Show FRENCH BABIES the wisdom of france Is ig exerting itself over a problem anich our fertile amer c i k will have some home y in fully appreciating ai we have hau bail money relapses rela paea sufficient to acquaint us with every symptom of the pestilent disease diee aae but a bearth ot rity to la not among our national experiences not io ho with france while our baul ers legislator legis latoi 9 aou and similar are worrying out a scheme fora for a more sath fact ry accumulation ot of legal leal dollop doll irp rP the public spirit of our sliver ahter republic ir a equally concern I 1 d over that country ei annual product of legal babies it in ie only recently that a pro position was wae agitated to levy a apt api bial tax upon bachelors but that plan to nave have faced for another congress has haa been called to 10 cont ider use the same ame subject from its discua sio a 8 it appears ebat the birta rate fate which for 3 earn eara has hae been scarcely larger than that of mortality Is ig now somewhat low jew with good pros prospects pacts afa f a further ta decline eoline comparing their find inet with the statistics of germany they discover that their traditional enemy makee a very different report and looking into the future they seem to perceive that a time way may come when the nationality of prance france will have to be sustained by foreign blood or succumb to its more robust antano the anti bachelor movement having fallan fallen short of its purpose this congress con grebs e aud and t to the chamber of deputies lor for its ita enactment an Wa elaborate borate scheme the principle features of which are a special tax upon all men having no children anil and a reduction of atie land and tax inversely proportionate to the number of children iii the family the con cou giese giess moreover asks for the repeal of the law jaw requiring land owners to divide kneir estates equally amon among their children chil dien it was thought that hat a tear fear ot of a division of the lands hinds owned by peasants int parcels too to support a G mily family tended to restrain alie natural increase of posterity As aa fur far as the propagation of the french race is cou verned the quest un is not dot ot of very grave importance while grateful for the good will and hospi bality which this country bus received irim france amerio americ is obliged tu to confess that us its best beit cit z ans iab are not of that nationality while owing nott ing to the german government in the lne way ot of national uati unal favors we owe an im nt to the german blood that has bus been infused fUgel iD into ur common weal tt the traditional frencl french emot emotion lon P 1 effeminacy or blat you wit will lihas has bad its weight in the advance of science and culture but the E ful i abiol maker the world over is the beuton and in our opinion this dit covery ot of rench decadence provided that the substitution is of the sort tu to be is a new hope for the future ol of that republic if on the other band the recruiting forces are coming irom the me south or eat t instead ot of the north gud god pity france but there is a mural moral to the subject which is ia ua tie worthy or thought sta aa its ite this new experiment lu ila legislation will be highly entertain enter tai jut iu but its ita usefulness la is a question upon which men may diner differ and douht doubt ii 1 to calate more french soldiers la is the simple aim pie wish of these theae national uati oual re reform formo the pratt ct may be a partial eucce sc jut gis auve enactments jf if the liao bounty ID larre rge enough may prove more fruitful breeders bleeders bre eders than the or of us nu tun but what sort aart of if brt oroli ad will it bt be would ti one get demen so ao proud of their national character be pleased to call it french who it coet at a buazard ja we would take chance on the patriotic atno tio alien and cupply with the nation suffrage anu ghou name what whai might be lacking in the way of birth we Ie tellene lieve he be would make a better frenchman and worth worthier ler ci use u than toe legislative product would uner the best beat ot of auspices i oo on the other banu band if it is with wit the high purpose of increasing the valuable bidou or france that the reformers are we com cn suggest a better way it if they will take care card of the individual Ulvi dusi hobor and integrity of french citizenship the badiea will take care 0 01 i themselves au an maim and a patriot cannot feekin himself a good citizen without poa to him the he ab absence bence ot the baby from the domestic dome atio circle te Is a calamity greater than the loss lose of catiz nehls children birn and reared under such conditions condi tiona are the real pillars of the state lor for upon them hem alone its national character and in ID great park its ita exi depends all the reat are in sime measure mercenary cohort they rhey fight the count rys battles ra for what it gives them and la an no sense to secure a home and asylum for or their children childre ii to attempt to give the details of a plan for the creation of honorable citizenship would open too broad a field tor for tois article but io in a brief way we would suggest that they begin bagi by cleansing their legislative hall balls from the pestilential I 1 relence ree ence of f practiced rogues who are there with the sole or robbing the co country u u try make h nor a requisite for public trust and lor for the prec present ent employ all the bounty tho the stion L bas 88 to io spare in beij trench ing the beat blood in mt front ranks alet auty custead of intrigue claim the universal suffrage frage sut let manliness manlin ees em inist tad ad of low cunning be the example to the cope ape of what the nation ste enas irthy t f its best beat consideration in a ard w rd it is not the land aej law jaws but 9 a gereral degradation of the mural moral euis reuis r elj ts of the people which to is deba liIng and curtailing their posterity it f france was the only country so go a fillet eti eo this would be an unfruitful theme for our re readers aderi but this bleses republic ana every state and municipality in it are on the border limits of the same ignominy and some are aware of it the majority are yet blind |