The San Francisco call., 1910-02-25
Lieutenant Colonel Charles E.
Woodruff Advocates Lower
Birth Rate as Cure for Evils
Officer of Medical Corps Cites
San Francisco to Prove
Democracy Unnatural

Cnlted States medical corps, stationed
at san Francisco Every phase of Amer
lean life. from the birth rate Of the rich
and the thieving propensities Of certain
OF the extremely wealthy to the char
acteristics OF the democratic party. is
embraced in the volume, and in Illus
tration of one OF his arguments the
writer takes up San Francisco under
the SchmitZ regime
4 advanc no theories" said Lieu
tenant Colonel Woodruff. nor do 1 offer
remedies I have endeavored solely to
show facts as they appear 10 a scien-
tiic mind
The volume has as its underlying
theme the hunger Of man and the man
ner in which he has expanded TO meet
new conditions and TO subsist.
FINDS DEMOCRACY Unnatural
The writer has taken the survival of
the fttest as his slogan and has shown
no hesitancy in disclosing his abhor-
renee Of sentimentalism. He calls for
a lower birth rate, because the world
today. with its over population is
hungry. IN accord with this doctrine of
feeding the hungry he has struck ruth
lessly at the cherished principles of
Americanism.
our democracy is unnatural he
writes. All the people can not be
trusted with their own government, and
II must be placed in the hands OF men
who OrEa Dized it. The low moral tone
OF the United states is an index Of the
low Intellectual level of the lower
masses, for, after ali is said, morality
and intelligence are more or less
synonymous.
There are many who believe that
America should be the asylum for only
the oppressed of the world, but it is
not generally known that the oppressed
are the unsuccessful, unfit, unintelli-
gent who are crowded out OF Europe
bv the dominant types. our intense
altrUism in giving protection and pow
er 10 lower cOmmensel organisms has
thus caused them TO multiply unduly in
environments unsuited TO them. and
they have produced our municipal dis
eases"
SAN FRANCISCO As EXAMPLE
The writer then proceeds TO draw
upon san Francisco for example. de-
ciaring that the unfit had been elected
10 Office during the Schmitz admins
trsuon. but, when confronted with the
terrible conditions following the earth
quake. they were forced 10 can upon
the men they had denounced.
II stupid popular clamor should ever
drag US into a prolonged war he
continues, the same phenomenon viii
be seen-as IL is the rule-the guiding
element viii guide and the lower viii
be guided. Perhaps great war might
reform our whole political system TO
natural basis.
OF the Anglo-Saxon woman he speaks
highly. pointing 10 her as the result OF
the doctrine of the survival OF the ht-
test The others Were not Mt, not
moral. were swept away without re-
straint the lives of immortality lasting
an average OF FIVE years. This constant
elimination Of the bad from the good,
no points out, has brought about two
distinct types the one having its moral
tone built Of rock and as enduring as
Tie everlasting hills.
COMPARES MAN AND WOMAN
The divergence between man and
woman. he declares, increases with civ
ilization. He says:
Man. being the struggling lighting
bread winner. has been compelled to be
selfish in the interests Of his family as
against other families, and emotion had
little place BY natural selection this
type has survived as the male brain.
Woman's sphere has demanded tremen-
dous sacrifices for the children. so that
emotional minds-those ruled by love
have been the fittest, and selection has
preserved them
In his struggle man had TO combine
with other men in business a s he had in
war. and In do this he inVen ted the lc-
rftfous being called the corporation,
the rights OF a man Ii is a purely sell
fish creature, absolutely sOulless-im-
mortal horrible Frsnkenstein. II
never does good except TO benefit itself
TRUSTS NEDD MALE BRAINS
.On the other hand. notice the types
Of corporations evolved by women,
emotional. unselfsh, altruistic in the
extreme, illogical, delightfully."- dis
dafnful Of facts, wholly unable TO see
fraf NH ieh ny
they arc eventually useless in that
they destroy the very building they
try TO erect
Take the Women's Christian Tenn
uersnce union, for instance, which hs
succeeded in introducing into the
schools those wonderful textbooks
which. under the name of science,
teach ridiculous falsehoods as to al
cohoT The WOmen's Christian Tenn
perance union neutrslizes its own
work. and viii never accomplish what
it aims 10 do. It is a female or emo
tional trust II should have male
brains TO assist and complete the idea
ernsnating from female minds.
K4r-NGFR CAUSE OF UNIoNISM
Labor unionism. he says. is the prod
7,cf Of hunger. Modern labor unions"
l,e writes. are the direct results of
denomination There are too many
,rorlInen and the price OF labor must
therefore go down unless they cor
rero the market by uniting TO work
for only such high wages as would
fs given il there we're a few labor
ors md 4 great demand for them.
There are TOO many workmen pro-
duced. and II is a struggle for ex-
istence.
no wonder union workmen on
strike often try 10 Kill nOn-union COM
petitors. for it is what our savage
ancestors had to do 10 all outside the
-cfan- or union If these outsiders at
tempted 10 poach on the clans hunt
ing ground
PLEA FOR MORE FOOD
such is the trend Of "Expsnse Of
Tace.~ Lieutenant Colonel Woodruff
mas ignored convention in its writing
The mammoth judiciary and laws that
spring from the constitution he tosses
aside as useless in this day. on the
ground that the character of the ma
ton has changed. Faddisst OF every
degree he scorns. his wliiplssh falling
with particular severity on Professor
G-hittenden OF Yale, who promulga
the less food IDEA.
.saro-a fond saws Woodruff IN dis