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W. K. i). STOKES. 
 
The Ri2fht to be 
 
 Well Born 
 
 OR 
 
 Horse Breeding in its Relation 
 to Eugenics 
 
 By W. E. D. STOKES 
 
 President of the Pate hen Wilkes Stock Farm^ Inc. 
 Lexington, Kentucky 
 
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 PRINTED BY 
 
 C. J. O'BRIEN 
 
 22 North William Street. N. Y. 
 
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 Entered according: to Act of CongreBs in 
 the year 1917, by W. E. D. Stokes, in the 
 office of the Librarian of Congress, at 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 Page 
 
 Humans and Animals Are Governed by the Same 
 
 Laws of Heredity 9 
 
 Cause of Sex 12 
 
 Contribution of Horsemen to Eugenics 20 
 
 Influence of Great Sires in Founding All Breeds . 24 
 
 Sterility 4I 
 
 Education and Heredity 50 
 
 Defectives, Like Unfit Animals, Should Be Steri- 
 lized 56 
 
 The Number and Cost of Defectives 70 
 
 Evils of Labor Unions 78 
 
 The Labor Registry 81 
 
 The Jockey Registry 83 
 
 Birth Control 90 
 
 Germs 93 
 
 Child Labor 96 
 
 How the City of Churches Looks After Its 
 
 Children and Their Amusements 98 
 
 Some Races Are Backward 100 
 
 Subnormal Children in New York Public Schools 103 
 Public School Children of Seattle Show Great 
 Intelligence and Seattle's Death-Rate Is the 
 
 Lowest 112 
 
 Infant Death-Rate in Seattle 1.44 in a Thousand ; 
 
 in Manhattan 43.37 in a Thousand 114 
 
 Making American Citizens 115 
 
 Conservation of Brains Man's Greatest Duty. . . . 117 
 
 Evils of Social Diseases 120 
 
 Hereditary Insanity from Disease 126 
 
 Needed Laws 132 
 
 Things to Avoid 134 
 
 The Importance of the Health of the American 
 
 Hog 135 
 
 Alcohol America's Curse; Its Effects on the 
 
 Unborn 137 
 
 Distillery Mash and Cattle 141 
 
 Motherly Instincts 145 
 
 Relative Influence of the Sexes 150 
 
 Laws of Heredity the Same in Man, Plant or 
 
 Beast 152 
 
 My Duty 154 
 
 The Wizard of the Thoroughbred Turf 160 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 Page 
 
 How to Establish a Family 162 
 
 England's Strength Was Built Up By Younger 
 
 Sons 165 
 
 Some Races Possess No Elements of Improve- 
 ment 167 
 
 Crossing of Distinctly Different Races Dangerous 170 
 
 Selective Breeding Among the Jews 173 
 
 Inbreeding and Inherited Talents 177 
 
 Record Office and Research Foundation 182 
 
 Present System of Marriage Wrong in Theory 
 
 and Practice. 185 
 
 The Mixing of the Breeds 189 
 
 Our Old New York Families Have Bred Out 201 
 
 In Old New York 202 
 
 The Old London Social Set Bred Itself Out 205 
 
 Plain Facts 213 
 
 Records of Death 216 
 
 Modern Methods of Breeding Are Scientific 218 
 
 Grading of Men Who Are Candidates for Mar- 
 riage 222 
 
 Government Records Prove That 75% of Our 
 Young Men Are So Inferior in Breeding That 
 They Cannot Pass the Simplest Army and 
 
 Navy Mental and Physical Tests 227 
 
 If Our Army and Navy Compel Examinations of 
 Men Who Are to Be Food for Cannons and 
 Submarines, Our Government Must Pass Laws 
 Requiring the Same Kind of Examinations 
 Before Marriage of Our Young Men and 
 Women, If Their Offspring Are to Be Our 
 
 Future Soldiers and Sailors 230 
 
 America Needs Able Champions of Her Unborn 
 
 Babes 235 
 
 The Value of Registry Associations 240 
 
 Medical Men Must Make a Record of All Cases 
 
 of Syphilis 245 
 
 The German Kaiser's Contribution to Beneficial 
 
 Sciences 246 
 
 Our Government Excludes Illbrod or Unsexed 
 Animals, Except Under a Penalty, But Wel- 
 comes Human Curs 248 
 
 Conclusion 251 
 
THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 or 
 HORSE BREEDING IN ITS RELATION 
 
 TO EUGENICS. 
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 To the patriotic young men and women 
 of our country, who contemplate marriage, 
 and to the research workers in the field of 
 eugenics, these few lines on heredity are 
 dedicated by a horse breeder, whose ex- 
 periences have taught him to realize that 
 the rights of our unborn children are not 
 fairly or honestly protected. Every un- 
 born child has an inalienable right to come 
 into the world free from disease, from 
 hereditary ailments and from mental and 
 physical defects. The Almighty never in- 
 tended that any one man or woman should 
 have all the attainments and all the graces, 
 but that each child should have the right 
 kind of inherent mental and physical abili- 
 ties, which, if properly cultivated, would 
 permit him or her to well fill the station 
 in life to which each is destined. 
 
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6 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 While I take only a bird's eye view of 
 this wide field, over which my experiences 
 have led me, my earnest hope and prayer 
 is that I may cite practical illustrations in 
 the animal kingdom which will open the 
 eyes of the young to a clear understanding 
 of their serious duties to the state, to them- 
 selves and to their offspring. It may lead 
 them to a study of the subject and to a 
 perusal of the writings of some of our 
 well known eugenic scholars, like Dr. C. B. 
 Davenport, Dr. C. L. Eeed, Dr. David 
 Starr Jordan, and others, who have gone 
 scientifically into the subject of heredity, 
 in its every phase, with a microscopic ex- 
 amination. If they are convinced of the 
 logic of these scientists' arguments, let 
 them help along the good work by putting 
 into practice their convictions, and join us 
 in the advancement of the cause of eugenics. 
 
 I feel certain that every sensible man 
 and woman, who has given attention to this 
 subject, must acknowledge that it is the all 
 vital question of the hour; that it touches 
 the foundations of society and the stability 
 of our country. 
 
BREEDING BETTER MEN 7 
 
 I realize that I throw myself open to 
 criticism. Only the vital importance of 
 the subject to the permanency or ruin of 
 our American institutions gives me cour- 
 age to express these views, for I have 
 avoided even reading books on heredity or 
 breeding, except as I now look up refer- 
 ences. I have never so much as opened 
 MendePs Essay, '^Investigations into the 
 Hvbrids of Peas.*^ I determined to search 
 out the truth of heredity, unbiased by other 
 views. 
 
 My sole object is to lead my countrymen 
 to a vision of the need of breeding better 
 men and better women, each superior 
 mentally and physically, free from hered- 
 itary ills and defects, which make life a 
 burden. Let us breed men and women 
 especially fitted by their mental and 
 physical qualities to best fill the stations in 
 life which they are to occupy. Let us all see 
 that this problem of eugenics, which means 
 *' well-born," is given the public and pri- 
 vate thought and attention it justly de- 
 serves. For it means the elimination of 
 sufferings from hereditary ills and the sav- 
 
8 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 ing from over- straining the unfit, who at- 
 tempt to do things which they were not 
 ordained by nature to perform, — a ** shoe- 
 maker to his lasf and each to his calling. 
 It means the breeding out of weaklings and 
 defectives, and the breeding in only of the 
 fittest and the best. It means the savins: 
 of our country from moral and physical 
 decay; and the preservation of its integ- 
 rity as well as its position among nations. 
 
 All this and more I hope to prove to 
 you has been done in the horse family. If 
 all this can be done in the horse family, it 
 can just as easily be done in the human, if 
 thinking people will give heed. 
 
 If this can be done, let us start to do it 
 now — right now, not wait another day or 
 hour. 
 
 If what I say in this book will only in- 
 duce a few thinking men to discuss these 
 matters with those with whom they come 
 in contact I shall feel that the spare hours 
 of my vacation which I gave to these lines 
 were well spent. 
 
 Lexington, Kentucky, August 15, 1916. 
 
THE LAWS OF HUMAN HEREDITY 
 
 HUMANS AND ANIMALS ARE GOV- 
 ERNED BY THE SAME LAWS 
 OF HEREDITY. 
 
 It is my pleasure to own the stock farm 
 at Lexington, Kentucky, formerly owned 
 by its Colonial Governor ; the birthplace of 
 Americans greatest thoroughbred, ** Lex- 
 ington." 
 
 For a series of years, I have kept on this 
 farm a band of well-bred brood-mares. 
 Until February, 1916, ^^ Peter the Great'' 
 was at the head of my stud. He is today 
 considered by all horsemen the greatest 
 producing stallion of any breed that so 
 far has appeared. He has such great po- 
 tency that every colt by him at 2 years can, 
 if trained, trot a mile in 2 :30 or better. I 
 may speak frankly of his greatness, having 
 only recently sold him in his twenty-second 
 year for $50,000 cash. 
 
 It has been a source of very great grati- 
 fication to me to see how much this remark- 
 able stallion has contributed to the upbuild- 
 
10 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 ing of the American Trotting Horse. The 
 winning race horses, which have been bred 
 on my farm in the last few years, would 
 fill a very long column. 
 
 I always have believed that, if the* prob- 
 lem of producing great race-horses could 
 be solved, much light would be thrown upon 
 the question of human inheritance. I be- 
 lieved this, because the highly organized 
 race-horse is more like the high bred man 
 in his physical and nervous constitution 
 than any other animal. The laws of hered- 
 ity, which govern the production of horses, 
 govern the production of men. 
 
 One of the greatest of living geneticists, 
 Professor W. Johannsen of Jena, in his 
 great book on Heredity, published in 1913, 
 states: ''The same Laws of Heredity 
 govern man that we find in animals and 
 plants. Any difference would be incon- 
 ceivable." This is the opinion of every 
 scientist in the world. It is possible to get 
 the results of heredity so much quicker in 
 horses than in men that eighteen years of 
 horse breeding will give as many genera- 
 
FEW SIRES HAVE MAGIC FORCE 11 
 
 tions of horses as one hundred and fifty 
 years will give in generations of men. 
 I have bred horses for the knowledge it 
 would give me of human heredity, for I 
 knew such knowledge would eventually be 
 forthcoming and could be used for the up- 
 building of the human race. This has been 
 the dream of my life. My purpose in this 
 volume is to state some conclusions to 
 which I have been brought by my experi- 
 ences of twenty years as a horse breeder. 
 
 The first thing which the horse breeder 
 has to learn is that only a few horses out 
 of the many which are bred are of any value 
 to improve the breed. At first, it is almost 
 impossible for him to realize that this is 
 a law of nature. To the young breeder, it 
 appears that all the sons and daughters of 
 a great sire or of a great dam ought to 
 have the power of building up the breed. 
 He has to learn that the magic force for 
 improvement resides in the very few. The 
 trotting horse breed has had over fifty 
 thousand registered stallions used in the 
 stud and a far larger number of registered 
 brood-mares. Only a few score of this vast 
 
12 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN v 
 
 number have contributed, or can contrib- 
 ute, to the evolution of the light-harness 
 horse. So far as the influence of the re- 
 mainder is concerned in the upbuilding of 
 the trotting breed, they need not have lived. 
 Before I have finished I shall show the 
 same is true in the human family. 
 
 CAUSE OF SEX. 
 
 Let us agree, for the purpose of the fol- 
 lowing contention, that the stallion and 
 brood-mare, under consideration, are bred 
 in the purple and are physically perfect. 
 
 It has been found that every stallion and 
 every brood-mare has two centers, one a 
 male center and the other a female center, 
 and, when mated, if the two male centers 
 float over and join, the offspring will be 
 a male-life; if the two female centers join, 
 the offspring will be a female. These cen- 
 ters or tendencies are stronger at one time 
 to produce a male and weaker to produce 
 a female ; at other times, the tendencies are 
 stronger to produce a female and weaker 
 to produce a male. It is the predominance 
 of these joint tendencies, either male or fe- 
 
CAUSE OF SEX. 13 
 
 male, which determines the gender of the 
 colt. 
 
 Let us, mathematically, consider these 
 male and female tendencies or centers. 
 
 In the stallion and in the brood-mare, 
 each always has 100% of tendencies. And 
 let us consider, for the sake of my combina- 
 tions, the relative percentage division of 
 each stallion's and each mare's tendencies 
 to be 100%. 
 
 A = Stallion = 100% tendencies, male and 
 female. 
 
 B = Brood-Mare = 100% tendencies, male 
 and female. 
 
 M = Male. 
 
 F — Female. 
 
 Then, we have the following five combina- 
 tions of tendencies, and as many more as 
 you like, but always bear in mind that there 
 are, after breeding, 200% tendencies to 
 each offspring, 100% from each parent, and 
 the gender of each offspring will de- 
 pend upon whether the majority percent- 
 age of the tendencies at the mating is male 
 or female. 
 
14 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 COMBINATION 1. 
 
 A. == 100% M. + B. = 100% M = 
 200% A.B.M. This combination pro- 
 duces a stallion colt of the highest 
 order of potency with a male produc- 
 ing vigor in his life germs of the order 
 of ^'George Wilkes'^ or ^^ Peter the 
 Great' ^; a colt with a power to found 
 a family, if properly crossed, and to 
 stamp his individuality and his tem- 
 perament on the offspring. 
 COMBINATION II. 
 
 A. = 100% F. + B. = 100% F. = 
 200% A.B.F. This produces -a brood- 
 mare of the highest order of potency, 
 with a producing vigor of the order of 
 the ^^ Bertha," ^^ Beautiful Bells" or 
 ^'Orianna" type. 
 Any mathematician will tell you that for 
 the stallion and the mare, at the moment of 
 breeding, each to have 100% male, or each 
 to have 100% female tendencies are very 
 rare combinations. Great sires and great 
 dams are few and far between. Hence it 
 is hard to produce, even under the best 
 conditions, a great stock stallion or a great 
 
WORTHLESS MALES AND FEMALES 15 
 
 brood-mare, and because of this a breeder, 
 when successful, obtains such high prices. 
 Some sires are known as brood-mare 
 sires ; others are known as sires of sires. 
 There are only a very few all round sires 
 of brood-mares and of sires. It is well 
 known that in some families the boys are 
 endowed with the ancestral ability, while 
 in other families the girls are the fortu- 
 nate ones. Very few families exist where 
 both sexes have inherited distinguished 
 ability. 
 COMBINATION III. 
 
 A == 60% M. and 40% F. + B. 40% M. 
 and 60% F. = 100% A.B.M. and 100% 
 A.B.F. 
 
 This combination will produce either 
 a male or a female, as it generally de- 
 pends upon which tendencies are the 
 more vigorous, and, if it be a male, it 
 will be useless as a sire, and if it be a 
 female, she will be hard to get in foal ; 
 and so far as the benefit to breeding is 
 concerned, will be about worthless, 
 whether male or female. This com- 
 bination shows to a breeder how some 
 
16 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 brothers and sisters of great stallions 
 or brood-mares vary in their value as 
 producers. If all stallion colts of this 
 combination were castrated and all 
 fillies from this combination were 
 never bred, it would be a good thing. 
 In every big sales stable, you will find 
 horses called ** Dummies.'' They come 
 from this combination, and are easily 
 known by their lack of intelligence and 
 physical vitality; and among humans, 
 we have our '^Sissie'' and our ** Tom- 
 boy.'' 
 
 A **Sissie" has a soft voice and pre- 
 fers to play with girls. As a general 
 thing, neither have any great longe- 
 vity. A * * Tom-boy " ha s a man 's voice, 
 and prefers to play with boys. She 
 often has coarse hair, sometimes 
 growing in bunches. How many chil- 
 dren have vou ever known a **Sissie" 
 or *^ Tom-boy" to have? I confess my 
 information in this particular is very 
 meager, but it is to the effect that 
 neither produce to any great extent. 
 Dr. Robert T. Morris, in '* Microbes and 
 
BREEDING SCIEtolFICALLY 17 
 
 Men/' has stated a law of cnltnral limita- 
 tions ; that culture is artificial, rather than 
 natural. Nature makes a strong effort to 
 preserve a mean or average type. The 
 animal or human family degenerates and 
 passes away, chiefly through the direct and 
 indirect action of microbic enemies, which 
 assail a weakened constitution. Humans 
 have not as yet taken the lesson to them- 
 selves ; horsebreeders and fish-growers are 
 the only ones to take up the question of 
 breeding by impregnation in a scientific 
 way. 
 
 COMBINATION IV. 
 
 A =:= 60% M. and 40% F. + B.^ = 
 60% M. and 40% F. = 120% A.B.M. 
 and 80% A.B.F. 
 
 This combination will produce a male 
 colt whose ability and vigor in the stud 
 will be in the relative proportion, as 
 200 A.B.M. is to 120 A.B.M. 
 
 COMBINATION V. 
 
 A. = 40% M. and 60% F. + B. = 40% 
 M. and 60% F. = 120% A. B. F. and 
 80% A.B.M. 
 
18 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 This combination will produce a fil- 
 ly whose vigor and ability as a brood- 
 mare will be in the relative propor- 
 tion as 200 A.B.F. is to 120 A.B.F. 
 
 At the time of mating, a marked impres- 
 sion is made on the colt if both stallion and 
 brood-mare are in perfect condition. I am 
 satisfied that greater and better colts will 
 be produced if the brood-mare has a colt 
 every other year, or even every third year. 
 It would give nature ample time to restore 
 strength and vitality exhausted or given 
 to the offspring. 
 
 In every particular, as aboved noted, 
 whatever holds good of the horse, holds 
 good of the human. 
 
 The day is not far distant when some 
 scientists will discover how to regulate the 
 tendencies which determine sex; and par- 
 ents will only have to make their wishes 
 known to have them realized. 
 
 For three years, we have daily studied 
 the question of sex control at the Patchen 
 Wilkes Stock Farm, and have tried out 
 every claimed method, finally having dis- 
 
REGULATING SEX 19 
 
 carded each and every such known scheme 
 for regulating sex. 
 
 We have noticed, however, that, at cer- 
 tain seasons, there is a predominance of 
 male colts in our district and, at another 
 time, a predominance of female colts. At 
 the beginning of the stud season, we are 
 inclined to believe that male colts predom- 
 inate, but we have no positive proof. We 
 sometimes think that if a mare is bred di- 
 rectly after she has come in season male 
 colts will predominate, and as the season 
 advances female colts will predominate. 
 The difficulty lies in the fact that a breeder 
 can not always definitely ascertain the ex- 
 act date when a mare commences to come 
 in season. 
 
 I have no doubt that I could breed 
 stallions and mares to produce only male 
 or only female colts by a continuous breed- 
 ing from sires and dams coming from 
 families that had produced only male or 
 femiale colts. In this way I produced a 
 herd of sheep that produced only twins or 
 triplets. Whenever you find twins in 
 humans, you will generally find an hered- 
 
20 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 itary tendency to twins on the mother's 
 side. 
 
 I have noticed, however, that the first 
 colt of a young well matured mare of five 
 or six years old is generally a stud colt, 
 especially if she catches at first mating; 
 and, if a mare aborts or loses her colt at 
 suckling time, that the next colt is generally 
 a stud colt. I sometimes have thought that 
 the secretions from the cells that nourish 
 the germ cells govern the inclinations, 
 either male or female. When this discov- 
 ery is once made, we shall have only 
 full male and full females of the I and II 
 combinations born, or close to them; no 
 more ** sissies," no more *Hom-boys," and 
 our vigor, as a nation, in mental and phys- 
 ical stamina, will be on the ascendency, 
 provided laws are passed preventing the 
 marriage of defectives and diseased per- 
 sons. 
 
 CONTRIBUTION OF HORSEMEN TO 
 
 EUGENICS. 
 
 To the Trotting Horsemen, more than 
 anyone else, is due the advancement this 
 
HORSEMEN AND EUGENICS 21 
 
 country is now making in eugenics. It was 
 Governor Lei and Stanford, ov/ner of 
 *^ Electioneer," and the great Palo Alto 
 Farm, who placed David Starr Jordan at 
 the head of Stanford University, with un- 
 limited funds, to carry out his ideas on 
 breeding and heredity. 
 
 The trotting horse indutsry has in the 
 United States and Canada, perhaps, a 
 million or more persons financially or 
 otherwise interested in its success. It has 
 six or seven weekly papers entirely de- 
 voted to its interests, and in every big 
 city there are one or more daily papers 
 that give a column or part of a column 
 each week to matters relating to the trot- 
 ting horse. 
 
 The Grand Circuit consists of about 
 fourteen large tracks. In addition to 
 these, there are over 900 other tracks with 
 their smaller circuits which work inde- 
 pendently of each other and of the Grand 
 Circuit. There are several thousand 
 people who go through the Grand Circuit 
 every year and thousands more that attend 
 the various smaller circuits, half-mile 
 
22 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 tracks and fair tracks throughout the 
 country. There are three places where, 
 each year, from two to three large trot- 
 ting horse auction sales are held. At these 
 tracks and auction sales, you meet the 
 richest and the poorest, the most distin- 
 guished jurists, railroad presidents, mer- 
 chants, ministers, priests, and, in fact, 
 representatives of all trades, mingling, 
 hobnobbing and discussing horse interests 
 and breeding with the most ordinary un- 
 educated men on even terms. There is a 
 spirit of comrade-friendship among trot- 
 ting horsemen that is marvelous. Such a 
 phenomenon does not exist in any other 
 organization of business in the world. I 
 have a list of fifteen thousand men who 
 are in the habit of attending these various 
 auctions and bidding. 
 
 The trotting horse breeders' associa- 
 tions and these newspapers have their 
 various futurity stakes, which generally 
 amount to several hundred thousand dol- 
 lars and are raced off every season. 
 All this gives competition and stimulates 
 the breeding of good horses. "With it all 
 
E. H. HARRIMAN; J. D. ROCKEFELLER 23 
 
 comes a knowledge of heredity the trans- 
 mission of tendencies, an insight into the 
 benefits of good ancestral histories, and the 
 methods of combining the good qualities of 
 different horse families by crosses and, in 
 the same way, eradicating their failings. 
 
 So is it any wonder that trotting horse- 
 men should be the first to notice the utter 
 neglect given to the breeding of humans! 
 
 It was through the late E. H. Harriman, 
 the owner of ^^Stamboul" and **John R. 
 Gentry,'* that we have the Advanced 
 School of Eugenics and Heredity at Cold 
 Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York; 
 and through his widow, the patroness of the 
 Goshen Track, we have the priceless Eu- 
 genic Bureau, which thinking people are 
 now beginning to appreciate. 
 
 It is to John D. Rockefeller, the owner 
 of *^Cleora*' and ^ ^ Midnight, * ' and breeder 
 of various other horses, that we are indebt- 
 ed for the Rockefeller Institute of Research 
 and the Rockefeller Foundation, both of 
 which are bound to be of the greatest 
 good imaginable to the health and happi- 
 ness of the country and for the stability of 
 
24 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 this nation. The thanks of a nation should 
 go lip to Mr. Eockefeller for his noble and 
 generous gifts. 
 
 I do not know whether or not Andrew 
 Carnegie ever was interested in horses, but 
 his greatest monument will be the Carnegie 
 Institute for Experimental Evolution at 
 Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, which is 
 a branch of the Carnegie Institution of 
 Washington, D. C. This great research in- 
 stitution has an endowment of $25,000,000. 
 
 INFLUENCE OF GREAT SIRES IN 
 FOUNDING ALL BREEDS. 
 
 The Orloff Trotter was founded by Count 
 Alexis Orloif Tchestmensky. In 1775, he 
 imported from Greece a horse, ^*Sme- 
 tanka,'* an Arab or Barb, and, when mated 
 to a cart-mare, produced *'Polkan," who, 
 from a Dutch mare, got ^^Barrs,'^ in 1784. 
 From three sons of '^Barrs," all Or- 
 loff Trotters have sprung. 
 
 1. The dam of the first son was by an 
 Arab. 
 
INFLUENCE OF GREAT SIRES 25 
 
 2. The dam of the second son was by an 
 English Thoroughbred. 
 
 3. The dam of the third was by a son of 
 ^ ^ Smetanka. ' ' 
 
 Here, we see that just one horse estab- 
 lished the great Orloff Stud Book — ^whose 
 registry numbers at least 1,000,000. 
 
 The founder of the American trotting 
 horse breed was **Hamiltonian 10." The 
 number of his sons is, perhaps, 600. Out 
 of these 600, four, alone, have made sub- 
 stantial contributions to speed. These four 
 are: ''Happy Medium," ''Electioneer," 
 "George Wilkes" and "Strathmore." 
 The other sons produced numbers, but not 
 horses of value. An interesting fact con- 
 cerning the four distinguished sons is that 
 their greatness was sent on through only 
 one or two sons of each, except in the case 
 of "George "Wilkes," who had four great 
 producing sons. 
 
 "Pilot Medium," who carried the on- 
 breeding power of "Happy Medium," con- 
 centrated all the great qualities stored in 
 him into one son, "Peter the Great." 
 ' ' Happy Medium, ' ' with the aid of the dams 
 
26 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 of * ^ Pilot Medium ' ' and ^ ' Peter the Great, ' ' 
 concentrated in liis famous grandson such 
 qualities of real greatness as intelligence, 
 early maturity, speed, and early speed, 
 great lung capacity, soundness of bone, 
 wind, tough tendons, stamina, great vital- 
 ity, great endurance, beauty of conforma- 
 tion and the ^^do or die spirit — '^ which 
 they particularly show in long drawn out 
 races. 
 
 *^ Peter the Great ^^ has, today, a stud fee 
 of $1,000 and to his harem come more mares 
 than he can cover. Other trotting stallions 
 stand as low as $1 and get no patronage. 
 
 ' *^ Electioneer,'' through his matchless 
 grandson, ^'Bingen,'' who sold for a large 
 sum when 18 vears old, contributes to the 
 trotting breed of horses early maturity, 
 beauty of conformation and extreme and 
 early speed. ^^ George Wilkes'' was able 
 to distribute his heritage of greatness to 
 four lines of descendants, as follows : ^ ^ Bar- 
 on Wilkes," ^^ Alcyone," *^ Onward" and 
 ** William L." The characteristics, which 
 he handed on to these four important 
 strains of trotting horse blood, are : intelli- 
 
LONGEVITY IN ANIMALS 27 
 
 gence, speed, endurance, muscular develop- 
 ment, hard bone, strong tendons and good 
 wind. 
 
 Strathmore's influence in the breed has 
 been mainly in the quality of brood mares 
 which trace to him. He gave to his 
 progeny, stamina, hard bone, vitality, lon- 
 gevity and toughness, while his greatest 
 son, ^ ^ Steinway, ' ' who was a world's cham- 
 pion trotter at three years of age, was used 
 successfully in the stud until he was well 
 past the meridian. His son, *^ Charles 
 Derby,'' until he was 28 years old, was 
 possessed of great potency. Longevity 
 characteristics appear in certain strains of 
 animals, just as we notice them in certain 
 families among humans. 
 
 All the English thoroughbred horses 
 trace in their male ancestry to three great 
 sires. These three are, — ^^Matchem," 
 ''Herod" and ''Eclipse." They, like the 
 trotting horses, sent on their elements of 
 greatness through one, two or three, at 
 most, of their sons and daughters. The 
 laws of heritage, it seems, decree that in 
 the evolution of a breed improvement is 
 
28 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 not due to the many offspring of a dam or 
 sire, but to some one or two of the progeny, 
 as I have explained under Combination 1. 
 Great thoroughbred sires have sold for 
 $200,000, and their stud service is $1,500, 
 while others stand as low as $1. 
 
