Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1868-12-16
ADEDR HISS
Delivered before the Little Prairie Wosh
ingtomton Temperance Society By
W. j. ALLEN, Esq.
Published by Request ofthe above Society.
Of Palmyra.

civilization within the last hundred years.
it may prove instructive to contemoiate
the effect upon our race and the destiny
events would indicate for the human fam
lily. Every new invention designed for
mans welfare brings with it an accom-
panying train OF vices, and every devel
opment of the productions OF the earth
is impregnated with SO much that rs re
vicious that the good is often counterbaI
anced by the evil and human nature is
Many contend that man and woman ale
to-day physically and morally degenerated
far below what men and women We're one
hundred years ago; and few will be m
clined to deny that there is more wicked
ness and moral corruption in the world
to day than at any previous period OF the
worlds history. La earlier ages man did
not know SO much as he does now his
know ledge was more limited and his ex
periences more circunlscibed the news OF
the outer world that he now learns almost
instantaneously, took months to travel to
him; revolutions were begun and ended /;
thrones were shaken and overturned ere
he could learn anything about hem; his
practical geography was aim st confined
to the valley in which he lived, aud the
Q uptions and vici tudes of foreign
ma ions troubled him but little. is
wants were few aud his desires modera tie,
his table was frug lily supplied with plain
and wholesome food, and his physical
frame became thereby molded into colos
sal proportions, genial ten perainent and
ID sound constitution. | fear there is too
much truth in the assertion that man is
Today more dimluutive in stature. more
bilious III temperament nd more afflicted
with stilutional maladies than his pre-
decessor of former ages-and this must
oe charged to the tendencies, the habits
aud peculiarit es of the age in which we
i've
IF the progress of civilization has thus
stamped itself upon man, how much more
distinctly has it stamped itself upon wo.
man it has robbed her in a great meas
ure of health, strength and beauty, and
this assertion is not applicable alone to
America, but to the whole Anglo Sax, II
race This may lead to the develop
ment ofan idea which in fact is no less
than that the Anglo Saxon race is now
attaining 1.-The sere and yellow leaf Of its
predominant existence; and that even as
the Copts, the Grecians aud the Romans
after attaining the deve opments suited
to the ages in which they fourIshed, then
lwindled into imbecility and weakness
after having fulfilled the dest ny Of then
being, and cleft their footprints on the
sands of time" so is the Anglo Saxon race
destined to yield its predoninance to u
more vigorous and more youthful race
ringing up in some obscure corner o.
the world.
This country has long been an outlet
for the overgrown populations of Europe
there is ro m enough yet, but time may
com when even this country, overburd-
ened with an excessive population, may
seek an outlet then the question presents
itself, will the world be ever overpopulat-
ed? Mr.. Doubleday of Eng and has yer
salts iGactorily answered this in very in
teresting work lately published; his ar
gument is that according as the human
family become educated and refined
the power of procreation is checked, and
population dwindles into meagre numbers
on the same principle that tree, plan
flower if placed in a mould too rich liz
fruitful mess ceases, or as the lower animals
when overfed, their fecundity isl check
ed. The idea is illustrated in the story
Of the good old French dame in the fabl~
Of G1ae femme ct So Pouie-she. wanted
her pet to lay more eggs, and fed her ac
cordlngly, but the result instead Of being
mofe, was no eggs at all.
From these analogies Mr.. Doubleday
infers that the same law applies to the hu
man family. The power of increase is
subject to the general law of individual
perfection, the higher you are in the an
imal scale, the less capable you are of
producing more animals the more manly
you are, the more manly you. offspring,
but the less numerous. The homes OF
luxury and wealth are seldom noisy with
the innocent prattle Of many children,
while the tenements of the poor swarm
ad lnttnitu0D.
In thus contemplating the destiny OF
our race it Is proper that we should also
consider our relations to each other and
m fh.a world - v-L;oL II III u.