The Republican journal., 1869-03-25
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Hut now the sounds OF population fail
. see ten thousand blnciul arts cOm0ined
ID pamner lNNurv md thln mankind.H

.-th the above lines are taken, Is not touch
ly the sad picture of people enervated
d.. slowly destroyed by the banefu influences
45eh athict society! Till Of late, 1T was
.lusht to be but fine, poetic vision; or, if a
.Jrt was confined to old and efete populations,
-4l could have no existence in our virgin and
'eming land But, alas those evil influences
441e invaded our shores, too. For the able
H,por ol oar superintendent Of Schools for
.~t~ shows The startling fact that our Maine
population is not only decreasing, but in that
clement Of 1.-THE young-WhiCh shows that
he very springs OF society are drying up
tlere having been, as the Report shows, a con-
,lant decrease Of scholars since lsG0, OF nearly
1ol9 III the whole-3ls1 in the last year;
rate Jl dimuuitiou which, IN no very distant
.Itarc, will furnish some rising poet the theme
rhe Deserted State.
~4rh tact in d territory with so salubrious
innate; VITA means and facilities almost un-
-4pa,sed for supporting population-and the
means oi support is the great natural law
which governs the amount Of populaton-is as
Strange as it is startling An6 il behooves ev-
r.. .5 ui2nd ot the commonwealth, and every
pbauthropist everywhere, to inquirc-What
ae the causes Of that fact, and what the rem
dies for the eyil2
Idrec things suggest thems elyes-one, rs 9
4usible, two, as certain and sufficient rea-
~..- why our juvenile population Is, and will
.atulue to be- diminishing like causes con-
QW4
IL. lrst is emigration from our State. This
doubt tells a small per cent upon the Qggre-
gue Of our population: but it utterly fail, 10
.yoauL for the loss in the youag clement OF
L. Fol while IN this there has been 4 loss OF
some 10000 ii . few years, the number Of
p Init persons in the State have ilci~uSe1 dur
'u. that time, more than the other has lost,
,- t.te voting lists show. Hence we must turn
o other reasons, sad and painful as is the con-
Iteration Of them.
One OF these is a crime like that which the
witches loretold the monster Macbeth should
lie bis A deed withou1 rlme;' but 80
4arA more atroclous than his As, while his
anrIered victims were few, these count by
thousands and millions, depopu'atng States
44t natiOn> crime for which, alike upon
hose who, for petty gains, are accessory to it,
4nd those who, regardless of personal danger,
aul The moral ana legal turpitule of it, permit
t4o wickeunes7, Heaven and humanity cry
aloud and VIII not spare! The slaughter Of
t4e infants by llerod-wAo, Tor which act, viii
ua tested to the end OF tlne-was nothing,
.4 GmoUnl and atrocity, to this modern infanti-
tI- which desoates our State, rs it does most
Jl the W0rJ. every year. And q not less
s45cking thought l., As those competent to
s15T Will AFFIRM, hat, with Just exceptions
r-olgA to show how general the rule is, the
sta.t puzzle mind is debauched and demoraliz-
el an this subject: more SO among those of
10 2n7 and culture than Of the opposite classes.
1,.. it is hoped, the prevalence of this crime
owing, in part, 10 ignorance OF physiology
rylng to believe, and to satisfy The conscience
Matt embryotic life is not lile-a belief which
without particle of reason, and itself Grim
41 when persisted in against the light.
Bu there iS greater reason than this, be
clusl underlying this as its greatest cause in
Lie poet, lines at The head OF mis- article. For
uot only now when the cost OF living and of
supporting a family is 50 9redt,-but all along
preceding these high prices, for the last quar-
spruug up, the more costly Style of dress, of
uses, means OF living, and all the myriad
things that enter into house keeping, have, al
to4ctAer, 50 outstripped income-the means Of
maintaining family marriage hesitates
and waits: or, it consummated, it becomes
Question with the human, rs with the brute
population, hy~ atget gt3rt ,eU Hq fe3 &eeot
And SO, without marriage or with, the effect Of
these banefil arts ot luxGly il 70 thin mankind.
To remove these evils, and worse crimes, by
striking at the causes OF them, by retracing
onr steps to the more primitive less expensive,
tad every way better modes oil living, may
seem to be destrting the path Of progress and
improvements But in this alone, in our judg-
ulcut lies the remedy. The foundation Of these
4fiis is the mistake OF young people that they
uast begin life where their parents and friends
# another generation end; forgetting that,
fyrty-njne times in fifty, everywhere, all the
llcans OF the latter iOr larger, and, perhaps,
luxurious living, have come from beginning
mail, working up, little by little by the indus
rrg and 1ru9ality which the former now des-
pi~e, into their present abundant mears
4nd the general prosperous condition of most
oI the professional, mercantile, and men of
whatever calling? And are you lying back
waiting, somehow, TO get into this condition
before you start 10 do, or to be, anything ?
Most Of them will be proud to tell you how
they began; the little house, with its little fur
nlshing; plain food; few luXuries; the young
wife who was ''a hepmeet indeed, herself in
dustriouS like the other, and saving up what
ever she could to assist him to capital in his
business, and so by Joint effort ''to get on in
lbe world
DO you fear derision, young friends, if you
set out in, and pursue the way which has alone
led your predecessors, as it will you to sue
cess and happiness? Remember, it is only
snobs and pretentious nobodies you have to
fear, The sensible will both applaud the act
and cheer you on. For who does not admire
as some worship, heroes; but where is there
nobler hcroism-mostly unwritten indeed
than these brave architects of their own for
tunes. If, from false pride, you walt till Won
can start and support family at the cost, and