The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-04-23

The greatest of all curses is the curse
OF sterility. and the severest of all
condemnations should be that visited
upon wilfm sterility. The first es-
sential in any civilization Is that the
nan and the woman snail be father
I and mother of healthy children, so
that the race shall increase and not
decrease. 1t this is not so, IL through
10 fault of the society there is fail
ure to increase, it is a great misfor-
tune II the failure is due to deliber-
ate and wiIful fault. then it is not
merely a misfortune it Is one of those
crimes of ease and self-indulgence, of
shrinking from pain and effort and
risk, which in the long run Nature
Furnishes more heavily than any 9TH
er. If We of the great republics, il
we. the free people who claim to nave
e-nancipated ourselves from the thral-
dom of wrong and error, bring down
on our heads the curse that comes
rpon the wilfnlly barren, then it will
be an idle waste of breath to prattle
of our achievements. to boast of all
that we have done. No refinement of
life, no delicacy of taste. no material
progress, no sordid heaping up of
riches, no sensuous development of
art and liturature, can In any way
compensate for the loss of the great
fundamental virtues: and of these
great fundamental virtues. the great
est is fae races power to perpetuate
the race.
I'm short, the good citizen in a re-
public must realize that he ought to
possess two sets of qualities. and that
neither avails without the other He
must have those qualities which for
efficiency and he must also have
tAose qualities watch direct the effic-
iency into channels for the public
goods He Is useless il he is ineffic-
lent There is nothing to be done
with that type of citizen of whom all
that can be said is that he is harm
less. Virtue which is dependent upon
sluggish circulation is not impress
sive. There is little place in active
life for the ti-nid good man. The man
who is saved by weakness from ro-
bust wickednesS is likewise render
I'd immune from the robuster virtues.
The good citizen in a republic must
frst of all be able to nold his own.
he is 10 good citizen unless he has
he ability which will make him work
hard and which at need will make
aim work hard, and which at need
will a AXE him fight hard. The good
citizen is not 4 good citizen unless ne
is an efficient citizen.
''Inere are plenty of men calling
themselves Socialists, with whom, up
to time point, it is quite possible
TO work. If the next step is one which
both we and they wish to take, why
IF course take 1t, without any regard
to the fact that OUT views as to the
tenth step may differ. But, on the
other hand, keep clearly in mind that,
though it has been worth while to
take one step. this does not IN the
least mean that it may not be highly
disadvantageous to take the next.
"Tne good citizen will demand lib
arty for him self and as a matter of
pride he will see to it that others re-
:eive the liberty which he thus claims
as mis- own. Probably the best test
# true love of liberty in any country
s the way in which sninorities are
treated in that country. Not only
=hould there be complete liberty in
matters of religion and opinion, but
complete liberty for each man to lead
Nis life as he desires. provided only
tnat in SO doing he does not wrong
his neighbor.'