Show FRENCH BIRTHRATE ciany explanations which do not explain have been riven in tracing the c csc of the decrease in birth rate of france but ot them all the following from a french writer beems tact plausible one is the increased cost of rearing families rendered unavoidable by a rising tax rate verc becoming a luxury that only the well to do could afford and it is ane well to do who are mostly at fault for the tow birth one man who is not too poor to own pro ikley and to pay taxes says that his contributions to the government nave ani fifteen years to 5 per cent he sa unable to see any benefit aie flom the increase he thinks that aelese public offices have been created in the past two decades and regards the money expended in madagascar anil indochina indo china as a dead wate while ethcie Is some force in this argument the real cause ot the decline in the ratio ot births and deaths may be found in the largo standing army the army cuts two i ys it lenders marriage impossible dining a certain period of adult life it reduces the earning capacity du ieng the years not required in the sc ivice the same causes arc aig in other european countries and to a much less extent in the united states it is only the small nations people can afford the luciy of lage fa milich the salt aake tribune keeping hii a long established custom ot that paper published a large new year paper with a complete review of the history of 1899 the salt lake herald issued a monster of 61 pages yesterday filled with excellent reading matter the herald demonstrates conclusively that there is wonderful prosperity through out alie state and the herald is no doubt correct |