The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-03-24
ENCOURAGE
THE ST0RK
\ ILLINOIS
Unmarried Men Assessed Ten
Dollars a Year, Each Baby
Receiving S1OO
lBy Leased WIre.l


Springfield, nj. Mar. 23-State
Senator neall, famous as the "stork
mayor of Alton" Eaa determined TO
encourage the stork IN Illinois by the
enactment OF legislation for the pre-
vention OF race suicide and booming
the infant industry. Two bills COW
ering his ideas have zeen introdu ced
In the senate The anti-racesuiclde
bill provides for the payment of 800
to the mother OF each child born
within two years after her marriage
and for each additional child born
every two years. The premium OIL
twins Is fixed at 5000 and on triplets
$500.
The second bill places tax OF $40
u year on bachelors over 35 years
Of age, the amount to be set aside
for the payment OF premiums to moth
ers The anti.race-suicide bill, IN pa1t
follows:
Whereas, According to the census
OF juvenile population made public
within the past few days by the cen
sns director, 1t appears that race sui
eide is prevalent In the larger cities
of Illinois, and
Whereas, II appears from such CEN
sus of the juvenile population that an
average OF only 80 per cent Of the
total population is composed of boys
and girls under 21 years of age: and,
Saps at "Hiuher Glasses"
Whereas, II appears from authentic
sources and reports, especially among
taose who are designated as ''the
higher classes and with whom live.
lihood and luxury is more easily OBJ
Iained and possessed, that paternity
and maternity on large scale nave
gone out of fashion: and,
Whereas. according to authentic
sources during all the period of our
recent history, no year has produced
so few children as the last in the
state of Illinois. not only in its cities,
but In Its towns and villages: and,
Whereas, It appears from official
sources that in the rich wards of
the cities the birth rate is Invariably
lower than in the poorer districts;
and,
Whereas, IL present conditions are
allowed to continue. Ii can be shown
with mathematics. certainty that the
families OF the present upper class
es with their share of the good
qualities of our race, will simply
cease to exist; and,
Whereas, in order that the nation
shall maintain its numbers unaltered,
an average of about four children
should be born to each marriage,
which produces children at all: and
Whereas, legislation should be prop
erly enacted which will encourage
the increase OF population in this
state, and should severely penalize
persons who use means to destroy
progen; therefore, the following bill
Is proposed:
Section |. BE il enacted by the
people of the State of Illinois, repre-
sented In the general assembly, that
In order to encourage the Increases
of population and to prevent race sui
eide, there Is hereby created a snndI
to be known as The Increase Pop
ulation Fund and which fund shall
be established to encourage mother
hood in the State of Illinois.
Iriplets Bring $500
Section 2. That in every instance
where. within two years from the
time Of marriage. a mother shall be-
come possessed of a child, she shall
receive and be paid from the fund
herein provided the sum Of 800, and
Tor every two years thereafter where
such mother shall become possessed
Of child, she shall receive and be
paid out Of said fund, the sum of
S100 for every child, provided, how
ever, that should such mother be-
come possessed of twins she shall
receive the sum OF 5000 within the
lime specified within this section,
md in the event of such mother be-
coming possessed of triplets she
shall receive the sum of $500 in ev-
Fry instance therefor out Of the fund |
so created herein within the time
specified herein in each instanct.
All funds collected by virtue Of AL
AK as provided for In an act en-
titled '.An Act to Provide for the
Taxation OF Bachelors" shall be paid |
nto the state treasury and placed to /
The credit of the fund herein Great
ID. knows as "the increase population
'und."
Section 10 provides that any per-
son violating the provisions OF the
lct shall, upon conviction, be guilty
If n felony