The Detroit times., 1913-02-11
ON BOARD THE GOOD SHIP EARTH
Is Increase Of Population Good or an Evns
BY HERBERT QUICK.

presses subsistence. We find what we shall day
md in these dear states OF ours IL the universal law
OF multiplication goes on unchecked. We find squalor
unspeakable. misery indescribable fear in the heart
or and four-hfths OF the thoughts OF every
mind and OF the utterances OF every mouth related
food
Extremes meet When animal life began, IL began
in the amoeba. an animal which was all stomach And
In the twentieth century where human life has fol-
lowed the line of animal increase to the very limit
man grayitates back TO the point OF losing 1.-The up
ward looking and the light" and becoming again. a
creature so cent of whose intellectual activities
monopolized by the demands Of his hunger lie
has again become for all human purposes and en-
bodied stomach In all the list of tragedies there is
awful.
not because OF any belief In but from
the fact that more than FIVE times many people
be fed from the land with vegetable food as with
meats. Flesh and blood cheap that they drive
out steam and steel In such driving piles and
carrying burdens Animals cannot be used In tllage
where men so plentiful. will carry ton
of canal mud for fertilizer five hundred three
and half cents. For this he can buy eight eggs,
five ounces OF porkso II Is clear that life cannot be
supported on animal food at such wages. The three
and half cents will therefore be spent for ten
OF potatoes six pounds OF clover to be cooked and
eaten, or two and half pounds Of beans. pound
and half OF peanuts. three pounds OF shelled
pound OF bean curd
Incredibly small" says DR.. Ross ARE the portions
prepared sale by the huckster Two cubic inches
OF bean curd four walnuts. i've peanuts liz roasted
chestnuts. 20 melon seeds-make a portion" No
wonder that In six weeks he only man read
luB-hnu NO nau Iallen asleep over MS DOCK no
wonder that instead OF asking a chance-met person
how he makes his living. the Chinese asks How do
you get through the day."
No wonder that girl babies exposed and allowed
to die Who shall II Is not the trues mercy? No
wonder that the chief magistrate OF Chinese city
being told that the infection OF bubonic plague could
be kept out asked why IL should be kept out In view
OF the fact that there too many people! The
Chinese, their multiplication unchecked by the
they have found out how to avoid. may be excused
II they choose pestience rather than famine.
/ know that many readers Will say that this pow
erty must from the fact that the people are
robbed by the arstocracy. by the monopoles by
the government. that they do not make the best
Of their resources--or that there is other
for this supremely dreadful condition of affairs
than pressure Of numbers the possibilities OF
food production II God Is not 10 be accused OF the
supreme cruelty of placing more passengers this
Good Ship Earth than she carry, then other
reason must be found for this poverty, you sayf
The question-which carries to the greatest Of
all human questions-must be glanced at hereafter
Just II is well to remember that increase of
population 10 the greatest evil the world IL threat
ened by.
See tomorrow's Times for announcement OF the next
article in this great series.