DEFECTIVES SHOULD BE STERILIZED 5T 



less intelligence than animals, so low in in- 

 telligence that they cannot care for their 

 own simplest wants, all supported by New 

 York City tax-payers, and yon will say 

 that it were better for these children and 

 better for the world had they never been 

 born. 



Ninety-nine per cent, of them are chil- 

 dren of the diseased offscouring of Europe 

 and the Orient. Take one good look at this 

 bunch of 2,000 defectives and ask yourself 

 the question : Is it just and fair to the un- 

 born to allow them to grow up, mate and 

 breed more defectives? Is it not the duty 

 of the state to, at least, sterilize the males ? 

 On examination, I found that not one of 

 the parents of these defective children 

 ever paid one cent of city taxes; that 

 they or their parents had been simply 

 dumped on our shores; algo that, at least, 

 some of their parents had been a further 

 burden on our city by having been inmates 

 of our city hospitals and our charity insti- 

 tutions. Is this sort of business fair to 

 those who pay taxes? The community pays 

 well our law makers to make laws to protect 



