The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-05-14
CAN'T VOTE AND
HAVE BABIES, TOO
It's Pathologically and Function
ally Impossible, Declares
DR.. Max C. Schlapp
RACE SUICIDE IN BALLOT BOX
Or. sehlapp Tells Women at. the Col
ony Club That Increased Activity
on Their Part Threatens the Ex-
tInetIon Of the Species.

New York City.-The trouble with
woman who wants to vote is that she
is too katabolic. 1t is a pathological
condition. The moment you, IL you
are a woman, develop katabolic char
acteristics (Which means maleness)
to any pronounced degree you want
the ballot and won't be happy till you
get 1t.
DR.. Max G. Schlapp, Of the Cornell
University Medical School, told col
Iective woman at the Colony Club that
the gaining of the vote meant depopu-
iation of the cradle through the un-
sexing, not virtual but physical, of
the mother of the race. He regards
1t as a disease.
His scientific exposition of the prin-
ciples-the katabolism-involved was
the climax of the "anti" arguments,
which have heretofore contented
themselves with the assurance that
woman could not bear arms for her
country like man. But DR.. Schlapp's
assertion is the reversal of this prop
osition. She may go to the ballot
box clothed with feminity and
emerge a DR.. Mary Walker. The
more activity, the more maleness, the
speaker insisted.
DR.. Schlapp explained the "conpuga-
ton" of cells, one (the female) being
large, well nourished, inactive. The
other (the male), uses up all its en-
ergy in functional activity, and is
small. If sponge were cut in pieces,
said the doctor, each piece is capable
of reproducing the whole organism.
AS groups of cells become specialized
from special functional activity they
lose their power of reproduction. They
have no energy left for that.
Fertility diminishes as we rise in
the animal kingdom. There is an an
genesis" went on the doctor. "Thc
worker ant uses all her activity, and
therefore loses the power of reproduc'
tion. The bat uses a great deal of
energy in flying; the mouse uses lit
tie. So we find the mouse producing
eight to twelve young while the bat
produces but one" He quoted indus.
birth rate to show the decrease in in
fants.
"You may say that there Is a psy.
chical reason for it," he continued
People don't want more than one OF
two children, and men don't want
them any more than women do. But
this very thing is process of nature
A., 4 ~;
thought is prompted by the increas
ing activity of women. They are be
coming too katabolic and losing theil
love of offspring; otherwise this love
would be stronger than the fear Of
not being able to provide for theil
children. The lower animals do moi
hesitate.
"Statisticians contend that the
mother love, the lover of offspring, i:
diminishing with the greater function
al activity. 1t is Spencer's own Law
that individuation increases at the ex
pense of genesis. That is, that there
is loss of the sex quality, of the pro
creative, with increase in individual
activity. The law holds good in the
three factors of growth, development
and expenditure. These three are al
antagonistic to genesis.
The lowest cell organism, the mon
ocell, can produce 170,000,000 of its
kind in four days, the elephant, the
other extreme, after thirty years, car
produce but one Of its kind in a per
iod of approximately five years.
Woman is spending too much en-
ergy by adding to her functional bur
dens, robbing herself of her forma
tive powers. What the individual de
votes to activity means so much les!
potential energy for the generative
This holds good from the monocell t.
the multi-cell organism"
DR.. Schlapp thought it was pit!
and shame that women should hav,
to get out into the world and work fo
living. They are the victims of cir
cumstances.