 There is no better illustration of great- 
 ness descending in a single line than the 
 recent establishment of the American Sad- 
 dle Horse. The foundation sire, ^^ Den- 
 mark," succeeded in contributing but one 
 son. He, ^'Gaines Denmark,*' was out of 
 a *^ Cock-Spur'* mare, and of all his nu- 
 merous sons, the one he got by being mated 
 with another ^^ Cock-Spur" mare is the im- 
 portant one. His name would not even 
 have been entered in the Stud Book had it 
 not been for his son, '* Washington Den- 
 mark. * ' The entries in the Stud Book trace 
 back to ^^ Gaines Denmark," through 
 * * Washington Denmark. " ^ ^ King William * ' 
 carried the greatness of his sire, *' Wash- 
 ington Denmark," and he gave it all to 
 ** Black Eagle," and ^' Black Squirrel" car- 
 ried the good points of his sire, ** Black 
 Eagle," and was able to pass on his great- 
 
GREAT FUTURE DEMANDS GREAT PAST 29 
 
 ness to two sons, ''Chester Dare'' and 
 *' Highland Denmark. '^ 
 
 A great future demands a great past in 
 breeding horses, as well as in breeding hu- 
 man beings. That is to say, if your ances- 
 tors are not the best, your family name will 
 disappear from the honor roll, unless you 
 mate your offspring well and continue to 
 mate them well. 
 
 You do not build a great building with- 
 out an expert master-mind to advise and 
 direct you. You cannot expect to build up 
 a healthy, brainy, enduring family unless 
 you have a competent expert to advise you. 
 What do young people either know or care 
 about racial improvement at that stage of 
 the game, until some day, when it is too 
 late, they are awakened by the sad results 
 of their own ignorant marriages 1 Hence it 
 is the duty of all parents to have their chil- 
 dren instructed in the fundamental facts of 
 heredity and reproduction. 
 
 Look at the trotting horse families that 
 were once great and are now dead and for- 
 gotten; where are the ''Blue Bulls," 
 the *' Champions," the "Bashaws," the 
 
30 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 **Eoyal Georges/' the ^'Messenger Du- 
 rocs,'* etc J When the crucial test of 
 reproducing speed, stamina and intelli- 
 gence, was applied, each failed. Each 
 family went out of existence because their 
 offspring began to show the undesirable 
 qualities of their ancestors, as errors had 
 been made in the crosses. 
 
 Confucius, of old, was a great scien- 
 tist. When he discovered that ances- 
 tral traits, tendencies, facial and bodily 
 characteristics had been inherited by his 
 own generation from generations that lived 
 a thousand years before and were then be- 
 ing passed on to future generations, it was 
 too great a mystery for him to fathom, so 
 he instructed his followers to cultivate an- 
 cestor worship — and the Chinese practice 
 it, even today. 
 
 Stallions and mares sometimes cast back 
 to an undesirable ancestor; and, again, to 
 a desirable ancestor. 
 
 Whenever my stallion *^ Onward'' had a 
 chestnut colt, I would be awakened at night 
 by the brood-mare man, to be told that a 
 ** Champion'* was born. That uneducated 
 
THE INTELLIGENT BREED OFFSPRING 31 
 
 colored man knew by instinct that a great 
 ancestor's sonl had come back to earth in 
 flesh and blood. 
 
 "VYhen you see a man of marked potency, 
 energetic of mind and body and of distin- 
 guished family features, carrying well 
 along in life the high breeding of a dis- 
 tinguished ancestor, you may be reasonably 
 sure that it is a case of atavism, and he is 
 very close to Combination No. I. 
 
 Some people try to raise children; others, 
 who know their business, hreed tJiem. 
 They carefully select the cross to mate 
 with what they lack in their own make-up, 
 and to strengthen their own good quali- 
 ties. They know the ^^ Golden Cross'' be- 
 cause they have studied the pedigrees of 
 the man or woman to whom they were 
 mated; the good points and the failings 
 of each other's ancestors were well con- 
 sidered. The horse that carries a pedigree 
 finally proves his worth by the perform- 
 ances of his get. Each succeeding cross 
 or breeding or in-breeding increases the 
 speed quality or the intelligence, the stam- 
 ina and value of the offspring, as it moves 
 
32 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 forward from the parent stem, until a 
 time comes when we need an outcross, be- 
 cause of too much in-breeding. What is 
 true of the horse is true of the human. 
 
 Some years ago, people with more imag- 
 ination than good common sense went to 
 Arabia to get an Arabian horse to cross 
 back on the English thoroughbred. The re- 
 sult was an absolute failure, because the 
 English thoroughbred, in good breeding, 
 had moved ahead a thousand years. 
 
 In raising trotters, breeding back to 
 mares carrying thoroughbred blood, has 
 given us our greatest and fastest trotters 
 of the day. In the human family, breed- 
 ing back to families who carried the best 
 ancestral blood, has given us the greatest 
 men of the day. 
 
 The family is stronger than the individ- 
 ual. That is to say, the handsomest finest 
 looking man of no blood and no ancestry 
 will never sire children equal to even the 
 more ordinary individual of good blood and 
 good ancestry. I once drove forty miles to 
 purchase ** Wiggins,'* a great son of 
 '* Aberdeen," as I needed certain of his 
 
THE SIRE PLANTS THE SEED 33 
 
 hereditary qualities to combine in my 
 crosses. One look at him was enough; no 
 one but an expert breeder would send his 
 mares to this stallion's court. Rather than 
 have such a looking horse on my farm, I 
 decided to pay the stud fee. 
 
 The sire plants the seed, and, if that seed 
 comes from a failure, you may expect a 
 failure. If it comes from a successful 
 healthy man of good parentage, good an- 
 cestry, and devoid of bad inclinations or 
 tendencies, you may expect a successful 
 child. In breeding horses we learn what 
 the families of the dams have produced and 
 we follow them in the male line and use 
 mares from families producing health, 
 speed and good traits; and one generally 
 does not make failures, unless there is too 
 much inbreeding, and then an outcross is 
 needed. 
 
 If the same rule were followed in the 
 human family, we should have continual 
 successes and the man who works hard to 
 have his name handed down to posterity, 
 if he only lived, would be gratified to see 
 the results. 
 
34 "THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 The present day breeds of Dairy Cows 
 owe their profitable production to a few 
 family strains, all on the sire side. A 
 striking example is to be found of the in- 
 fluence of the prepotent sire among the 
 ^^Holstein-Freisian'* breed. In this breed, 
 only seven cows are on record as producing 
 forty pounds of butter in seven days. All 
 seven are descended from ^^Netherland 
 Prince." There are 41 cows, whose seven 
 day record is 35 pounds of butter. 39 of 
 these trace their ancestry to ^^Netherland 
 Prince. ' ' 100 cows of this strain have rec- 
 ords of 33 pounds, and 97 of them go back 
 to *^Netherland Prince." 473 cows have 
 been able in a week to make the enviable 
 record of 30 pounds. 463 of them claim 
 
 *^Netherland Prince" as a near or remote 
 ancestor. 
 
 So far as the improvement of the breed 
 is concerned, the facts stated show that the 
 evolution largely centers around *^ Nether- 
 land Prince" and his get. Two other facts 
 should be remembered in the great change 
 which has been made in the productive 
 powers of the dairy cow by intelligent 
 
EARLY MATURITY PROFITABLE 35 
 
 breeders in the last forty years. One is 
 that their maturity has been secured at an 
 earlier age. A cow of today comes into 
 profitable production nine or twelve months 
 earlier than some years ago, and steers 
 are marketable at one and two years in- 
 stead of four or five. Think of the im- 
 mense saving to the farmer and cattleman ! 
 This valuable trait has been evolved by 
 the power of sires prepotent for early ma- 
 turity. The other fact, which must be men- 
 tioned, is that the evolution of the dairy 
 cow, by the judicious conservation of pre- 
 potent strains, gives dairymen a greater 
 profit on their investment and maintenance 
 than their predecessors enjoyed. The same 
 is true of cattle for beef. Today, cattlemen 
 use bulls one and two years old, where they 
 formerly used four or five year old bulls. 
 Careful breeding from early maturing an- 
 cestors brought about this early maturity. 
 It costs more to feed and keep a cow pro- 
 ducing 20 pounds of butter per week than 
 it does to feed a cow that yields 5 pounds ; 
 but, there is a larger ratio of profit to the 
 ^dairyman in the 20-pound cow; and a cer- 
 
36 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 tain loss in the 5-ponnd one. Great bulls 
 of the **Netherland Prince'' strain sell for 
 from $15,000 to $25,000, others for the price 
 of beef; one commands a stud service of 
 $100 and others go begging at $1.00. This 
 is true of the various other breeds of cattle, 
 of the ox type, that pull heav^^ weights. 
 That strain comes from its one sire that 
 produces great strength. 
 
 The best example of improvement by 
 breeding in domestic animals is shown in 
 the great change brought about in the hog. 
 The despised swine of the ancients and the 
 wild fierce boar of the forest have. yielded 
 to the influence of breeding and care as few 
 animals have done. This is true, because, 
 as improved today, all that is required of 
 the hog is that he be fed and be converted 
 into pork. No intelligence, endurance or 
 foraging powers are required of him. To 
 eat, grow and grunt is the end of his exist- 
 ence. By breeding and feeding, the mar- 
 ketable age of the hog has been cut from 
 24, 18 or 15 months, down to as low as 7 or 
 8 months. I believe that the hog is the best 
 bred of any domestic animal and the one 
 
WELL-BRED AMERICANS CALLED HOGS 37 
 
 from wliich the farmer is gaining the most 
 profitable returns as the result of good 
 breeding. Once, I used to be indignant 
 when foreigners referred to Americans as 
 ^'hogs.'^ At last, I consoled myself with 
 the thought that they so admired our hogs 
 that they associated all well-bred Ameri- 
 cans with hogs. 
 
 Hog-breeds of today come from two or 
 three potent ancestors. Each breed has 
 but a few potent representative sires and 
 they sell for a big price, as a ^*Duroc Jer- 
 sey '^ boar sold for $5,000 and his stud serv- 
 ice fee is $50.00, where others stand at 50 
 cents. 
 
 The Stud Books of the Kennel Club tell 
 the same storv. The blue ribbons of the 
 bench, the winners in the fields, are dogs 
 which all run back through two or three 
 strains in the Stud Book. It is not this or 
 that breed, but the breed as a whole, and 
 each breed has a limited number of indi- 
 viduals which makes the Kennel Stud Book 
 worth-while. 
 
 Even the poultry breeders have learned 
 the value of the rare sire, as some cocks 
 
88 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 sell for $1,500 ; and a setting of his fertile 
 eggs sells for $100. The male bird, which 
 improves most the egg production of his 
 daughters, becomes the bird that is needed 
 in the flock and his ^^cockship" really be- 
 comes the ^'hen that lays the golden egg.^^ 
 Few people realize that our egg crop is 
 worth 50% more than our wheat crop. 
 Two score years ago, poultry men were 
 content to secure from 60 to 90 eggs per 
 year from each hen. By taking advantage 
 of the reproductive powers of a few males 
 of each breed and breeding only to these, 
 the egg production has been increased to 
 150 or 200 per hen for the average flock, 
 while the hen already has been evolved 
 which has layed 315 eggs in one year. 
 Pullets now lay at six months and hatch 
 at eight months, while they used to lay at 
 a year or a year and over. There is no 
 doubt that such remarkable results are due 
 to the breeding power of a few males. This 
 is proved by the following : 
 
 A cock from a 250 egg strain is bred to 
 the hens of a 100 egg strain. The pullets 
 of this cross will produce, say, 200 eggs; 
 
IMPORTANCE OF EXCEPTIONAL SIRE 39 
 
 but, if you breed a cock from a 100 egg 
 cross to hens of a 250 egg cross, the pul- 
 lets of this cross will only produce 100 
 eggs. This explains why, when you have 
 100 young hens and your next door neigh- 
 bor has the same number and same variety, 
 you get 100 eggs, whilst he gets 200 eggs — 
 both chickens having the same range and 
 the same food. The heavy table fowl have 
 their exceptional cock from which all the 
 best market poultry come. 
 
 I do not want to be misunderstood when 
 I emphasize the importance of the excep- 
 tional sire. While, at most, only a few 
 sons of any sire can improve the breed, at 
 the same time, his other sons and daugh- 
 ters are far more valuable than the produce 
 of inferior sires. In other words, the least 
 desirable of the get of a great sire usually 
 is worth more than the most valuable of 
 an inferior sire ; and, among horses, a great 
 sire marks his colts and gives them his 
 disposition, his intelligence, his speed and 
 individuality. Among market poultry, a 
 great cock also does the same; he gives 
 them weight and early maturity. 
 
40 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL-BORN 
 
 If the domestic animals furnish absolute 
 proof of my statement, that only a few 
 sires of a breed can improve it, the applica- 
 tion to eugenics is apparent; that only a 
 few men come under Combination I. 
 
 I have explained in the five combinations 
 why ^^ Peter the Great ^^ is the great sire 
 he is; why it is that one stallion has 
 more vitality, more stamina than another, 
 even if it be his own brother ; and why one 
 stallion produces a better colt than his own 
 brother, even when both have been bred 
 to the same mare. We know why a mare 
 produces a male colt at one time and a 
 female colt at another. We do not yet know 
 how to regulate sex, but we undoubtedly 
 will know before long. When a scientist 
 is imbued with a truth, he is sure to dis- 
 cover its cause. What is true of the horse 
 family is just as true of the human family. 
 We see this today when our N. Y. City 
 Health Department is unable to secure 
 pure human blood for their serums for the 
 cure of Infantile Paralysis. They use the 
 blood of young horses. Some strains of 
 
LONGEVITY IS HEREDITARY 41 
 
 horses, just as some Imman families, carry 
 their potency and vigor to greater ages 
 than others. It is a hereditary trait. Fer- 
 dinand de Lesseps, as a man, is an example, 
 and ^'Charles Derby,'* in horses, is an- 
 other. 
 
 The hetterment of the race will come 
 through a few families, and, of those fam- 
 ilies, not all will contribute an equal share 
 to human improvement, 
 
 STERILITY. 
 
 We all know that the instant a hen is 
 hatched, the number of possible eggs she 
 can produce is known and limited. It is 
 the same with every human female, — and, 
 as the greatest glory of womanhood is 
 motherhood, it should be the duty and the 
 pleasure of every woman to practice 
 self-denial; to train herself and mate her- 
 self so that her offspring will be the best ; 
 and then to raise her children so that they 
 may be an honor and glory to their name 
 and a credit to the state. In some coun- 
 tries, chiefly poh^gamous, the offspring 
 used to take the name of the mother until 
 
42 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 science proved it was the sire that stamped 
 the child's mental and physical powers 
 and gave it vigor and stamina. 
 
 Dr. Eobert T. Morris, of New York City, 
 has given more important and successful 
 study to the cause of sterility in the human 
 female than any other living physician. 
 His book, ^'Tomorrow's Topics," is most 
 interesting and has shown that most cases 
 of sterility are caused by the presence of 
 bacteria, which devour the fertilizing 
 germs, and by their indirect action on the 
 structures of the developing organs pre- 
 vent conception. With the simplest meth- 
 ods, he has most successfully treated these 
 '* so-called" pronounced cases of barren- 
 ness — and brought joy and happiness into 
 desolate homes, where motherhood had 
 been longed for, but despaired of. Wlien, 
 for reason of malformations or other 
 causes, there are physical obstructions, he 
 uses certain methods of impregnation with 
 marvelous success. Dr. Morris concludes, 
 from his study and experiments with the 
 nature of living protoplasm, that each race 
 has so much protoplasmic energy. Each 
 
MORE HIGHLY BRED, LESS PROLIFIC 43 
 
 family has only a given amount of energy 
 when it splits off from the original stock. 
 The more highly bred it becomes, the less 
 energy it retains for reproductive purposes. 
 The high-bred race mares have lost a great 
 degree of fertility. Not more than 50% 
 of them produce any one year. Professor 
 W. S. Anderson, of the Kentucky Univer- 
 sity, at Lexington, Ky., endorses this and 
 understands how to remedy it in horses 
 and in human beings. Such well-bred 
 hens as the ever-laying strains of Leg- 
 horns will not incubate their own eggs. 
 The Indian-Eunner Duck, which has laid 
 as many as 320 eggs in a year, is not in- 
 clined to spend her time hatching and 
 rearing the young birds. Fertility is 
 lessened in the plant, the moment you 
 breed its petals double. The number of 
 roses decline, as you add petals to the 
 flower. 
 
 The more highly-bred an animal or 
 human becomes, the more barrenness there 
 is. The ^^ Dutchess'' strain of *^ Short- 
 Horned'' cattle sold in New York for more 
 money than ever was paid before or since 
 
44 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 for cattle. Females of the Dutchess strain 
 sold from $10,000 up to $40,000. This very 
 cow that sold for $40,000 never had a calf. 
 Today the family is extinct. The champion 
 high bred $10,000 White Leghorn hen, 
 ^^Lady Eglantine," had a record of 315 
 eggs a year. Though the eggs were all set, 
 they only produced to her matings 12 chicks 
 that lived to maturity — 9 cocks and 3 hens. 
 The champion Plymouth Rock, ^^Lady 
 Cornell," who had a record of 285 eggs, 
 never, so far as I know, raised a chicken 
 that lived to maturity, although she was 
 repeatedly well mated. The late Robert 
 Bonner's champion, '^Maud S.", was 
 splendidly bred, and mated to about all of 
 his stallions, but never had a colt. 
 
 To illustrate the value of the well-bred 
 sire and to show how much more prolific 
 the common bred female is over the high- 
 bred, I visited today a large hog-farm, from 
 which the best of Kentucky hams come. 
 Here I found, running wild, several hun- 
 dred splendid, young, iine looking fat pigs 
 ^s you want to see, a small number of high- 
 bred boars and several hundred of the com- 
 
CROSSING HIGH AND LOW BREEDING 45 
 
 monest razor-back sows I ever saw. I 
 asked the owner whv he did not use better 
 bred sows and his reply was that high-bred 
 sows were only half as prolific as common 
 sows and were not so hardy ; that the high- 
 bred boar improved the flavor of the meat 
 and insured the proper bone and frame to 
 the pig on which to put the right kind of 
 meat ; that he averaged from eight to four- 
 teen pigs per litter and at least three litters 
 a year ; that if he used high-bred sows there 
 would not be 60% of this increase. On most 
 of the sheep farms, where they raise lambs 
 for the market, I found they used the cheap 
 Kentucky Mountain ewes with the high- 
 grade rams — for the same reasons. 
 
 Some years ago, I secured a flock of 
 very young inbred prize game bantams, 
 weighing from one-half to three-quarters 
 of a pound each. They had been bred for 
 size and feathers. They laid at six months 
 and had chicks at eight months. For sev- 
 eral seasons, nearly all the young chicks 
 died. Thinking there was some local 
 trouble, I divided the flock in two and put 
 one flock on another farm, with the same 
 
46 THE BIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 result. One of the cocks dying, I secured 
 another of different strain. This flock be- 
 gan at once to increase. In like manner, 
 in this country, a lot of the oldest and 
 best families have run out, become deca- 
 dent, or else have entirely disappeared 
 from lack of intelligent mating and breed- 
 ing of their members. 
 
 Some years ago, I was invited to witness 
 the re-interment of the bodies, on the male 
 line, of a distinguished family that had 
 been buried in a New England cemetery, 
 back in 1637. They were all in the same 
 soil and all were buried about the same 
 depth. The bones of the oldest were as 
 hard as flint, and those most lately buried, 
 the softest. The older bones were solid 
 and heavy and indicated that their owners 
 were tall and possessed large frames; 
 while those of our times were smaller and 
 lighter and indica^ted that [their owners 
 were shorter and stouter. 
 
 If this does not tell the story of present 
 degeneracy in the human frame of our 
 American citizens, I do not know what 
 does. 
 
MATING A LADY TO A GROOM 47 
 
 Let me give a curious illustration: I 
 once knew intimately a great, grand, proud 
 old family, whose name is now absolutely 
 extinct, sprung from one illustrious ances- 
 tor. They had a daughter who, at the age 
 of 35 or 40, ran away with a young, unedu- 
 cated, but bright Irish groom, whose an- 
 cestral breeding was lost, and who died 
 about the time of the birth of her second 
 son. She was forgotten by her family and 
 forgotten by the world. Of her two sons, 
 one was no account, the other exceptionally 
 bright ; at one moment he showed his high 
 breeding and, at the next, all the charac- 
 teristics of a tricky, suspicious fellow. 
 How I have enjoyed watching him. Now 
 the peacock! Now the duck! Then to 
 watch the countenances of high-bred people 
 in their intercourse with him, for he is 
 exceedingly clever ; now they lean forward 
 to catch his witty, choicely put together 
 sentences; suddenly, they draw back, they 
 have caught a whiff of the stable. If I 
 only dared to tell that fellow how to 
 marry! He might bring back from the 
 grave the soul of that ancestor. 
 
48 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 Nature imposed on the pioneers of New 
 England such a selective eliminating proc- 
 ess as never before or since has been 
 imposed upon any people. The rigors of 
 the climate and unproductiveness of the soil 
 killed off the weak and diseased of the Ply- 
 mouth Rock Colony. From the rugged ones 
 left, there sprang up the New England 
 families, who have since played such com- 
 manding parts in American history. But 
 this virile strain is disappearing. No con- 
 scious eifort has been or is being made to 
 conserve the good. Soon, it will have sunk 
 to the level of the mediocre. 
 
 Our pure healthy New England blood 
 can no longer cross with or assimilate the 
 rotten, foreign, diseased blood of ages, 
 which the gates of our immigration laws 
 now swing wide open and allow to flow in 
 upon us. For the sake of our ^^ American 
 baby,'' and the future of our American 
 people, will not our Eepresentatives in 
 Congress pass more stringent immigration 
 laws to stop this inflow of diseased blood f 
 It is time we Am.ericans who have patriot- 
 ism in our hearts, and gratitude to our an- 
 
MEN DO NOTHING TO IMPROVE RACE 49 
 
 cestors for the privations and sufferings 
 they underwent to give us this beautiful 
 land, assert ourselves and announce to the 
 world that America must be for Amer- 
 icans, and not for the imported scum of the 
 earth. 
 
 If the truth were known, there are not, 
 today, in the United States, 4,000 men of 
 the right ancestral history, conformation, 
 constitution and of mental and physical 
 force, born under or even near to Combi- 
 nation I., who could, by themselves, im- 
 prove the breeding of our human family. 
 
 If this improvement is to become per- 
 manent, these 4,000 must be mated and 
 bred to the highest bred females, of the 
 right conformation, constitution, and of 
 mental and physical force, and whose an- 
 cestry and blood must be free from phys- 
 ical and mental defects, and they them- 
 selves born under or near Combination II. 
 
 The obvious conclusion from the preced- 
 ing statements is that the average man is 
 doing nothing and can do nothing to im- 
 prove his race. He adds to the numbers 
 
50 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 only. They are, so far as eugenics are 
 concerned, simply drones in the human bee- 
 hive. 
 
 EDUCATION AND HEEEDITY. 
 
 Another important observation can be 
 made by the horse breeder. Training, edu- 
 cation and feeding can add nothing to a 
 horse which he can pass on to his offspring. 
 The school, the college and the university 
 do not give anything to the boy which he 
 can hand on to his own sons. We train and 
 race horses to find out if they are fit to 
 breed, and I, in addition, examine their life 
 germs under the microscope to find out 
 whether they are worthy or unworthy to 
 stand in the harem. '^Many come, but few 
 are chosen^' to my Stallion Court, and the 
 horse who has not the right kind and num- 
 ber of life germs and right kind of ancestry 
 and with it the vitality, bone, muscle, ten- 
 don, stamina, lung power and intelligence 
 to be trained and raced, lacks something 
 which we need in the race horse. We refuse 
 to breed him. Often do we hear an old 
 breeder say, **I shall not breed my good 
 
EDUCATION WITHOUT HEREDITY 51 
 
 mare to such and such a stallion, because 
 he is not game ; he is a quitter ; he is soft 
 and he comes from a family of quitters.'' 
 
 A well-known trainer, who made fame 
 and money three years ago, has just pur- 
 chased two colts. His remark is: ^^I have 
 been a loser for two years, because I tried 
 to race fast horses that came from sires 
 whose ancestors were not game. Whenever 
 I got in a tight spot, they quit." The Bible 
 tells us the sins of the fathers are visited 
 upon the children unto the third and fourth 
 generation. Horse breeding proves this. 
 
 The breeders of ** Fighting Cocks'' are 
 about as careful of pedigrees and hered- 
 itary taints as any you ever met. They 
 know one drop of cur blood in their breed- 
 ing cock means their ruin. 
 
 ^^Patchen Wilkes," a son of ^* George 
 Wilkes," was considered, in his time, about 
 the best bi^d and handsomest horse in 
 America, but, as a great sire of early speed, 
 was an absolute failure. His female off- 
 spring, however, became good broodmares. 
 
 Afterwards, when * * Onward, ' ' the great- 
 est son of ** George Wilkes," was bred to 
 
52 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 young mares that had had their first colts 
 by **Patchen Wilkes/' I noticed that the 
 heads and tails of these first colts were 
 like **Patchen Wilkes," and that they often 
 were marked like ^^Patchen Wilkes '^ on 
 the fetlocks. I noticed this same phenom- 
 enon in colts by ^^ Peter the Great/' out 
 of young mares that had their first colts 
 by ** Onward," that they had an inclina- 
 tion toward *^ Onward" heads and tails. 
 
 I observed mule colts that looked very 
 much like horses. On investigation, I dis- 
 covered that the dams of these mule colts 
 had first colts by a stallion. I noticed this 
 particularly in the heads, neck and tails of 
 these animals. 
 
 There is just one conclusion I can draw, 
 and that is, a young mare carries certain 
 elements of life that she gets from the first 
 mating over to the second mating by an- 
 other stallion. 
 
 What is true of the mare is true of 
 humans. If a widow, who has had a child 
 by her first husband, should have a child 
 by her second husband, the child by the 
 
PECULIARITIES TRANSMITTED 53 
 
 second husband, to a certain extent, would 
 get the leavings of the first husband. 
 
 Certain great stallions of the thorough- 
 bred and trotting horse families have pe- 
 culiarities and habits which they as surely 
 transmit to their descendants as the black 
 man transmits his black skin or the white 
 man transmits his white skin. 
 
 These traits are not as apparent among 
 the stallions of today as they were thirty 
 years ago, as intelligent breeders have, by 
 judicious crossing, outbred these tempera- 
 mental defects, as well as the physical de- 
 fects. But, in the human, these traits of 
 character, and hereditary physical traits 
 and peculiarities of families, are almost as 
 apparent today as they were one hundred 
 years ago. There has been no scientific 
 breeding to eliminate them. Often we find 
 that a son or daughter of exceptionally 
 fine parents is a brainless good-for- 
 nothing. In nine cases out of ten, if you 
 will trace back his or her ancestry, you 
 will find it is a case of heredity. 
 
 In the horse, some families are inclined 
 to kick with the hind feet and others to hit 
 
54 THE laGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 with their front feet. Some bite, and some 
 watch their opportunity and grab their vic- 
 tims with their teeth, kneel on them and kill 
 them. 
 
