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 children as known to every intelligent physician.  Two-thirds of all cases of womb disease, says Dr. Tilt, are traceable to child-bearing in feeble women.  There are also women to whom pregnancy is a nine months’ torture, and others to whom it is nearly certain to prove fatal.  Such a condition cannot be discovered before marriage—­The detestable crime of abortion is appallingly rife in our day.  It is abroad in our land to an extent which would have shocked the dissolute women of pagan RomeS—­This wholesale, fashionable murder, how are we to stop it?  Hundreds of vile men and women in our large cities subsist by this slaughter of the innocent.”

12.  REV.  H.R.  HAWEIS.—­“Until it is thought a disgrace in every rank of society, from top to bottom of social scale, to bring into the world more children than you are able to provide for, the poor man’s home, at least, must often be a purgatory—­his children dinnerless, his wife a beggar—­himself too often drunk—­here, then, are the real remedies:  first, control the family growth according to the family means of support.”