The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1909-04-13
AGAINST RACE SUICIDE
To The Free Lance:

To The Free Lance:
On February %, 1909, | wrote and
forwarded 10 The Baltimore Sun. let-
Ter as follows.
In lhe SUI. February Il. 1909 was a
letter oi "A. J. G., Washington. ID. C."
Ihe Initials and the residence being uks
my own, and that my letters are come
times printed Ia ne wspapers, caus d some
peV PIE 70 couple me with the authorship
OF the letter Of "A. j. q -" and 10 al
me II ! wrote It. did not write It. and
had no knowledge OF IL before | saw II
In The Sun.
"A. } G. calls IL "Roosevelt's silly
policy oil large families" and insinuates
that the great President Is silly.
In pu lie reference as well as 10 private.
20 the chief executive, | have spoken Of
MIN as the President or rs Mr.. Roose-
velt' which hold IS proper in an obscure
person, on 10 any one, I'm his reference to
the bead oi the nation. President Roose-
welt. world known and universally re-
spected and honor. q Tor world ACHIEVE
ment Ia worldwide welfare.
"A. J. g." ssys: Race suicide IL
to be the salvation OF the racs." Too
many fools are born" he says.
Race suicide IS radically wrong
whether cOusummated by family ini-
tstion or otherwise. but that too
many fools are born" l.. unfortunately.
only too true.
-. j. G." says: "Eulighteaed aud
prosperous men Ike Taft and Roosevelt
have two or three children. The poor
and unsophisticated have 8 to u
Ia esssying the roe of public instruc-
tor, "A. j. g., should be accurate-true
TO TACT. Mr.. Taft has three children aad
Mr.. Roosevelt has six.
"A. J. G." says: Japan would not
have gone TO war had it not been neces-
ssry 20 acquire territory for her surplus
population"
That Japan went TO war to spread her
people, Is an assertion without proof
Oi more truth. IL can be said that Amer.
lea would not now be suffering from un.
desirable immigration, II race suiciSe 5y
family Limitation" had been unknown
Better that virile Japan overrun the rest
Of the world than that America becoms
sterile to be overrun by japan. Verils
Englsnd has forced her free institutions
OF liberty upon the world, while 'family
limitation" France has stood still; ave
has gone backward. Virile Germany sends
ylrile people TO populate the earth and
Teutonic blood, brain and Drawn stock
the world, even as the Teutonic barba
rian hordes overran and reiuvinated de
eeyiDg Rome, and planted the Anglo
Saxon race In Britain. Large families
are 60 the nation what large nations ar,
TO vorld-iOrce. power. Economists aes
10 large families the elements for grt ater
economy than 10 small ones. President
Roosevelt speaks from the knowledge o
broad-visioned statesmanship Presi
dent-elect Tsit,i saying TO the Southern
people, Il hope sll of you Will have large
families, only echoes the Rooseveltian
policy, and speaks common sense. The
advice OF the President and President
elect is public speech for public wellarp
They speak to the hole nation and in
90 far as she South ia involved, IL # 1.
concerned In maintaining its Anglo
Saxon supremacy. it would do we'll 70
lend ear aud heed thas wholesome ad vice
In II, not only would 10 remain TO the
nation as the Anglo-Ssxon part Of the
country. but the high standard OF its
moral history would remain unsullied
which Is best maintained IN and by the
family pride OF large families and family
gems or clans.
Race suicide Il "a national question aud
the practice Of family limitation" l. n
blow at the national life, aud, carried TO
a conclusion. will stroy the nation.
With the President and President-elect
in their invulDerable position against the
disintegrating nAtional-liie practice OF
Family limitation" stands this great
Protestant nation; Romanist and
Protestant clergy, side by side, and the
lsity OF each In worthy support.
Andrew Jordan Green.
Washington. April .. 1909