Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1907 — Restricted Birth Rate Desirable. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Restricted Birth Rate Desirable.

Prof. Edward A. Ross, head of the Sociology Department of tha University of Wisconsin, in a lecture to the students, said that “restriction in the birth rate Is a movement which at the bottom is salutary, and the evils in its train appear to be minor or transient or self-limiting or curable,” thus taking direct issue with President Roosevelt’s well-known idea as

to race suicide. Prof. Ross says he if “with those who hate famine, war, saber* toothed competition, class antagonism, degradation of the masses, wasting of children, dwarfing of women and cheapening of men,” and asks if the time will come when the mother of more than three is “regarded as a public benefactor and placed on the pay roll of the State.” Prof. Ross himself is the father of three children.

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