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Show Knocks Ont tho Race S$icjd3 Tfccory. When President Roosevelt comes to Utah next month fre will, t)e in posifipn tp gather statistics that will knock out his race suicide theory, if he will take the trouble to just glance around. It is the President's pet theory that the people are so opposed op-posed to rearing children that the birth rate is rapidly rap-idly nearing the point where the Ration will, not reproduce itself. The father of a family of sixteen children has come tp th front from Tennessee to disprove the Roosevelt theory. Another vigorous parent who lires in Ohio proudly informs the Chief Executive that there are thirtepn youngsters on his list. West Virginia boasts of a family of twelve, and Missouri is pn deck with the 'Whitecotton tribe of eleven. But jjone of these patriotic citizens is in the same class with Mr. Hunsaker of Ogden.- He stands as a stake ; horse among selling platers. We desire to bring the followipg . clipping fromUhe news' column of The Telegram to the attention of the President: - "It was ai amusing incident that occurred in Judge Marshall's ' court in Qgden yesterday afternoon, after-noon, when a witness testified that his father had more than fifty children; The trial of the Toltec Ranch company vs. E. Hunsaker was on, and Attorney At-torney Rogers was "asking Isaac Hunsaker as to the identity of numerous persons bearing that name, to all of which the witness replied,. 'My .brother.' Finally the attorney asked: ' " . " 'How "many children has your father?' "'FIFTY-ONE OR TWO, MAYBE FIFTY-THREE FIFTY-THREE HEAP,' REPLIEP THE WITNESS." .If, Mr, Hunsaker, Sr., will present himself before be-fore President Roosevelt when the Executive visits the State in April his fortune will be made. If the Ogden father will line up the fifty-three Hunsa kera in front of Mr. Roosevelt, a Cabinet portfolio Will doubtless be placed at his disposal. Tennessee, Missouri and other envious States must go way back and sit down, for where else on earth can we find another father whose family consists of fifty-one fifty-one or two maybe fifty-three-lheac?? The champions cham-pions of the higher birtti rate. theory ,)vill no. dembt honor the noble Hunsaker Sr. He deserves recognition: |