THE BIRTH RATE

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1481, 14 November 1905, Page 2

THE BIRTH RATE

TO THE BDIIOH 1 ' Sib,—Your correspondent "Jqnias" points one the advantage .of one ohild well nourished and odaeated 'against six- or - / seven neither fed, clothed; :nor, edncated properly. But why one.ohild ? The raoe. would soon disappear at that rate, That : one ohild would likely be spoiled, too, and v. to allow it no brothers or sisters,—poor .thing! Theroi is no indication of how this -... limitation is managed, by fair means-or '! v : foul. It is high time 'we faoed this ques* 'v lion, which in threatening our national existence. - Tho pastoral address by the Arohbishop and bishops of the Commo- : - wealth, in your Saturday's issue, is ont« v.. spoken and worth repeating" Christians ' may not olaim,rights jn any degree while they repudiate the responsibilities -of mar- / tied life. Degrading ' the - holy state of matrimony wns tho frnitful source; of dis- ■ . oontem,; nnfaithfalnossj -and djyoroe,-'.'. ,Urs Harrison Lee, in her book 11 Marriage, Heredity, and the Sooi»l Evil,' 1 is very explicit on this subjoct, page 45;: ; 7 " From tbo conception of iho new life the simo law of contiuenco mast bo observed" for two.or more, years; so men and women with loving and tho paren- v. tal instincts largely developed, may have' as many children of a different ijalibre from ■ those poor unfortunate little creatures who - comoas tho result- of nnholy- passion. : 1 They will be a grand race of beings, in* stesd of, bb too often now, being handi-' - oappod with: the sins and. diseases of their foefathors; while othors who only want a : small family may 'con- : tont themselves with 1 ono if they wish.And hero, for fear there may be' the slightest; darqor of my meaning " being'misunderstand or porvertedj let' me speak out in the strongest terms against the hor- :< rible crime of foeticide, which . 1 know to be practice! to a terrible extent themarriod people of this colony. : Yos,- even. -: • among many who'call themselves Chris- ' tians- OH I husbands, what a crnel that through your breaking the seventh | commandmont wife, is; tempted to" - break the sixth.': Upon your head restsi 1 the crime, and it is a frightful one/ 'Have you ever read the 12th verse-of'the 19th chap'er of Mattbow ?" * ' ' Mr Editor, many err through ignorance, but it is sad to think we are' below the standard of tho lowor'(?) animals in )thls matter., For the eake of our manhood, our wiyes, and our' offepring,: may eaoh - one doclare war against this social eyil,—l am, oto,, 1 Father, Waihi, November 12,1905, ' ; ;V-