The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-04-15
CANT VOTE AND
HAVE BABIES, TOO
It's Pathologically and Function
ally Impossible, Declares
DR.. Max G.. Schlapp
RACE SUICIDE IN BALLOT BOX
Or. schlapp Tells Women at the COL
ony Club That Increased Activity
on Their Part Threatens the Ex
tinction Of the Species.

New York City. The trouble with a
woman who wants to vote is that she
is too katabolic. 1t is a pathological
condition. The moment you, II 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 it.
DR.. Max G. Schlapp, of the Cornell
University Medical School. told col
lective woman at the Colony Club that
the gaining of the vote meant depopu
lation of the cradle through the un-
sexing, not virtual but physical Of
the mother of the race. He regards
it as a disease.
his scientific exposition of the prin-
ciples-the ataboism-involved was
the climax of the "anti" arguments,
which have heretofore contented
themselves with the assurance that
woman could not bear arms for hen
country like a man. But DR.. Schlapp's
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. II 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
tagonism between expenditure and
genesis" went on the doctor. THE
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
trial statistics in connection with the
birth rate to show the decrease in in
fants.
You may say that there is psy-
chical reason for it," he continued
people don't want more than one or
two children, and men don't want
them any more than women do. But
this very thing is process of nature.
Every thought has a cause, and this
thought is prompted by the increas-
ing activity of women. They are be.
coming too katabolic and losing their
love OF offspring; otherwise this love
would be stronger than the fear of
not being able to provide for their
hesitate.
"Statisticians contend that the
mother love, the lover of offspring, is
diminishing with the greater function
al activity 1t is Spencers 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 nolds good in the
three factors OF growth, development
and expenditure. These three are all
| antagonistic to genesis.
The lowest cell organism, the mon.
ocei, can produce 170,OO0,0OO of its
kind in four days, the elephant the
other extreme, after thirty years, can
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 less
potential energy for the generative
This holds good from the monocell tc
the multi-cell organism"
DR.. Schlapp thought 1t was a pity
and shame that women should have
to get out into the world and work fol
a living. They are the victims OF cir
cumstances.