 • I went into a sales stable yesterday 
 and the owner called my attention to a very 
 valuable mare. ^^Look out for her/' he 
 called, as I entered her stall, * ^ she belongs 
 to such and such a family. ' ' 
 
 Now, men who amount to anything have 
 peculiar family traits, just as they have dis- 
 tinctive physical features, as the shape of 
 the nose, the ear, the mouth, the teeth, 
 the chest, etc., etc. These they transmit to 
 their offspring just as surely as do the stal- 
 lions to their colts. Others have family in- 
 clinations to consumption, to cancer, to con- 
 stipation, to asthma and mental troubles, 
 which can be outbred by judicious mar- 
 riage. 
 
 All have heard of the Indian baby that 
 was reared and educated from birth in a 
 family of culture and refinement; and, 
 when the first opportunity came, heredity 
 prevailed and he took to the woods — and of 
 
TWELVE-YEAR-OLD EQUALS BOY TWENTY 55 
 
 the Eskimo baby, reared in tbe same way, 
 \Yho longed for ice and cold weather. 
 
 The boy who has not the natural powers 
 to secure an education, when he reaches 
 manhood, cannot give to his children that 
 which he, himself, does not possess. It 
 matters not how you may work upon the 
 fellow to cover up his lack of talent by long 
 training, he only can transmit that which 
 he inherited from his ancestors. Nothing 
 of his culture and training can be handed 
 on. 
 
 When you see a man of great activity 
 of mind, body and energy, and with an iron 
 constitution, carrying his life giving powers 
 well on in years, you may be sure of one 
 thing, — ^his parents were wise in the selec- 
 tion of their ancestors. 
 
 There is no reason why, by judicious 
 crossing and breeding, you cannot produce 
 a boy of twelve who will have the same 
 mental and physical development of a 
 young man of twenty of today. We have 
 done this in the horse, and we can do it in 
 the human, but it will take from fifteen to 
 twenty times the amount of time. As a 
 
56 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 proof of this, I wrote an article, some ten 
 years ago, predicting that a colt would soon 
 be produced, which at the age of two would 
 have the intelligence, physical development 
 and stamina of a horse of six or seven ; and 
 I had the good fortune to produce that colt 
 in ^* Peter Volo,'* who took a record of 
 2:041/2 at two years of age and 2:03% at 
 three years, and 2:02 at four. From 
 his breeding and from our microscopic 
 examination of his germs, he can not but 
 be a great sire of early and extreme speed. 
 
 DEFECTIVES, LIKE UNFIT ANI- 
 MALS, SHOULD BE STERILIZED. 
 
 In breeding horses, we render impotent 
 the unfit. We never try to render fit a sire 
 by education. We have no sanitariums for 
 weak horses, to keep them alive at public 
 expense, and then turn them loose to repro- 
 duce their unfitness, to refill more homes 
 for defectives. The same rule should apply 
 to humans. Go to Randalls' Island with me, 
 and see there 2,000 defectives — some with 
 heads not bigger than your fist, two or 
 three from the same family and others with 
 
DEFECTIVES SHOULD BE STERILIZED 57 
 
 less intelligence than animals, so low in in- 
 telligence that they cannot care for their 
 own simplest wants, all supported by New 
 York City tax-payers, and you will say 
 that it were better for these children and 
 better for the world had they never been 
 born. 
 
 Ninety-nine per cent, of them are chil- 
 dren of the diseased off scouring of Europe 
 and the Orient. Take one good look at this 
 bunch of 2,000 defectives and ask yourself 
 the question : Is it just and fair to the un- 
 born to allow them to grow up, mate and 
 breed more defectives? Is it not the duty 
 of the state to, at least, sterilize the males? 
 On examination, I found that not one of 
 the parents of these defective children 
 ever paid one cent of city taxes; that 
 they or their parents had been simply 
 dumped on our shores; also that, at least, 
 some of their parents had been a further 
 burden on our city by having been inmates 
 of our city hospitals and our charity insti- 
 tutions. Is this sort of business fair to 
 those who pay taxes ? The community pays 
 well our law makers to make laws to protect 
 
58 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 ITS. Instead of this they neglect their duty, 
 to put it mildly. 
 
 The army of field workers sent out by the 
 Eugenics Record Office has traced and tab- 
 ulated pedigrees of enough human defec- 
 tives to prove that defectives come from 
 defective parents. Insane parents produce 
 children who are subject to the same afflic- 
 tion. "Weak-minded men and women beget 
 children of the same kind. Erratic ner- 
 vous temperaments also are transmitted. 
 Sex offenders and criminals, in large meas- 
 ure, transmit the lack of self-control, which 
 results in anti-social acts. The remarkable 
 results obtained by the Eugenics Record 
 Office have convinced the scientist of the 
 correctness of the foregoing statements. 
 Their field workers have quietly traced 
 from court, asylum, cemetery, etc., records 
 and other sources, the cause of the death 
 and the weak points of 10,000 families for 
 100 years back. Undertakers, doctors, 
 cemetery books, etc., are secured, and these 
 records tell a story of goodness or rotten- 
 ness; of what diseases or family failings 
 are to be out-crossed by proper mating. 
 
^•JUKES" PRODUCED DEMORALIZATION 59 
 
 Dugdale, in 1877, through Putnam's 
 Sons, published a study of crime, pauper- 
 ism, disease and heredity, and brought to 
 light the history of the ** Jukes," who in 
 about 1780, originated from one, ** Jukes,'' 
 a hard drinker, who lived in the upper part 
 of the State of New York, and who, in that 
 short period, had 1200 descendants. Today, 
 after a lapse of 130 years, old Jukes' 
 descendants number 2820 of which ^Ye of 
 his daughters, all own sisters^ have descend- 
 ants that number 2094, all of whom carry 
 Jukes' blood, and of these 1258 are a/ive 
 today. Of these, down to 1871, 300 received 
 pauper support, equal to 2300 years of 
 pauper support to one person. 171 were 
 criminal offenders ; 250 were arrested and 
 tried for various crimes ; 60 were known as 
 habitual thieves ; and 7 were tried and con- 
 victed of murder; 50 were prostitutes; 40 
 of the women were known to have syphilis ; 
 and it was estimated that these 40 syphil- 
 ized 440 men, 40 of whom syphilized their 
 wives, and their progeny became tainted 
 and diseased up to an unknown number. 
 Only 20 were known to have followed any 
 
60 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 useful trades, 10 of whom learned these 
 trades in state's prison. The prison terms 
 of these people down to 1915 were 375% 
 years for one person, and the aggregate 
 cost of this family to the State was $2,100,- 
 000 and for pensions $650,000 more. These 
 statements of Dugdale were thoroughly in- 
 vestigated and, in 1877, startled thinking 
 people, but, today, all is forgotten. Dugdale 
 finished his work by adding, ^*It is getting 
 time to ask, why do not our courts, our 
 laws, our almshouses and our jails deal 
 with the question presented?'' 
 
 Then Dr. Esterbrook of Indianapolis, 
 Ind., published the history of *^The Nam" 
 family, 852 persons, all from one ancestor, 
 another defective family that cost the 
 State and society $1,141,676. This family 
 is still reproducing feeble-minded people, 
 defectives and criminals. Dr. Esterbrook 
 is now at work on the ^^Ishmaels," a family 
 of over 9,000 members. They came from 
 one parent stock. They left Kentucky some 
 time after 1800 for Indiana, and, in 1840. 
 this family was said to number 300. 
 They have intermarried and intermarried 
 
THE FAMILY OF RICHARD EDWARDS 61 
 
 and it is estimated they have cost society 
 and the State $2,000,000 or more, and are 
 stil] producing feeble-minded or defective 
 offspring. (See Dr. Esterbrook's report.) 
 They cost Indiana, alone, over $1,000,000. 
 
 Let me contrast with you the family of 
 Richard Edwards, a Connecticut lawyer, 
 descended from a Puritan family, who, in 
 1667, married for his first wife, Elizabeth 
 Tuttle, born of a family of physical and 
 mental superiority and with a good healthy 
 ancestry, evidently born with the high-bred 
 female organism of Combination II. 
 Among their descendants were 300 college 
 graduates, 14 college presidents, 100 college 
 professors, 30 judges, 60 physicians, 100 
 clergymen, missionaries and theological 
 professors; 65 authors of 135 books; ed- 
 itors, lawyers, politicians and leaders of in- 
 dustry and owners of factories. 
 
 Afterwards, Richard Edwards married 
 Mary Talcott, of a family of very mediocre 
 ability. She had a pretty face and nice 
 figure, but little talent and no decision of 
 character; she aged quickly and became 
 
62 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 very ordinary in appearance as she grew 
 older. 
 
 This union produced five sons and one 
 daughter. Not one of these children or 
 their descendants ever gained the slightest 
 reputation for ability or usefulness. They 
 were, what would be termed in horse par- 
 lance, *' dummies. " 
 
 If these contrasts do not show the young 
 people of this country that it is time to con- 
 sider the hereditary traits of contracting 
 parties, before marriage, I do not know 
 what will. 
 
 I feel sure that every word which I have 
 said about the horse, the cow, the hog and 
 the hen, will be endorsed by men who have 
 made a study of the methods by which the 
 breeds of domestic animals have been 
 brought to their present state of excellence ; 
 and, likewise by experts in eugenics, what I 
 have said about heredity in the human race. 
 
 Some of my readers may question my 
 repeated statement, that what is true of the 
 horse is true of the human. I could add 
 other authorities, in addition to Professor 
 Johannsen, of Jena, by quoting from the 
 
HEREDITARY DEAFNESS 63 
 
 writings of Drs. Davenport and Eeed, 
 Prof. Popenoe, Editor of the organ of the 
 American Genetic Association, * ^ The Jour- 
 nal of Heredity/* and other great scien- 
 tists, but to do so would be more like 
 plating gold with gold to anyone at all ex- 
 perienced in such matters. 
 
 There are in the United States, at least 
 100,000,000 people. Of this number, 3% are 
 sufficiently deaf to need help; there are 
 adults to the number of 5,000,000 that are 
 **hard of hearing'' and there are 1,000,000 
 known deaf. 60% of these can trace thei?: 
 lack of hearing to deaf parents or deaf an- 
 cestors. 
 
 Dr. C. A. Fay has made a study of the 
 records gathered by the Tolta Bureau. He 
 finds that there have been 4,471 marriages 
 between deaf persons. 14.1% of these deaf 
 matings report no children. There are 
 6,782 children reported from parents, both 
 of whom are totally deaf, 24.7% of children 
 from these deaf parents are themselves 
 deaf. Are not such marriages criminal 
 and should not the State interfere? 
 
 Thus Dr. Pay's tabulation shows that 
 
64 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 deafness is hereditary. Among normal 
 people, a child born deaf is very rare, un- 
 less there is deafness in one or both families 
 of the parents. Dr. Fay also finds that per- 
 sons deaf by accident do not produce deaf 
 children. Only the parents who are syphi- 
 litic or have the tendency to deafness in 
 their ancestry can transmit deafness. 80% 
 of the inherited deaf mutes either lack cer- 
 tain nerves in their inner ear or these 
 nerves do not respond. 
 
 The '^Volta Eeview'' gives, among the 
 important causes of deafness, heredity, con- 
 sanguineous marriages, tuberculosis, syph- 
 ilis and infectious fevers. 
 
 Alexander Graham Bell wrote, thirty 
 years ago, *Hhat if marriages between the 
 deaf continued for several generations, 
 there would result a new variety of the 
 human, permanently devoid of the sense of 
 hearing. 
 
 **When one' parent is normal and one 
 is hereditarily deaf, the children have an 
 even chance of escaping the imperfection.'' 
 
 Analogous marriages between persons 
 afflicted with hereditary Bright 's Disease 
 
INTERMARRIAGE OF DEAF OR BLIND 65 
 
 or hereditary Heart Disease, etc., etc., have 
 been tried, with the uniform result that in 
 a few years all the descendants were so af- 
 flicted that finally the family died out. 
 
 Dr. J. Kerr Love, in his exhaustive 
 treatise on ^^The Causes of Children Be- 
 coming Deaf in Great Britain," states the 
 causes : 
 
 ^ ' First — meningitis ; second — hereditary 
 syphilis." 
 
 There are 58,000 blind persons in the 
 United States. Of these, about 50% are the 
 result of heredity and about 30% from 
 social diseases; about 20% from inbred 
 marriages and other causes. 
 
 Will anyone question that it is the duty 
 of the United States Government to pass 
 laws that will prohibit two hereditarily 
 blind persons marrying, or the marriage of 
 two hereditarily deaf persons, or of one 
 blind person, who is hereditarily blind, 
 marrying into a family whose past history 
 shows hereditary blindness ; or, one hered- 
 itary deaf mute marrying into a family 
 whose past history shows hereditary deaf- 
 ness f Science, however, is now gradually 
 
66 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 eliminating the number of the blind. The 
 1913 census shows a falling off of 11.1% 
 per 100,000 from the census of 1905. 
 
 Such afflicted people are, by nature of 
 their affliction, thrown more or less into 
 each other's society and it is only natural 
 that marriages will occur among them, un- 
 less the state steps in and forbids it. If 
 something of this nature is not done, we will 
 increase the number of our hereditarily 
 blind and deaf. There is no question but 
 that a large percentage of cancer and con- 
 sumption cases are so by inheritance and 
 that people are born with tendencies to can- 
 cer and consumption; and it would not be 
 wise for persons afflicted with cancer or con- 
 sumption to marry persons who had con- 
 sumption or cancer, or had it in their family 
 history. Laws should be passed to pre- 
 vent such unions. The same is true of peo- 
 ple whose family history on both sides 
 shows a tendency to Heart Disease or 
 Bright *s Disease. This doubling up and 
 doubling up of tendencies to Bright 's Dis- 
 ease has continued until today it is not an 
 uncommon thing to find children born with 
 
HEART DISEASE HEREDITARY 67 
 
 Bright 's Disease, from which they die 
 shortly after birth. 
 
 Today, in our New York City Public 
 Schools, there are 15,000 children who have 
 hereditary Heart Disease, and thousands 
 more who have teeth rotted at the roots and 
 other hereditary affections. 
 
 People are born whose families show 
 tendencies to asthma. It may skip a genera- 
 tion, but it always appears again, unless 
 eliminated by the right out-cross. It is in- 
 herent in the physical make-up, so it is in- 
 herent in the seed of the sire ; that germ of 
 life that gave you your origin. How mar- 
 velous! How inexpressibly mysterious, 
 and sublime! 
 
 ** Saint Vitus 's dance'' is hereditary in 
 most cases and so are adenoids in chil- 
 dren; others have tendencies to tumors, 
 etc., etc. I have in my employ, today, a 
 woman who had a tumor removed. She 
 had two sisters who had tumors removed, 
 and she has two sisters more who must 
 have tumors removed. Her mother died 
 of a tumor removed; and her aunt had 
 tumors removed. As far back as she knows. 
 
68 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 her family history shows her family had 
 tendencies to tumorous growths on the 
 female side. 
 
 Anyone who works with Nature must ad- 
 mit the existence of a Supreme Being — or a 
 Supreme ^^ something'' that rules the uni- 
 verse, foresees the future, and regulates 
 our destinies. Let us call that '* some- 
 thing" God, and give him the gratitude and 
 respect due. 
 
 Fifty years ago, anyone who attempted 
 the surgical operation of removing the ap- 
 pendix would have heen classed among lun- 
 atics. Today, that operation is performed 
 daily. Beneficial surgery has advanced far 
 ahead of the science of medicine. Any 
 thinking person knows it would be criminal 
 to allow hereditary epileptics to marry 
 hereditary epileptics, or if he or she does 
 not think so, let them go with me into a 
 colony of epileptics and see for themselves. 
 The scientific expert human-breeder to- 
 day knows how to eliminate this and other 
 failings from the human family. 
 
 In a certain Western section of our coun- 
 try, there are people who have gone there 
 
HEREDITARY TUBERCULAR TUMORS 69 
 
 in time past for trouble of the tliroat and 
 the lungs. Here they were thrown in each 
 other ^s society and the result is that, owing 
 to propinquity in that section, there is an 
 unduly large percentage of people there to- 
 day who have lung and throat trouble. 
 
 As I dictate these words, a trotting-bred 
 filly has just died. Her dam has had four 
 colts, two of them by a well-known stallion. 
 Both of these colts have met with peculiar 
 deaths. The other two were by another 
 well known stallion that had imported thor- 
 oughbred blood from an illustrious sire. 
 The life germs of this second stallion, un- 
 der microscopic examination, are small and 
 numerous, but well formed, and exceed- 
 ingly quick and vigorous in their action. 
 The two colts from this mating are per- 
 fectly well ; so, on the death of this second 
 colt by the first stallion, an autopsy was 
 held, and it disclosed by microscopic inves- 
 tigation that the colt had tubercular tu- 
 mors. This indicates that the sire of the 
 two colts that died, somewhere in his past 
 history, had an ancestor that had tumors, 
 which stallion ^s tendencies to tumors, 
 
70 THS RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 added to the mare's tendencies to tnmors, 
 produced a colt with a tumor. This illus- 
 trates my point, and also shows — that, by 
 judicious selection in mating, ailments and 
 defects can be bred out, and thus elimi- 
 nated. 
 
 The general public does not know of the 
 work of the Eugenics Record Office to aid 
 the public to avoid such errors in mating 
 and is ignorant of the bearing of certain 
 infallible laws of nature upon the problem 
 of heredity. What their field workers do not 
 uncover in the past history of any family 
 under investigation is not discoverable. I 
 claim that today this great nation of ours is 
 rushing on to decay and degeneracy with 
 the speed of a Twentieth Century Limited, 
 and that our young men and women must 
 open their eyes and take m.eans to stop it, if 
 they have an atom of American patriotism 
 in their veins. 
 
 THE NUMBER AND COST OF 
 DEFECTIVES. 
 
 If the following statistical summary of 
 Public State Institutions for the Socially 
 
THE COST OF DEFECTIVES 71 
 
 Inadequate in the several states of the con- 
 tinental United States does not influence 
 our Congressmen to pass the needed laws, I 
 do not know what will. Let me quote from 
 a Eeport prepared by Carnegie Institute of 
 Eesearch, Cold Spring Harbor, L. I., dated 
 August 1, 1916. 
 
 *'This summary does not include the in- 
 dependents that are taken care of in towns 
 by the Town Authorities or County Poor- 
 houses or Alms Houses, and, therefore, do 
 not become a charge on the State. It 
 does not cover the vast amount of inmates 
 of private institutions, so that the expendi- 
 tures for the socially inadequate would be 
 at least $100,000,000 per year. 
 
 *^ $73,000,000 paid out per year by the 
 states composing the continental United 
 States. 
 
 ''$27,000,000, at least, paid out per year 
 by the county poorhouses, almshouses, town 
 and private institutions — 
 
 *' Total, $100,000,000.'' 
 
72 
 
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BREED PATRIOTISM; TEACH HYGIENE 73 
 
 The time has now come when thinking, 
 patriotic citizens have to realize the neces- 
 sity of breeding strong, healthy, brainy 
 children with patriotism in their hearts, 
 who will protect this country with their 
 mental force, or, if necessary, by force of 
 arms. Let us, at least for the present, cut 
 out of our public schools and colleges, 
 the dead languages, such as Latin, Greek, 
 Sanscrit and Hebrew, also Music and 
 Dancing, and, in their place teach, first, 
 American Patriotism; then the Laws of 
 Heredity and Hygiene, for these are live 
 topics which affect the permanency of the 
 family and the State. 
 
 Shall we Americans have a land of our 
 own ; or shall we surrender it to the rabble 
 ' — outcasts of other nations, whose per- 
 verted views of life will sooner or later af- 
 fect our nation and warp our opinions on 
 national and other questions? 
 
 I trust there are enough Americans left 
 to defend the Flag, for which our ancestors 
 fought and died, and to see that laws are 
 passed that will protect the unborn and give 
 
74 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 them tlieir rights and save this country to 
 the worthy of the American-born. 
 
 We can not forever absorb this influx of 
 the scum of the earth, this offscouring, dis- 
 eased, imported blood, with its evil customs. 
 What have they done for our country and 
 this city, and the health of our nation, ex- 
 cept to make trouble? And the result of 
 their matings with the healthy blood of 
 our nation is a batch of unhealthy dis- 
 eased children — weaklings who will breed 
 weaklings and trouble-makers. 
 
 The time has come when the man of the 
 business world and every mother of sons 
 and daughters should know these laws 
 of nature and their meaning to the fu- 
 ture of the American people. The cry of 
 the world today is for facts — more light. 
 Let prudery be banished forever. Tell the 
 young people the truths of life. Give each 
 a chance to know and decide for him or her- 
 self. They should know what these laws 
 of nature mean to our country, what they 
 mean to the health and prosperity of our 
 descendants, to themselves and to their own 
 children. Every thinking man in this coun- 
 
CHILDREN NOT GIFTS FROM ANGELS 75 
 
 try will awake some day to find our people 
 degenerating, our children growing men- 
 tally and physically weaker and the lives of 
 our people growing shorter, and even with 
 the sciences of surgery and medicine vastly 
 improved, their children suffering untold 
 hereditary ills. These are the important 
 questions of the hour. 
 
 Children are not gifts from angels. 
 Their bodies and brains are not products 
 of occult forces. Each child has two par- 
 ents, who give it all it has of a body, brain 
 and talent. We know that, if we are to 
 breed a trotter with extreme speed, we must 
 mate a sire and dam, each of whom repre- 
 sents a line of pure speed and healthy 
 ancestry. We know there are many 
 qualities, all of which must be united in 
 one animal to make a great race horse, as 
 conformation, health, lungs, speed, endur- 
 ance, toughness, gait, intelligence, etc. 
 Should a horse lack intelligence, so that 
 he cannot be taught to stay on the trot, 
 he will not race successfully. Noth- 
 ing is better known to the horse breeder, 
 than that if you breed to ^ ' fool horses, ' ^ you 
 
76 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 will get ^^fool horses/^ but, if ^intelligent 
 horses'' are mated, ^intelligent foals'' re- 
 snlt. Like produces like, or a likeness of a 
 former ancestor. This same law applies 
 with equal accuracy in human heredity. 
 Brain power, like gold, is of different de- 
 grees of fineness — it may be 1 carat, l4 
 carat or 21 carat, and can only be secured 
 from its source. Neither brains nor water 
 will rise higher than their source. To ex- 
 pect to produce a great or eminent man 
 from the mediocre strata of the race is as 
 foolish as to expect to secure a world's 
 champion trotter from the mating of scrub 
 horses. 
 
 Not so many years ago, a few of us be- 
 came interested in eugenics, and started 
 a campaign of enlightenment, C. B. Dav- 
 enport was our leader. Since that time, 
 laws relating to the marriages of defectives 
 have been passed in some 12 Western 
 States; and laws for the sterilization of 
 those who are hopelessly unfit to produce 
 have been passed in some six Western 
 States. In Indiana, alone, 900 defective 
 men recently were sterilized. Our Eastern 
 
WRONG WAYS OF HANDLING DISEASES 77 
 
 States, respecting hygienic and eugenic 
 laws and regulations, are behind the West, 
 and as the result the appalling number of 
 socially diseased people that we have in 
 the East today is greater than the same 
 class in the West. Not very long ago, 
 the percentage was the other way. In 
 Western mining towns, in some States, 
 where the laws of examinations and certifi- 
 cates are weekly issued, you seldom find a 
 diseased man or woman today. In Lexing- 
 ton, Ky., The Purity League broke up the 
 fast houses, instead of enforcing the exam- 
 ination and certificate system, with the re- 
 sult that at night the Pikes and fields are 
 filled with such people who formerly fre- 
 quented the fast houses. 
 
 Now, my indulgent reader, with these 
 appalling facts before you, is it not time to 
 call a halt, and for every parent to instruct 
 his or her sons and daughters as to the 
 preliminary investigations which they 
 should make before they allow their fan- 
 cies to run away with their reason? Today 
 young people who marry have as much 
 thought about the offspring of their mar- 
 
78 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 riages as the mustang on the prairies. 
 Knowledge comes too late; they spend the 
 rest of their lives in tears and regrets. 
 
 Don't forget how often, on a moonless 
 night, a stray Tom-cat from another block 
 meets a young Tabby on your back fence, 
 and awakens the whole block with her pain- 
 ful cat-a-wails, and his joyous cat-a-balls, 
 as they announce to the world that their 
 happy marriage is one of love at first sight. 
 The old shoes, tumblers and angry words, 
 which you and your neighbors fling at them, 
 have no effect, — they are so madly in love ! 
 Pause! Is this not a fair example. of some 
 of the thoughtless marriages of today? 
 
 EVILS OF LABOR UNIONS. 
 
 Today, we hear on all sides complaints 
 as to our help, that help of today cannot do 
 as much work as the help of 30 or 40 years 
 ago; that they are not as healthy or as 
 strong. The Labor Unions, today, recog- 
 nize this fact and demand that the healthy 
 vigorous laboring man must not do as 
 much work as his physical and mental pow- 
 ers will allow him to do, as it would reflect 
 
LABOR UNIONS BREED WEAKLINGS 79 
 
 on his weakling brother-workman to his det- 
 riment; that all wages must be alike for 
 the willing, strong, healthy and tem- 
 perate workman as for the weak, drunken 
 and dissipated workman. This is tan- 
 tamount to putting a premium on drunk- 
 enness and physical infirmities. That 
 the weakling workman's hours, that he 
 is able to stand up and work, shall be 
 the limit of the number of hours that 
 his stronger brother-in-labor shall be 
 allowed to work; and the amount of work 
 the weakling is able to perform, shall be 
 the limit of work the strong, healthy, robust 
 and temperate workman shall be allowed 
 to work. That is to say, it shall be no bene- 
 fit to a man to have the physique, the health 
 and the inclination to work and to raise 
 himself above his fellow-workmen, but that 
 this good man shall be kept down to the 
 level of his degenerate, weakling co-worker. 
 The labor unions have declared that no man 
 shall be paid on the scale of value his 
 labors or his ability to accomplish import- 
 ant matters should entitle him to receive, 
 as it would reflect and expose to the world 
 
80 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 his weakling fellow-laborer. If there be an 
 argument to prove the decay of a nation's 
 workmen and their open acknowledgment 
 of it, we have it right here in the stand 
 taken by the labor unions of the United 
 States. 
 
 We breed horses with even temperaments 
 and quiet dispositions to be easily handled, 
 to weigh 2,000 to 3,000 pounds or more, 
 and to haul great loads and carry great 
 burdens, such as the ^^Clysdales,'' ^^Perch- 
 erons," ''Belgians," and the ''Horse of 
 Gaul.'' Each of these is classified; each 
 has its own Kegistry; each its value as 
 to its strength, disposition and ability to 
 stand hard work or carry great loads ; each 
 their stud fee, graded as to their colt's 
 value. The value of each is proportionate 
 to the cost of his keep, his longevity and 
 his ability to do the work which he is called 
 upon to do without straining his reserve 
 powers. We all know that during the times 
 of the Knights in Armour horses were bred 
 to carry over 600 pounds ; and what can be 
 done in breeding a horse can be done in the 
 same proportion with the human. 
 
