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Show TO BETTER THE RAOE. Bills prepared under tho direction of Secretary Beatty of the State Board of Health aro prepared for legislative action. These bills look to the protection protec-tion and purity of tho State's water supplies, regulating marriages from the standpoint of health, providing guards for the prevention of tho spread of tuberculosis, tu-berculosis, and creating a commission to plan for a State tuberculosis sanitarium, sanita-rium, and other mattors originating with tho State Board of Health. The purpose pur-pose of all these bills is good. They contemplate tho preservation of tho health of the people and the improvement improve-ment of the raco by the marriage of the fit and tho placing of restrictions upon tho marriago of the unfit. As to tho latter, it is chiefly a question of possibility. Nover boforo in the history of tho world has there beon such an invasion of tho vitality of the race as now. This invasion is directly traco-ablo traco-ablo to tho officiency of tho life-saving appliances of modern medical science, sci-ence, sanitation, and car for the puny, the ailing, the weak, and tho moro or less Berious-ly Berious-ly diseased. Theso elements of the populations in turn perpetuate themselves and accentuate the situation by procreation of their liko, and all are saved that can be. We have saved-'the weakling, tho diseased, the undeveloped, tho weak in physical fitness and vitality, and now wo have these in swarms and they procreate with a fecundity that seems marvolous and which is threatening threat-ening to overbalance tho procreation of the strong, the developed, and tho fit both physically and mentally. Wo preserve our defectives both in physical phys-ical development and in mental power. We take euro of them and allow them all of Iho liberties that tho physically strong and tho mentally superior enjoy. en-joy. Tho result threatens disaster to tho race; and now tlio problem that is engaging tho attention of biologists, scientists, and those who intelligently wisli well to the race is to head off this threatened deterioration of humanity and stay tho flood of unfit generation; to save us from tho effects of our humane hu-mane successes. j The world would not suffer any lapse toward tho shocking conditions under which the weak and tho inferior were allowed to dlo off as in past ngca. But tho preservation of the inferior elements ele-ments of tho race threatens the sub morgenco of tho better oloments, tho strong nnd tho mentally able. What is to be done to prevent this destruction? destruc-tion? Tho allogod science of eugenics is urged by many, while at the same timo thoso who urge it admit that it Is not a science at all, and that tho enforcement en-forcement of its principles aro impossible. impos-sible. There is urged the denaturing of tho conspicuously unfit, tho insane, defectivo, and criminal elements. This latter affords a starting-point that i would be definite, certain, and absolute. But that would .bo a mere beginning. Tho result of making marriage difficult diffi-cult is that tho mating out of marriage would become prevalent, just, as it always al-ways has in every region and among every community wlior obstacles in tho way of marriago nro unduly restrictive upon the people; and this mnting would carry on to future generations tlio very defects that aro to bo guarded against. The evil referred to in tho matter of objectionable breeding is a general one throughout tho civilized world. The Secrotary of the Massachusetts Civil League is out in nn emphatic protest against it, saying that "for the past ono hundred years Boston has grown steadily worse as a place of rosidenco," and specifying what he means he. uses this energetic language: In Boston today wo arc breeding' more Immorality, crime. Blclcness, and poverty than our Institutions can take care of. Wc are brooding feeble-mlndedness In this Stato faster than wo can care for It: there aro moro admittedly feeble-minded persons at largo In Massachusetts todav than there are Jn her asylums. When wc realize the large territory that Is almost dangerous because of criminals, when wo aro doing almost nothing to curb their Influence It almost seoms to me that Boston Is faco to face with destruction, Tho conditions thus so emphatically described are becoming more and moro prevalent throughout, the civilized world; and it Is evident that humanity, for its own self-protection, must make an energetic fight against the swarming swarm-ing generation of tho unfit, who are unfit by reason of so man.v causes. Tho lesson of it all is that drnstic remedies aro needod; but that great caution cau-tion must be used in the restrictions put in the way of . marriage, because marriago is, after all, tho effort of society so-ciety to protect itself morally and to build up tho strength of tlio race and' of, community life and civilization. It is tho best means thus far found "for the upbuilding of the humau race, and its perfect development; and any measures meas-ures or restrictions that will mako marriage mar-riage difficult are evidently- against sound morals and clean community life. Tho immediate remedy evidently is in tho denaturing of th conspicuously unfit and in tho discouragement by community sentiment of tho marriage of tho diseased, tho defective, and tho unsound. How far this discouragement can bo introduced bto wT-l on; but there can bc To L'Sl the community uentimcn- n W 1 towards discoura Hif, Tinge . and when Iho ! B ava.lablp, as rocomillcI1(Cf , Wx . I 8ont.me.,t of a conddwab tho Slates, towards tho nn 'W those who rcfn8c to bft 'Hl and the latcrV0,?& ! good deal can bo ln,lft 'mWV r, lood of unfitVocrXbnar44l |