The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-02-15
ON BOARD THE GOOD SHIP EARTH"
Tie Kind of Passengers Thar Muixpl
BY HERBERT QUICK.

In Norway. Denmark England. Scotland and Bel
gum is about 30 In the United States It is about
the same In Australia and New Zealand II IL about
20. In Ireland IL Is 23, In France II Is 81.
Look at it, Russians. Chinese. japanese. and such
similar populations already bwarming those OF
Hungary. growing like generations OF midges as COM
pared with the Yankees. Irish, British, French. and
the British Colonials,
Note this. too-wherever there is high average OF
intelligence the birth rate is low. s there not here
glimpse OF the two courses open to the world
widely disseminated high intelligence and low birth
rate. against a high birth-rate and general and
widespread ignorancef
We are here looking into the very core OF the Rid
die OF the Sphinx.
1t Is OF Importance too, TO every passenger the
Good Ship Earth take notice OF the fact that while
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 surrounding 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 sheterin other words
when they are In vigorous condition physically and
when life Is easy But look at the facts TO man.
Sir J. A. Baines says that in France general we'll
being reaches probably a lower depth in the COM
munity than in any other part OF Europe'-in other
comfort She the lowest birth-rate in the world
There special reasons for the low Irish
birth-rate. but the principal ones the high COM
parative intelligence and prosperity Of the island
The poorest people in North America north of the
Spanish nations are the French Canadians. and the
most iterate-and their birth rate 10 the highest.
The thrifty and intellectual Yankees OF New England
have the lowest birth-rate this continent.
The Beers OF South Africa have very high birth
rate and very prosperous-but they are extremely
ignorant.
The Russian peasants, degraded. ignorant besotted,
iiterata and poverty stricken. almost prolific
as the Chinese The Hungarians belong TO the Gen.
European group OF oppressed peasantries whose
high birth rate helps to keep them in bondage.
The Colonals OF New Zealand and Australia are
among the most intellectual and prosperous people
embarked on the Good Ship Earth. and their babies
scarcely sufhce to keep their numbers good though
they have continent to occupy
After one OF Colonel Roosevelts outbursts against
"race suicide" Mr. Dooey observed that race sui
eide" like the tariff, Is local question They might
be troubled by IL the Lake Shore Drive but II was
the least of their troubles the Archey Road. So
1t is all over the world The poor and the uneducated
multiply. The we-to-do and the intellectual do not
China and Russia French Canada and Japan are the
Archey Roads OF the world Australia, Great Britain
France United States and the nations of Europe
generally are its Lake Shore Drives. One OF the
deepest truths In human thought Is In the old saying
"a poor man for children"
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