M.P. ON EUGENICS.
“IF A POLICEMAN MARRIED A SUFFRAGE PTE. “
Speaking at an agricultural show at Newby, near Scarborough, recently, Mr Gervase Beckett, M.P. ior the Whitby division of Yorkshire, referred to the new science of eugenics, which has for its object the improvement of the human race.
It would be interesting, he said, to try the experiment of mating a good old Tory and a modern Radical. (Laughter.) Suppose, for instance, that the son 01 Mr Winston Churchill should iia.iiy the daughter o! Mr F. E. smith, he wondered what the result would be. He would very much like to know what would be the politics of a sou born to them. (Laughter.)
Again, they might try what would happen it a policeman were to marry a suffragette, He wondered whether the offspring would show itself mere handy with a truncheon than with a hammer. (daughter.)
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1009, 12 October 1912, Page 4
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147M.P. ON EUGENICS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1009, 12 October 1912, Page 4
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