Business and manufacturing establishments would cease to function for lack of leaders. Doctors' and lawyers' offices would, many of them, be vacant, and hospitals would almost close for lack of physicians and nurses. Strange to say, some of these leaders from the country immediately adopt the family standpoint of the city, along with other styles and frivolities, and their families, too, fail to reach the minimum standard of four children each. Having thus stated the case let us now turn to the cause or causes. 1. We may assume that graduates of women's colleges represent a high and desirable class of young persons. From the class of 1845 of one of these colleges 78 per cent married, while from the class of 1900 the rate was only 55 per cent. This is about the usual condition, except that as the standard of the college increases the marriage of the graduates decreases. The male colleagues show a similar though somewhat better condition. The age at marriage is increased also as compared with others, thus decreasing the number of prospective births. In several leading colleges the married graduates produce less than one child each, while counting all graduates there is but little over one-third of a child each. 2. The increased cost of living and the expense in connection with the birth and care of children is undoubtedly a strong factor in keeping down the birthrate in families of moderate means. This difficulty can be greatly overcome by a simpler mode of living. Many expenditures are for luxuries and not for necessities. Many have, undoubtedly, instead of choosing a child, decided upon an automobile, a more expensive house, or personal pleasure and ease. 3. The real cause, however, for the declining birthrate amongst the native Americans is that as a rule they desire it to be so. Even one generation ago few seriously considered or attempted interference with the laws of nature, established by our Makers, when He gave our [10] [right side] first Mother to Adam as his wife, and decreed that in this couple the human race should have its beginning. When God covenanted with His chosen people to give them the promised land as their inheritance, He implanted in their hearts as a fundamental principle, the desire for offspring, a necessary part of His divine plan, that they should be able to take possession of and hold the land. As one of His chiefest blessings He gave this promise: "I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you." - Lev. 26:9. Death was the punishment meted out in the one case of "Birth Control" mentioned in the Bible. Ancient Israel accepted this promise as a special privilege. None thought of it as a burden or something not to be desired, as is being done by many in our midst today, who are unwilling to lead a natural and most useful life, and do their part in perpetuating their race and its supremacy in their State and Country. This unnatural mode of thinking and acting cannot have its origin or sanction in the mind of our Creator, but like other evils which bring curses upon the human race, can originate only in the mind of the great enemy of God and man. Except for the wholesale racial destruction incident to our great War Between the States, Satan has never devised any means approaching this newest method of revealing himself as our enemy. Those who are not broadcasting this idea of Race Suicide do not appeal to the nobler instincts of the human mind, courage, patriotism and self-preservation, as in war. On the contrary, though reaching the higher type of our people as is done in war, they appeal to the lower selfish instincts of ease, pleasure, and self-gratification, but attain the same destructive result, not so speedily, but more certainly. The motives were doubtless high of those who lent themselves to the launching of the [11] [end]