Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-15

| New Zealand it is about rs. In Ire
land it is %. In France 1t is 81
Look at it! Russians, Chinese, Jap
anese and such similar populations
already swarming as those of Hun
| gary, growing like generations of
midges as compared with the Yam
KEGS, Irish. British, French and the
British Colonials!
, Note this, too-wherever there is a
/ high average of intelligence the birth
rate is low. Is there not here
! glimpse of the two courses open to
J the world-widely disseminated high
! against high birth rate and general
and widespread ignorance?
/ We are here looking into the very
core of the riddle of the Sphinx.
1t is of importance, too, to every
passenger on the Good Ship Earth to
take notice of the fact that, while we
are animals, the conditions which are
favorable to the multiplication of all
other animals do not seem to affect
the human race just in the same way.
| This is something which we are only
| just beginning to realize. Herbert
! Spencer denied IT. But the facts
| show that man, in the conditions sur
rounding his tendency to multiply. is
| different in some respects from all
other animals.
| All other animals multiply faster
when they have plenty of food and
| adequate shelter; in other words.
when they are in vigorous condition
| physically and when life is easy. But
look at the facts as to man.
Sir j. A. Baines says that in Frame
| general well-being reaches probably
lower depth in the community than
| in any other part of Europe"-in
other words, France has the highest
general average of comfort She has
| the lowest birth rate in the world.
There are some special reasons for
the low Irish birth rate but the prin-
| cipal ones are high comparative in
| telligence and prosperity of the
| island.
| The poorest people in North
America north of the Spanish ma
tons are the French Canadians. and
| the most illiterate-and their birth
rate is the highest. The thrifty and
| intellectual Yankees of New England
have the lowest birth rate on this
continent
The Beers of South Africa have a
very high birth rate and are very
prosperous-but they are extremely
ignorant.
The Russian peasants, degraded,
ignorant. besotted, illiterate, and
poverty stricken, are almost as pro-
life as the Chinese. The Hungarians
belong to the Central European group
of oppressed peasantries whose high
birth rate helps to keep them in
bondage.
The colonials of New Zealand
and Australia are among the most
intellectual and prosperous people EN-.
barked on the Good Ship Earth, anc
their babies scarcely suffice to keet
their numbers good. though they hav,
continent to occupy
After one of Colonel Roosevelt,
/, outbursts aga,ns race suicide" Mr.
Dooley observed that race suicide,
like the tariff, is a local question
They might be troubled by it on tn,
Lake Shore drive. but 1t was tn,
least of their troubles on the Archie,
road. SO it is all over the world
The poor and the uneducated mul
tiply. The weil-to-do and the in
tellectual do not. China and Russia
, French Canada and Japan are tn,
, | Archey roads of the world. Aus
tralia. Great Britain, France. The
United States, and the nations o
Europe generally are its Lake Shor.
drives. One of the deepest truth.
in human thought is in the old say
ing, "a poor man for children"
(See Mondays Star for announce
ment of our next article in this grea
series.