LABOR REGISTRY VS. DELEGATES 81 
 
 The ancestral records of these breeds 
 take up all these points and establish the 
 value of the draft horse of the different 
 breeds, to the farmer, the cartman, the 
 drayman, etc. The life germs in the semen 
 of these horses of burden are large oval 
 globules, docile and slow in their nature and 
 movement; not of the fine, active, quick, 
 energetic nature that one finds in the 
 Thoroughbred or the American trotter, etc., 
 the product of Combination I, 
 
 THE LABOK REGISTRY 
 
 Why do not we breed human beings to 
 endure hard work and do it with ease, with- 
 out straining, just as we breed the dray- 
 horses, above cited? Let us have a Regis- 
 try for our laboring classes, and breed them 
 so that their actual value will be known to 
 themselves, the public and their prospec- 
 tive wives; and the amount of labor they 
 are able to perform can be estimated and 
 they be paid accordingly. What an incen- 
 tive this will be to elevate and improve the 
 breed of the laboring class. This will do 
 away with the crying need of labor unions. 
 
82 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 for walking delegates, business agents and 
 bomb throwers to protect the weaklings of 
 their number, for then there will be no 
 weaklings for unions and walking delegates 
 to protect. We can thus divide the laboring 
 community into classes — those that come 
 from healthy, good, sober, long-lived, hard- 
 boned ancestry, with great strength, that 
 have done great service for so many years, 
 and lived temperate, good lives, and are 
 able to work ten or twelve hours a day with- 
 out straining themselves or to carry or lift 
 from 200 to 1,000 pounds, and weigh from 
 200 to 400 pounds or more; and then the 
 ages at which their ancestors died and from 
 what they died, the number of their children 
 and their children's strength and early ma- 
 turity. These characteristics could all be 
 arranged and the laboring men be graded in 
 classes. A, B, C, D, E, and F; F being the 
 I'owest class, with low ancestry, ill health, 
 soft bones, sluggish in their movement, and 
 not calculated to produce children that 
 would mature early and help along the 
 household, etc. Why, there is no trouble to 
 breed any kind of men you like, 4 feet men 
 or 7 feet men — or, for instance, all to weigh 
 
PRACTICAL BENEFITS OF JOCKEY REGISTRY 83 
 
 60 or 400 pounds, jnst as we breed horses. 
 It only takes a longer time and more 
 patience. 
 
 THE eJOCKEY EEGISTEY. 
 
 There is need of five thousand to six 
 thousand jockeys to ride the running races 
 in this and other countries. One can see a 
 score of them on our Pike on hot summer 
 days, dressed in heavy woolen sweaters, 
 running along and swinging their arms un- 
 der the direction of their trainers to reduce 
 their weight. In England and France, I 
 often have met them in the hot steam baths, 
 for twenty-four hours at a time trying to 
 sweat off a few extra pounds, abstaining 
 from water and food. Jockeys usually come 
 from ** Jockey families'' and parents often 
 stunt the growth of their boys by giving 
 them coffee and other drugs to keep them 
 small ; for, as a general thing, an able small 
 jockey makes much more money than a 
 large one. 
 
 The jockeys need intelligence, strength 
 and activity. The severe starving and 
 sweating before a race saps the acuteness 
 of his intelligence, his energy and strength. 
 
84 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 All this starving, suffering and grilling 
 these boys undergo to keep down their 
 weight can be avoided by breeding for 
 smallness, strength and quick intelligence ; 
 and a family of jockeys can be produced 
 who will always be fit and ready to meet any 
 racing requirements. It is just as easy to 
 produce the jockey of the right size, weight, 
 and with it all, intelligence, as it is to breed 
 ponies or half-pound chickens and the like. 
 The trouble is that a good ninety pound 
 jockey invariably marries a one hundred 
 fifty or one hundred sixty pound woman, 
 and, when he is sixty years old, hi^ weight 
 is one hundred and thirty pounds and her 
 weight two hundred pounds. You see in 
 their families one hundred sixty pound 
 daughters and one hundred thirty pound 
 sons, and you can better understand 
 their bitter disappointment; how the extra 
 
 twenty or thirty pounds their sons possess 
 is their ruin. Their vocation is lost. In- 
 telligent mating would have saved all this. 
 A ^^ Jockey Eegistry" will come some day 
 on this same principle. I once collected 
 and bred a small drove of miniature Al- 
 
LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS' KEGISTKY 85 
 
 derny Cows, which were the result of breed- 
 ing cows and bulls whose ancestry had all 
 been small. 
 
 Then will come **The Locomotive En- 
 gineers^ Eegistry,'' where men will be 
 bred with hereditary physical and mental 
 qualities that will best fit them for their 
 special duties. On the Pennsylvania Eail- 
 road already such families exist. 
 
 No old established banking house in the 
 world will take a clerk for a position of 
 trust unless they are satisfied no thief or 
 defaulter ever existed in the applicant's 
 ancestry. 
 
 When all this will have been accom- 
 plished, the working girl will be able to look 
 over the ancestral Labor Eegistry or 
 Jockey Eegistry and the health certificate 
 of her prospective husband and see in what 
 class he belongs. She can go to the Pub- 
 lic Eecord Hall of the town where he was 
 born and there check up and verify this 
 — ^whether he is in the A class or the F 
 class. She would know at a glance what 
 she was getting for a husband, if he would 
 be able, when mated with her, to produce 
 
86 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 healthy, strong children that will mature 
 early, and whether her prospective husband 
 will be able to support her and their chil- 
 dren properly. The trouble today is that 
 the working-girl marries, without thought, 
 some fellow who can dance nicely and 
 dresses well, and, too late, often discovers 
 she has married a weakling that she has to 
 support. There is hardly a big office in 
 Wall street where this has not happened to 
 one or more of its pretty stenographers. 
 
 The laboring classes are constantly in- 
 terfered with by having thrown into their 
 ranks the weaklings of the upper classes. 
 Who is there that has not been importuned 
 by this and that person to use as a laborer 
 a relative or somebody of the upper classes 1 
 
 If the males of laboring classes were com- 
 pelled to have their own Eegistry, like the 
 **Clysdales," *'Percherons,'' and other 
 heavy draft Eegistries, and submit to a 
 microscopic examination of their life germs, 
 as to whether this or that one had the abil- 
 ity to produce large, healthy, strong, early- 
 maturing children, free from physical 
 defects, who would help to support the 
 
WALKING DELEGATES AND DYNAMITERS 87 
 
 family and tlie parents when they grow 
 old — how much more happiness such a 
 state of affairs would bring to them; how 
 much more contentment you would find. 
 There would be no need for labor agitators 
 with big salaries, big traveling expenses, 
 with retinues of clerks, to bring on strikes 
 and such things. There no longer wouM 
 be a need of large bands of dynamiters to 
 blow up newspaper buildings in Los An- 
 geles and in other civilized cities, nor 
 bridges, so as to give more labor, or injure 
 the property or lives of those who wish to 
 work and be paid for the value of their 
 services, nor would honest labor be as- 
 sessed to pay for hired assassins to kill 
 judges who render decisions that are not 
 satisfactory to the laboring unions, or to 
 pay attorneys to defend them or witnesses 
 to prove alibis. These are all little things, 
 but they count up to quite a sum in the end. 
 It would do away with the expensive droves 
 of Walking Delegates, who take money 
 from the employers and hold up their em- 
 ployees. The lowest and the most miser- 
 able trusts we have in this country are the 
 
88 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 Labor Union Trusts. Instead of leveling 
 up, they level down. They crush the ambi- 
 tions to rise of those deserving. Their sole 
 purpose is to uphold the drunken and dissi- 
 pated weaklings of labor, and allow them to 
 continue breeding inferior children to be a 
 charge upon the state, and to handicap the 
 industries of our country to their own 
 detriment; and compel pot-house politi- 
 cians to tell their Congressmen that they 
 must pass laws which will exempt the Labor 
 Union Trusts from being examined; but 
 must hold to strict accountability all other 
 trusts. To gain the labor vote one .of our 
 highest officials even sold his soul and be- 
 trayed his country. The day is not far dis- 
 tant when there will be a clash at arms. 
 True Americans will not stand these im- 
 ported ideas nor high handed methods. 
 
 Stand at the gate of the Ford Factory, 
 at Detroit, at the change of an eight-hour 
 shift, either at four P. M., twelve P. M. or 
 eight A. M., and you will see an intelligent 
 body of 9,000 laborers marching out, and 
 another body of 9,000 marching in. As I 
 looked them over, I saw at a glance that 
 
FORD'S IMPORTED LABORERS 80 
 
 not one-quarter of these men were Amer- 
 icans and, on inquiry, I found that three- 
 quarters were foreigners (imported skilled 
 mechanics), as American laborers did not 
 have the health, the strength and capacity 
 to stand up, nor the stamina, to do the work 
 that each was expected to daily accomplish. 
 This discovery impressed upon me the im- 
 portance of having the truth as to the de- 
 generacy of our nation widely known. I 
 have since made inquiry and find that only 
 6,800 of all these 36,000 workmen were reg- 
 istered to vote. The Public can now realize 
 why Labor Unions are silent regarding 
 Ford. 
 
 Not one of these laborers belongs to a 
 labor organization, for each man is paid 
 according to his individual merit and value. 
 The healthy, temperate, strong and ener- 
 getic do not have to give up part of their 
 life earnings to support their degenerate, 
 drunken brothers-in-labor to keep them 
 alive to produce more weaklings that their 
 healthy children and the state will have, 
 hereafter, to support. 
 
 No man whose services are worth less 
 
90 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 than $5.00 per day is employed at Ford's. 
 They do not have to pay a share of their 
 money to support drunken Walking Dele- 
 gates. Ford has no strikes, no hold-ups and 
 employs 36,000 men and earned last year 
 about $60,000,000 net — and that is why, 
 when your expensive auto breaks down, a 
 Ford always helps you out. — A Ford 
 always gets there! 
 
 BIRTH CONTROL. 
 
 When the defectives have been cut off 
 from the power of reproduction, the next 
 step is to teach the class above them how to 
 practice ** birth controP' to which no excep- 
 tion could be taken. The unskilled man 
 plays an important role in the industrial 
 world. He lacks the intelligence, the self- 
 control, and the power to limit the number 
 of his children. Two or three are all he can 
 care for properly, yet the number may go 
 so high as to reduce the home to absolute 
 want. Today, educated machinery is tak- 
 ing the place of much of the manual labor, 
 and the need of human labor will not in- 
 crease in the same ratio as the increase in 
 our population. 
 
BIRTH CONTROL IN OTHER COUNTRIES 91 
 
 From the report of the recent Eugenic 
 Congress, it would appear that methods of 
 birth control, other than those I advocate, 
 are practiced in Australia and certain coun- 
 tries of Europe, with the sanction of these 
 Governments. 
 
 Let us take Holland, for instance. Here, 
 since 1895, Government officials have direct- 
 ed physicians and midwives to instruct the 
 common people how to practice birth con- 
 trol, with the result that the recent death 
 rate and infantile mortality has decreased 
 while the population has increased. Fewer 
 children are born, but more live, and these 
 are better physically and mentally ; and the 
 indications are that the population is now 
 increasing instead of steadily diminishing, 
 as it had been. 
 
 Much of the vast sums distributed as 
 charitv serves to house, clothe and feed 
 families made indigent by a self-indulgence 
 which gives to the family more children 
 than their income can support. Organized 
 society must protect itself in some way 
 from this class. These people are a menace 
 to society because of their rapid increase 
 
92 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 in numbers. This is due to early mar- 
 riages and exceedingly large families. The 
 boys and girls of this class do not like 
 school with its discipline and self-control. 
 Most of them could not master more than a 
 few grades at best. They leave school in 
 the teens, get a ^^job" and then marry, if, 
 indeed, they do not marry before the job 
 is secured. There is no forethought, no 
 calculating the cost of marriage, nor of 
 their fitness to produce children that will 
 be an improvement on themselves. The 
 impulse to mate is there as in the wild 
 things of the forest and it is exercised with 
 almost as much indifference as to results. 
 Should a child of ability, by some miracle, 
 come into such a home, it would have no 
 more chance to rise than a *^ Peter the 
 Great ^' colt would have to distinguish him- 
 self working with a team of mules on 
 some remote farm. The hard knocks and 
 labor soon would render inherent ability 
 valueless. 
 
 The small family of the better classes 
 cannot be enlarged greatly. Their mar- 
 riage is late, due to the necessity for an 
 
GERMS 93 
 
 education. The actual time spent in school 
 and university often brings the young peo- 
 ple well up in the twenties. After gradu- 
 ation, comes an apprenticeship, or some 
 period of getting established, which runs 
 over the thirties before marriage is pos- 
 sible. The tremendous pressure under 
 which the men and women who are carrying 
 the burdens of industry must live, makes 
 many children in the home impossible. The 
 highly organized nervous system, neces- 
 sary to exercise great brain power, often 
 makes reproduction difficult. It has been 
 found among female animals, as well as 
 among humans, that the better the one is 
 bred, the less the number of her offspring. 
 
 GERMS. 
 
 Speaking of germs — few understand that 
 there are as many kinds and breeds of 
 germs as there are kinds of flowers and 
 kinds of leaves on the trees. Each germ has 
 its specific duty and errand in life and, 
 when it is performed, it leaves its abode for 
 new quarters and new work. 
 
 The germs of diphtheria neither inter- 
 
94 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 breed nor have anything to do with the 
 germs of infantile paralysis. The same is 
 true of the germs of grippe, and of the 
 germs of syphilis. They are as widely sep- 
 arated as the elephant is from the giraffe in 
 larger animals. 
 
 None of ns appreciate the power or the 
 rapid action and movement of germs. As 
 an illustration, a scourge of abortions, or, 
 as we breeders term them, ^ * slips, ' ' visited 
 the various stock farms of our district three 
 years ago. These slips seemed to be abso- 
 lutely painless and to have no injurious 
 after-effects. I have seen a mare, while 
 peacefully grazing, apparently, uncon- 
 sciously slip her colt ; and 26 others in the 
 same paddock did likewise. 
 
 Science was called to our aid, and we dis- 
 covered, at last, the ^ * slip-bug, ' ^ bacillus 
 abortive equinno, that produced these con- 
 tagious abortions. It was isolated and 
 grown in gelatine and the State of Ken- 
 tucky today is spending a fortune to dis- 
 cover a germ that will kill the *^ slip-bug'^ 
 germ. 
 
 There, on my desk right from the labora- 
 
SEEMING INTELLIGENCE OF GERMS 95 
 
 tory of the Kentucky State University, is a 
 small bottle of these cultures, peacefully 
 growing and multiplying. No one to look 
 at them would dream of their power or of 
 their seeming intelligence. 
 
 A small quantity of this culture injected 
 into a mare, or, in fact, just placed on the 
 eyelid, produces a certain and painless 
 abortion in a few days. We have tried it 
 on various domestic animals with the same 
 absolutely certain result, the only differ- 
 ence being the length of time it takes to 
 accomplish its purpose. 
 
 Now, just follow me. The instant that 
 culture touches the blood of the system, it 
 begins to reproduce and to breed by the 
 millions — and away they rush, as with the 
 speed of lightning, to just one spot. They 
 know that spot by hereditary instinct. It 
 is the membrane that holds the fetus ; and, 
 when they have eaten it up and detached It 
 from its surroundings, out comes the fetus, 
 germs and all, no blood, no pain, no after- 
 effects, nature has attended to all — how 
 marvelous ! 
 
 It is unfortunate that a combination of 
 
96 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 causes, like education, apprenticeship and 
 leadership, renders it necessary for the 
 families to be small among the better class- 
 es of society. There is no hope for a 
 change. As a compensation, the improvi- 
 dent must be taught to better their condi- 
 tion by having only healthy early maturing 
 children, who can be properly reared and 
 educated so as to assist in the support of 
 the family. 
 
 CHILD LABOE. 
 
 A well known magazine writer was dis- 
 cussing with me, recently, the conditions of 
 child-labor in the families of the South, 
 which he had been sent to investigate. To 
 this, he is much opposed. He described, in 
 most graphic terms, the anemic, undersized, 
 sallow-complexioned and narrow, flat- 
 chested and stoop-shouldered children, add- 
 ing that it was a crime for them to work. I 
 insisted that the children must work or go 
 hungry and naked, as their parents cannot 
 support them, as they, also, are physical 
 weaklings as were their ancestors. He 
 replied that the United States Government 
 
CHILD LABOR 97 
 
 should feed them and look after them and 
 that was the only way out of it. 
 
 I am opposed to child-labor; I am op- 
 posed to the slum conditions in which chil- 
 dren of laboring classes often are raised 
 in our cities, towns, mining camps, and in 
 cabins and tenement houses throughout our 
 rural territory. What is the reason for 
 slum conditions in cities, town and coun- 
 try? The cause is due to the inherent nature 
 of the parents. They are content with mean 
 surroundings ; they are willing to have their 
 children grow up in the filth and noise of 
 the city. They little care, even if they are 
 hungry and naked. They are indifferent 
 to factory exactions, so long as the child can 
 earn money for beer or whiskey. 
 
 There were assembled in a poorhouse of 
 New York State, some years ago, the in- 
 mates, for inspection by a party of field 
 workers led by a great scientist. Inmates 
 were examined whose ancestors for four 
 generations had been cared for in this same 
 institution. 
 
98 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 ^^Say something to my students," re- 
 quested the learned professor to the super- 
 intendent of the poorfarm. 
 
 He replied, ^ ^ I have but one thing to say 
 to them and to society, *quit breeding 
 them.' " 
 
 Many of us have found a nest of part- 
 ridge eggs and put them under a hen and 
 hatched them out. In a day or two, the call 
 of the wild is so strong in their hereditary 
 instinct, that off they go, and that is the 
 last you see of them. Just so, poor-house 
 bred children come back to poor-houses; 
 it's inbred in them. 
 
 A young lad}^, now 20 years old, when she 
 goes to sleep, turns over on her back and 
 hangs her head over the side of the bed. 
 Her mother, whom she has never seen, did 
 the same. Is this not proof that traits are 
 hereditary? 
 
 HOW THE CITY OF CHURCHES 
 
 LOOKS AFTER ITS CHILDREN 
 
 AND THEIR AMUSEMENTS. 
 
 The Queens Borough Park Department 
 ^of Brooklyn, in the past six years, has spent 
 
BROOKLYN'S INTEREST IN CHILDREN 99 
 
 $37,984.00 for its Park Commissioners to 
 ride around and see that the children in 
 the parks of the congested districts were 
 properly amused and cared for ; but, in that 
 time, they spent only $6,638.00 on amuse- 
 ment for these children. 
 
 This year, under the Municipal Central 
 Garage plan, the budget assigned $5,386 to 
 auto rides for these very busy guardians of 
 our children to see that these children are 
 properly amused ; and $939. for the amuse- 
 ment of the children. 
 
 In 1914, one commissioner got a car from 
 the city that cost $6,852.00. And, when an 
 autoist injures one of these little ones, who 
 is playing in the street, the Judicial Depart- 
 ment of that great city, and that band of 
 ambulance-chasing attorneys who infest 
 our City Courts, cry out against the care- 
 less rich auto owners who pay the taxes 
 that give $6 to a few commissioners to ride 
 around to every $1 given for the amusement 
 of these children with the result that the 
 children play in the streets. Let the think- 
 ing voters decide, at the next election, if it 
 
100 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 would not be better to let these Park Guar- 
 dians walk and these children do the riding. 
 Straws tell which way the wind blows; 
 and the above will give the public an idea 
 of the thought given to children in the City 
 of Churches by their city guardians. 
 
 SOME RACES ARE BACKWARD. 
 
 The humblest animal and the most un- 
 civilized human instinctively know how bet- 
 ter to care for themselves, to secure food, 
 or to avoid injury, than do the more highly 
 bred animal and man. But, when you 
 start to train them, you will find that the 
 better and higher bred have the greatest 
 amount of intelligence. They yield to train- 
 ing as the others do not. 
 
 I breed wild turkeys because they are 
 hardier than tame turkeys, and their de- 
 scendants, even when crossed with tame 
 turkeys, have hereditary instincts that 
 make them take better care of themselves 
 than the tame turkey, so that, in a flock 
 of forty young turkeys that are half-wild, 
 you are pretty sure to raise thirty-five of 
 them. If they are tame and there is rainy 
 
YOUNG NEGRO CHILDREN'S PRECOCITY 101 
 
 weather, you probably would not raise 
 twenty of them. 
 
 The negro child appears very precocious 
 during early life. I believe the natural in- 
 stincts of the negro babe are more acute 
 than those of the white child. His musical 
 talent is pronounced in early childhood, but, 
 when he reaches a certain stage, we find an 
 inpenetrable wall, beyond which there can 
 be no future accomplishment. The record 
 in the first and second grades of school at 
 Lexington, Kentucky, for negroes, shows 
 that the grades are made with little diffi- 
 culty. The third and fourth grades tell an- 
 other story. Eeports show a large per cent, 
 who cannot make, in one year, the third 
 grade, or any higher grades. The mind of 
 the negro gets its maturity at the end of the 
 second or third or fourth grade, as the case 
 may be. No system of teaching can correct 
 it. It is due to the inherent fiber of the 
 brain that only can be changed by a process 
 of evolution which may take some thou- 
 sands of years to accomplish. 
 
 There is in Africa, today, a race of black 
 Jews, claiming to be descendants of King 
 
102 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. These 
 black Jews have followed the ancient 
 usages and customs of the Jewish race from 
 the date of the Christian era ; they wander 
 about only intermarrying among them- 
 selves. 
 
 I met one of these jet black specimens. 
 He had a poise, a refinement and an intel- 
 lectual development at least five hundred 
 years ahead of the negroes we have here. 
 His facial features showed he was Jewish. 
 Breeding did this. 
 
 I knew Booker T. Washington well, and 
 felt sure that he must have white blood 
 from ancestors of ability. I went right 
 down into the country where he was born 
 and soon found that his real father was a 
 white man of old Virginia ancestry. When 
 Mr. Washington next came to New York, I 
 invited him to my home. I discussed 
 with him how the negro race should be ele- 
 vated and told him who his real father was. 
 He did not deny it and stated that a lady 
 relative of this gentleman had been very 
 kind to him in early life, and he supposed 
 
 that was the cause. 
 
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SUB-NORMAL CHILDREN 103 
 
 SUB-NORMAL CHILDREN IN NEW 
 YORK PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
 
 To ascertain the trend of the American 
 race, which is either on the upward or down- 
 ward course, I have analyzed the statistics 
 of the city schools of New York City, dated 
 July 31, 1915. The statistics available 
 show that New York City has as good con- 
 ditions as the other cities of the United 
 States, better in fact, than some cities like 
 Philadelpliia, Cincinnati, Boston, Newark, 
 New Orleans or Cleveland. I believe we 
 can count on conditions in New York being 
 as good, if not better, than the average con- 
 dition prevailing in the United States, as 
 a nation. One exception, of course, must be 
 made to this statement — in any comparison 
 of subnormals, the negro of the South must 
 be excepted, as the whole race is more or 
 less backward. 
 
 In the report ending June 30, 1915, I 
 studied the figures, carefully compiled by 
 the Superintendent of the Schools of New 
 York, to ascertain the per cent, of those 
 who fall below normal in their school work. 
 There is in New York City, as well as in 
 
104 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 all average commnnities, a large niimber of 
 defective cMldren with troubles of the eye, 
 ear, or defective throat, body or brain. 
 These are not to be considered in the fig- 
 ures to be given. These defectives that 
 come under the School Superintendent's ob- 
 servation will run close to two per cent, and, 
 when the inmates of the asylums, jails, 
 homes, retreats and penitentiaries are add- 
 ed to the gross congenital defective chil- 
 dren, we have about six per cent, of all our 
 children who are so far below normal that 
 they become a burden to the public or so- 
 ciety. 
 
 Superintendent Maxwell states that in 
 New York City the average promotions for 
 the years of 1914 and 1915 was 88.8%. 
 
 There were, in the grades from lA and 
 B, to 8A and B, inclusive, 640,534 children, 
 (not counting defectives and irregulars), 
 and of the number 582,909 were promoted 
 June 30, 1915. As above stated, this is 
 88.8% as an average for each of all the 
 grades. It is not so alarming to find that 
 11.2% of the children of each grade are sub- 
 normal or unable to make the next grade 
 
N. Y. CITY SCHOOL REPORT 105 
 
 without an extra year spent. But 11.1 
 of subnormality does not tell the whole 
 story by any means. The 11.2% is the 
 average percentage of deficiency for each 
 grade. If 11.2% fail in the first grade and 
 11.2 7o fail out of the second grade, the next 
 year, and in the same manner to the end of 
 the eighth grade, it gives us the full amount 
 of subnormality. The table exhibiting this 
 is instructive. Should we start with a given 
 number of 100 children, for illustration, the 
 result would be, as follows : and would show 
 the percentage of subnormals in each grade, 
 each year. 
 
 *Grades 
 
 
 
 Percentage 
 
 A&B 
 
 Promoted 
 
 % 
 
 J^'ailed 
 
 1st 
 
 88.8 % 
 
 11.2 
 
 11.2 
 
 2nd 
 
 78.85% 
 
 9.94 
 
 21.15 
 
 3rd 
 
 70.02% 
 
 8.83 
 
 29.98 
 
 4th 
 
 62.18% 
 
 7.84 
 
 37.82 
 
 5th 
 
 55.22% 
 
 6.96 
 
 44.78 
 
 6 th 
 
 49.03% 
 
 6.18 
 
 50.97 
 
 7th 
 
 43.54% 
 
 5.49 
 
 56.46 
 
 8th 
 
 38.70% 
 
 4.83 
 
 61.30 
 
 *Pages 272, 273, 274, ' ' 17th Annual Re- 
 port, 1915.'' 
 
106 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 Out of each hundred, if we take Super- 
 intendent MaxwelPs statements, there 
 would be only 38.70 left on the average at 
 the end of the eighth grade, or, according to 
 the record of the New York Schools, 61.30% 
 are subnormal when the eight years are in- 
 cluded — that is, at the end of eight years, 
 or, when the average child is, say, 14 years 
 old. I am aware that, in my supposition to 
 show the percentage that would fail each 
 year, it is not quite fair. Some who fail in 
 a low grade will be sure to fail in a higher 
 one, and so be counted twice in my scheme. 
 The actual figures are not easy to secure. 
 
 During the school year, ending June 30, 
 1915, there was a total promotion from 
 the 8th grade to the 9th of 45,730. Of 
 these, 22,052 were promoted at the end of 
 the first term and 23,678 at the end of the 
 year, June 30, 1915. That is to say, 45,730 
 children completed in 1915 the eight grades 
 of the grammar school. 
 
 Contrast this number with the enroll- 
 ment of the first grade for the same year. 
 In the A. Division of the first grade, dur- 
 ing the year, were a total of 117,516, or 
 
BELOW THE STANDARD 107 
 
 71,786 more entered the first grade than 
 those who completed the eighth grade. 
 
 The most optimistic view one can take 
 is to say that from 50% to 60% of the chil- 
 dren of the City of New York are below 
 average normality; and, as subnormals, 
 below the standard set by the common 
 schools of New York for children of that 
 age. To this must be added the defectives 
 and irregulars. 
 
 The actual figures for lA grade are 71,- 
 322 enrolled; advanced to IB on January 
 31, 1915, 54,589; total dropped in five 
 months, 25,128. There were enrolled in 
 lA, for the second term, Feb. 9, 1915, 46,- 
 194, while, in the promotion on June 30, 
 to IB were 36,099. The first term, the fail- 
 ures in the lA grade were 22.7%. The sec- 
 ond term, the failures in the lA division 
 were 22.9%. 
 
