The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-10-11
Race Suicide and the Income Tax.

Some things are good in principle but wrong
in practice, while others (not many are bad
in principle but good in practice. Of the latter,
the Income Tax, lately become law, in one re-
spect, at least, is suggestive example This tax
permits a single person $4,000 exemption and a
married person $4,000, with $500 additional FOR
EACH OF THE FIRST TWO CHILDREN. That
is to say, the tax penalties the third and fourth
any succeeding children.
1t is certainly shock to discover that the
United States has been guilty of endorsing a
principle which has been outlaWed from every
ether civilized nation. While they are seeking to
meet the present crisis of race degeneration we
have paved the way for birth decline.
In actual practice, of course, the measure will
make appreciate difference because it will af-
feet comparatively small number but it will be
we'll for Americans to grasp fundamental law
of biology which scientists have long been teach
ing.
This is nothing less than that the first two
children in family are more than twice as liable
to inherited predisposition to disease, imbeciity,
and insanity as the third and fourth and all sue
ceeding. Up to certain point the degree of de-
generation in any family runs according to its
size. The larger the family the less degeneracy
and vice versa.
1udl IlllS Is uO dCdQellllC theory UuI oil dCIudl
condition is made very clear by the case of two
English communities during the past fifty years.
In Bradford the birth rate began rapid and
unexpected decline in 1877. In 1852 Bradford
wives bore on an average of one child every four
years. In 1913 they bear but child in ten
years. All told births have fallen off more than
one-half. Since 1877 population has remained
about stationary
he Oft
declined sharply in 1867 and then made more
rapid drop again in 1887.
England as a whole has come to the danger
Gus point of racial arrest. Her population is
about stationary and unless recruited by mmi-
grafton will begin actually to decline The
spectre of race suicide has taken seat on the
necks of British statesmen.
What is the of this general decline. par
ticularly in Bradford and Cornwall? PARENT
HOOD WAS PENALIZED. A PREMIUM WAS
PLACED ON RACE STERILITY.
In 1877 a compulsory education act was pass
ed by the British Parliament and in 1878 another
Act was passed doing away with child labor in
mills and factories.
A Workshop Regulation Act passed in 1867
forbade employment of children under eight and
permitted those between eight and thirteen to
work but half time.
AS result of the first mentioned law chill
eren were no longer permitted to work in Brad
ford mills and factories as result of the second
parents were compelled to take their children
from the mines in Cornwall.
Among the poorer classes child is an asset.
He is a source of income like horse or a COW.
To say this sounds cruel but it is nothing but
truth. Therefore after children could no longer
work and contribute towards the family treasury
and their own rearing the child became luxury,
Poor people cannot afford luxuries, whatever
form they may take. Consequently the birth