Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 280, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1912 — KEEPING DOWN HUMAN SUPPLY [ARTICLE]

KEEPING DOWN HUMAN SUPPLY

For some time the doctors have been skirmishing about the idea of creating life artificially. Life remarks. The latest reports from Europe indicate that this is now an assured fact and the manufacture of life will doubtless soon be placed upon a commercial basis. We cannot but regard this as a great calamity. The tariff, the increase in gold and many other causes

have been assigned. The real cause, however, is that there are too many people. There Is an overproduction in human beings. Until we can cut this down we shall be Increasingly efnbarrassed by the cost of living. Instead of adding to the possibility of creating life, therefore, we should seek soml means to curtail it. Besides, everybody that *'* is born now wants to be of some consequence.

Every man would be king and every woman queen. Unless we can keep down the total supply of human beings there is trouble ahead