The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-04-20

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solved on giving up, there is yet one
avenue to success open to you. BE a
daddy to the fourth power.
MARRIED WOMEN-Disheartened,
and with a blank because of the lone
someness attendant upon the nurtur-
ing and care of one, two, or even
three children, would you still reach
full womanhood and be numbered out
side the abhorred? Have another.
Oaly in this way can you attain
final feminine goal; because on:
when you have mastered the quad
ripple principle have you performed
your primal duty, become fit for the
suffrage. 70 put it in arithmetical
progression:
| child makes Ma.
children makes l Sterile.
4 children make l Mother.
l mother makes l Voter.
! voter makes Trouble.
l trouble makes More.
Says the colonel: Il believe I'm a
full equality of rights. If women wish
to vote. | favor it-althoush l do not
think it anything as important for
them or the state as are many other
things that they can and should do;
but to exte.d my reference for and
belief in a woman who does her duty
measures also my contempt for the
woman who shirks her primal and es-
sential duty. The man who either is
responsible for or acquiesces ln ster-
ility in marriage is even more con-
temptible than the woman, but he Is
the only person more contemplate.
Exactly as the measure OF our re-
gard for the soldier who does his du-
ty in battle is the measure OF our
scorn for the coward who flees, so
the measure of respect for the true
wife and mother is the measure OF
our scorn and contemptuous abhor-
renee for the wife who refuses to be
a mother"
Race suicide, the colonel says, is as
much the fault of the man as OF the
woman, and they must go through a
great mental cleaning and come to
their senses before they reach the
understanding that there is no other
happiness comparable to that OF hav-
ing large supply OF chiidreA. to make
the home happy-and do the errands.
A large family is also useful, al
though the colonel does not say so,
in constantly reminding you OF the
high cost of living.
Still if you cannot afford eight or
ten youngsters, the colonel implies
you are eligible to the parent class
with four, and unless you attain this
average you are helping to put TINS
great and glorious country on the to-
boggan. The race cannot go ahead,
it cannot keep its GMmbers even,
Roosevelt prophecies, unless the av-
erage man and woman who are mar
ried and who are capable of having
children have a family OF four.
1.-The American stock is being
cursed with the curse of sterility,'
the colonel continues. The guilty
and the innocent alike are Informed
that sterility is due to GOODNESS, to
selfishness, to love OF ease, to shrink
ing from risk, to an utter and pitt
full filure in sense of perspective and
in the power OF weighing that which
makes the highest joy and to root
ing out of the sense into improper
channels.
But the native born man is not
forced to bow alone under this de
nunciation. The immigrant also gets
blast. Roosevelt finds the new clti-
zen is following the example he sees
set before him.
1.-The same racial crime, the col
cnel says, lis spreading rapidly
among .be SONS ana daughters of i'm.
migrants.
If it were confined to Americans
of old stock, while it would be a mat
ter of shame to us of the old stock
we could at least feel that the tradi
tons and principals and purposes Of
the founders OF the Republic would
find their descendants by adoption;
dnd in such cases, l, for one would
heartily throw my fate with the mel
OF alien stock who were true to ole
American ideas. Idaho Falls Registe