 To start with, there were 22.7% to 22.9% 
 of subnormals in the 1st A grade. As above 
 shown, the failures continue each year, 
 which, on the average, through 8 years, 
 amount to 11.2%. The reason for this is 
 that in different families the mental growth 
 
108 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 is reached at different ages. Some cease 
 to grow mentally at the end of the 3rd and 
 4th grade. Others go on to the 6th and 
 7th grade. When their mental growth 
 ceases, it is useless to continue them in 
 school and it is a burden to the taxpayers. 
 Besides, none of those who pay 90% of our 
 New York City's Public School expendi- 
 tures which, for the year ending July 15, 
 1915, amounted to $44,970,857.28, send 
 their children to our Public Schools. See 
 p. 385, of *^ Board of Education Eeport, 
 for year ending July 31, 1915.'' 
 
 I can breed a horse that will, trot as 
 fast as a two-year-old as he ever will, but 
 he is of no account. I want a horse to go 
 on developing. So I explain the 50% fail- 
 ures in the eight grades of the grammar 
 schools on this basis. It is largely due to 
 the fact that the brain power of the sub- 
 normals carries them up to a certain grade, 
 and then it ceases because it is full grown. 
 It does not pay the State to try and edu- 
 cate these 50% of subnormals beyond that 
 age, or beyond the grade at which their 
 brain power has reached its limit. 
 
QUIT BREEDING DEFECTIVES 109 
 
 There are 60,000 feeble-minded persons 
 in our public institutions, and over 20,000 
 outside. 
 
 When, in Eussia, I tested their trotting 
 horses, I found the breed to be peculiar; 
 they were well calculated for the uses 
 of the country, in that all of them could 
 trot a mile in 2 :50, and pull heavy weights ; 
 few could do better. Few 2 :50 horses could 
 be trained, as a rule, to go faster. That 
 was the limit of their speed. They suit the 
 .conditions in Eussia. Just so, to try to 
 educate these 50% of subnormal pupils 
 beyond their limit, would make them un- 
 happy and unfitted for the positions their 
 breeding had preordained they should fill. 
 
 Permit me to say to the parents and 
 teachers of America, when the brain power 
 of the child is limited, its education stops 
 at that point. The remedy is not more 
 schools for defectives, but to quit breeding 
 that kind of children, as they do not repay 
 the family and State for the expense of 
 their keep or education, and it is not just or 
 fair to the real taxpayers when, if proper 
 laws were passed, two-thirds of this ex- 
 
110 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 pense could be obviated. Why can not we 
 have our Public Schools taken out of the 
 hands of politicians, and have them run 
 on a business basis! Today, if a politician, 
 or one of his henchmen, has a son or 
 daughter who cannot earn a living and he 
 or she has a fair education, that indivdual 
 somehow gets into the public school either 
 as a professor or as a teacher. 
 
 Another classification gives some light. 
 On September 18, 1914, the schools of New 
 York City had enrolled in the eight grades 
 684,000 students. 22% of them were six 
 months or more in advance of their age 
 in the classification, or 149,000 (See p. 308 
 of Eeport) were above normal. The normal 
 children numbered 293,500, or 43%. The 
 grades and age correspond for this class. 
 Those behind their grade for six months 
 or more, numbered 241,500, or 35% of the 
 whole. The defectives and special classes 
 of students are not included in the num- 
 bers given. 
 
 It is now proposed to pass a general com- 
 pulsory school law to compel children, 
 whether fit or not, to go to public school 
 
PREMIUMS ON SUB-NORMALS 111 
 
 until they are 14 years old, so as to get 
 around the Child Labor Law ; and to fasten 
 a useless tax burden on property owners 
 that will amount to $200,000,000 a year or 
 more ; as it were, to put a premium on sub- 
 normals. 
 
 The great per cent, of the subnormals is 
 alarming. Heredity is the cause and the 
 sole cause. I present this analysis to 
 arouse an enlightened public sentiment. 
 We first must know the facts and study 
 the conditions, then we are prepared to 
 act. 
 
 This report of Superintendent Maxwell 
 further sets forth on page 274, that the 
 public school standard of scholarship in 
 the City of Seattle, Wash., 93.6, shows the 
 highest average of intelligence of any pub- 
 lic school system of any city in the United 
 States. 
 
112 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 PUBLIC SCHOOL CHILDREN OF 
 SEATTLE SHOW GEEAT INTEL- 
 LIGENCE AND SEATTLE ^S 
 DEATH-RATE IS THE 
 LOWEST. 
 
 Now, let us examine the history of the 
 Health Ordinances of the City of Seattle. 
 We find that weekly examinations and is- 
 suing of certificates to prostitutes existed 
 with great strictness in that city for a 
 series of years, until recently, with the re- 
 sult that it drove out all prostitutes from 
 Seattle and the red-light district ceased to 
 exist; that the health of its citizens 
 increased marvelously, and its death rate 
 decreased so that in 1914 it was 8.1 in 
 1,000 (See report of Board of Health and 
 Sanitation, page 4), so that Seattle leads 
 all cities in the United States of over 100,- 
 000 population in its low death rate; that 
 the Public School children of Seattle lead 
 in intelligence those of any other city in 
 the United States. (See Supt. Maxwell's 
 report, p. 274.) 
 
 The people in Seattle, discovering this, 
 recently passed an ordinance of the strict- 
 
SEATTLE PUBLIC SCHOOL CHILDREN 113 
 
 est kind of prohibition, and all are now 
 watching and waiting to see what effect 
 it will have on the health and death rate 
 and on the increase of intelligence of its 
 Public School children. 
 
 Of the small cities in the United States, 
 in Norwood, Ohio, population about 18,000, 
 where there is a very strict examination of 
 prostitutes with certificates, and local 
 option is in force, the death rate is 8 in 
 1,000, which is the lowest of any small or 
 large city in the United States. 
 
 Compare these two cities, Seattle and 
 Norwood, with the following cities, where 
 there are no examinations or certificates 
 to prostitutes, and where liquor is freely 
 sold. See U. S. Government Eeport of 
 1912, page 13. 
 
 Baltimore ----- 18.2 
 
 Boston ----- 16.4 
 
 New York - - - - - 14.66 
 
 St. Louis - - - - 14.9 
 
 Chicago - - - - - 14.8 
 
114 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 INFANT DEATH BATE IN SEATTLE 
 1.44 IN A THOUSAND; IN MAN- 
 HATTAN 43.37 IN A THOUSAND. 
 
 Now, let us go back to Seattle, Washing- 
 ton. The Eeport of the Department of 
 Health and Sanitation of the City of Seat- 
 tle for 1912 to 1914, page 10, gives the 
 death rate of children in Seattle nnder 5 
 years as 1.44 per 1,000 children. Contrast 
 this with the Eeport of the Department of 
 Health of New York City for 1913, page 
 144, giving the death rate of children under 
 5 years as 36.25 per 1,000; and, on the Is- 
 land of Manhattan, it is 43.37 per 1,000 for 
 children under 5 years of age. 
 
 I could go on and on, giving other illus- 
 trations; but does any intelligent person 
 want any better or more complete proof 
 of the beneficial results to a community of 
 the weekly medical examinations and li- 
 censing of prostitutes? Can you not see 
 how it has decreased the death rate; how 
 it has protected the unborn and decreased 
 the mortality of children under 5 years of 
 age? How it has put the children in the 
 Public Schools of the City of Seattle, in 
 
NO PROSTITUTION IN SEATTILE 115 
 
 intelligence, at the head of all cities in 
 this country. Before me lays a letter from 
 the Health Board of Seattle, which states 
 that the enforcement of this Health Exam- 
 ination Ordinance drove every prostitute 
 out of Seattle, and such a person does not 
 exist there today. Now when Seattle keeps 
 up its two ordinances for 20 years you will 
 see even a much better report. 
 
 MAKING AMEEICAN CITIZENS. 
 
 Some years ago, early one morning, I was 
 going down Center Street, New York City ; 
 there I passed a line of the most curious 
 specimens of humanity I ever saw collected. 
 The line was being formed just south of 
 the Tombs ; it extended down Center Street 
 and around Chambers Street, to the west, 
 and up the stairs of our City Court House ; 
 and thence to the right into Supreme Court, 
 Part No. 2 of the Special Term. I left 
 my car and talked with the men who were 
 starting and managing the line. They told 
 me they were District Captains. They had 
 a series of interpreters with them, who 
 were getting this medley mass of humanity 
 
116 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 into line. They were blind, halt, lame and 
 deformed; many of them with unusually 
 large heads; some had small heads; many 
 had long beards; many had running sores 
 at the ear and at the neck; some had 
 goitres; some had sore eyes; many had 
 short legs and long bodies ; and there were 
 men of all shades of color, etc., etc. Every- 
 one, as far as I could make out, was a for- 
 eigner. They were a mass of physical 
 monstrosities. God knows from whence 
 they could have been collected. 
 
 Up with this line, I went into Part No. 
 2 of Supreme Court of Special Term. I 
 forced my way in and I saw this great 
 crowd marching in and around, two and 
 two, and marching out, never stopping a 
 minute. A man stood up, and in a loud 
 voice, as rapid as a gatling gun, read a long 
 list of names, all foreign. Two Eepublicans 
 and two Democrats who, I was told, were 
 political leaders, each certified that they had 
 known these men for a long period of time. 
 The line never stopped; it was moving all 
 the time. 
 
 My heart sank within me at the sight, ai9 
 
LEGALLY MADE AMERICAN CITIZENS 117 
 
 I realized that these ^'What-is-Its'^— had 
 become American citizens, their votes as 
 good as yours and mine. 
 
 Your ancestors and mine suffered and 
 died from exposure and starvation, or were 
 killed by the Indians in the Plymouth Rock 
 Colony, that you and I might inherit this 
 beautiful land, which, today, is in the hands 
 of foreigners and '^pothouse" politicians 
 because of this foreign vote; in the hands 
 of men who have no soul, no patriotism, 
 whose sole interest is to find out how they 
 can make money out of the Government 
 by politics or by other methods. 
 
 CONSERVATION OF BRAINS MAN'S 
 GREATEST DUTY. 
 
 It now becomes necessary to call atten- 
 tion to the crime of crimes of this age. 
 
 The greatest and most precious of the 
 world's treasures is the brain power of 
 its men and women. No man of talent 
 springs from an ancestry which is without 
 ability. Slowly and painfully have family 
 strains evolved by means of happy matings, 
 until men of worth are being produced. 
 
118 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 The monumental folly of man is to do any- 
 thing which will stop the evolution and turn 
 the stream backward. There is a rather 
 innocent way in which this is being done. 
 Men of talent are marrying women of 
 beauty, wealth, or social position, who lack 
 the one necessary prerequisite for mar- 
 riage. I mean the lack of ability; or, the 
 reverse is all too often true. A woman of 
 brilliancy marries a mediocre man. None 
 of my stallions are ever mated with cold- 
 blooded mares, nor are my mares bred to a 
 ''draft stallion." Speed and endurance 
 do not come that way. To get speed and 
 stamina, I must bring them from both sides 
 of the ancestry of my foal. 
 
 For men and women of brain power to 
 marry into families lacking this power 
 would be as foolish as for me to mate 
 ''Peter the Great" with a draft mare. I 
 would thus ruin that much of the great 
 stallion's blood. So does a man or woman 
 dilute brain power when it is not matched 
 by a strain of equal worth. So many ex- 
 traneous considerations enter into mar- 
 riage selections, such as beauty, social posi- 
 
A LADY'S SELECTION 119 
 
 tion, wealth, etc., that the real object of 
 marriage, the mating of appropriate 
 equals, is forgotten. 
 
 A scrub-horse and a scrub-mare some- 
 times produce exceptionally fine appearing 
 colts, but I invariably find they have 
 ** thrown back" to some well-bred ancestor. 
 No sane breeder would breed from such 
 specimens, for he would know of a cer- 
 tainty he would get worthless colts. 
 
 The day is not far distant when mar- 
 riageable girls will realize this, and search 
 the records of the Eugenic Bureau, and also 
 insist on a Certificate of Health. 
 
 A lady of rare breeding, beauty and re- 
 finement of mind, born of illustrious par- 
 ents, who had been reared on a breeding 
 farm, by force of circumstances, married 
 the son of parents of low unhealthy lineage, 
 but who were possessed of great wealth. 
 And, when forced to bear a child or be 
 turned adrift in the world, she went outside 
 and deliberately selected a stranger to be 
 the father of her child, a man of good mind 
 and healthy body, whom she discovered to 
 be of good ancestry. She gave as her ex- 
 
120 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 cuse that she could not go before her Maker 
 with the crime on her head of bringing into 
 the world an ill-bred child, with low tend- 
 encies. And who could blame her, under 
 the circumstances? 
 
 EVILS OF SOCIAL DISEASES. 
 
 It is well-known that workers in lead fac- 
 tories, where the protection from the pois- 
 onous gases is not complete, may be injured. 
 The very strange thing about the poisonous 
 condition is that a man so afflicted is liable 
 to beget children who will not be normal. 
 The poisons penetrate the reproductive 
 glands, and the effect of it on the growing 
 embryo is to arrest normal development. 
 The workers in lead factories are so few 
 and the safeguards are improving so rap- 
 idly that there is little significance attached 
 to it, except to show that a poison can 
 reach the glands and be carried over in the 
 germ cells. 
 
 In somewhat the same way, the social dis- 
 ease acts as a cacogenic agency in race 
 poisons. The presence of the disease ren- 
 ders reproduction difficult and, in most 
 
EVILS OF SOCIAL DISEASES 121 
 
 cases', when transmitted to a wife by her 
 husband, it renders her sterile. Most ab- 
 dominal operations performed on married 
 women are due to the disease having been 
 contracted from afflicted husbands. The 
 operation, as a rule, leaves the patient 
 sterile. How few women know it or what 
 caused it! One of New York's leading spe- 
 cialists in the social diseases has just stated 
 to me that 60% of the men you meet on our 
 streets are affected directly or by inheri- 
 tance by the social diseases and that 80% 
 of the abdominal operations on women are 
 caused by contact with their affected hus- 
 bands. 
 
 Before me is a statement, for the year 
 ending 1915, of Dr. Nevitt, who was for 
 nine years head of the Kentucky State In- 
 stitutions for the Insane. It appears that 
 there were in Kentucky in public institu- 
 tions for defectives, the following: 
 
 4500 Insane and deaf in public institu- 
 tions. 
 
 400 Insane and deaf in registered insti- 
 tutions. 
 
 600 Blind in public institutions. 
 
122 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 Of the insane and deaf, 20% have be- 
 come so from syphilis ; and 50% from alco- 
 holism and heredity. 
 
 Of the blind, 90% have become so from 
 syphilis and gonorrhea and 10% from he- 
 redity. 
 
 This does not cover the many that are 
 not in public institutions or those in private 
 institutions that are not registered. 
 
 This number, Dr. Nevitt, who is now the 
 head of the Elmwood Sanitarium, informs 
 me would be very much larger, but the 
 dreaded ** Pellagra'^ in 1914 affected, es- 
 pecially, defectives and carried off over 
 80% of those affected. It is an hereditary 
 germ disease attacking the brain, bowels 
 and skin and is certainly contagious. 
 
 An interesting case is on record at one of 
 our asylums. Regarding a young married 
 man, insane, the diagnosis of his insanity 
 was given as being due to the poison of 
 syphilis, and yet he did not have the disease. 
 In fact, his life had been above reproach. 
 His father soon followed him to the asylum 
 and the diagnosis of his mental trouble was 
 the same as that of his son. The father, 
 
MORAL EXAMPLE OF WOODROW WILSON 123 
 
 however, was free from the disease, and 
 never had been a victim of it. A field in- 
 vestigation revealed the fact that the 
 father's father had died of syphilis. A son 
 born to the young man, after he had been 
 taken to the asylum, showed physical de- 
 formities due to the toxin of syphilis. Here 
 is a case of sending on a poison which 
 cursed three generations of innocent people. 
 Where normals pay 100% Life Insurance 
 premiums, syphilitics pay 188%. 
 
 When The Honorable Josephus Daniels, 
 editor and owner of the '^Raleigh News,'' 
 with a claimed circulation of 100,000, 
 awoke after the first election of Wilson, 
 he found that the Secretaryship of the 
 Navy had been thrust upon him — some say 
 because of his knowledge of inland navi- 
 gation — and others because of the deep 
 religious and moral influence of the '^Ral- 
 eigh News'' in getting votes for Woodrow 
 Wilson. 
 
 He discovered that there was very little 
 of the social diseases in the Navy, because 
 a former Assistant-Secretary of the Navy 
 had seen to it that the Medical Board 
 
124 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 had given the rank and file of the Navy 
 instructions in hygiene ; and, whenever the 
 sailors went ashore, a little cheap package 
 of *^ Safety-aid" was handed to each. It 
 so shocked the Honorable Daniels and 
 President Wilson that they decided to stop 
 all lectures on hygiene and the giving of 
 *^ Safety-aid,'' with the result that today a 
 large percentage of the rank and file of 
 our Navy men are diseased and, as they 
 sail from port to port, they are spreading 
 the seeds of suffering and decay. Could 
 anything be more shortsighted? One has 
 to learn to handle each situation. as one 
 finds it. 
 
 With narrow-minded landsmen of such 
 caliber in charge of our Government, how 
 can we expect an improvement in our 
 Navy affairs or in its general morale? 
 And is it any wonder that the physical and 
 mental powers of our citizens are now on 
 the wane? 
 
 It is eminently proper our spotless 
 President and his Secretary of the Navy 
 should set the sailors of our nation ex- 
 amples by their own moral private lives; 
 
BRANDEIS, HOUSE AND UNTERMYER 125 
 
 but, any man experienced in naval or army 
 affairs would know that this is not the 
 proper way to cure this terrible evil. Why 
 were not Col. House or the President's 
 personal attorney, The Hon. Mr. Unter- 
 myer, or Justice Brandeis, or one of the 
 heads of the Department of Animal Indus- 
 try, called on to give expert advice if the 
 gentleman could not agree with the medical 
 head of our Government? 
 
 The United States Government should 
 now take upon itself to wipe out the social 
 diseases as it is bound to do some day — just 
 as the Kaiser did in Germany, where they 
 now claim they have the super-man — and, 
 if some day, why not today? When this will 
 have been accomplished the ills of man will 
 be greatly diminished and there will not be 
 the need of 60% of the doctors and surgeons 
 we have today. America as a nation will be 
 healthier, happier and longer lived and we 
 will be capable of greater achievements. 
 All this can be done if only the public are 
 aroused to its crying need. To a lack of 
 these hygienic laws, the great Roman Em- 
 pire owes her downfall. Go to any of our 
 
126 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 New York Hospitals and find tlie percent- 
 age of cases due directly or indirectly to 
 social diseases and you will be astonished. 
 
 HEREDITARY INSANITY FROM 
 
 DISEASE. 
 
 Society owes it to itself to segregate or 
 sterilize the unfit, so they cannot produce 
 their defective kind, who must have insti- 
 tutional care and be a burden to the state. 
 
 From an insanity expert, for many years 
 head of his state's insane asylum, to whom 
 I submitted this manuscript, I have this 
 message : 
 
 *^Many times, I have found patients 
 whose symptoms indicated syphilitic insan- 
 ity, but whose parents, apparently, were 
 healthy. In such instances I invariably 
 have found something like the following to 
 be the case : 
 
 ** *A.,' once syphilized, marries a healthy 
 energetic woman. Their son, *C.,' is ap- 
 parently healthy. 
 
 ** *B.,' perfectly healthy, marries a 
 healthy, energetic woman. Their daughter, 
 *D.,' is apparently healthy. 
 
DEMAND ANCESTRAL HISTORY 127 
 
 '* ^C and ^D.' marry and the result is 
 *K.,' my patienf 
 
 In some eases I have traced the syphil- 
 ized ancestor to even a remoter ancestor. 
 The most prominent infant doctors of to- 
 day in New York City will not treat an ail- 
 ing child until they know the ancestral his- 
 tory of both parents ; and other doctors who 
 make a specialty of infants are doing the 
 same. 
 
 It is costing too much to support the poor- 
 houses, feeble-minded homes, institutions 
 for the blind and deaf, asylums, houses of 
 correction, reform schools, jails and peni- 
 tentiaries. 
 
 I was not for two years president of two 
 of our largest cemeteries in New York City 
 without getting some insight into the life 
 in this great city. 
 
 Dr. Charles A, L. Eeed, the well-known 
 surgeon and scientist of Cincinnati, a man 
 of about fifty-five, writes that he has had 
 about 5,000 women patients who have been 
 sterilized by gonorrhoea, nearly 2,000 of 
 whom submitted to dangerous and muti- 
 lating operations to save their lives ; and he 
 
128 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 has had hundreds of men patients that have 
 been sterilized by gonorrhoea. 
 
 There are 150,000 members of the medi- 
 cal profession in the United States and 
 they have to attend to the ills of 100,000,000 
 people. Syphilis, he states, is the great 
 hereditary disease of the American race 
 and it is ever far-reaching in its degener- 
 ating influence on humanity. 
 
 A bright attractive young woman re- 
 cently died of syphilitic cancer at the age of 
 twenty-three. She had lived in a city a few 
 hundred miles from New York, and occa- 
 sionally came to New York to visit. In her 
 native city she held a moderately good so- 
 cial position. She had married at 16, and 
 soon thereafter was divorced. She had 
 been syphilized six years when she died. 
 With a pretty face and attractive form, she 
 soon had some of the finest fellows of the 
 best families in New York at her court, six 
 of whom she diseased — and one of them 
 told me there were twenty more. 
 
 What havoc she wrought in other cities, 
 God only knows; and, when called to ac- 
 count for what she had done, she simply 
 
SPREADING SOCIAL DISEASES 129 
 
 said: ^*A mAn diseased me, and I made up 
 my mind to disease every man I could. ' ' 
 
 Dr. **T.,'' whom I knew well, was an as- 
 sistant to a doctor in a small town of four 
 thousand population, within a hundred 
 miles of Chicago. He told me that their of- 
 fice attended to men only, and they special- 
 ized in social diseases ; that once an attrac- 
 tive young woman from Chicago came to 
 this town and, within six months she had 
 caused to be brought to their office, alone, 
 four hundred men, whom she had directly 
 or indirectly syphilized. What happened 
 to the wives of these men — and to their 
 children who afterwards were born? And 
 finally, when they discovered the cause they 
 went out and brought the woman to their 
 office and asked her what she meant. 
 
 *^Well,^* she said, '*I was driven out of 
 Chicago, and what else could I do? I had 
 to live.'* 
 
 As I am sending this manuscript to my 
 printer, my 'phone rings and I am called 
 to a physician's office, where stands a 
 young woman, of say 22 years, as refined 
 and attractive in manner and dress and as 
 
ISO THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 handsome and beautifnlly formed as one 
 would see in a month. Not a scratch nor 
 a blemish is on her skin, — but she is thor- 
 oughly syphilized. The doctor said to her, 
 ^^I can cure you, but you must go at once 
 to this address — stay there and submit to 
 treatment." Her reply was: ^'It is quite 
 impossible, as it would interfere with my 
 business." Her business was to lunch and 
 dine at the most exclusive restaurants in 
 New York and Boston and there secure 
 her victims, especially among the rich of 
 the college students. I said to her: *^ Just 
 think of the damage you are doing! Are 
 you not afraid of being shot?" Her reply 
 was: ^* There are plenty others doing the 
 same. ' ' 
 
 If parents or teachers in our public 
 schools have neglected to thoroughly ad- 
 vise their sons or their pupils of such 
 dangers, and if fathers are too careless or 
 too busy making money, will not the moth- 
 ers of our boys write to their Congressmen 
 and their State Eepresentatives to insist 
 on the passage of National and State Laws 
 that will compel the weekly examination 
 
MOTHERS SAVE YOUNG DAUGHTERS 131 
 
 of prostitutes, and the issuing of health 
 certificates, under the severest penalties, 
 and thus remove the danger to themselves 
 and to the unborn? This is the only way 
 to prevent the decay of our Nation; and 
 anyone with an atom of common sense 
 must know it. Will not the mothers of 
 daughters, who are to marry our young 
 men, do the same and save their daughters 
 from a fate that as surely as death awaits 
 them? 
 
 Such cases should be locked up and 
 treated by the state until they are well and 
 harmless. It should be a most serious crim- 
 inal offense for such a leper to have con- 
 nection with an innocent person. 
 
 Prompt and effective measures are now 
 being taken by communities and the states 
 to combat epidemics of Infantile Paralysis, 
 Measles, Scarlet Fever, Typhoid, Cholera, 
 Small Pox and other diseases ; but Syphilis, 
 the ever-present, ever-spreading scourge 
 of our civilization, which is doing a dam- 
 age a thousand-fold more than these epi- 
 demic diseases, is spoken of only in whis- 
 pers. And why? It is because it is so 
 
132 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 widely spread among onr best families, and 
 is called a social evil, as well as a disease. 
 Our smug-faced neighbors, with cant and 
 hypocrisy, deny the presence of Syphilis 
 in any of its many varied forms, for the 
 reason that the disease may affect the indi- 
 vidual victim, even to the death, but the 
 taint once infused into the family blood, 
 takes in every root and branch. If a single 
 member, diseased and syphilized, drops 
 from the family tree it is one thing, but if 
 the root and the trunk bear even the 
 suspicion of decay it is quite another. 
 Hence come dissemination and concealment. 
 Syphilis can be cured, if prompt scientific 
 skill is employed. Here patience becomes a 
 virtue. 
 
 NEEDED LAWS. 
 
 Checks to bar syphilitics and measures 
 to control the spread of Syphilis have gen- 
 erally been advocated by men. They speak 
 of women, not men, as the spreaders of the 
 disease and always advocate the isolation 
 and care of women. This is neither good 
 sense nor good judgment. I say, save the 
 imborn generations and lock up syphilitics. 
 
SOME NEEDED LAWS 133 
 
 males and females alike, until cnred or until 
 they cease to be a menace to society. 
 
 If our Congressmen are patriotic and 
 want to save our nation from decay, let 
 them at once pass such laws. Congress has 
 passed Pure Food Acts and Pure Seed 
 Laws and laws forbidding the landing on 
 our shores of any person with weak eyes. 
 What are weak eyes compared with a dis- 
 eased body that putrefies everything it 
 touches, and breeds misery? Weak eyes can 
 be easily cured, but it takes generations to 
 breed out hereditary ills. 
 
 In most of the large cities, laws are being 
 passed that every man or woman who 
 handles breadstuifs must be weekly exam- 
 ined to see that he or she has no venereal 
 disease. To prevent the spread of such dis- 
 eases, how much more important it is to 
 pass a law that every doctor must make a 
 public record of every case of venereal dis- 
 ease, so each person so affected may have 
 an official examination and certificate, if 
 cured, before he or she is allowed to touch 
 or come in contact with other people. 
 
134 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 THINGS TO AVOID. 
 
 Let young ladies, who are looking 
 around to get married, use their brains, the 
 one thing the Almighty has given humans 
 that other animals do not possess. Let 
 them be educated to allow their hearts to 
 be guided by their heads in the choice of 
 a life-partner and if they come across a 
 young man with rheumatism or locomotor 
 ataxia, or bald spots on his head, or white 
 patches in his hair or scarlet spots on his 
 body or who has no business, and says his 
 father has advised him to keep in the open 
 air, it is best to reject him, for you can 
 put it down pretty safely that in nine cases 
 out of ten there is a cause. Notice how 
 many well educated young men from the 
 middle classes have become chauffeurs. 
 
