[left side] great "Birth Control" or "Voluntary Parenthood" movement, which should be more correctly designated as "Race Suicide." If their announced plans could be worked out as we suppose they hoped they could be, the move might be a great aid in race improvement. When they talk of "Voluntary Parenthood" they present pathetic pictures of poor, overworked women, broken in body and in spirit, struggling in their poverty to raise large families of children in the midst of insanitary and crowded surroundings. The picture is really touching, and if there was likelihood of their reaching these, and these only, we might say, if you can show warrant for it in the Word of God, go for it, and spread your knowledge as speedily and effectively as possible, starting with the feeble-minded, epileptic, criminals, and hereditarily insane. It is, however, the function of the State to check the increase of these by restraint of surgery. In actual practice, however, it is almost solely our very best native American stock that is learning and practicing Birth Control, and so thoroughly has this knowledge been passed on that it has reached already the stage of being the great national and racial catastrophe of our country, and through it of the world. The report of the Illinois Birth Control League for the first ten months of the existence of its clinic in Chicago, shows that advice was given to 500 persons, not quite the two patients a day, presumed to be the needy class, whom they declare it was their purpose to reach. Of these, 252 were American women, twenty-six colored, and the remainder foreigners. Religiously 304 were Protestant, 147 Roman Catholic, three Greek Catholic and forty-six Jewish. As there are but few native Americans who may be classed as undesirable, likely to apply to such a clinic, we can see that even in the most needy field fifty per cent of those whom they are reaching are of what may be considered desirable stock. [12] [right side] The report does not tell of the half-million, perhaps, native Americans in that great city who have already secured the information, largely because of this same propaganda. The report would have been of much greater value if it had told what proportion were of degenerate and undesirable types. One of the speakers at their first public conference in New York four years ago announced that a large element of the foreign population which might need this information is forbidden by their religious leaders from making use of it. This probably accounts for the excess of American women who applied to the Chicago clinic. Those who have thus presumed to possess the wisdom necessary to justify them in overturning the natural laws and customs controlling population increase, have taken upon themselves a responsibility unequaled by any other group in the history of our country. The results show that they have erred, and now it becomes the duty of every loyal American to unite in the effort of undoing, as far as possible, this great mistake. Let each one consider his own individual responsibility and perform his own duty as fas as he is able, and also do what he can to create a more healthy public sentiment on this great question. Physicians have it in their power to give the necessary advice to the few who, for physical or other good reasons, stand in real need of it. Beyond this there is no further need for advice or suggestions on the part of any group of would-be reformers. Shall America follow in the path of ancient Rome, or shall we reverse our footsteps, and escape the destruction that awaits us, if we practice their vices, with Race Suicide as the end? The leaders in the Birth Control movement would lead the public to believe that it is necessary in order to prevent the overpopulation of our country. [13] [end]