Race Suicide.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXI, Issue 1912, 19 May 1905, Page 3

Race Suicide.

MR ROOSKVKLT'S SPIRITED 1)1 M X( lATIO.N.

Mr Roosevelt, addressing the triennial convention of mothers at the -National Congress oil March l.'itli said "What true mother would barter her experience of joy and sorrow in exchange for a life of cold selfishness which insists on perpetual amusement and avoidance of care, and often finds a lit dwelling-place ill some ilai, designed to furnish the maximum of comfort and luxury, but in which there is literally no place for children '!

" The man or woman who deliberately foregoes the supreme blessi of children, whether from viciousness, or coldness, or shallow-heartcdness, or self-indulgence, or mere failure to appreciate the dilierenee between the allimportalit, and the unimportant, why suell a creature merits a contempt us hearty as any that is visited on the soldier who runs away in bailie or the man who refuses to work for the support of those depending on him. "To the existence of (his type of woman in American life are to lie attributed the statistics of dwindling families in some i|uarters and the census of divorce, which is fairly appuling. " Easy divorce is a curse to any nation. It is a curse to society and a menace to the home, all incitement to liiurried unhuppiness and immorality, an evil tiling for men, and a hideous evil for women."