THE POPULATION QUESTION.
The Eugcuics Congress, which ij> at present sitting- in London, has attacked one of the most serious problemErafroctlng the British race to-day —that of the declining birth-rate. Tho announcement tlwt the foreign population is Increasing in America and England out of aii proportion to the native population! is sufficient in itself to create alarm. The Congress will, we fear, have to look beyond the Besant-Kra'J'laugh propaganda for the cause of the refusal of Britishpeople to accept tlie ■respoiiislbiif'ities of parenthood. The moral obligation is, possibly, not observed as' it should be. But there are social and economic influences at work apart from these of ii prudential 'eharacter, and these will require u obe dealt with befoie the national 'aws are observed in their full.ußss.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10681, 30 July 1912, Page 4
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127THE POPULATION QUESTION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10681, 30 July 1912, Page 4
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