Poor, blind, deceived and betrayed, old world; to so fear a foolish
and impotent anarchism that spends its strength in vain railings
against governments while you pay highest honors and present your
choicest favors to those traitors who filch your wealth of young life
under pretense of loyal service. The real anarchists, old world, are
not those who loudly vociferate to the rabble on the street corners
but those who, operating under the laws of your approval, betray their
country in its greatest need--its need of children. The real
anarchists, old world, are those whose banners are made red by the
blood of babies; who fatten upon the labor of their child slaves; and
who seek to rule by the slaughter of children even as that savage of
old whose name in history is hated by every lover of the race.
Regicides at heart, they are, for they kill, for a price, the God
ordained rulers of mankind. A child is nearer, by many years, to God
than the grown up rebel who traitorously holds his own mean interests
superior to the holy will of Life as vested in the sacred person of a
boy or girl.
To prate, in empty swelling words, of the sacredness of life, the
power of religion, the dignity of state, the importance of commercial
interests and the natural wealth of the nation, while ignoring the
sacredness, power, dignity, importance, and wealth of childhood, is
evidence of a criminal thoughtlessness.
Children and Life are one. They are the product, the producers, and
the preservers of Life. They exalt Life. They interpret Life. Without
them Life has no meaning. The child is no more the possession of its
parents than the parents are the property of the child. Children are
the just creditors of the human race. Mankind owes them everything.
They owe mankind nothing. A baby has no debts.
Nor is the passion for children satisfied only in bearing them. A
woman who does not love _all_ babies is unsafe to trust with one
of her own flesh. A man who does not love _all_ children is unfit
to father offspring of his own blood. One need not die to orphan a
child. One need only refuse to care for it. One need only place other
interests first. Men and women who desire to become parents will not
go unsatisfied in a world that is so full of boys and girls for whom
there are neither fathers nor mothers.
The Master of Life said: "Except ye become as little children." His
false disciple--world--teaches: "Except ye become grown up." But the
laws of Life are irrevocable. If a man, heeding the world, grows up to
possess the earth, his holdings, at the last, are reduced--if he be
one of earth's big men--to six feet of it, only; while the man who
never grows up inherits a heaven that the false kings of earth know
not.
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