Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-01-14

ton regarding marriage and motherhood should
be removed. 1t is all too often sheer nonsense.
In Russia YOU will find that the Slays breed
like rabbits--and among them you will find
low order OF intelligence and deplorable pow
erty. In France. on the other hand. where the
oirthrate is low and families small you viii
ind among the peasants high intelligence and
condition OF prosperity. The Slavs and yari
Gus other immigrants of other nationaltties
come here and continue breeding before
Children come faster than work develops for
them to do
Conditions similar 70 those In the great cities
prevail in the towns throughout the United
States, Young people. unfit to make q living
TOT themselves. marry and perhaps have
child every year The prosperity OF the town
diminishes, wages decrease. tho unemployed
Increase and all the ills of poverty abound.
With vast numbers of the poor and incom
petent bringing large families into the world
the ills OF poverty increase. We ind congested
tenements-more people in less space. with
less light and less air Then there is less food
10 go around. Food being In demand, in.
creases in price. The children of the poor
lack food and suffer from malnutrition. Dis,
ease lays hold of these undermined bodies,
tuberculosis reaps its harvest. Great numbers
OF poor girls, unable to secure living wages,
so to the street
The unemployed learn to live on charity and
to hate the hand that feeds them. All these
people become anti.social. enemies OF society.
They hate success, and rage against society.
From this class come indictments. anarchists
and criminals. The oyersuppy of children.
growing up unable to make their living as eapa.
BILE producers fills our prisons, reformatories
and charitable asylums.
Charity Strives in Vain
to Help the Superfluous.
Then we try to ease the pain of these social
evils by pallatives that touch only upon the sur.
face. am glad that the poor are cared for and
fed, and wish them to be. But. nevertheless.
such alleviatory and wellmeant efforts are like
giving a drunken man moro whiskey because 1t
may make him feel better, Charity can more
remove the evils of poverty than whiskey will
make drunken man sober. Cut down the birth
OF babies among the poor and unframed. In.
stead OF exalting purely natural function. let
US teach mothers to respect that function aud
let respect be given to that function only when
II can be dutifully fulfilled Instead OF
couraging women to have pride In babies. teach
them they have wronged baby whom they
bring into the world with all tho chances
against It.
OF better trained people instead OF the
l0000O.000. we might have no slums. No mat.
ter what legislation may be enacted regulating
the minimum wage child labor and employment
of women. no matter what betterment Ia made
In factory and tenement conditions. what food
is given the poor or what effort spent for the
clearing or disease. no ultimate solution will be
reached or appreciable relief found so long as
people are giving birth to children at the rata
that they are in the United States We will
never have an ideal saeiety until we get rid
OF the cause OF the disease. Good babies, OF
good parents. are blessing to the nation.
Every family of ten children born OF an un.
trained. unit couple becomes burden upon
every producing member of society
Some advocate that the State should take care
of children. This. believe. Is one of the funda-
mental weaknesses Of Socialism. II would re-
move the direct responsibility from the indi-
vtdual. The consequence would be that We
would probably be overrun with unfit human
beings as cities are often infested with rats
You must consider the quality OF mental and
physical hbre In a child Alcoholism prevails
among the unfit classes. and alcohol Is to q
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