New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-24
PLEADS FOR EUCEN|CS
ur< Iohn Martens at Women'S
Civic Education League.
enNLY HOPE OF THE RACE"
,.rlores Advent Of Her Sex in
Business, as Babies
Thus Suffer.
aoNl Y HOPE OF THE RACE"

,-,.bout eUEcDiCS the nation VIII one
,,ys the Titanic. 20 TO the bottom. We
aatte~ ourselves that the biggest,
,.-,.st richest. grandest nation a1oat can
=, sink. but it can.
:. Mrs. John Nsrten informed the Ma
= League for the Civic Education Of
-, Yesterday afternoon at its head
.ers No o. Fast 18th street. and she
- that with women In "the counting
80 pol'ing booth and factory the aim
s..,,onirs would be defeated. Laps would
y. .r,,tv and the future in danger.
o. subject had been announced AZ
-,..r,an Suffrage and Eugenics." and
-.-,,oed ND the matter by saying that the
---agists wanted 20 sell their birthright
,,- a mess Of politics.
woman suffrage" said Mrs Marten. rs
lily an appendage to woman industry,
"a woman iu industry means the de-
..-,..,or Of The race As the strongest
a most efficient women so to salary
ming .n place Of child rearing, the gem
,,.,,ors decay livery independent woman
- takes high salary as a substitute
a. q h.vv ~ uaoss, is numbering poster
So Tho strong healthy. big-brained
s.,-re who might he born are sacrificed
a. more Paris dresses and automobiles.
70 cradle IS emptied that RectOrs may
= fIed the home deserted that luxurious
- ana-tuents may ne crowded. A high
,.arv f5r men means early marriages.
s,s families and domestic morality. High
,,,ares for women means deferred mar
.are women in politics. empty homes and
ace suicide
For the same reason mat she would keep
voren out ~ counting houses and polling
s,oihs Mrs Narten justified the much dis
,,sse5 rule OF the sea" which saves
vor4n and children first
.sunragis-s can't sec any difference be-
tween men and women she said and
therefore they don't see why women
SHOULDN'T be allowed TO go down with men
N sinking ship. but We who understand
that dlferencs knew that saving the
women means saving the race
Enig-ants the speaker explained. do not
believe IN salvation through politics.
Neither do they put their trust in education
o. rhlanrt-auv What they do believe is
tia, II would be possible by the practice
Of sele-rive ua~o0lage TO produce out OF
olr race on order of beings as far above
u, az We 4ra above the gorilla. a race
which. instead of producing one eminent
man in four millions. should produce one
n four. instead II producing thirty trans
ss,der- men .u three thousand years shall
goduce thirty men every year. They hope
tor the day when there snail be RaPhaeis
IN every town. Darwins in every college
slsxespea-e, IN every village and Wag-
,ers al evr~r street corner.
after -e-olrtng the wonders that have
berl accouu.. she'd in the breeding Of plants
and animals Mrs. Martin asked.
";y}at is man that ", should not be
mird,u ~ r.~"'
we a-a living she continued, in an
axe who attaches irordinate importance
rr ibs Improvement ~ conditions. The
.~-1er knows very well that success In his
ne depends .ust us nIcu upon the quality
Chs seed aal inc grade OF his stock as
gc- tho cultivation he gives them, but IN
.unar Affairs ne always assume that the
human stock itself s. perfect. II seems un-
iemoc-a.. and impoHte not 20 believe so.
L seem rrcjyi % tell people that their
AHdrer ar. not worth raising, that they
arc no, worth educating, that they ought
lever 20 nave been born. II We tell them
that II t... .ay, any more children Ike
nat -1.~ deserve hanging, We feel that they
wont lov. us any more. We never think
o. doirs anything so rude. on the con
vary. vs.. organize more classes for de-
.ectlves sr. build few more asylums.
"Neaow l,. nobody seems 10 be asking
except handful of euEenists, why II Is
,agt conditions need such a frightfui lot
Of im1rovr-. and why It s. they never stay
npr0r-r
To rrs ..arG. that all this sounded very
u1demcc~s.. Mrs Martin replied that the
s1geu.s-- .r- ta. only real democrats
l,s,eaE of aroala.mins that all men are
rec AMI equal .u defiance Of fact they
nail rU IN 3D.. rr-r1 So