Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1902 — A Demand for Wives. [ARTICLE]

A Demand for Wives.

* The crying need of Sonth Africa id more white women. Before the war the shortage was sixty-nine thousand, au now the disproportion must be mudv greater. It means that about one mail In every four of the British In South! Africa could never hope to find a white wife, whether Dutch or English, in country before the war. Now that hos-j tllitiea are over, there will be a renew* ed influx ol men to the mining too, and an army bf’occnpation must be maintained In the country; bus there is no probability of a natural ami automatic increase in the number og women. :