 When I see a pure and healthy well bred 
 girl marry a syphilitic man ; when I watch 
 her agony as she consigns to the grave her 
 diseased first-born; and when I see in the 
 face of her only child, the lines of the 
 father's disease, what shall I do? Shall I 
 tell her that, one day when studying to find 
 out why our oldest and best families had 
 
MILLIONS FOR HOGS 13D 
 
 died out, I secured a book of the medical 
 histories and bill books of the late Dr. **T." 
 and there found the history of this child ^s 
 father some thirty years before; and that 
 is why he never went into business ? Shall I 
 tell her to take her daughter to the best spe- 
 cialists in syphilis, so that with two years 
 careful treatment she will be well and 
 cured; or, shall I let her remain in igno^^ 
 ance and allow her remaining child to die? 
 
 THE IMPORTANCE OF THE HEALTH 
 OF THE AMERICAN HOG. 
 
 We have machinery instituted by laws To 
 touch every activity of our industries. Did 
 I live in Wichita, Kansas, and telegraph the 
 United States Department of Health that 
 my children were threatened by an epidemic 
 of scarlet fever that was killing my neigh- 
 bors' children by the hundred, they would 
 refer me to my local or State health officers. 
 But, should I telegraph the Department 
 that my hogs were threatened by a new epi- 
 demic of cholera or foot and mouth disease, 
 they would at once telegraph back that they 
 were sending a carload of experts to stamp 
 
136 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 out the danger. Our Government spends 
 annually at least $3,500,000 to protect the 
 hog from disease. Millions to save the hog ; 
 nothing to save the child ! 
 
 Bad as the above illustration may seem, 
 it is not the worst result from the ** black 
 plague. '^ There is thrown into the system 
 of a syphilitic man a toxin or poison from 
 the small protozoa, which causes the dis- 
 ease. This little animal organism feeds on, 
 breeds, and secretes into the circulatory 
 blood system of its victim. The toxic effect 
 is caused from such excreta, and it pene- 
 trates every organ bathed and nourished by 
 the blood. The germ plasm receives the 
 poison from the blood; the germ cells re- 
 ceive the poison from the plasm. The 
 poison does not always destroy the repro- 
 ductive cells. In some cases, the effect upon 
 them is to lessen their vitality so that the 
 development of the embryo in the mother's 
 womb is abnormal. The abnormality may 
 be some physical deformity or weakness, or 
 some erratic mental or nervous trouble. 
 There is no way by which one can predict 
 what injury, if any, will come to the child 
 from a syphilitic father or mother. 
 
ALCOHOL AMERICA'S CUBSE 137 
 
 ALCOHOL AMERICA'S CURSE; ITS 
 EFFECTS ON THE UNBORN. 
 
 Alcohol so injures and weakens the 
 reproductive glands that defective cells 
 are formed. The germ cells injured by 
 alcohol do not develoj) into normal beings ; 
 they are found defective and deformed in 
 animals and in humans. There are many 
 evils resulting from the excessive use of 
 alcohol. It may, and often does, produce 
 sterility. The injury may take on the form 
 of a body weakness, or the poison may 
 manifest itself in a nervous disorder, or it 
 may appear in the offspring, producing 
 various forms of defectives. Anyone, who 
 has studied eugenics, can discover if a child 
 comes from a parent or parents addicted 
 to drink, just as well as from parents that 
 have syphilis. 
 
 Alcohol stands today in America as the 
 greatest barrier to man's continued evolu- 
 tion. Like the scorpion which devours 
 the mother that gives him birth, so alcohol 
 smothers the germs from which it springs, 
 and then destroys the life and damns the 
 soul of the man it cheers. Could men look 
 
138 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 into the subtle poison of the sparkling 
 glass, they would see the Scylla and 
 Charybdis that beckons and lures them on 
 to their own destruction and weakens and 
 ruins their own lives and those of their 
 offspring and their posterity, as bad tend- 
 encies multiply as thev breed on in a 
 greater proportion than good tendencies. 
 Its poison not only can stop evolution, 
 but it can also destroy advancement al- 
 ready made. It is possible for young men 
 to keep their bodies so soaked in alcohol 
 that their children and grand-children will 
 be distinctly inferior to themselves in 
 brain force. Physical weakness is an- 
 other curse which children may receive 
 at the hands of alcoholic fathers. Children 
 from such parentage are generally of 
 weak constitutions, have depraved taste, 
 and die early. Many inherit the liquor 
 habit. Where normals pay 100% Life In- 
 surance premiums, those addicted to alcohol 
 pay 174%. 
 
 Our Government reports show that each 
 year we spend $3,200,000,000 for alcoholic 
 drinks and tobacco to undermine our health 
 
EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL ON PIGS 139 
 
 and our constitutions and to ruin the vital- 
 ity and potency of our men and Tv^omen ; and 
 that we give our children $452,000,000 to 
 spend on candy and soft-drinks to sour 
 their stomachs, retard their growth, and 
 make them unfit; and when free scientific 
 advice is offered that will benefit both 
 themselves and their offspring they turn a 
 deaf ear. 
 
 Within twenty years, the people of this 
 country will have had their eyes opened and 
 most stringent laws will be passed by Con- 
 gress as to health certificates and restrict- 
 ing the manufacture and sale of all alco- 
 holic beverages. The Kaiser, the Czar and 
 now the King of Italy in the present 
 European war, realize that to have effec- 
 tive armies, the drinking of alcoholic bev- 
 erages must be stopped. 
 
 Dr. C. R. Stockard, in the November, 
 1913, '^ American Naturalist," gives an 
 account of experiments of an extensive 
 nature with guinea pigs. These animals 
 were kept in an intoxicated condition by 
 forcing them to inhale the fumes of alco- 
 col. Where controlled animals, under 
 
140 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 usual conditions, would produce 100 nor- 
 mal offspring, the alcoholic ones produced 
 only about 30. The next generation, or 
 the grand-children of intoxicated pigs, pro- 
 duced the same number of defective young, 
 running as high as 70% defective. It 
 must be understood that the parents of 
 the defective grand-children had not be- 
 come addicted to intoxication. No, they 
 inherited from alcohoUc parents the poison, 
 which rendered 70% of their young worth- 
 less. I recently visited the experimental 
 station and saw for myself these effects; 
 also the cyclops guinea pig and a speci- 
 men of human cyclop from alcoholic ances- 
 tors. The Prohibition Party once despised 
 will some day prevail — and that day is 
 not far off — just as eugenics is bound soon 
 to do, when the public is aroused to the 
 danger that confronts them and their chil- 
 dren by not following the Laws of Nature 
 and Hygiene. In 1860 the average per 
 capita consumption of alcohol was 6.4 gal- 
 lons. Today it is 19.8 gallons per capita. 
 We are fast becoming a nation of drunks, 
 The stupendous amount of liquor con- 
 
DISTILLERY MASH AND CATTLE 141 
 
 sumed in America is the greatest possible 
 menace to the generations to come. Every 
 drink taken by young people is a menace 
 to the nation. Children conceived of par- 
 ents, who, at the moment of conception, 
 are under the etfect of liquor, often are 
 stupid or brainless and inherit the taste 
 for liquor. 
 
 If there were an organization of young 
 married people pledged to destroy half 
 their children, the world would be shocked. 
 All legal machinery available would be 
 called upon to prevent it. Yet, it would 
 be less cruel to dispose of children at birth 
 than to allow the indiscriminate use of 
 liquor by men and women who are to be- 
 come parents. The time ought to be at 
 hand when the consumer of alcohol should 
 be quarantined, as a smallpox victim is 
 segregated. Sm^allpox cannot produce im- 
 beciles, neuropathic, deformed children; 
 but alcohol can and will. 
 
 DISTILLERY MASH AND CATTLE. 
 
 Yesterday, I visited one of the largest 
 distilleries, where famous whiskey is made. 
 
142 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 I saw a sign at a side gate, — ''No Admis- 
 sion'' so I drove in and went back of the 
 distillery, and there, in a barren filthy lot, 
 with a big high fence around it, were seven 
 hundred steers, receiving their final fatten- 
 ing from the mash of the distillery before 
 being slaughtered. 
 
 The cattlemen raise the cattle and give 
 them a healthy constitution ; then send them 
 to the distillery for a few weeks ' fattening. 
 The cattlemen and the distillery divide be- 
 tween them the value of the extra amount 
 of weight which the cattle take on from the 
 distillery refuse. An attendant iells me 
 that some steers die refusing to eat the 
 mash, but when once they get the taste, they 
 are ravenous and crazy for it. 
 
 About 98% of these steers were lying 
 around dosing, in a drunken stupor. 2% 
 were staggering around in filth. Anyone 
 who saw them in their pitiable condition 
 would be loath to eat their flesh. 
 
 I learn that 50% of all the Kentucky 
 high-grade cattle that come to our city and 
 export markets, go through the distillery 
 fattening process. 
 
ALCOHOL'S EFFECT ON HEREDITY 143 
 
 At certain hours during the day, big 
 wooden troughs are filled with this hot 
 mash, which contains a certain amount of 
 alcohol ; and which the cattle soon grow to 
 love. 
 
 Formerly, this refuse was run into the 
 streams, but it killed the fish. 
 
 The most valuable possession of any 
 family is its inheritance of health and 
 strength, brain, physical and moral force. 
 Alcohol can, in one generation, disrupt and 
 destroy the precious heritage of many ages. 
 It may turn back the beneficial effect of 
 generations of good heredity and give to 
 the world, in the guise of a man, a thing 
 neither man nor beast, a thing without in- 
 tellect, without moral fiber, and without 
 will. 
 
 There was a day, before whiskey and 
 tobacco became its staple products, 
 when Kentucky supplied more great men 
 for its numbers than any other state. The 
 people of Kentucky realized what was 
 causing its degeneracy and at the last local 
 option election 100 out of 120 counties went 
 dry, and as soon as every county goes dry. 
 
144 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 it will be found that Kentucky once more is 
 on the road to prominence, as of old. 
 
 If the race is to be improved by heredity, 
 and this is the only way it can be improved, 
 and by adding pure blood to pure blood, 
 each addition of value must be protected 
 against the ravages of intoxication and the 
 social diseases. This generation is the re- 
 cipient of all the good of the countless gen- 
 erations gone before. Life actually is per- 
 petuated and passes without a break from 
 one generation to another, except as the 
 blood of intermediate generations becomes 
 contaminated. No one has better ocular 
 proof of this than a horse breeder, for he 
 sees the results in three years. Our most 
 sacred duty is to preserve it unsullied and 
 hand it on. Why cannot our young men see 
 that theft, falsehood and murder are mild 
 faults compared to the crime of debasing 
 and brutalizing the bit of immortality 
 of which he is the guardian? Shall I 
 call this priceless inheritance a **bit of im- 
 mortality?' ' It is that, and so much more 
 that words fail to express its worth. To 
 produce my share of immortality, two 
 
MOTHERLY INSTINCTS 145 
 
 streams met and mingled. Stretching back- 
 ward from me in two everwidening chan- 
 nels is the precious heritage all concentrat- 
 ed in me. By this means, I am a part of the 
 thousands of generations that have gone 
 before. Their achievements, their self- 
 sacrifices, the selective agencies of society 
 and nature, which lifted them to positions 
 of influence and worth, are mine by heri- 
 tage. I am not only a product of the count- 
 less multitude which has gone before, but 
 I am the guardian of a share of immortal 
 plasm, a plasm ladened and vitalized by the 
 evolution of my race. This plasm endows 
 me with a creative power which even the 
 gods do not possess. This inestimable pow- 
 er is mine because of the hereditary strains 
 which created me. It is my duty to keep it 
 untarnished, and to pass it along to com- 
 ing generations, improved and benefited by 
 each generation. 
 
 MOTHERLY INSTINCTS. 
 
 Especially among the literary, we find 
 refined and sensitive women to whom sex- 
 ual intercourse is repugnant, but, deep 
 
146 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 down in their hearts, is a longing to be a 
 mother. 
 
 To such persons I say that over thirty 
 per cent, of all my colts at the Patchen 
 Wilkes Stock Farm are from impregnation 
 and such colts are among the best. All 
 that the sensitive woman abhors is ab- 
 solutely unnecessary, for any woman can 
 fertilize herself. Life germs will live four 
 hours, if kept warm ; sun light has no effect 
 as popularly supposed. I know this; and 
 have at my farm made exhaustive experi- 
 ments which a well known scientist will 
 soon tell the world in print. 
 
 Follow me for a moment: A stallion 
 serves the mare in the usual way, or the 
 stalJion is provided with a rubber ^^ breed- 
 ing bag'' that catches the life germs, or 
 these germs are stripped from the stallion 
 or taken from a mare that has been served 
 by a platinum or nickel impregnator prop- 
 erly heated. Having collected the germs, 
 they are placed in the wombs of the mares 
 to be fertilized. A drop is all that is 
 needed. Or, these life germs are put into 
 little sterilized gelatine capsules, carried 
 
ANIMAL AND HUMAN IMPREGNATION 147 
 
 for miles in heated sterilized cotton and in- 
 serted in the mouth of the womb — and 
 nature does the rest. 
 
 Years ago, when I first proved by the sud- 
 den advent of a large number of colts at 
 my farm from one stallion that I had put 
 impregnation on a commercial basis and 
 was saving the strength and potency of my 
 good stallion, I was called down from New 
 York to Lexington by the editor of a 
 stock journal, who threatened to expose me 
 to the world and ruin my business, and 
 there informed that he was backed by 
 eight Kentucky horse breeders. I left 
 New York at once with my attorney to 
 meet the charges, which, when I arrived, 
 were dropped. Today, every one of these 
 eight Kentucky horse breeders is using im- 
 pregnators. One can thus extend the use- 
 fulness of a stallion of ^* Combination I'^ 
 whose semen has been tested microscop- 
 ically and whose colts prove him to be a 
 sire of intelligence, speed, health and early 
 maturity. Today this system is being 
 practiced among humans. 
 
 The healthiest and grandest specimens of 
 
148 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 young men of all nations have been killed 
 or maimed in the present European war, 
 and only the defectives and weaklings are 
 left from whom to breed. At least, 
 Germany has her scientists right here to- 
 day, studying animal and human impreg- 
 nation. She is a nation of scientists, and 
 she knows they have to impregnate, or, 
 they, as a nation, are lost. Or polygamy 
 must be legalized as it was once after 
 the 30 years war, for when the pres- 
 ent European war is over, there will 
 be 12,000,000 more young marriageable 
 women than men. 
 
 Thus spoke the German doctor: 
 **The farmer only plants his best seed. 
 The horse-breeder only breeds his mares 
 to his best stallions. The dairyman only 
 breeds his milk cows to the best bull. 
 Then why should humans be compelled to 
 have children by dwarfs and defectives — 
 the lame and the halt? In Germany, after 
 the war, we propose to breed from only 
 the besf 
 
 There is absolutely no difference between 
 children and colts produced this way and 
 
BREEDING WORTH-WHILE OFFSPRING 149 
 
 those produced the usual way. We have 
 proved here that what is true of the horse 
 is equally true of the human. 
 
 When the women of this country become 
 educated in eugenics, they will not risk 
 their lives nor their health to marry or have 
 children by an ill-bred, diseased, or booze- 
 loving husband. They also will realize the 
 crime they will be committing to the un- 
 born. They will be warned beforehand 
 of the punishment they and their children 
 will receive, if they take such a foolish 
 step. 
 
 Then, what an incentive it will be for 
 our young men and women to endeavor to 
 insure in every way to their children well- 
 balanced ancestral pedigrees, free from 
 hereditary ills and bad inclinations, — and 
 when the young are educated, the $3,200,- 
 000,000 now yearly spent in the United 
 States on alcohol and tobacco, and the ad- 
 ditional sums yearly spent on carousing, 
 will all be spent on breeding offspring — 
 worth-while. 
 
 The day will not be far off when the 
 boy of twelve years of age will have the 
 
150 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 maturity, the mental and physical devel- 
 opment of the young man of twenty. 
 
 We have shown what a saving this early 
 development has been to the breeders of 
 chickens, hogs, horses and cattle, to the 
 dairymen and poultrymen. The same sav- 
 ing will be to the parents and to the state, 
 for, with humans, you have a mind to work 
 with and assist you, so that the development 
 will be the more grand in every respect. 
 
 Cannot the world see this and see it now ? 
 
 EELATIVE INFLUENCE OF THE 
 
 SEXES. 
 
 I like to think of sexual reproduction as it 
 might be expressed figuratively. The fe- 
 male may be said to represent Mother 
 Earth. To feed the world, the Earth re- 
 quires unlimited care. Only after exten- 
 sive preparation is it ready to receive the 
 husbandman's seed and to transform it into 
 a harvest of a hundred fold. The same 
 cultivation to prepare the field for the seed 
 is necessary to precede motherhood. Soil, 
 at its best, gives the maximum return. Pros- 
 pective motherhood should be at its best 
 
ABUSED EARTH YIELDS POOR CROPS 151 
 
 before the seed of an immortal being is in- 
 trusted to it for development. Why should 
 not women look forward to this great cre- 
 ative experience and prepare themselves 
 for it, — abstain, abstain, and live a normal 
 life? Eemember how the Spartan mother 
 gloried in the health, intellect and strength 
 of her sons! Should not man have pride 
 in himself, pride in his children, and be 
 willing for their sake to abstain, himself, 
 from excesses? ** Whatever seed ye sow, 
 so shall ye reap.'' 
 
 We declare that the social diseases, dissi- 
 pation and over-indulgence, unfit men for 
 fatherhood. I inquire why the highballs, 
 drinks of alcoholic origin, cigarettes and 
 kindred indulgences, do not, equally, unfit 
 women for the office of motherhood? The 
 abused earth yields an inferior crop, no 
 matter how good the seed, and you see it in 
 the face and form of the child. Mothers, 
 stop and think ! Will you knowingly injure 
 your own offspring? 
 
 Drinking, cigarette smoking and fast liv- 
 ing are depriving children of their natural 
 birthright. If men and women will drink, 
 
152 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 they should postpone such indulgence until 
 after the reproductive period has passed. 
 On the other hand, the syphilitic should be 
 isolated and ostracized as unfit, not only for 
 parentage, but as a menace to upright men 
 and women. No man, who has honest in- 
 tentions toward the woman he desires to 
 marry, should hesitate to instantly show his 
 intended, or her advisor, his ancestral pedi- 
 gree, and submit himself to a physical ex- 
 amination. Otherwise, he is undesirable and 
 has something to hide. 
 
 LAWS OF HEEEDITY THE SAME JN 
 MAN, PLANT OK BEAST. 
 
 The immutable law of heredity is not 
 comprehended when men are under consid- 
 eration, ^rhen I say I only can produce 
 worthy horses, as I marshal the forces of 
 heredity in the right way, I am believed. 
 Wlien the dog fancier declares that his blue- 
 ribbon dogs are entirely dne to the right 
 kind of breeding, no one doubts him. The 
 dairyman would be considered irrespons- 
 ible, did he claim that record butter cows 
 
l^HE INJUSTICE OF LAW 153 
 
 could be made by stable, feed and care, 
 regardless of their ancestry. 
 
 While this is true, so far as domestic 
 animals are concerned, intelligent men re- 
 fuse to believe that their own children are 
 subject to the same force of heredity. Let 
 me here emphasize the fact that the laws 
 of heredity apply to man with as much 
 accuracy as they do to plant or beast and 
 every scientist acknowledges such to be the 
 case. As man is infinitely more complex 
 than are animals, so the force of heredity 
 will manifest itself in more varied ways. It 
 must be kept in mind that talents and ten- 
 dencies are all due to the power of heredity. 
 An interesting fact is that once a trait gets 
 into a family strain, it may persist for gen- 
 erations. This is altogether desirable 
 should that trait be some valuable talent. 
 Not always is it valuable, when marriage 
 takes place between families having the 
 same bad trait, for it establishes it to the 
 detriment of their posterity. It doubles up 
 the tendency and makes it more difficult to 
 eradicate. Go for a few mornings to the 
 New York City Criminal Court House and 
 
154 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 examine tlie odd shaped heads and the 
 faces of the young men in the pen and the 
 most skeptical will be compelled to 
 acknowledge that criminaHty is hereditary 
 in most cases, and the questions will come 
 home to you : Should we hold these young 
 men wholly responsible for their acts! 
 Should not their parents or their ancestors 
 share some of the blame? On reflection 
 you will be compelled to admit that it would 
 have been better for themselves and the 
 world had they never been born. 
 
 MY DUTY. 
 
 My duty: How should this hereditary 
 material be conserved? Can the man be 
 held blameless who poisons it? Is there a 
 crime so base as the injury of that vital 
 substance from which spring the men and 
 women of the future? Yes, a bit of immor- 
 tality, a creative force, a power not our- 
 selves, ours not to abuse, but to conserve as 
 our most sacred trust, and to hand on 
 unsullied to our children — and that is the 
 object of these words from one who loves 
 his country and plainly sees she is on 
 
NEEDED NATIONAL LAWS 155 
 
 the road to decay, unless thinking people 
 realize the situation and pass laws that will 
 prevent it. I call upon our Congressmen, if 
 for Patriotism alone, to give heed to my 
 words. 
 
 Our country demands more stringent im- 
 migration laws and their rigid enforce- 
 ment, — a National Act for the education 
 of our young men in hygiene and their 
 duties to the State; also, with it, at least 
 six or eight months' practical training in 
 Army or Navy requirements, as our young 
 men show a lack of discipline; a National 
 Prohibition Act, a National Social Dis- 
 ease Act, and one that will register syphil- 
 itic or diseased persons; laws forbidding 
 marriages between persons who are of dif- 
 ferent races or who have hereditary ail- 
 ments, such as the deaf, blind, insane, etc., 
 and persons who have diseases they can 
 transmit to their offspring. Our National 
 Government alone, through its officials, 
 should issue all marriage certificates, and, 
 before they are issued, the ancestral his- 
 tory and the health of both parties should 
 be inquired into, and such other restric- 
 
156 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 tions be imposed that will insure to the 
 unborn his or her rights. An act to per- 
 mit only native born Americans to have 
 the right to vote and only such men or 
 women as have acquired sufficient land to 
 be paying land taxes on, of at least, $2,000 
 tax valuation; a National Birth Eegistra- 
 tion Act; a more stringent National Drug 
 Act. Consider the number of foreigners 
 who secured our American Citizenship 
 papers in the present war, who, at heart, 
 were enemies to our country and who used 
 these papers and their citizenship, in the 
 past two years, to bring us several times 
 to the verge of war. 
 
 Taxation without representation is ty- 
 ranny, and it is unjust in a *^Land of the 
 Free. ' ' Every American born woman and 
 man, who owns property or pays taxes, to 
 a certain amount, should have a right to 
 vote — and only these. It will put an end to 
 Public Stealing, for every voter will be a 
 partner in our land, and every voter and 
 his family will be loyal defenders of their 
 own. It has taken 100 years or more of 
 the most careful study for scientists to dis- 
 
GREAT MEN DUE TO INHERITANCE 157 
 
 cover how to advise skilled horse and hog 
 breeders, poultrymen, dairymen, etc., 
 etc., how to mate animals, but when it 
 comes to humans, — young in experience, — 
 males and females settle for themselves the 
 most important question of their own lives, 
 their offspring, and the future of the State, 
 on the spur of the moment. Is it any won- 
 der that our country is flooded with un- 
 healthy, dissipated, good-for-nothing 10 
 cent boys and girls, and that our own Gov- 
 ernment recently, officially, rejected 75%' 
 of her sons? This sacred institution of 
 marriage has become a sacrilege. Will the 
 Church not come to the rescue of our Na- 
 tion if our politicians will not? 
 
 How then, it may be asked, can the race 
 be lifted to a higher level? How may a 
 larger and still larger per cent, of men 
 ' 'wortli-wJiile ' ' be produced ? Great horses 
 are due to inherent qualities, not because 
 of feed and care. Many thousands get as 
 good feed and care, but fall far short of 
 great achievement, because of the lack of 
 inherent greatness. Great men, likewise, 
 are great because of inherited worth. No 
 
158 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 amount of food, care, or education can make 
 the average man eminent. No amount of 
 food, care, education, or anything else you 
 like added, would make a child of Hottentot 
 origin compare in any way with the chil- 
 dren of white men. 
 
 In much less than a century, trotting 
 horse breeders have evolved from horses 
 of slow speed a two-minute trotting horse. 
 Now, the test has been the win-race. It is 
 true, the foundation of the trotting breed 
 is the English thoroughbred horse, which 
 dates back for 200 years in the English 
 Stud Book, with 700 years of actual racing 
 and selected breeding before the time of 
 records. From this horse, bred to run, 
 American trotting-horse breeders built up 
 a breed to trot, aixd to trot fast, and to pace 
 and to pace fast. They have done it by 
 mating the winning-mare to the winning 
 stallion, if he had the right ancestry. Ee- 
 lentlessly has the breeder eliminated the 
 unfit. It has been the world's best example 
 of worth mated to worth. The human race 
 can be improved the same way. Eminence 
 mated to eminence, genius plus genius, abil- 
 
WIZARD OF THOROUGHBRED TURF 159 
 
 ity added to ability will make better the 
 generations as we move on. It is just as 
 necessary, on the other hand, to restrain 
 the worthless and the nnfit from reproduc- 
 ing themselves as it is to mate worth with 
 its kind. 
 
 The methods adopted by the breeders cf 
 thoroughbred and trotting horses have, to 
 my mind, shown the methods to be followed 
 for the improvement of the human family. 
 Families of worth and ability must con- 
 serve their greatness by marrying into 
 families of genius and strength. The ob- 
 ject of marriage should be the production 
 of worth-while children, children superior, 
 if possible, in mental and physical qualities 
 to their parents, and, some day, we will 
 breed the Super-man. Patience, Persever- 
 ance and Scientific Knowledge are all that 
 is needed. 
 
 These 10-cent boys and 10-cent girls in 
 our land each cost, among the higher 
 classes, $10,000 to raise to maturity. They 
 need more brains, and, when given even 
 the rudiments of education that boys and 
 girls get that are above par, they fail and 
 
160 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 eaimot go further. The pleasure, conveni- 
 ence and even happiness of married people 
 are subordinate to the production of fit 
 children. The evolution of the race de- 
 pends not on the pleasurable and selfish 
 ends of marriage, but on the birth of fit 
 children. 
 
 THE WIZAED OF THE THOEOUGH- 
 
 BEED TUEF. 
 
 My neighbor, John E. Madden, the "Wiz- 
 ard of the Thoroughbred Turf, owns, in ad- 
 dition to the finest thoroughbred stallions 
 in America, some 250 brood-mares, each 
 selected by him, not only for their race win- 
 ning qualities, but for their blood lines and 
 ancestral qualities to strengthen the weak 
 points and increase the good points of the 
 stallions to which these mares are to be 
 bred, so as to get the best results. Mr. Mad- 
 den goes back to the tap roots of each fam- 
 ily. These pedigrees are studied by him, 
 especially on the sire side, most assidu- 
 ously, day and night, before a purchase is 
 made. 
 
 He thinks out how this or that cross will 
 
BAD MATINGS PRODUCE POOR HORSES 161 
 
 eliminate tliis or that weak point and 
 strengthen this or that good point. 
 
