The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1914-12-03
"Breed Before You Die"
Chicago Herald)

ton. The mothers of many will die to
give them birth, weak with suspense
and fear and want Many will go
through life in physical and mental
weakness. Many will live and die in
sordid ignorance.
But they will be children! Say
what you will of national honor. patri-
otism, all the rest! The supreme ne
eessity OF a nation Is children. Without
children 1t can not live and hope, They
are body of its body, soul of its soul
They are It's existence, &c. SO, 70 years
hence.
Breed before you diet" the nations
urge. We have glimpsed the future
and we stand appalled, 1t is our
strength and vigor that marches to
the field, 1t is our weakness that re-
mains behind. Give us of thai
strength so soon to be 10 more,
Breed before you die!" 1t is our
future that makes up those battalions
anu Va Nd6Vl lASh 81 SUM
to know the freezing trench, the death
rattle, and all the horrors of the war,
Leave US our future ere We go.
Breed ere We die!" We might have
thought of this before we drew the
sword, We did not We might have
stopped to consider the thousands and
thousands Of unborn babes we were
about to Stay before we entered upon
this enterprise We could not take the
time.
But now we see, we. understand. 1t
Is not too late. The time for battle is
not here for thousands. The season of
delay is not yet finished, Give US chill
dren, although the chances are that
you condemn them in advance to mis-
cry such as you scarce have dreamed
Of.
What matters it that the young wife
may never see her childs father again ?
What matters it that the young father
may never see his child? What mat
tiers that the whole thing is a mock
cry of the saeredness of marriage, a
travesty on the best in life itself
, Breed ere you die!
When peace comes we shall perhaps
forget the national importance of the
children of the poor. We shall per-
/ haps treat them as carelessly as ever
t ignorance when we could teach, II
! poverty when we could aid, in crime
| when we could save.
e Their silent voices may then call IL
vain from mine and factory and fielC
e and ALL the miserable ways of life. w
e may not then see, as we see now thu
e future writ SO clearly in the littl
f faces. Perhaps we shall be as care
It less, as stupid, as unimaginative a
e ever.
e We may even send forth to wa
= some day, as we are sending men a
present. Perhaps we shall then call o
h them in our bitter need to leave u
n children and so help make the futur
It safer for the state. Who knows? Wis
it dom is brief and each generation ma
S. have to win it for itself.
IS But that matters little now. Yo
;e young men are soon going to die. Bree
before death comes You young wome
are going to be left behind. Help II
le state by condemning yourself to wit
Of owhood in advance by adopting
lg course to make your simple life eve
ir ten-fold harder than 1t Is at present
to And this Is the twentieth centur!
Up This is Europe This is religion civi
~ iZation, marriage, state policy "Bre,
before you. die" Bring into the wor
or all manner of predestined orphan
by many condemned to idocy, dsea
,ir and want The state demands It,
m Breed before you die" for if
a. breed not the nation dies.