AS OTHERS SEE US.

White Ribbon, Volume 25, Issue 290, 18 August 1919, Page 12

AS OTHERS SEE US.

A Chinese student, a graduate of liaivard, was discussing matters with a Canadian friend, who asked him what wise addition he could suggest to tin* laws of Canada. The Chinese student at once suggested that tl • should legalise the killing of new born infants, as was done by China, and when asked what possible benefit such an abomination would he to Canada, replied: “I do not say that it would be any benefit. But will you tell me how it can be more abominable than vour present habit of murdering unborn life? Lately youi Canada wished to make a wi>e law regulating marriages, but this was opposed, one man saying that eugenic marriages would be no advantage in lessening the number of defectives born, because so many of these* weir born of normal parents. I should have added, but of parents that were not allowed to destroy the new bom felt they could not afford to raise pioperlv, so they tried to kill it bifoie biith. often suet ceding, but

often only robbing the unwanted balx of mentality instead of life.

“Listen, and 1 will speak seriously, la China there is reason foi ihis sin fill murder of infants. One fourth <»( the population of the woild is pa< ki d in China, a country of i, Uo.oyo mju.uc* miles, compared "ith the 3,750,«.00 square miles of C anada, with only eight million people. In no countiy is tho land tilled so carefully as in China; in no country does the ground >up|M»rt so many; hut if a continuum feel they must set bounds io the in crease of their population, they c*

stroy some of their new-born female infants. But in Canada you kill mle and female alike before they are bom, and all the while you tin demanding |K*ople from overseas to help fill youi vacant land-. I confess that of all the puzzling things on earth »«* day, I am most puzzled By this killing of unborn life in Canada and the I’niird State*—both countries that want more people.

“\ou itension brave men who have dared death to uphold your countiy s honour on llu battlefield. Win not

pension every woman of approved health and intelligente, of your own blood, who bears long months of wearness, and at last fates death, to add another soul to youi population? If the working women of your racethe wives of your working men—knew that the State gave them, say, a bundled dollars ye illy for every thild they bore and reaied, I do not think you would have so many small families among your own people, and certainly not the unwanted child, drugged into a defective before it was born. 1 have often thought that there is a real yel low peril threatening you, taking yel low to mean ‘the yellow streak of cowardice,’ that shows itself in the biood of a nation getting ready to d» (ay. My friend, the country whose own women are afraid to bear child ion will soon have only men who will shirk the responsibilities of governing they will be too afraid of what they know not, to have the wisdom needed by a ruling race, and Canada shall be divided, a spoil among the hungrx foreigners who arc pouring into hei lands. ‘Blood for blood, and life for life*. ’ it is written, and does not Can ad i fear that the ghosts of the unborn children she kills to-day will stt angle her hopes of greatness to morrow ?’’ This is the woid from a man of a nation that is vei\ old, to Canada, a nation that is in her beginning. “Woman’s Century.”