 He knows that to get money, he must have 
 with the blood strong healthy pedigrees. 
 Sprinters are bred one way, and long dis- 
 tance runners another. The lungs, the 
 bone, the construction of the body, joints, 
 etc., of each family are most carefully con- 
 sidered ; so, is it any wonder that the Mas- 
 ter of Pedigrees produces the best thor- 
 oughbred race colts in the world? 
 
 My good horses have all come from fit 
 matings. Not always, when I make what I 
 consider a promising mating by uniting 
 blood lines of distinction, do I get a horse 
 of real value. The best blood lines some- 
 times fail to produce offspring of distinc- 
 tion. This we breeders expect. It takes 
 time to breed out some latent family fail- 
 ing in the horse family, just as it does in 
 the human. 
 
 In breeding horses, the thing we can count 
 on with absolute certaintv is that, while all 
 good matings may fail to produce good 
 horses, bad mating never produces a good 
 horse. We count absolutely on the unfit 
 
163 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 matings always producing an ordinary 
 horse. 
 
 Should there be any one who reads these 
 lines who has not confidence in what I have 
 said regarding regulating one^s posterity, 
 and he soon is to be the father of an unborn 
 child, let him send the color of his and his 
 wife's eyes and hair, together with those 
 of his and his wife's ancestors, to the Eu- 
 genic Bureau at Cold Spring Harbor, 
 Long Island, and, if they are not too busy, 
 they will tell the color of the eyes and hair 
 of the little one expected, and its possible 
 brain power, if further ancestral data is 
 provided. 
 
 HOW TO ESTABLISH A FAMILY. 
 
 If there be any millionaire who wishes 
 to establish a family that will last through 
 the ages, and his ancestral history shows 
 good health and talent, and he has a brainy 
 son of good health, one who is willing to 
 listen to common sense and follow reason, 
 I will put this millionaire in the way to 
 establish a family that will live for at least 
 two hundred years and have brains and 
 
UNFIT PRODUCE UNFIT 163 
 
 vigor. A vast fortune will not establish 
 a family ; it takes blood with a healthy an- 
 cestry behind it; and it takes parents who 
 are willing to make sacrifices and live a 
 proper life for the good of their offspring. 
 As an example of this, the family of 
 Croesus died out long ago. 
 
 I would rather be a child, born under 
 Combination I., with the right kind of an- 
 cestral healthy vigorous blood running in 
 my veins, and with the knowledge within 
 me that, if properly mated, I could found a 
 great family to carry down with glory my 
 ancestral name, a family that would be use- 
 ful to mankind, than be the only son of the 
 richest man in the world. 
 
 In this country, where families rise sud- 
 denly and die out, there is now a wonderful 
 opportunity to establish a great family — 
 and there is no chance like the present. 
 
 Such statements as the above are mere 
 truisms to all horse breeders. The laws of 
 heredity are just as inexorable when ap- 
 plied to man as when applied to the im- 
 provement of animals. The law of human 
 heredity that should be well known is : The 
 
164 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 unfit produce the unfit; the men of worth 
 come from parentage of worth. 
 
 Many women claim that if they have 
 had one child, or, at most, two, they have 
 done their duty to uphold the family name. 
 The wise men of India realized that if their 
 Nation were to be great, they must breed 
 only from the strongest, mentally and 
 physically, of its members; and that the 
 idea handed down for ages that the eldest 
 son shall found the family, was all wrong; 
 so they directed the Brahma Priests 
 to instruct the mothers to throw their first- 
 born into the Ganges, to be eaten by the 
 crocodiles. 
 
 Sir Anthony Mitchell, in the *^ Edinburgh 
 Medical Journal" of 1886, found that 31 
 per cent, of all the idiots in England were 
 first-born children. Everyone knows that 
 in breeding a stallion or young mare the 
 first colts do not generally amount to much. 
 Often, this year, I have had the remark 
 made to me by breeders : 
 
 ** Peter Volo" is one of the grandest 
 horses ever produced and he may be the 
 greatest sire in the world, but I do not care 
 
LOUNGER SONS THE GREATEST SIRES 16.5 
 
 to breed to him until he has been a year in 
 the stud. I will breed to him next year.'' 
 This same remark has been constantly 
 made to me by experienced colored brood- 
 mare men in the state. Eight years ago, I 
 published a prediction that ** Peter the 
 Great'' would be the great sire he is today; 
 and now with more and surer scientific 
 knowledge, I make a like prediction as to 
 *' Peter Volo." Among milk cow breeders, 
 the first calf is seldom raised. Poultry- 
 men never use the first year's eggs of a 
 hen or duck — to set. It is always the 
 mature bird of 2 or 3 years of age that 
 produces the eggs from which the best 
 young stock is hatched. 
 
 ENGLAND'S STRENGTH WAS BUILT 
 UP BY YOUNGER SONS. 
 
 Sir Francis Galton, in his writings and in 
 his book ^ ^ Hereditary Genius, ' ' calls the at- 
 tention of the English nation to the folly of 
 pinning their faith in handing down the 
 family name and the family estate through 
 the oldest son ; and claims that, eventually, 
 the English nobility will peter out if it keeps 
 
166 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 up this practice. He proves this by tables 
 and, among other things, states that, al- 
 though the oldest son gets the best show, 
 only seventeen per cent, of the English 
 judges came from oldest sons, eleven per 
 cent, from only sons ; thirty-eight per cent, 
 from second sons ; and twenty-two per cent, 
 from third sons, showing that the greater 
 preponderance of mental acumen and 
 brains comes from the offspring of the ma- 
 turer life and from the more experienced 
 fathers ; that the only excuse he could find 
 for the oldest son getting the larger share 
 of his father's properties was to make up 
 for the lack of mental and physical ability 
 he had inherited. For this reason, the eld- 
 est son's needs were greater, as he usually 
 made ducks and drakes of whatever he 
 inherited. 
 
 The Almighty, seeing all this, established 
 the American, and other Republics, so that 
 every son might have a fair chance to 
 prove his own worth. 
 
 Havel ock Ellis, in his ^*A Study of Brit- 
 ish Genius,'' page 120, made a very signifi- 
 cant analysis of 299 fathers who had pro- 
 
AMERICAN INDIAN DOESN'T IMPROVE 167 
 
 duced sons of genius. Of these fathers, two 
 were under twenty; nine between twenty 
 and twenty-four; and two hundred and 
 ninety-two were born of parents between 
 the ages of twenty-five and sixty-five. The 
 greatest of our horses come from stallions 
 of mature years and experience. What is 
 true of the horse is true of the human. 
 
 SOME RACES POSSESS NO ELE- 
 MENTS OF IMPROVEMENT. 
 
 One other interesting fact comes to light 
 from horse breeding. There is in Japan a 
 small pony-built, ill-bred, horse. He is low 
 of stature, compact of body, sturdy of limb ; 
 he has a head as long as that of a jackass. 
 He eats anything, and thrives on it. Years 
 ago the Japanese Government negotiated 
 with me for a lot of stock-studs to improve 
 the native pony. It came out in the trans- 
 action that the first cross on the native 
 horse by a pure bred American horse had 
 little effect. The big head and knotty body 
 would come invariably. These ugly, unde- 
 sirable features would persist into the sec- 
 
'16S THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 ond, third and even fourth generations. It 
 would be better, I thought, to substitute 
 new blood than to try to improve the old. 
 This would have been done had it not been 
 found that there was something in the na- 
 tive feed or climate that affected the health 
 of the imported horse. 
 
 Certain families of men are like the Jap- 
 anese horse. — they have no elements capa- 
 ble of great improvement. The North 
 American Indian has had the advantage of 
 civilization for three hundred years. He 
 will not civilize. The pure blood has made 
 no improvement. In talent, the Indian of 
 today is no better than when Columbus vis- 
 ited this country. 
 
 The African, lifted bodily from his native 
 habitat and set in civilized surroundings, 
 has made in elements of worth no improve- 
 ment. "Without the infusion of talented 
 blood, he has stood still. The pure-blooded 
 negro in America has in him no elements 
 that will ever lift him above his present 
 condition, the same mental and moral con- 
 dition in which he has been from the dawn 
 of history. 
 
CROSSING OF DIFFERENT RACES 1(59 
 
 From the many crosses of the negro and 
 
 white race, there have come some strains of 
 mixed breeds, which are an improvement 
 over the negro. Other strains have resulted 
 from the cross which gives society reason 
 for deep concern. Eeference is made to the 
 half-breed, who exhibits in his disposition 
 the baser qualities of both races. When the 
 horse and the ass are crossed, the hybrid is 
 stronger, tougher and meaner than either 
 breed of his parentage. The mule is the 
 pack or work animal of civilization, just 
 because of his toughness and of his base- 
 ness. The white race and the negro are as 
 far apart as the ass and the horse. We do 
 not understand why the mule is so tough 
 and so mean, neither can we understand 
 how the hybrid man is so apt to have con- 
 centrated in him the worst of the two races 
 which produce him. Knowing the evils of 
 the cross, society has done nothing to pre- 
 vent it outside the bonds of wedlock. Any- 
 one who has studied the two races knows 
 that if you want a very reliable servant 
 vou want one that is either all black or all 
 white. 
 
170 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 CEOSSING OF T3ISTINCTLY DIFFER- 
 ENT RACES DANGEROUS. 
 
 The crossing of widely separated races 
 is most undesirable for the reason above set 
 forth and can be illustrated in the cross of 
 the North American Indian with the white 
 man. A eugenic worker has shown that a 
 whole tribe of degenerate men and women 
 came from one ancestry and resulted from a 
 cross of the white man and an Indian Prin- 
 cess. Hundreds of the descendants of this 
 couple have been inmates of jails, asylums, 
 penitentiaries and poorhouses. Eighty- 
 eight per cent, of the females and 90 per 
 cent, of the males were habitual drunkards. 
 Any racial crosses are dangerous and to be 
 discouraged in the interest of eugenics. 
 Too many misfits result, even when the 
 marriages are between the same races, and 
 no more should be added by unions of dif- 
 ferent breeds. It may elevate inferior races 
 to be crossed with the white men of the 
 world, but it works a serious injury to the 
 white blood thus turned into an inferior 
 channel. It is well to bring together dis- 
 tinguished families of different branches of 
 
SCIENTIFIC BREEDING GETS RESULTS ITi 
 
 the same race, rather than to continue mar- 
 riage in one line. We call this an out-cross 
 in horse breeding. When the sirens seed is 
 vigorous, keep in the high-breeds ; when the 
 sire's seed is weak, go to a strong com- 
 moner blood or to a different family of the 
 same blood. The decendants of "Happy 
 Medium' ' find a congenial out-cross in the 
 
 George Wilkes ' family. Why cannot we be 
 as careful in conserving the worth of 
 
 humans, so no marriages of racial violence 
 will be permitted? 
 
 We can breed horses to trot. We can 
 breed them to trot slowly or to trot fast. 
 We can breed them so they will be passing 
 gaited or line gaited. We can breed them 
 to pace and to be so strong in the pacing 
 tendency that they cannot trot. We can 
 produce them so they go a mixed-gait, trot 
 with the front feet and run with the liind 
 feet. We breed them to run. We breed 
 the high-stepping horse. We can breed the 
 horse which will go the single foot gait, so 
 necessary in the saddle type. We are also 
 breeding safe ponies for children, draft 
 horses for farmers, and jumpers for hunt- 
 
172 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 ers, with distinct inclinations to do the 
 things we desire. Some years ago, while 
 riding in Central Park with The Honor- 
 able Michael Bowerman of Kentucky, he 
 would tell the families and even the sires 
 of the teams ahead of us by the way the 
 horses lifted and put down their feet. 
 Several of these conjectures I investigated 
 and confirmed. Careful scientific breeding 
 produces such results — so that it is all un 
 mistakable to an expert horseman. Like 
 physical and mental traits and character- 
 istics in families of humans can be bred 
 if clever expert advice is taken.. You can 
 produce a healthy family of speakers, of 
 thinkers, of boys with analytical minds — 
 in fact, anything you want. 
 
 How is this very great variety of horses 
 bred so distinctly and separately? The 
 answer is, by selecting the thing we want to 
 reproduce and holding our breeding strict- 
 ly to these lines. To get in horses a gait, 
 we must select individuals and breed for a 
 series of generations to the same kind of 
 individuals with the gait wanted. All who 
 do not have the gait desired must be re- 
 
ABRAHAM WOULD'S CHAMPION SIRE 173 
 
 jected. Eejection! Eejection! Years ago, 
 here in Kentucky, defective colts were de- 
 stroyed, and, if a mare produced more than 
 one defective colt, her registration papers 
 were destroyed and she was sold out of the 
 state. Today, you seldom see a defective 
 colt or a bad one, and so it is that Kentucky 
 horses are at a premium. That is the way 
 it is done in the horse world. I ask, can it 
 be done any other way in the human family? 
 In Kentucky, the breeding of animals is 
 discussed as freely as we in the North talk 
 about dresses and hats. 
 
 SELECTIVE BREEDING AMONG THE 
 
 JEWS. 
 
 We may talk all we like about exceptional 
 and potent sires among animals, but there 
 is one sire among humans who stands out 
 head and shoulders above any exceptional 
 potent sire among animals or humans — 
 and that great man is Abraham, who lived 
 4,100 years ago. 
 
 Every Jew or Jewess of today in the 
 world has stamped on his or her face the 
 hereditary features of Abraham and in his 
 
174 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 or her heart and mind Abraham's charac- 
 teristics and traits are deeply imbedded, so 
 that, no matter where they wander on the 
 face of the earth, the descendants of Abra- 
 ham are unmistakable. 
 
 The translation of the word Abraham, 
 means *^ Father of Multitudes/' 
 
 Our oldest historical and biblical records, 
 and the recent discoveries in the British 
 Museum, state that it was prophesied that 
 Abraham's seed and that of his male de- 
 scendants should possess the magic force 
 of potency and vigor and that his descend- 
 ants should increase indefinitely. The 
 Bible also says, in substance, that the Jew 
 shall inherit the earth. From present indi- 
 cations, before many years will have 
 passed, the fulfillment of that prophecy 
 will be realized. 
 
 He was the fourth son of Tereh, who died 
 when he was 205 years old; and Abraham 
 was born when Tereh was 130 years old. 
 
 Abraham, at the age of 100, the Bible 
 states, became the father of Isaac ; and he 
 died at the age of 175 years. 
 
 It is well known that the Jews are a thrif- 
 
INTERMARRIAGE AND ITS EFFECTS 175 
 
 ty people. They are known for their ability 
 to accumulate money. A thoroughbred 
 horse has no greater tendency to run than 
 has a Jew to succeed in the business of 
 accumulating money. This thrifty tendency 
 has been perpetuated among this admir- 
 able race of people by breeding in a defin- 
 ite way for hundreds of years with money- 
 getting and money-keeping in view. The 
 sons and daughters of successful Jews will 
 not marry into worthless Jewish families. 
 They must marry only the successful of 
 their own race. Put 100 thrifty Jews in a 
 town of 10,000 inhabitants, and, in 50 
 years, the Jews will have all the money 
 of the 10,000 Christians, because they are 
 bred to get it. Have you ever noticed the 
 respect for ancestry that exists among 
 members of the Jewish race ? 
 
 They will even do more than this. Young 
 people, closely related, like first and sec- 
 ond cousins, inter-marry; and even uncles 
 and nieces have been known to marry. Such 
 intermarriages not only tend to preserve 
 the character of the race, but, especially, 
 the money-getting qualities, and serve the 
 
176 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BOKN 
 
 purpose of keeping it in the family. TMs 
 magnifies family traits. It is true, close 
 relatives often marry to keep a fortune or 
 a business in one family, as, for example, 
 tke Eothschilds. This results in the children 
 from such unions receiving a double heri- 
 tage of a family tendency. Thrift, being 
 a racial and family trait, is doubly accentu- 
 ated by marriages of near relatives. 
 
 Wlien people of the same race marry, 
 their children carry the characteristics of 
 that race and the special characteristics of 
 their ancestors. 
 
 Imported ''Messenger" was a thorough- 
 bred horse. His get in America all showed 
 a tendency to trot. Both the sire and 
 dam of ''Eysdyk's Hamiltonian'^ were de- 
 scended from Imported ''Messenger." 
 That is why the get of "Hamiltonian" all 
 had the trotting gait. To improve the speed 
 of the trotting horse, there were matings of 
 relatives, which correspond to the mar- 
 riages of cousins in the Jewish race. As a 
 horse-breeder, I must call attention to the 
 danger of too much inbreeding, as it will 
 double, if present in a family strain, a 
 
INTERBREEDING INHERITED — TRAITS 177 
 
 weakness, as well as a good quality. Cousin 
 marriages add to the thrift of the Jews, but 
 it often means, also, men of low stature 
 and a lack of physical vigor, and, if prac- 
 ticed to a great extent, produces deafness. 
 It is claimed by some that if this method 
 is practiced for generations, one in every 
 ten will have cancer. 
 
 INBREEDING AND INHERITED 
 
 TALENTS. 
 
 I attribute much of my success, as a 
 horse-breeder, to the fact that I early found 
 out the danger of injudicious inbreeding. 
 The George Wilkes' family dominated the 
 trotting industry for many years. This 
 became an inbred family. I believed that 
 the Wilkes' family needed an out-cross, 
 and my breeding with success an out-cross 
 like '^ Peter the Great'' to the George 
 Wilkes' mare proved this. 
 
 The horse world knows the wonderful re- 
 sults which have come from such matings 
 and, in this way, we conserved all the great- 
 ness of George Wilkes' progeny and added 
 to it qualities which enhanced its value. 
 
178 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 I believe that in improving the human race, 
 inbreeding has its place, but an out-cross 
 is often necessary to preserve vigor and 
 other valuable racial qualities. In making 
 the out-cross, among humans, care must be 
 exercised so that no antagonistic qualities 
 are brought in and augmented and, where 
 such inbreeding is considered, the advice 
 of an expert should be sought to warn 
 both parties that this or that union will pro- 
 duce sub-normal children, or defective chil- 
 dren, or children with tendencies to this or 
 that disease. The family of the Mikado 
 of Japan maintains its strength by taking 
 a female out-cross from the best in physi- 
 cal, mental and ancestral history in the 
 Flowery Kingdom at stated intervals. We 
 all know that too much inbreeding pro- 
 duced the crazy Bavarian Kings and caused 
 the death of Eudolph of Austria. 
 
 If a musician from a musical family 
 marries a musician, the children all will 
 have a talent for music. Should a musician 
 marry a woman who only loves music, but 
 has not devoted time to it, the children will 
 all probably have a talent for music. Let 
 
LONGEVITY IS HEREDITARY 173 
 
 the musician, however, marry a woman en- 
 tirely devoid of the talent and not even a 
 lover of the art, and an antagonistic ele- 
 ment is present to destroy the heritage of 
 the musician. 
 
 The mathematician's power comes from 
 his ancestry. The sculptor inherits his geni- 
 us from his parentage. Size of stature, 
 strength of body, love of art, business tal- 
 ent, literary power, engineering and inven- 
 tive faculties, and mechanical ability, all 
 can be strengthened and improved by prop- 
 er marriage selection, and longevity can be 
 increased. There is no reason why the life 
 of humans cannot be materially lengthened 
 by proper breeding. You will find the value 
 to you of hereditary health and longevity 
 if you go to a Life Insurance Company to 
 get a policy. The first question they will 
 ask you is, at what age your father or your 
 ancestors died, and from what they died. 
 Your answer will, other things being equal, 
 establish the rate you will be charged, un- 
 less you are addicted to alcohol. Then they 
 will add 74% ; and if you are a syphilitic 
 88% will be added. 
 
180 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 These insurance men know the most per- 
 tinent questions at issue. Their experts 
 can tell what kind of a life the applicant 
 lives and has lived. There is no reason 
 why people of today should not live to be 
 500 years of age, barring accidents, and re- 
 tain their vigor and potency, and be free 
 from mental and physical infirmities, weak 
 hearts, etc. With the unnatural lives we 
 live, these hereditary weaknesses become 
 more and more apparent. ^ ^ Man shall live 
 by the sweat of his brow, ' ' but we live lives 
 of luxury and we violate all the laws of 
 nature and hygiene, and indulge in num- 
 berless excesses. In early history, man 
 lived to be 500 years and older ; by breeding 
 and care this again can be accomplished. 
 
 If you have any doubt of this, go to Rus- 
 sia and Siberia. There I have daily seen 
 more old men over one hundred years of 
 age, than I have seen in all my life. Some 
 say it is because of their rough food and 
 the almost total abstinence from eating 
 meat. There may be something in this, but 
 I am satisfied the principal reason is that 
 they have inherited healthier lungs and 
 
UNBORN MUST HOLD FIRST PLACE 181 
 
 healthier kidneys, etc., than most people, 
 and their ancestors did not have the time 
 nor the opportunity to ruin them by indul- 
 gences. 
 
 This brings me, finally, to consider the 
 practical aspect of eugenics. I believe, and 
 I am sure that scientific men of eminence 
 like Dr. Graham Bell, Dr. David Starr Jor- 
 dan, Dr. C. B. Davenport, Dr. C. L. Reed, 
 Dr. Robert T. Morris, Dr. W. S. Anderson, 
 and a host of research workers believe, 
 that the human race must be improved by 
 selective breeding, or more fit marriages. 
 
 The inherent improvement of the race 
 can only come by obedience to the laws of 
 nature and heredity, not by education, san- 
 itation, or industrial revolution. The solu- 
 tion depends on having young people of 
 merit make the right kind of selection be- 
 fore marriage, so as to strengthen the good 
 tendencies and eliminate the weak. Once 
 get these ideas instilled in the minds of the 
 young, and see what a change there will be 
 in the morals of our young men. 
 
 For this end I strongly recommend two 
 things. The first thing is a campaign of 
 
182 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 education, the object of which is to teach 
 young people that marriage should mean 
 healthy, vigorous, talented children. I 
 know it is a difficult task. So many things 
 influence marriage that much time will be 
 necessary to change the viewpoint of the 
 world. Second, to give the unborn child its 
 rightful place in the hearts and minds of 
 potential parents. I believe it can be done, 
 and I am sure it will be done in the next 
 ten or twenty years, monumental as the task 
 now appears. 
 
 RECOED OFFICE AND RESEARCH 
 
 FOUNDATION. 
 Mrs. Russell Sage is devoting the for- 
 tune of her distinguished husband to better 
 social conditions. Through the agency of 
 the Sage Foundation, exhaustive studies 
 are being made of our so-called submerged 
 classes. Through the desire to contribute 
 something to the permanent improvement 
 of the race, Mrs. E. H. Harriman is direct- 
 ing funds for investigations, which already 
 throw much light on human inheritance. 
 The Carnegie Institute for Research, the 
 Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research 
 
RECORD OFFICE ; RESEARCH FOUNDATION 183 
 
 and the Rockefeller Foundation, will all 
 finally throw great light upon racial im- 
 provement and be a blessing to the world. 
 The findings of these research institutions 
 to help the future generations must in some 
 way be placed in the hands of marriageable 
 men and women. It will do no good for 
 grey-haired scientists and aged maiden la- 
 dies to meet and discuss the laws of eu- 
 genics, unless this information gets into 
 the hands of young people before their own 
 marriages take place. Parents are too pru- 
 dish, or they lack knowledge. Schools 
 should take up the study of eugenics. A 
 campaign of enlightenment is necessary. It 
 is growing in influence every day. Every 
 large university in the United States will 
 some day have a chair of ^ ^ Social Welfare'* 
 or ^ ^ Eugenics, ' ' or ^ ^ Genetics. * * We have 
 been fighting our way, paving the road, for 
 the past twenty years, and we now see suc- 
 cess ahead of us. The good work started at 
 Cold Spring Harbor in the East by one 
 horseman, and in the West by another 
 horseman, will eventually interest the 
 whole country. We started a few years ago 
 
184 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 with simply a handful of thinking people 
 and, today, we number tens of thousands, 
 and the good work is spreading. 
 
 The other matter, which to me is impera- 
 tive, is a *^ Bureau of Eecords and Infor- 
 mation,'^ a place that can give the specific 
 ancestral information needed by young 
 men and young women to enable them to 
 properly marry. After a campaign of edu- 
 cation has taught them to see the need of 
 selection, it is necessary that there be an 
 Institute of Eecords to give specific in- 
 formation as to the pedigreef of every 
 family and its past history, as to the 
 cause of death and disease in each family, 
 and some trusty expert scientist to exam- 
 ine the pedigrees and to tell them how to 
 eliminate this and that defect or to 
 strengthen this or that good tendency by 
 proper selection. I am glad that such an 
 institution has been founded. Some ten 
 years ago I looked in on its beginning, and 
 found the records collected stood in a three 
 by four foot safe. The safe immediately 
 gave way to a concrete fireproof vault. So 
 rapidly has the material grown that sl 
 
PRESENT SYSTEM OF MARRIAGES WRONG 185 
 
 splendid two-story fireproof building now 
 houses the most valuable material in exist- 
 ence for the guidance of those seeking in- 
 formation concerning family histories. I 
 refer to the Eugenics Record Office at Cold 
 Spring Harbor, New York. In building up 
 this institution, Mrs. E. H. Harriman is 
 enabling the genius, C. B. Davenport, its 
 Director, to collect and preserve the 
 records that will, in a few years, be one of 
 our most valuable possessions. Already, 
 much of this accumulated material has been 
 tabulated, studied and conclusions bearing 
 on eugenics published. The day will come 
 when the good this noble woman is doing 
 for our country by establishing the Eugenic 
 Eecord Office will be appreciated and a 
 monument will be raised to a woman who 
 has saved a nation. 
 
 PRESENT SYSTEM OF MARRIAGE 
 WRONG IN THEORY AND 
 PRACTICE. 
 I cannot conceive of the continuance of 
 present-day social customs governing the 
 institution of marriage. Today the inno- 
 cent woman, her father or her mother, have 
 
186 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 no way of knowing about the hereditary or 
 physical fitness of a young man for mar- 
 riage. Through investigation of medi- 
 cal records, I have been forced to know of 
 a great many marriages too awful for 
 words, where young married women have 
 left their happy homes for a life of misery 
 and suffering and died in ignorance of the 
 cause of their troubles. I believe the time 
 is very near when adequate relief will be 
 given to parents and to daughters, by mak- 
 ing a medical examination and a family 
 history a prerequisite for the marriage 
 license for a young man. The world is be- 
 ginning to realize that it is just as bad for 
 a man to murder his wife by infecting her 
 with a foul, loathsome and usually fatal dis- 
 ease as to murder her with knife, or axe, or 
 gun, or drug. Laws soon will be enacted 
 which will allow the medical examiner to 
 protect women and their unborn children. 
 I look forward to the time when the law 
 will require the physician to make a public 
 record of the names of all men victims of 
 syphilis. "When this is done, the end of 
 the *^ black plague'' is in sight. Publicity 
 
NATIONAL CERTIFICATE OF HEALTH 187 
 
 of victims will act as a guarantee agency, 
 which will eradicate the diseases by making 
 young men more careful. In France, a 
 doctor is compelled to register every case 
 of syphilis in the town in which his patient 
 was born in the official hall of records, 
 where they are kept for public inspection. 
 The same is true in Germany, and, if the 
 doctor fails to so record each case of syph- 
 ilis, he is subject to a heavy penalty. 
 
