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TO THE
MARRIED OF BOTH SEXES
OF THE
WORKING PEOPLE.

This paper is addressed to the reasonable and considerate among you, the most numerous and most useful class of society.
It is not intended to produce vice and debauchery, but to destroy vice, and put an end to debauchery.
It is a great truth, often told and never denied, that when there are too many working people in any trade or manufacture, they are worse paid than they ought to be paid, and are compelled to work more hours than they ought to work.
When the number of working people in any trade or manufacture, has for some years been too great, wages are reduced very low, and the working people become little better than slaves.
When wages have thus been reduced to a very small sum, working people can no longer maintain their children as all good and respectable people wish to maintain their children, but are compelled to neglect them; ---to send them to different employments;---to Mills and Manufacturies, at a very early age.
The misery of these poor children cannot be discribed, and need not be discribed to you, who witness them and deplore them every day of your lives.
Many indeed among you are compelled for a bare subsistence to labour incessantly from the moment you rise in the morning to the moment you lie down again at night, with out even the hope of being better off.
The sickness of yourselves and your children, the privation and pain and premature death of those you love but cannot cherish as you wish, need only be alluded to. You know all these evils too well.
And, what, you will ask is the remedy?
How are we avoid these miseries?
The answer is short and plain: the means are easy. Do as other people do, to avoid having more children than they wish to have, and can easily maintain.
What is done by other people is this. A piece of soft sponge is tied by a bobbin or penny ribbon, and inserted just before the sexual intercourse takes place, and is with drawn again as soon as it has taken place. Many tie a piece of sponge to each end of the ribbon, and they take care not to use the same sponge again until it has been washed.
If the sponge be large enough, that is; as large as a green walnut, or a small apple, it will prevent conception, and thus, without diminishing the pleasures of married life, or doing the least injury to the health of the most delicate woman, both the woman and her husband will be saved from all the miseries which having too many children produces.
By limiting the number of children, the wages both of children and of grown up persons will rise; the hours of working will be no more than they ought to be; you will have some time for recreation, some means of enjoying yourselves rationally, some means as well as some time for your own and your childrens’ moral and religious instruction.
At present every respectable mother trembles for the fate of her daughters as they grow up. Debauchery is always feared. This fear makes many good mothers unhappy. The evil when it comes makes them miserable.
And why is there so much debauchery? Why such sad consequences?
Why? But, because many young men, who fear the consequences which a large family produces, turn to debauchery, and destroy their own happiness as well as the happiness of the unfortunate girls with whom they connect themselves.
Other young men, whose moral and religious feelings deter them from this vicious course, marry early and produce large families, which they are utterly unable to maintain. These are the causes of the wretchedness which afflicts you.
But when it has become the costum here as elsewhere, to limit the number of children, so that none need have more that they wish to have, no man will fear to take a wife, all will be married while young ---debauchery will diminish--- while good morals, and religious duties will be promoted. You cannot fail to see that this address is intended solely for you good. It is quite impossible that those who address you can receive any benefit from it, beyond the satisfaction which every benevolent person, every true christian, must feel, at seeing you comfortable, healthy, and happy.

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