NO PARENTAL AFFECTION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 145, 11 August 1911, Page 2

NO PARENTAL AFFECTION.

SIR J. MADDEN’S INDICTMENT. Speaking the other day at the annual meeting of the Victorian Neglected Children’s Aid Soceitv, tne Chief Justice, Sir John Madden, said such pitiful cases as the society was caring for should not ho found anywhere in a country like this. 'They had a growing body of rascals whose lack of morality was inconceivable. 'There was a great and lamentable body of the community who brought children into the world without the least vestige of parental regard, and with no desire to give them affection —if it wore possible for such to possess that emotion—or any help whatever. 'These people would rather help a favourite dog than one of their own children. A large body was growing up which was developing the grossest indifference to its duty to the community. He spoke as a Judge, and it was impossible for one to sit day by day in a court and watch the march of battalions of wrong-doors who came up for punishment, and not deplore that nothing was being done to got a tthe cause of this awful condition. This evil was extremely and rapidly growing. In 15)05 there were in Victoria I,SLT of this class of children dependent upon either the State or institutions such as theirs, in 15)05) there wire 0,007. These figures told a story that required thinking over by economists, politicians, and all who thought at all. In addition to those children, there were on Ist December. 15)05), no fewer than 0221 in reformatories. They should not then stop at approving the work clone there, hut go further into the larger question. In a country where wages were high and ample opportunities existed for oncoming citizens to ho good citizens, this state’of things should not he. There must he some remedy. She didn’t belong to the “Smart Set.” But slio turned night into day, And smoked, while others were sleepCigarettes. I’m sorry to say, Sho tried some Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, Her asthma to forget. And now she’s a brand “New Woman.’’ And an ardent Suffragette!”