RACE SUICIDE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8309, 6 May 1905, Page 4

RACE SUICIDE.

MR I .EVSLT'S SPIRITED DMUNCIATION. j \ Mr Roosevelt, addressing ' the triennial convention of the : National Congress of Mothers at New York on March 13, said: •••' .' " What true mother would barter/her experience of joy and sorrow in ex- J change for a life of cold selfishness which insists on perpetual amusement and" 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 P " The man or woman who deliberately foregoes the supreme blessings of children, whether from viciousness, I coldness, shallow-heartedness,. self-in-dulgence, or mere failure to appreciate tne difference between the all-im-portant and the uniniportant, .' merits a .contempt as hearty '■ as any that is visited upon the soldier who runs away in battle dr the man w_k> refuses to work for the support? of those depending upon him. "To the existence 'of this type of woman in American life are to bo attributed the statistics of dwindling families in some localities and the increase of divorce, which is fairly appalling. " Easy divorce is a bane to any nation. It is a, curse to society and a menace to the home, an incitement to married unhappiness and immorality, an evil thing for men and * still more hideous evil for wbj_aen." *