26 OPENING SESSION 



was to reconcile the health of the people with the growth of 

 trade, and city life with personal strength, and individual 

 happiness and that in a word is the object that brings us 

 here. 



May I say to the Colonial, the Dominion, and the 



American people how important it is they should really 



co-operate with us and do more than fraternize in sentiment 



with this object ? Last year 300,000 people left this country 



for Canada, Australia, New Zealand, or America. Of that 



number 82 per cent, went to our British Dominions as 



against 28 per cent, fifteen years ago; and, speaking broadly 



and roughly, those that leave this country and do not go 



to British Dominions beyond the Seas find their future life 



in America. The importance of this movement in our work 



is shown by this simple fact the English-speaking peoples 



have a similarity of life, of language, of aims and ideals. 



That being so we are all called to the common need and 



duty of seeing that our stock is good, that our children are 



clean and healthy, our women strong, and our men enduring. 



We are pioneers and colonizers probably to a greater extent 



than any other country in the world. We can truly be said 



to be the modern Romans, whose strength is in our arms 



and not in our swords; and, exporting as we do 300,000 of 



our men, women, and children every year, it is our serious 



duty to those countries to whom we send them that, so far 



as we can guarantee, our nursery shall be well equipped with 



all the essentials necessary for the production of strong and 



healthy people. Now we are willing the English-speaking 



peoples to unite in agreeing that the source of our strength 



is in noble motherhood, healthy parentage, and happy, 



healthy children; and as the stream is no purer than its 



source, it is our business, having concentrated so much on 



the child with such beneficial results during the last seven 



years, to see that we do not lose sight of the mother. 



(Cheers.) The English, may I say the British, people have 



led the wav in commerce, in industry, and in the growth of 



representative institutions. Increasingly we must hold our 



place in the world. I believe that that place cannot be 



upheld except by the vigour of our men, the health of our 



women, the strength of our children, and the endurance of 



the race. Health is more than wealth; physical strength 



and moral courage must go with organized and individual 



culture. For this and this is one of the works of this 



Congress for this the parents must be cleanlv wed, and 



the children noblv bred, wiselv fed. and firmly led. (Cheers.) 



In securing these objects there is an ever-increasing need 



for specializing on certain aspects of parentage and child 



