n as
they can afford to have, and to have them when they want to have
them.

"2.....

"3.....

"Of the three measures the first one is the most important and
still it will be the last one to come, because our prudes think it
would lead to immorality. And nevertheless I will repeat what I
said several times before, that there is no single measure that
would so positively, so immediately contribute toward the happiness
and progress of the human race as teaching the people the proper
means of regulating reproduction. This has been my sincerest and
deepest conviction since I have learned to think rationally. It is
the conviction of thousands of others, but they are too careful of
their standing to express it in public. I am happy, however, to be
able to state that my teachings have converted thousands; many of
our readers who were at first shocked by our plain talk on this
important subject are now expressing their full agreement with our
ideas. And Congress may pass draconian laws, the discussion of this
subject cannot, must not, be stopped."

On April 13, 1913, another article on the subject of race suicide, by
Clara G. Stillman, appeared in "Woman's Sphere" of "The Call" under the
caption, "The Right to Prevent Conception." Only part of the foul
composition is here given:

"Those who are convinced that the voluntary prevention of
conception is a most important weapon in the modern fight with
poverty, disease and racial deterioration, will find their position
only strengthened by survey of their opponents' objections. These
objections are mainly of three kinds--and might be classed as the
pseudo-religious, the pseudo-moral and the pseudo-scientific,
because all are based on conceptions which our present state of
knowledge and social development have enabled us to outgrow....

"Prevention of conception is already an accepted principle among
the educated classes of every civilized country. According as the
opposition of the law and public opinion are more or less
stringent, it is practised with more or less secrecy; but secret or
open, the practice is here to stay, and it is spreading. The fear
of most of its opponents is, therefore, not nearly so much that the
human race will become extinct as that its best elements will
gradually be replaced