| Show RACE SUICIDE QUESTION A committee of the Society of England has hall recently con conducted ducted an Investigation of 01 time the tact mci question hUe porI has not yet ot been mode public but bus hils been given In advance to the tho London Times to this paper the committee finds In substance 1 That decline In the Iho birth ate Is not merely time result of the alteration In the nil age ot of the marrying population or 01 In tim tho proportion ot of married women 2 It I Is not confined to the tho towns 3 It II iii 18 exceptionally marked whom hero the tha nce of children I iii felt tolt 4 It 11 iii 18 mo most t noticeable In pI places Inhabited by the tho class clan S 5 It 11 Is II much greater In that section om 01 th the population which gives proof of thrift 6 It Is due evidently to comae cause whIch WM was not appreciably opera opun tire 60 30 years ago ngo 7 1 It 11 Is principally It not entirely the rc result Of the erite action ot of married d people It Is in also elated that In Ireland earl and Jr Ir i cities whore the Ule Catholic populatIon lion I Ii I large lorge time birth rate hM baa not a 11 fact that speaks s or Ir the general morality ot of the Catholic inhabitants of the tha cities anti towns lowns In by the committee We men amen lion this becu because to u us It nIlY always s Is I R a pi pleaSant duty to 10 Ivo credit where ere cra cradit lilt dit Is due without regard to differ of creed or religious pr point made mado by the tho committee I Is that th ort off In the birth rote rate I Is duo due to causes th that t were Iere not In op ration half n a century ego The con clarion Is ii Inevitable that It Is the re suit of modem conditions condition especial wo we so say the tho d decline In the tell ull sentiment coupled with an aim un nfl cant controllable desire for tor ease eMe and ond comfort dread ot of the tho graver ot of life If It Is m question that will not down Society will have to Mal deal with It or later It 11 It is nece to un understand the causes caule ot of the wilt for without It a Proper of cf the tho causes aules no remedy can bo be applied Intelligently |
