The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-06-03


headquarters arc at No. 142 West Sow
entieth street. She leaves for Europe
this week or next, returning in the
fall, whom she win open her main head
quarters at Chicago. There the con-
yention whlchyis to nominate her Tor
the presidency will DO held Every
thing is full Of life and hustle at tho
house in SEVENTEEN street. Mrs. Martin
appears to be very much III earnest.
aWc return 10 New York just as soon
as the hot season is over. she saia yes
terday to reporter. Meanwhile me
first number OF our newspaper, the
Humanitarian, will be issued: Y VILE
sixteen pages in size, and will, OF course,
be the exponent Of our views on the
subject Of humanitarian government,
the platform upon which Island for the
presidency" In plain terms, Mrs. Mar
TINS aim Is to establish a government
that shall make It q business to improve
the human race. She says there Is no
reason who there should be any idiots,
lnnatics, cranks, paupers or cripples IN
The world.
"a man may possess noble charoc-
fer and magnificent physique, she
said, obut If he does not perpetuate
these qualities they do not survive. A
man NAV DO an invalid, stupid or reck-
loss, but, withal, he marries and raises
a large family. His qualities are per-
petuatod, but it is not the survival OF
the iittcst. Many men break them-
selves down by oycrwork, and the terri
bic strain is seen in the physical condi-
ton OF their children, Many men have
not oyerexerted themselves and have
had no scruples about living on the
charity OF their relations or friends, and
honce their children do not suffer from
the depleted physical condition o. their
fathers; but arc those children the sur
yival Of tho iittest?" e i.
"But,n asked the reporter, "may not
an interference with marriages Of the
unfit advance the growth Of the lower
races over that Of the upperH"
''Thcre are great many who think,
replied Mrs. Martin, that such inter
ference will give greater opportunities
TO races lower in the scale OF develop.
ment, who are multiplying SO fast, to
overcome and conquer the more adj
vanced races. We have IN example Of
this in the rapid multiplication Of the
negroes in this country, who at some
not far distant day will outnumber and
overrun the whites, 1.-THE rapid increase
be not checked. Eventually, II America
is owned and governed by negroes,
would it be the survival OF the fittest%
Asked to name some OF the reasons
leading to the marriage OF the unfit, Mrs.
Martin said: "All artificial social in
ducements for the mating OF unsuitable
individuals are instruments for the muE-
tiHcation OF the unfit, To prove how
detrimental our present social life is 10
the human race, we have only to ask
how many OF the marriages which take
place would be consummated II there
were no social inducements-no fear OF
public opinion, no regard for the law
II there were no other inducement but
the fact that he is male and she is fe-
male and that they are physiologicallY
mated. How many who to-day are not
suited to each other would under such
state come together and parry2 One
great cause Of the rapid multiplication
ofthe unfit over the fits our false social
system, which places SO many obstacles
to prevens the coming together OF our
best men and women" '1
"But do young men and young women
have in their narrow spheres sufficient
room in which to select the fttest
mate?" asked the reporter.
"Marital selection has very little
scope in our conventional system,
Mrs. Martin answered. "IIow many
opportunities has q girl to find her
proper mate inherlittle set-eyen if she
were free to choose? Take the manyin-
stances of women who marry for q
home, very often the only choice be-
tween that and starvation, and ask ii
there could be q greater peryersion OF
natures law. have heard it said,
"What agood marriage Mr.. Blank has
made; he married ~aG girl worth $500, 600,
more or less; she is ugly and unattrac-
tive, to BIO sure, but what windfall for
him! Aauitable marriage is often; con-
sidered tho ono that will relieve the
man from his dobts, or the marriage
that will raise him or her up in the So
cial or financial world. Money bags are
highly valued in tho marriage mart,
Marriages OF old men and young girls
and OF young mon and aged women are
altogether too frequent nowadays. Tho
fruits OF such marriages are too often
idiots and criminals" \
Leaving the subject OF marriage for
time, Mrs. Martin touched upon tho
pauper class, we find that, instead of
theirneryous energy being economically
expended, there is lavish, unseen and
wasteful expenditure which is Of no
great benefit to the individual. or to
society. They are organically deficient;
they inherit detective, ill-reSulated ner-
yous systems, or their nervous systems
become badly adjusted through irregu-
lar habits, bad training or disease.
They are incapable Of sustained. effort.
They prefer jobs to regular work, spas.
modic efforts to work Tor q few hours or
days, and these efforts are followed by
reactionor utter inability to make fur
thor exertion. They can assign no
reason why any sustained efforts is
wearisomc to the last degree"
"What race appears TO display this
trait to the greatest degree" Mrs. Mar
"Thero are" she said, "savages who
will work hard to collect material
things and then debauch and idle away
weeks and months until the pangs Of
hunger compel them to make another
effort to work. In this We have the
simplest condition OF economic pressure.
II is said that the special characteristic
OF tho savage is that he has no thought
otto-morrow. He eats until he can eat
no more, then goes hungry until he can
find more food. Street beggars exhibit