POPULATION PROBLEM.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 3, 4 July 1910, Page 9

POPULATION PROBLEM.

IO THE EDITOS. Sir, — In your issue to-night appears a letter on the population problem, signed. "A Mother of Many." The writer seems to think that some of us regard children as encumbrances. This, for my part, is not true. It is every woman's ambition to become a mother, but surely no woman would like to see children brought into the world to be little better than starved. She says that women are failing in their duty towards God and the State, but, Sir, if God so ordained that we should "increase and multiply," did he not also intend that everyone should get his share (provided he worked for it) of this world's goods? How many are there who are enjoying not only their own share, but that of a good many others as well? "Blessed are the meek for they shall possess the earth," we were taught, but tell me is it the meek who possess the earth or the products of it? Now, -personally, I have no wish to possess any more than a little in Karori. Let "A Mother of Many" take up The Post any evening and run her eye down the "Wanted" column. How many poor mothers are there who are seeking '"washing and cleaning, etc.," in order that they may be able to provide their children and themselves with the bare necessaries of existence. Go to tho outpatients hospital and see how many poorly-fed and ' poorly-clothed children go there, and mothers, too, whose constitutions arc broken down through hard work. There are a good many "pocket editions" 01 Rockefeller in New Zealand, which I think if people (for the most part) would "practice what they preach," would not be so. — I am, etc., ANOTHER NATIVE OF NEW ZEALAND. Wellington, 30th June, 1910.