Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1911-08-24
Race Suicide Upheld;
People are Benefited

+ Paris. Aug y" That race suicide
pays biz dividends in human happi-
ness and material prosperity is ca
Fable OF abundant proof according
t" he officials and leaders Of the Mai
iNuSian Society of France, which me,
III annual convention in Paris Aug. Ii.
France. with the lowest birth rate of
;ry civilized nation. is now and
l;is hecn for years, it is asserted, he
richest country in the ~orld in pre-.
io1tun to population.
Some interesting statistics are pro
1.drd by Edmond Thcry, the nolrl
l".ii3Iral economist, on this subject.sl
l.l> The total OF combined priv;tt"
',Ituucs Of France WAS Sl2.SOo ,"nu."'
HON it is SOL 43G 4uW,Uou. and me
:.:Ir in wealth has been Tar ahead OF
'tp increase in population. If the
lulnrr wealth of the republic Mrr"
distributed, each Of the ;!3,21S,uoO i'll
itahilAnts men. NOnen and children,
SO ava nave $l,+h- worth OF properly.
Counting four to It family, this
MUuid give each French family a for.
I me of $685. No other nation can
approach these figures, nor is there
amy other country in which wealth is
g.. evenly divided as in France. SWCl-
IcE fortunes are few in the French
republic, and extreme poverty pre-
wallis to lesser extent than in any
other land. The disciples OF Nal
thus attribute all this to the limlta-
iion of population urged by the great
English economist.
Until recently, race suicide was
confined principally to the middle
classes. but within the last decad"
the working men have become con
verified to the doctrine, and. unlike
| the plplCtarint of other countries, us
d rup have only one TO three chill
dren. In the last sixteen years the
national wealth of France has incre.l-
sed at the rate of N354, 100000 year
population remains almost stationary
and that this wealth does not g
into the Golfers of a few, as in Amer
;ca, but is pretty equally distributed,
the material advantages of race sui
eide may be realized.
While tho birth rate has rapidly de-
he
ernmeut statistics prove that the
rate of infant mortality has more
than CORRESPONDENCE decreased. H.
literacy has become practically non
existent in France, so that, while
fewer children are born, it is also
true that fewer die in infancy AMI
; cared for and receive better educa-
tons.
J Originally the Malthusian doctrines
regarding the limitation of population
) were preached and practiced exclu
: sively by free thinkers, but many
/ churchmen despite the ban of the ALL
,
t selves in the movement.
| According TO the figures of Thery
l an even distribution of the private
{ wealth of France, giving each indi
/ yidual $1,A62 worth of property
) would be thus divided: unimproved
| real estate, 1884; improved real es
$ tate, $2.96; agriculture and stock
i SAL; commercial and industrial cap
/ ital, $4S; French stocks and bonis
5 I$33S; foreign stocks and bonds, 1898:
/. cash (gold1 $33; cash, (silyeDs SIT;
: personal property, s10S;: automobiles
g horses and carriages, s12.
= The. large amount invested in stock!
/ and bonds, 1881 per capita, or more
Y than third of the per capita Wealth
i lis indicative of the thrift OF Frencl
y J.eople. Nor are these sec rifles helt
largely by the very wealth. as ii
+ Ecther countries. In France he sho]
y girl, the rag picker and the cliarwo
i man often have hundreds of dollar,
Il tut away in dividends pa;ing stock
4 and bonds. It is the ambition of es
Q cry man, woman and chll q say
y enough money to invest in a fey
Y shares or bonds, and few isiectl fai
q To realize their ambition
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