New-York tribune., 1869-03-12
MINhLNn 1 EID LOT.


The jamestown journal has rather startling
leader on the qucstion-"ls Increase of Popu-
"lation Desirable !"-of couse, arguing that
it isn't. Whyl Because the human race is
composed with n few signal EXCEPTIONS Of
knayes and fools and few of these are bet
ter than n good many. Because it is law of
creation that "thc faster race increases, the
"lcss valuable are its individual specimens
OF course, the Turks and our Aborigines, who
do not increase mt all, are far superior to the
Germans, English, Irish, and our own native
people lie further says:
wo hold that rapid increase Of population IS cause
rather than pride 20 nation II IL 50 on account
or the problem 81 supplying the wants OF the coming IN
Tho producers are 20 iew aud me afea o. mo
carhs territory That VIII support It's residents IS 80 nm
itod that It II very easy 10 figure ont the point beyond
which population must be stopped by want and starya
ton Aud that point u OFTEN reached II II were Iot hu
the earth would have been crowded with people cen
res since that none Of them could st down Tor want o
room We know now many square ,et ol !auu ,Ilev % ~
on the earth; We know by rule how often The hlltls
would double the population ana MI The c"It u TOT tho
contcndiug forces which destroy llie 50 rapidly IheSo
destructive agencies all grow out OF tho sgge y1 Jood
me- YOU ehoose they all grow OUT OF the strHgSe Tor
To push down hs fellows ana snatch away their food
Men at birth are launched on sea I'm which there Ia only
a small island that can support fc It Is alrrndy full
and the chance ~ every new conner depends On his
ability 10 push on and stay on himself This Is
picture OF tho social problem"
- MS very Olu-bl Nl ltdSI us hdltluS-
and very absurd. There is no real struggle
g for food" except the struggle of short
sighted multitude to obtain it without pro-
ducing or earning it, If men were ms willing
to earn as TO eat the population of the earth
might he many times doubled without trench
ing on the limits of its productive capacity
We know that the Twelve Hundred Millions
now subsistmg on earth might be abundnntly
subsiscd from the soil of this country alone.
None of our States has yet produced half SO
much food rs it might; the Mississippi Valley
not twentieth. New-Jcrsey has now some
Eight Hundred Thousand people; she could
amply subsist Eighteen Hundred Thousand.
Our State needs Mt least Ten Millions to de-
velop to the best advantage her productive capac-
ity; Illinois needs Twenty Millions; and so on.
Food is far more abundant and human exist
cncc less precarous now than il was during
the first thirty years of our Colonial existence.
Finally, our cynic concludes that
There should be fewer marriages. and smaller FAINT.
lies from the marriages that cannot DO prevented"
Why not say mt once that lewdness and
sexual immortality, abortion, and kindred abOm-
nations, instead Of being forbidden, ought to
be encouraged aud facilitated by law P-tlat
establishments for their promotion should By
openly rounded and legalzedR
II the multiplication of bad people only
such rs thieves, swinders, drunkards, harlots,
and the writer of the article we are criticising
could in some proper way be prevented, we
should like it; but We hold great majority of
the human race worth their salt" and rejoice
in the hope that the number of these is stead
lily increasing.