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borhood were rejoicing because of a telegram 

 from our good friend Mr. Udo Toepperwein, 

 of San Antonio, Texas, saying that his great 

 State had "gone dry as powder," and I was 

 going to announce it to our readers in this 

 journal, with much rejoicing; but since then 

 the papers tell us that the rejoicing was pre- 

 mature. The great State of Texas, the big- 

 gest one of the Union, has gone wet by the 

 insignificant majority of 6000. Now, why 

 is it, friends, that God has seen fit to with- 

 hold, for the time being, the answers to the 

 prayers of his people? It is because we have, 

 in our stupid selfishness, permitted a host 

 of imbeciles and degenerates to be born that 

 should have never been born. The conflict 

 now going on all over our land seems to in- 

 dicate that vicious men who have no regard 

 for man nor God, nor fear of the Devil, come 

 pretty near overbcdancing the good, and 

 that emancipation, not only of our own 

 country, but of the whole ivide ivorld, must 

 come in by stopping certain people from be- 

 coming parents and others /ro??i being born. 

 But that is not all there is to be done. While 

 we stop needless burdens on one hand, we 

 must, with equal alacrity, encourage the 

 birth of good men and women. There are 

 not only childless homes with good God- 

 fearing parents, but there are thousands of 

 homes with only two or three children, 

 where the world would have been greatly 

 benefited by four or six, and possibly more. 

 Look back across the ages, and view the 

 good and great who have come out of large 

 families of children. 



The American Magazine for August has 

 a beautiful story illustrating this point. 

 The professor, who is the hero of the story, 

 says to the woman of his choice (one of a 

 family of eight childen), when she spoke 

 of the misfortune of being brought up in 

 such a large family with small means, this 

 hero (for such he was) said to her, "In 

 these days when a woman thinks she is en- 

 titled to ignore entirely the question of chil- 

 dren, if she feels that way, or at most to 

 bring up one or two that the family income 

 provides for luxuriously and easily, there's 

 something magnificent in a woman like 

 your mother, who starts eight destinies in- 

 stead of one. Responsibility — that's what 

 people are afraid of. But it seems to me 

 there is no responsibility like that of decree- 

 ing that young lives simply shcdl not be. 

 There's a higher tribunal than the social 

 tribunal of this world, Miss Paget, after all, 

 and it seems to me that a woman who stands 

 there, as your mother will, with a forest of 

 new lives about her, and a record like hers, 

 will — will find she has a friend at court." 



And /suggest he might have added, "My 

 dear girl, had your good i)arents thought 

 that two or three children were enough, gou, 

 my priceless treasure, would never have 

 kn own exist en ee. " 



The world is going wild over poultry. 

 Every page of the poultry-journals is urging 

 getting rid of the scrubs, and breeding only 

 from the best. Do not, by any manner of 

 means, let any poultry remain in your flock 



that lays crooked eggs, and that has the egg- 

 eating habit or any other trait that you do 

 not want. Breed from the best; and in 

 bringing things along this line to a high de- 

 gree of perfection, Kellerstrass gets $2.00 an 

 egg, and $100 or more for choice males up to 

 the standard. And so it is all through crea- 

 tion, with plants and animals; and yet as I 

 write, hardly has there been a suggestion 

 made i n the way of improving humanity, 

 created in Ood^s own image. We can not 

 kill off our criminals as they do the "unde- 

 sirable citizens" in the poultry-yard; but, 

 may God be praised, we can, without doing 

 any great harm to anybody, stop peopling 

 the earth with fools and midnight assassins. 

 I know that bad men can be " born again," 

 as in the case of .Jerry McCauley and other 

 famous workers in the slums of our great 

 cities; also George Miiller, who did so much 

 for the poor of London. Let us go on preach- 

 ing the gospel, and converting sinners as far 

 as it is i^ossible to convert them, and turn 

 them from the error of their ways; but at 

 the same time let strict laws be enacted to 

 prevent the hoards of criminals that now 

 burden our public institutions, and prey on 

 our hard-working innocent people. 



Let me give yovi a brief illustration of the 

 possible depravity of a human being. A few 

 days ago, in thestreetsof Cleveland, a tramp 

 accosted a man who looked kindly and be- 

 nevolent, telling him he was hungry, with- 

 out work, etc. The good Samaritan took 

 him into a restaurant, paid for a good square 

 meal for this tramp, and then told him where 

 he thought he could find a place to work, 

 etc. While doing so he made a short cut 

 through an alley. When half way through 

 the alley this imp of Satan in human form 

 knocked down his benefactor and robbed 

 him of his watch and money, and left him 

 wounded and bleeding, to be cared for by 

 the police. What shall we do with such a 

 man? If caught, I should say .sterilize him, 

 and then imprison him for life unless there 

 is some good evidence that he has really re- 

 pented of his former wicked life.* 



The Cleveland papers tell us that crime is 

 on the increase. Ever since the mayor rais- 

 ed the lid and told the delegation of minis- 

 ters that he was going to enforce the law ac- 

 cording to the jjeople's wishes, and not ac- 

 cording to his oath of office, crime has been 

 on the increase, and criminals have flocked 

 into Cleveland because they saw in the pa- 

 l>ers that the saloons were again oi>en all 

 night and Sundays. Now, I honestly be- 

 lieve, and I do not hesitate to say of the man 

 who robbed the one who gave him his sup- 

 per, it were iDetter for him. as the Savior 

 said of .Judas, if he had never been born; 

 and it is our Christian duty, as citizens of 

 our great country, and as God's children, to 

 l)ut a stop to giving birth to such men as 

 far as we can; and I donot know but it would 



*T\vo of the best of our presidents, as you may re- 

 call, were foully murdered ))y men who ought 

 "never to have been born." In fact, it was a stu- 

 pid blunder to permit such degenerates as they 

 were to have a place on this world of ours. 



