"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 for information. They told her things they thought they knew, and things they thought they ought to know. And her health was the price she paid.... "They who knew, but would not tell, left her one alternative. She chose it. And so, "'Hats off, gentlemen--the law!'"
In this same issue of "The Call," May 24, 1914, there is an editorial comment that promised the base devotees of race suicide an abundance of filthy reading matter for the future: