|
Abstract
|
The conservation of our racial integrity, and the study of the forces which operate for or against it5 are fast becoming questions of supereminent importance; and as it is only from a moral, a social, a political and an economic standpoint that these forces can be discussed with anything like completeness, the present writ ing will be limited to a short review of some of the most im portant of them.
According to the fallacious dogma of Mr. Roosevelt, and those who think as he does upon this subject, 'the underproduction of human beings as evidenced by the small families of today-- about a child and a half, or two, to each family--as compared with the 'Tig/' numerous families of a half century ago-- families of ten, a dozen, or more--threatens race. annihilation more assuredly than any other single cause; and they are "clamoring for a re turn of the conjugal morality " of former times when the "tran sient pleasures of men," instead of the "prolonged sufferings to women which the burden of excessive, * * * and often, un willing * * * child-bearing imposes on them," was the thought of the hour, as a preventive of the threatening race suicide.
There are others who argue that large families-- an overpro duction of human beings which is, in large measure, responsible for the present high price of living--especially among the poor, who are utterly unable to care for large families--is a much greater menace to racial integrity than is underproduction. They...
Language: en |