Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1905-10-14
RACE SUICIDE
MAY BE RATHER
For Race Salvation by Per.
hitting More Care
fol Rearing
OF THE VERY BEST ipECIMtNS


(Jahn Runs In Chicago TrlbuneJ
There Ia a shameless spirit Of pes
slmism about everything Just nov.
The Joremlahs have boen on the ram
page: the dismal and the doleinl would
be experts have al been regarding
other people as melancholy and thingu
as decadort az themselves. with
them everything IL wronE. from lati.
tude and longitude. to he goVernment.
Not content with their universal vail.
Ing M the decay of home life OF mere
man. and all conquerlng woman, they
daye started crusade against the
babies. actual, potential, aud 20 come.
Now babies are what their mothers
maize them. A mans reformation
must begin With his grandmother
Tho current standards OF Judgment
+. OF mon-territory and birth rates.
wrong. Megalomanla q disease.
4 Now slzo u everything: numbers the
supreme test. This a nonsense. Big
ness la not greatness; numbers are
not quality. mere Avoirdupois not
strength look nc Russia. II so. the
Japanese the Yoarkhas. and other
small but virlle people. are doomed,
and In the megalomaniac's balance are
tried and found wanting.
Personally, am not. undor all cir
cumstances, for a dosola,lng flood Of
babies The number of family ~ 20
mo less than their quality. What n
more, some regard should be paid 20
the mother. who TOO often pays need.
lessly for the price OF excessive ma
ternity, either by her enfeehiement or
by her death. On the other hand.
every healthy. marrlaFoahlo woman
ought to marry. BETTER a baby In her
arms than a dog Ia Ter lap, bottles In
her houdolr and vain regrets In her
lonely, chiidloss life. Every married
woman ought 20 have some children;
but disagree entirely that she ought
10 rear unfortunately and without
regaid 10 fitness, means, home and
Environment al the children that,
|npart from choice. disposition and sus-
sainahle capacity, she Is capable OF be-
Ing materially responsible for
But we must be careful In general
ng about the birth rate. We cannot
A iogmatize about the number there
should be In tho family--that In gov
4 srned by the individual case OF mother.
And we cahnut determine the number
Df children a woman should rear
hat IN governed by many things, most
y impersonal Tho cheerful thing 10
tote ID that the marriage rate Is either
teady or slightly rising. And where
occasionally falls II Ia often due 10
economic and commercial. rather than
ocia or personal reasons Tho lie
ltimate births show a substantial de.
line, and there Is a serious increase
births over deaths; and the fact
n falling birth rate often indicates
rising increase OF population.
II Is not an accident, nor due 20 per
onal regulation, that a wealthy Lon.
on district should have an infantile
lortaliiy Of 50 TO 100 per cent and its
cor districts ranging from 2Tf TO 400
or 1000 per annum; and that a sim
ar difference In the same districts AZ
ne end OF life at the same ages should
reyail between rich and poor.
l believe that as the poor In that
strict socially improve and approx
nate toward their wealthy fellows, ia
fantile mortality will decreaHe. lta
be mortality iengthen: but ia birth
te will correspondingly diminish
BID I believe tho three conditions go
md in hand and are good
The reduction in the birth rate con,
rms me less than the salvation OF
10 babies that arrive. The regret
bio and criminal infant mortality az
the lowering birth rate has been
hieved must be stopped. Il Is a
uel. waatoful aud deplorable condi
pn that IL responsible for poor peo
, marrying more than the rich rear
up to certain age double the
lldren. and then. after the rlsk and
rden OF maternity has been incurred
wing 10 Use from two 20 four times
number OF their offspring up q
age Of s, as compared With theii
her neiEhbors.
celihacy Ia the crime. not the lower
nm rate of healthier. stronger
ser. yet smaller family.
Marriage Ia the virtue, not the great
progeny.
rhe punishment for ceiibaey Is OK
lsiion, and worse In the man. The
nAlty to the woman for loss OF ma
nifty Is loss OF health, a diminished
q OF dntifil enjoyment, limitation
that inherent power to Sacrifices
4 maternity gives, bAt also takes
In taking. perpetuntes the race
Obles the mother, and oxalts her 4
highest pinnacle Of social admira
o the bachelors. my charitable
o the splnsters. my commiseratioI
regrets.
o the glorious mothers OF not oyei
ID fnmiilea. ms compliments. re