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the road to decay, unless tliiiiking people 

 realize the situation and pass laws that will 

 prevent it. I call upon our Congressmen, if 

 for Patriotism alone, to give heed to my 

 words. 



Our country demands more stringent im- 

 migration laws and their rigid enforce- 

 ment, — a National Act for the education 

 of our young men in hygiene and their 

 duties to the State; also, with it, at least 

 six or eight months' practical training in 

 Army or Navy requirements, as our young 

 men show a lack of discipline; a National 

 Prohibition Act, a National Social Dis- 

 ease Act, and one that will register syphil- 

 itic or diseased persons; laws forbidding 

 marriages between persons who are of dif- 

 ferent races or who have hereditary ail- 

 ments, such as the deaf, blind, insane, etc., 

 and persons who have diseases they can 

 transmit to their offspring. Our National 

 Government alone, through its officials, 

 should issue all marriage certificates, and, 

 before they are issued, the ancestral his- 

 tory and the health of both parties should 

 be inquired into, and such other restric- 



