RACE SUICIDE.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XII, Issue 2078, 14 June 1905, Page 6

RACE SUICIDE.

MR ROOSEVELT S SPIRITED DENUNCIATION.

Mr Roosevelt, addressing the triennial convention of the National Congress of Mothers on March 13, said:— “ What true mother would barter her experience of joy mid sorrow in exchange for a life of cold selfishness which insists on perpetual amusement ar.d the avoidance of care, and often finds a fit dwelling place in some flat designed to furnish the maximum of comfort and luxury, but in which there is literally no place for children r

“ The man or woman who de* liberately forgoes the supreme blessings of children, whether from vicionsness, coldness, shallowheartedness, self - indulgence, or mere failure to appreciate the difference between the all-important and the unimportant, why such a creature merits a contempt as hearty as any that is visited upon the soldier who runs away in battle or the man who refuses to work for the support of those depending upon him. “To the existence of this type of woman in American life are to be attributed the statistics of dwindling families in some localities and the census of divorce, which is fairly appalling. Easy divorce is a bnne to any nation. It is a curse to societv and a menace to the home, an incitement to married unhappiness and immorality, an evil thing for men, and a still more hideous evil for women.”