by Robert Dale Owen who was a member of Congress from Indiana, and “Fruits of Philosophy” by Dr. Knowlton of Boston). And then what happened? The case (against Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant) came before the greatest and highest court in England. What would happen if the same high jurisdiction in this country took up a little pamphlet that nobody had heard of and such a pamphlet were taken up and challenged as destructive to public morals? Everybody would want to know what the pamphlet was all about. Well, that is what happened in England. There the pamphlet had sold to a small extent, really negligible in its extent, for 40 years. During the progress of the trial it sold to the extent of 125,000 copies. The solicitor general prosecuted the case and admitted those figures. He apologized to the jury; he said the case was a mischievous case in its origin and bound to be mischievous in its results. He said he was really sorry he had anything to do with it. The chief justice, in summing up, said everybody that had followed the case would agree on that, that no more ill-advised and injurious case had ever been brought before a court in his opinion.