A Baby's Rights

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A Baby's Rights

EVERY baby has a right to be born with a sound mind and a sound body, free from the degeneracy of alcoholism, such as idiocy, epilepsy, St. Vitus's dance; free from the physical weaknesses that manifest themselves in an increased death rate; free from the environment that logically leads to reformatories and penitentiaries, in the budding of their manhood and womanhood; free from the industrial child slavery that so often rules the drunkard's home; free from the blighting stigma that "papa was a drunkard"; free from every taint of the curse of drink — the nation's and childhood's foe.