are others who need the most
open teaching in order to gain any benefit. Talks to a few persons
generally are wiser than popular lectures. Especially are talks needed by
mothers and unmothered girls who come from everywhere to the city.

6. BOYS AND YOUNG MEN.--It is not women alone who require the shelter of
organizations and instruction, but boys and young men. There is no double
standard of morality, though the methods of advocating it depend upon the
sex which is to be instructed. Men are more concerned with the practical
basis of morality than with its sentiment, and with the pecuniary aspects
of domestic life than with its physical and mental suffering. We all may
need medicine for moral ills, yet the very intangibleness of purity makes
us slow to formulate rules for its growth. Under the guidance of the wise
in spirit and knowledge, much can be done to create a higher standard of
marriage and to proportion the number of births according to the health and
income of parents.

7. FOR THE SAKE OF THE STATE.--If the home exists primarily for the sake of
the individual, it exists secondarily for the sake of the state. Therefore,
any home into which are continually born the inefficient children of
inefficient parents, not only is a discomfort in itself, but it also
furnishes members for the armies of the unemployed, which are tinkering and
hindering legislation and demanding by the brute force of numbers that the
state shall support them.

8. OPINIONS FROM HIGH AUTHORITIES.--In the statements and arguments made in
the above we have not relied upon our own opinions and convictions, but
have consulted the best authorities, and we hereby quote some of the
highest authorities upon this subject.

9. REV. LEONARD DAWSON.--"How rapidly conjugal prudence might lift a nation
out of pauperism was seen in France.--Let them therefore hold the maxim
that the production of offspring with forethought and providence is
rational nature. It was immoral to bring children into the world whom they
could not reasonably hope to feed, clothe and educate."

10. MRS. FAWCETT.--"Nothing will permanently offset pauperism while the
present reckless increase of population continues."

11. DR. GEORGE NAPHEYS.--"Having too many children unquestionably has its
disastrous effects on both mother and {231} children as known to every
intelligent physician. Two-thirds of all cases of womb disease, says Dr.
Tilt, are traceable to child-bearing in feebl