OUR NATIONAL BIRTH RATE.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 294, 19 December 1901, Page 1

OUR NATIONAL BIRTH RATE.

(To the Editor of the Times.) Hii,—ll will be an interesting subject to the Government presently to compare results, for or against the advisability of incurring expenses incident on the mission of Mrs Bracher s health lectures given in the various cities, towns, and villages oi the country. Interesting assuredly will he the comparing of the birth rate, as that obtained before and how it lias evolved itself since the public lecturer had gone over the wide and unexplored held of so delicate, but not a bit abstruse principle on which our entire nationality is based. Hansard leaders are aware of plain speaking on our birth rate ; speeches delivered by men well qualified te give a deal morel pan an opinion on the matter : men who know !iow il.o greaf function is controlled ; men in their places in our P.aii.unec'i house who are not pimmypiiiiininglv inclined to slur over the hideous plague spot of accursed sinfulness bv the clap-trap of the moral quack;'but detail the damnatory stain with good honest truthfulness. Io my humble conviction. Mrs Bracher .s talent should )•* given to laying before our married, and those about to lie married, women the evil of the madness of regulating the Birth rate. England has had several civil wars within her own experience, ami has emerged from .their furnaces of sunering purged to do better than eu’t before. England is entering, as New Zealand 'has entered, on the hellish crime of lessening the number oi God s lambs in the home. The Egyptians tried it—it broke the neck oi the nation. Rome tried n—amt dropped into ruin. Dare England and New Zealand expect to fare better ! Look at France !—I am, etc,. GEO. U. WILSON.