Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1905 — RACIAL FIDELITY. [ARTICLE]

RACIAL FIDELITY.

It has lately come out that President Roosevelt quit a good while ago, giving autograph photographs of himself to the father of large families. A husky Pittsburg man wrote to him, some time ago, announcing the arrival of his seventeenth child, though he had been married but 20 years. There is no record or any mention of the good time his wife had taking care of so many children. There was no mention as to whether the progeny bad been well raised or merely allowed to roll on the ground with the farm animals. Not promptly receiving an anthe proud father wrote again, and then learned that the President pays no attention to such letters. He has probably learned that there is better conformity to the injunction to increase and multiply than he had supposed. Of course the opposition of the President to race suicide was eminently commendable, and the announcement of his views on the subject was in line with his well-known courage, plainness and independence; but those who assumed that a large family, regardless o£ the squalor to which it was introduced when brought into the world, was the one and only necessary virtue, mistook the President’s meaning. The Scriptural injunction implies conditions and limitations which any person with grace in his heart should comprehend. —Cincinnati Enquirer.