The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-02-14
ALBERTUS THE ORIGINAL
PROMOTER OF EUGENICS

prelude that 1884 letter QuOte1 YER
batim from the Times-Union and
Citizen files, and you can realize how
glad l am after all these years to
see the legislature OF New Jersey
and other states AMI Switzerland CO.
ing statutes in the same lines. | am
copying headlines and all from the
Tribune:
''Albertus Vogt in New Role.
Would Put Ban On Marriage.
Lakeland. Sept. 30, 1907.
Especial to the Tribune).
Editor Tribune: Seeing that Da-
vid Starr Jordan at a student meet
ing at Stanford University said about
Killing Off Two-Thirds of the In
habitants Of the World l am asking
you to reiterate in your universally
read paper, what | said in the Times
Union and Citizen in 1884.
Can we rot have a capable board
Of surgeons similar to cur boards of
county commissioners in every coun-
ty with powers to act?
''In every instance when any cou-
couple first serve written notice on
the chairman Of said board OF sur
geons prior to the regular monthly
meeting of such board, of their in
tention to apply for a license to wed;
then let every such couple appear in
person before the board at its next
meeting. then and there be sub
jected to such mental and physical
examination as will determine the
fitness Of the applicants to inter
marry and produce offspring. In the
event both applicants may be free
from mental and physical ailings
and hereditary taints of every ma
ture, then let the board of surgeons
have power to issue license without
further prohibitiye restrictions.
"If, however, either or both par
ties after careful, fair and intelligent
examination, may ba found unfit
! subjects to produce offspring and in
! the face of the advice of their phys
ical or mental unitness, shall persist
! in their determination to marry, be
: fore license does issue, have the
: board Of surgeons to first sterihZe
the male and battyize the female,
and do this in every instance, re-
gardless of persons. And in all cases
when the couples elope, to apprehend
and sterilize both parties, and then
to compel them to marry legally.
''If We do this thing, we need not
pray for droughts or other superna
tural causes to destroy one-third oil
any other proportion of the human
race, or worlds population. We
would, within a decade have rid thu
world OF every kind OF blood-taint
losis and its kindred ills, would
within a few years be unknown an
our fences and highways would ceas
to be placarded and blackguarde'
with S. S. S. and B. B. B. an
other patent medicine signs that ar
offensive to the sight and senses o
I every self-respecting man and won
I an.
Then think OF what a race @
gods and goddesses would soon wal
the earth. Ebert Hubbard or som
similar intellect has written: a
4 honest God is the noblest creature {
man. By creating each and ever
I generation of children better tina
their forbears, by this apparent
1 name saving of only the fittest an
I best men and women, from which
/ perpetuate mankind, following tt
~ patterns of God Himself, we wou
soon fill up the world with such sp
70 cimens OF humanity that wou
/ make the great heart of God gla
and we would fully and finally r
I the earth of weaklings and of Grim
Suppose two hundred years az
man had begun the breeding of ma
4 as carefully and as intelligently
We began breeding our domestic a
I imals? There would not today be
insane asylum, prison, an orpha
age nor a rescue home on this ear
and all hereditary ailings, both me
tai and physical, would be extinct
Every. man and woman WI
- knows anything must realize tn
blood taints make insanity more
less poignant, make every form
scrofulous. turculosis ailings-maI
nymphomania and every form
crime.
Then let US. by these boards
county surgeons, rid the race b
namely, but surely. of every physic
and mental derelict and prove
their repr oduction.
Let Us absolutely AMI ruthless