 Something more, however, is necessary 
 than a clean bill of health to make marriage 
 a success. The young people want to know 
 their own ancestral history, and the ances- 
 tral history of the families into which they 
 are expected to marry, what the strong 
 points of their family are, as well as the 
 failings, and from what their ancestors 
 died, so as not to double up family fail- 
 ings or inclinations to such diseases — as 
 for instance, when under certain condi- 
 tions both families have hereditary kidney 
 trouble, insanity, etc. This is the only way 
 to spare suffering to the unborn. 
 
 I know predictions are hazardous, but I 
 venture to say that in fifty years from now 
 
188 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 the Eugenic Eecord Office, with its 
 branches, will be consulted by every pros- 
 pective intelligent bride and groom. 
 Fathers and mothers will consult their own 
 family records and those of the possible 
 families into which their children may 
 marry. Certificates of Eegistration will bo 
 issued, just as all well-bred animals are 
 today registered, and we will know the good 
 points and the bad points of each family. 
 Unless this is done we, as a Nation, are 
 doomed. 
 
 I have noticed that when people of the 
 same race marry, their children carry the 
 characteristics of that race, and where 
 there are two different races, they gener- 
 ally carry the characteristics of each race, 
 but the characteristics of the older and 
 more established race, especially if the sire 
 of that race is inbred, will certainly prevail. 
 As an illustration of this, I was once walk- 
 ing through a park in a foreign city, where 
 I heard my name called. I turned and met 
 a lady of rare grace and refinement, once 
 one of the handsomest well-bred girls in 
 America. We had not seen each other for 
 
MIXING OF THE BREEDS 189 
 
 years. She had married an ill-bred foreign- 
 er of immense wealth of an old established 
 family. I said, ''What are you doing 
 lierel'^ She replied, ''Playing with my 
 children,'' and there were five, all around 
 her, and such curious specimens of human- 
 ity I never saw; more like monkeys, — such 
 curious little heads, such wiry little bodies, 
 skinny legs and little black eyes, not one 
 had a feature of their beautiful mother. 
 That girl, if properly advised by an ex- 
 pert, would never have placed herself in 
 such a position. 
 
 THE MIXING OF THE BREEDS. 
 
 Among horse breeders, runners are 
 called hot-blooded and draft-horses cold- 
 blooded. If a cold-blooded Percheron Stal- 
 lion be bred to a hot-blooded Thoroughbred 
 Mare, the life germs of the male offspring 
 will contain all the elements of both breeds. 
 They will be of unequal size and of irregu- 
 lar shapes^ — some quick of movement, 
 others sluggish. Some of the life germs 
 will carry the beautiful head and neck of 
 the Thoroughbred and the clumsy heavy 
 
190 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 body of the Percheron, and the light legs 
 of the Thoroughbred and big hoofs of the 
 Percherons. Other life germs will carry 
 the light body of the Thoroughbred and 
 the coarse large head of the draft-horse — 
 or the thick legs of the Percheron and 
 small hoofs of the Thoroughbred, etc. The 
 life germs of the hybrid are made up of a 
 mixture of the elements '''hat compose the 
 two breeds. The result is an unbalanced 
 nondescript. In the same way, the female 
 hybrid of this combination will show like 
 characteristics. When two of these hy- 
 brids are mated, you do not get a Thor- 
 oughbred or a Percheron, but, instead, you 
 get an ill-formed ugly monstrosity, carry- 
 ing the bad points of both — neither fitted 
 for pulling great weights nor for running 
 fast. Such crosses are an outrage on both 
 breeds. It is a half-way thing which be- 
 longs to neither draft nor running horse. 
 Should I cross a St. Bernard dog on a 
 Greyhound-bitch, the breeding world and 
 the intelligent public would censure me 
 most severely. But just such misalliances 
 are daily occurring among humans, and 
 
PLEBEIAN MARKS 191 
 
 the world only smiles, and their helpless 
 hybrid offspring pay the penalty. 
 
 Such hybrid young men and young wo- 
 men could be seen thirty years ago at the 
 social functions of Chicago's smart set. 
 That was the time when the hog and cattle 
 industry furnished the money for Chi- 
 cago's social functions. The coarse bred 
 frontiersmen and cattle rangers, becoming 
 rich, had secured for their wives refined 
 well-bred women from the East and South, 
 whose families had lost their money. 
 
 The horse breeder of today can readily 
 understand why the new City on the Lake 
 then made such enormous demands for 
 ladies* shoes of the larger sizes. In hu- 
 mans, a mixture of the coarse and gross 
 with the refined and delicate always re- 
 sults in too big a foot, or too thick an 
 ankle, or some other physical irregularity. 
 
 The ladies of the smart set of Chicago 
 became worried over their children's feet, 
 and finally consulted experts on breeding, 
 and, among others, those at the Chicago 
 University, endowed by John D. Rocke- 
 feller, the horseman. They explained to 
 
192 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 them the cause of their children's large 
 feet 'and their other plebeian marks. 
 Having acquired sufficient money to be in- 
 dependent, they excluded the cold-blooded 
 of such rich and mated their children with 
 the liigh-bred blood of the East and South, 
 so that, today, the large-sized shoes are no 
 longer needed in Chicago, but are shipped 
 direct to New York and Newport — for 
 these places have become the Meccas of 
 the newly rich. 
 
 As we walk, today, on Fifth Avenue in 
 New York, or on the Cliffs of Newport, 
 Ehode Island, one can see nurses and gov- 
 ernesses caring for these children and try- 
 ing to teach them how to conduct them- 
 selves and how to use their feet without 
 interfering. Just note how these children 
 are marked by physical irregularities, big 
 stomachs, skinny legs with large feet, and 
 pumpkin shaped heads, or small feet, sup- 
 porting beefy calves or delicate heads, 
 above a body like that of a matronly wash- 
 erwoman. These unfortunate children are 
 from a mixture of hot and cold blood. 
 Aristocrats, linking their blood with the 
 
SHAPELY FEET NOW IN CHICAGO 193 
 
 uewly rich of the draft-horse classes, can 
 only produce hybrids. Some of the well- 
 bred families of New York and Boston, 
 who have met with misfortune, have al- 
 lowed their daughters to marry sons of the 
 rich of Ehine Wine names. Such alliances 
 restore lost money but breed an unholy hu- 
 man mixture, just as they did in Chicago. 
 
 The ladies' shoe and slipper factories of 
 Haverhill and Lynn are now driven to their 
 wits' end to design shoes and slippers to 
 hide the large and ugly shaped feet of such 
 offspring, until their parents can find eligi- 
 bles to marry them. If the young lady is 
 short and has big feet, the heels are 
 raised by a wedge inserted in the shoe and 
 she is compelled to walk like a toe-dancer. 
 It is somewhat painful, but it shortens the 
 foot and is rather artistic; or, if she be 
 tall and has long feet, the heel is placed 
 in the middle of the sole and gracefully 
 curved towards the toes; and, when the 
 owner is thus shod for a social function, 
 the real heel extends back and is bigger 
 than that of a corn-field lady of Senegam- 
 bian ancestry. No longer do you see our 
 
194 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 yoting men wearing shapely, straight, high- 
 instep shoes, like Slater, Young and others 
 nsed to make; but, to meet the needs of 
 these male nondescripts, flat shoes, cres- 
 cent-shaped on the outside, are required. 
 They remind one of a flattened Bologny, 
 burst on the outside. 
 
 The Chicago and Western ladies, who 
 studied and practiced eugenics, soon bred 
 shapely daughters, and have lately intro- 
 duced the custom of short skirts — and the 
 exposure of the legs to the knee, and some- 
 times further. To meet these new condi- 
 tions, our New York and Newport newly- 
 rich are securing from French Madams on 
 Fifth Avenue, shapely ^ ^ fats ' ' or ^ ^ symmet- 
 rical '* for their skinny-legged daughters; 
 or stockings with stripes up and down for 
 those of the piano-legged formation. 
 
 When Mrs. ** Newly-Rich '^ explains to 
 her husband that their daughter Mary's 
 slippers and shoes, on account of the ad- 
 vance in leather, along with other war mu- 
 nitions, now cost fifty to a hundred dollars 
 a pair, you may be sure that ninety-nine 
 times out of a hundred Mary gets her 
 
SOCIAL ERRORS MUST BE EXPOSED 195 
 
 shoes of one of the Italian shoe artists now 
 located on Fifth Avenue, who transfers, 
 by his skill, a flat, wide, flabby foot of a 
 young miss into an apparently shapely, 
 high-bred, high-arched aristocratic thing 
 of beauty. These slippers and shoes in 
 public Mary has to wear until Pa's mil- 
 lions so daze her suitors that they do not 
 see her feet. Is all this fair to Mary? Is 
 all this just to the unborn, to be allowed 
 to come into the world, unfit to take their 
 positions either in the working classes, to 
 which one parent was bred and born, or a 
 position in the social world, to which the 
 other parent was bred and born? The pro- 
 duction of such offspring is certainly a dis- 
 grace to the state ; and do you not think it 
 would be better if they never were born? 
 
 Should an observer go West today, he 
 will find a lively interest in eugenics. He 
 will be convinced that wisdom no longer 
 comes from Boston, where we used to get 
 the best and latest brand of knowledge, but 
 from such AYestern cities as Seattle, Los 
 Angeles, or Salt Lake City, which know 
 the difference between brains and boodle. 
 
196 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 Thence is likely to come an enlightened 
 popular system of human breeding that 
 will correct these social errors and show 
 the people of the East and South the need 
 of teaching the young, before marriage, the 
 value of eugenics and the fatal unhappy 
 results these unhallowed crosses produce. 
 
 To illustrate the laws of nature, in, per- 
 haps, a clearer way, in Honolulu, there has 
 been an almost indiscriminate mixing of 
 such races as the Japanese, Germans, 
 Chinese, Scotch, American, English and 
 other nations. The awful result of the 
 mixing of opposite and antagonistic racial 
 qualities is that there is no certainty as to 
 the character or looks of the children. For 
 instance, a man and his wife, both giving 
 indication of being pure Anglo-Saxon, will 
 produce one child that favors a Chinaman, 
 another like a German, another like a na- 
 tive Honoluluian, and still another that re- 
 sembles a Japanese. 
 
 The Eugenic Record Office had a study 
 made of the results from mulatto mar- 
 riages, in certain of the Islands in the 
 Atlantic Ocean, where there is no -race, 
 
THE WAGES OF SIN 197 
 
 prejudice; and their investigator discov- 
 ered that when pure mulattoes marry there 
 is no certainty about the color of the chil- 
 dren. The color and features vary from 
 that of the pure black negro to the pure 
 white Caucasian. One child out of every 
 sixteen is jet black and one is pure white — 
 and the other fourteen range in shade from 
 black to white; the physical features and 
 brain powers vary in the same manner. Our 
 Government must have at least a Colored 
 Registry, or our grandchildren will be mar- 
 rying mulattoes. 
 
 An English subject, a graduate of one of 
 her most important universities, met and 
 married the beautiful daughter of a promi- 
 nent American. Their wedding was quite 
 a social affair. They afterwards sailed 
 from Boston to visit his family, who 
 owned a plantation on a West Indies 
 Island. 
 
 They were met at the dock by his par- 
 ents. One look was enough ! She had mar- 
 ried into a negro famil5^ She fell in a 
 faint; but silently, she accepted the situa- 
 tion. Her first born was jet black with 
 straight black hair. 
 
198 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 A rieli United States Senator had a girl 
 baby by his mulatto mistress. When two 
 years old, the Senator, and the mother act- 
 ing as nurse, carried her to Chicago. There 
 she was placed in a well-known Catholic in- 
 stitution, with the statement that her 
 mother was a South- American, who had 
 died in childbirth. The Senator and nurse 
 frequently visited her. The child grew up 
 with the nuns and became exceedingly 
 beautiful and was very popular with her 
 associates. She became the idol of the 
 Senator, and visited in the homes of Chi- 
 cago's most exclusive set. School oyer, va- 
 cation on, her associates gone, the Senator 
 had arranged to sail the next week with her 
 and her nurse to London, where she was to 
 be presented at Court; to settle a fortune 
 on her and to leave her with a wise Lon- 
 don lady, who was to see she was well 
 married. 
 
 She had been forbidden ever to visit her 
 old nurse — only to write. The call of the 
 wild was too great! Getting a railroad 
 time table, and seeing she could leave Chi- 
 cago in the morning and arrive at the home 
 
FAMILY SUPERIOR TO INDIVIDUAL 199 
 
 of her nurse by dusk, she decided to take 
 the trip the next morning. 
 
 Arriving at the station and finding the 
 place was in a hamlet three miles away, 
 she took a cab and, on descending, found 
 her nurse in the road among a crowd of 
 negroes, one of whom exclaimed, — **Why, 
 that is Martha's child for sure!'' A faint 
 was followed by a confession from the 
 nurse. Within three weeks, this beautiful 
 highly educated girl, refusing to listen to 
 the entreaties of the Senator, married the 
 blackest man in the county. 
 
 In a large city like New York, where all 
 races live, there is an indiscriminate mix- 
 ture of bloods. Is it any wonder, while 
 thoughtless marriages are daily occurring, 
 that we are breeding a vast army of de- 
 fectives, nondescripts, hybrids and such? 
 I claim that it is unjust to the living child ; 
 and it is denying to the unborn the sacred 
 right to be well-born ; and each child has a 
 right to come into the world unhandicapped 
 by physical and mental defects. 
 
 Some twenty years ago, the late Ward 
 McAllister told the Social World that there 
 
200 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 were only four hundred in the social sets of 
 New York that were fitted by birth, educa- 
 tion and refinement to enter its highest so- 
 ciety, called the ^^ Patriarch *s Ball Set/* 
 The newspapers of the day took exception 
 — but facts, now proven, show that Ward 
 McAllister was a prophet ahead of his 
 time. 
 
 The pedigree of a horse is all important 
 in predicting the character of his offspring. 
 At the auction sales today, you will see 
 colts a few months old sold at fabulous 
 prices on their pedigree. The family is 
 superior to the individual. The individual 
 may look good, may show good character- 
 istics, but that is no guarantee what the 
 offspring will b^. The pedigree of men 
 and women is most important if valuable 
 children are to result from their union. 
 So firmly do I believe in the value of 
 human pedigrees and achievements for the 
 future of the race, that, were I young and 
 without obligations, I would devote my life 
 to the upbuilding of such institutions as 
 the Eugenic Record Office. 
 
 A priceless opportunity is now open to 
 
PASSING OF OLD N. Y. FAMILIES 201 
 
 young men and women at the Eugenic Rec- 
 ord Office, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Isl- 
 and, where they can attend eugenic classes 
 and get useful information which will bene- 
 fit themselves and the nation, and some day 
 be to their great pecuniary profit. 
 
 OUE OLD NEW YORK FAMILIES 
 HAVE BRED OUT. 
 
 It would make one sad at heart to name 
 over the great and good families who made 
 the history of New York and this wonder- 
 ful city what it is to-day, but who have 
 ' ^ petered out ^ ' in the last few years. Their 
 family names are no longer heard, and 
 their proud owners are dead, gone forever, 
 for want of expert advice in breeding. 
 They failed to observe the laws of health 
 and hygiene, with fatal results. The expert 
 scientists of today, with their present 
 knowledge, could have shown them how to 
 have preserved their vigor and their fam- 
 ily names. One object of this book is to 
 call the attention of the present generation 
 to this and devise some well laid plans to 
 prevent its recurrence. 
 
202 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 IN OLD NEW YOEK. 
 
 As a small boy, it was my wont to ride 
 around with mv mother on her social calls ; 
 and many were the old Dutch, English and 
 Scotch families, in addition to the Puritan 
 and Quaker families that we used to visit. 
 I remember them all well, their peculiari- 
 ties and much of their family histories. In- 
 sanity and consumption were much more 
 prevalent in the old families of New York 
 in those days than they are today. 
 
 My mother was a Puritan. Her ances- 
 tors were English, but had lived in Delft, 
 Holland, before coming with the Hartford 
 Colony in America. In the homes of 
 these old proud Dutch families, she was 
 exceptionally welcome. They always had 
 something mysterious to talk about, and I 
 was generally banished to the yard to climb 
 the grape-arbor or to play with the dog. 
 Here the black man would bring me cookies 
 and sweetmeats out of a blue jar. All these 
 respected family names have disappeared. 
 
 How well I remember these visits. The 
 ladies were all very old and distinguished 
 looking. They dressed in black with white 
 
OLD LONDON'S SOCIAL SET 203 
 
 lace collars, and often wore lace half gloves 
 and always talked about the dead. Some 
 used plumpers in their cheeks. Seldom were 
 there any children around for me to play 
 with ; but a black man always brought in a 
 tray of liquor or bottle of Orak and for my 
 mother a pot of Ceylon tea, for her family 
 never touched liquor. My grandfather had 
 started the New York Temperance Society, 
 the object of which, as I remember, was to 
 abolish the use of liquor at funerals, and 
 from this the National Temperance Society 
 sprang of which my uncle was the Presi- 
 dent. There were few marriageable men, 
 and of these many remained bachelors and 
 some old medical records and correspond- 
 ence I procured indicate that the majority 
 were blanks. Their seed lacked fertility. 
 
 An analogous state of atf airs occurred in 
 London, England, between the years 1600 
 and 1700. It was such a shock when it sud- 
 denly dawned on London's smart set — their 
 commercial social set — that an investiga- 
 tion was made. It was discovered that 
 almost all of the old families of London had 
 died out; while the families of the Court 
 
204 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 society, with its Eoyalty and the Peerage, 
 still existed, and, in fact, had increased. 
 
 Here were two English social sets who 
 ate the same food, drank the same drinks, 
 enjoyed the same climate and whose so- 
 cial dissipations were not dissimilar. The 
 Peerage, then called ^^The Quality," did 
 not entertain or associate with the people 
 of the London social set, except in trans- 
 acting business. They were called ''City 
 Folks.'' Both sets, however, were afflicted, 
 about equally, with the Black Plague. The 
 London set consisted almost entirely of sue- 
 cessful bankers, merchants and profession- 
 al men, who worked hard during the day 
 and, when night came, their wives and fam- 
 ilies compelled them to devote their time 
 to social obligations and entertainments, 
 which were then most engrossing. 
 
 These were times of great business up- 
 heavals and financial crashes, and the peo- 
 ple of the London set no longer had the 
 time for outdoor exercise in the pure coun- 
 try air. As their business became more 
 complicated and exacting, they were con- 
 fined more than ever in the foul air of their 
 offices and kept in the City, with the accu- 
 
THEIR LIFE GERMS WERE WEAK 205 
 
 mulation of worries and trouble. But they 
 did not give up their life of ease, luxury 
 and high living and, when the pressure 
 came, they had not the strength to stand 
 up and lost their nerve. They did not have 
 the ancestral breeding to back up their 
 weakened constitutions. As a result, they 
 partook more and more copiously of stim- 
 ulants to enable them to withstand the 
 added strains and, with their acquired 
 afflictions, their constitutions gave way and 
 their life germs grew weaker with each gen- 
 eration. 
 
 THE OLD LONDON SOCLiL SET 
 BEED ITSELF OUT. 
 The London social set apparently did not 
 go outside of London to marry but married 
 within their own social circle. This was a 
 case of weak kidneys added to weak kid- 
 neys ; weak livers and weak tendencies add- 
 ed to weak tendencies and, of course, their 
 offspring inherited all their weaknesses in 
 a greater proportion. As any breeder of 
 today knows, these families were breeding 
 out. They had to die; their fate was in- 
 evitable. They had, as it were, dug their 
 
206 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 own graves. When ihej did have offspring, 
 most of such children did not have the 
 strength and stamina to grow to maturity. 
 They died in uterus, or at birth, or early 
 in life, and the life germs of those that did 
 live were sadly wanting. 
 
 The only members of this old London set 
 who did not die out were the temperate 
 and those who left England for the Colon- 
 ies, or went into outdoor life. And the ma- 
 jority of those who survived were the 
 women who were the more temperate. They 
 married out of their social circle and thus 
 changed their names; and so the old Lon- 
 don family names passed away. There are 
 firms in London, today, where there has 
 not been a man of that name for one hun- 
 dred years. 
 
 The Court Set, on the other hand, had 
 only royal functions to attend. They lived 
 in their castles in the country and enter- 
 tained there. Thev lived so much an out- 
 door life that it aided them in throwing off 
 the ill effects of the Black Plague and other 
 hereditary ills. Besides that, they came 
 from an ancestry of men and women 
 
OUR ONLY AMERICAN PEERAGE 207 
 
 who had an established breeding for cen- 
 turies, with outdoor exercise to strengthen 
 it. They had more stamina, better con- 
 stitutions to stand the ravages of disease 
 and the dissipations than the younger City 
 social set. They only came to London to 
 attend the Court balls and functions and, 
 when they were over, back to their country 
 places and castles they went, to their rid- 
 ing, hunting and open air life. They had 
 time; they were not busy; they had 
 no worries like the City set. They trav- 
 eled on the Continent, and often inter- 
 married with the foreign royalty and, from 
 the best of the foreign Court sets, they se- 
 lected the well-bred, richest and healthiest. 
 These out-crosses were mostly of the right 
 nature. It was the great Thackeray who 
 once exclaimed that the English Peerage 
 would have been wiped out if some one in 
 the line of succession had not once in a 
 while eloped with the butler's daughter. 
 These are the reasons why the Court set 
 of London exists today, and there are, to- 
 day, so few descendants of the London so- 
 cial set of from 1600 to 1700. 
 
208 THE RtGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 Now let US go back to our old New York 
 sturdy Dutch families, and those New 
 Year's Day customs of calling. They were 
 the aristocracy and as such were very 
 proud. The Van Eensselaers of Albany 
 were their ^^Patroons'' and their landed es- 
 tates covered many hundreds of square 
 miles ; their tenants were numbered by the 
 thousands. The haughty imperious man- 
 ners of the then ruling ^^Patroon" brought 
 about the loss of these great entailed es- 
 tates and thus closed out forever the only 
 American Peerage. They took little or no 
 exercise. They lived well and drank to ex- 
 cess, gin, Suydam Schnapps, imported by 
 Schuchard & Gebhard, and hot toddies; 
 and the ladies, Madeira. Consequently, 
 they had poor kidneys. It was among these 
 old Dutch settlers that the term ^ ^ Two-Bot- 
 tle-Men'' originated. They could walk 
 home without showing the effect of alcohol 
 but it was a death blow to their descend- 
 ants. My aunt's sister married one of the 
 last of the descendants of Peter Stuy- 
 vesant, and her husband was always be- 
 
THE BLACK PLAGUE AFFECTED ALL 209 
 
 moaning fate because the name of Stuy- 
 vesant must die out. 
 
 There were then some very aristocratic 
 Jews in New York's most exclusive circles, 
 the Tobiases, Lazaruses, Judahs, etc. 
 Their women were noted for their beauty. 
 
 The old English and Scotch families were 
 fond of outdoor exercise at first, but, as 
 time wore on, their Curling Clubs and their 
 Cricket Clubs were mostly given up. They 
 drank brandy, port and ales and, after- 
 wards, whiskey, to excess, and the ladies, 
 sherry and port. The faces of all were 
 flushed and the blood veins in their counte- 
 nances were dilated. They, too, had weak 
 kidnevs. 
 
 The war of 1812, the financial crisis that 
 followed and the Civil "War were troubles 
 and worries that struck the death blow to 
 those old families. They did not have suf- 
 ficient stamina and were too slow to com- 
 pete with new methods. 
 
 From the records of the old doctors, the 
 Black Plague affected the Dutch, English 
 and Scotch families of New York about the 
 same. The Dutch families intermarried, 
 
210 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 principally among themselves and, here 
 again, it was a case of weak kidneys, added 
 to weak kidneys, and the same weak ten- 
 dencies added to the same weak tendencies. 
 
 When the English and Scotch families 
 intermarried, it was again a case of more 
 weak kidneys and more weak tendencies. 
 
 When the Dutch intermarried with the 
 English or Scotch, which was infrequent, it 
 was another case of four weak kidneys, and 
 the same two weak tendencies added; and 
 they both had, more or less, hereditary fail- 
 ings, which the doctors of that day were 
 unable to cure. The men died off- young of 
 dissipation and overwork aifected them, be- 
 cause their sires did not have in their seed 
 healthy, strong and active life germs. The 
 daughters then began to marry outside 
 their set, and thus the family names were 
 lost, but every now and then, when I go to 
 California, Indiana, or Illinois, someone 
 will ask me if I ever heard of the Van D*s, 
 the Van der W's, the Van S's, or the Van 
 Sin's of New York and, when I say, ^*Yes, 
 of course, I have,'' they say, ^^Why, they 
 were my grandparents." These old fami- 
 
GIRLS OUTDRINK AND OUTSMOKE MEN 211 
 
 lies perished because they denied to their 
 children the right to be well born. 
 
 From the fate of the distinguished old 
 families of New York City and London, I 
 want to save onr present generation. I am 
 unwilling to see, without a word of protest, 
 our best blood continue to rush to extinc- 
 tion. As I have pointed out, two things 
 brought the old families to the point of ruin. 
 One was over-indulgence in the use of alco- 
 hol. This poison will render sterile any 
 family who will excessively use it. It is all 
 the more deadly when it has as allies the 
 social diseases. The other thing which led 
 to oblivion so many distinguished names of 
 the past was the intermarriage of families 
 rendered weak by the same indulgences and 
 vices. In their marriages, they violated the 
 most fundamental law of biology. They 
 added weakness to weakness. Thev 
 brought an alcoholic soaked body to one de- 
 vitalized by the social diseases. The result 
 was that nature's law thus outraged des- 
 troyed the breed. 
 
 This fate is sure to overtake our present 
 day families of worth and distinction, un- 
 
212 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BOEN 
 
 less they avoid tlie mistakes of those whose 
 fate has been recited. It is well known that 
 the young people of our best families in- 
 dulge in the use of alcohol, cigarettes and 
 cigars at their social functions. At most 
 every luncheon and dinner, there is set be- 
 fore both men and women cocktails, liquors, 
 cigarettes and cigars. Young women, as 
 well as young men, drink liquors and strong 
 wines and smoke cigarettes to excess; and 
 the young girls often outdrink the men. 
 Whatever of worth, of brainpower, of 
 physical vigor they have received from 
 their parents is being slowly polluted. 
 They are thus rendering themselves unfit 
 to produce vigorous children. They will see 
 when too late sons come into their homes 
 utterly unfit to carry on the family name. 
 The excuse book is closed forever. The 
 laws of heredity are positive and unchange- 
 able. 
 
 I do not believe that young men and 
 young women would live the lives of dissi- 
 pation which they do today did they know 
 that over-indulgence meant weak children, 
 or no children at all. I believe that if they 
 
BREEDING FOR BRIGHT'S DISEASE 213 
 
 knew the truth they would leave off the 
 vices, poisonous alcohol, cigarettes and ci- 
 gars. 
 
 Filial love will carry the day for the 
 cause of the unborn, when fathers and 
 mothers are well satisfied of these truths. 
 For what father or mother could have the 
 heart, knowingly, to bring into the world 
 defective diseased offspring; how could 
 they, with a fear of God, look into the trust- 
 ing eyes of their innocent children, who 
 give them all the love of their hearts in 
 return for a miserable heritage? I have 
 noticed that children afflicted with heredi- 
 tary ills are more loving and devoted to 
 these very parents — as if, by extra kind- 
 nesses, to heap coals of fire on their heads, 
 — Eetribution. So now I hang out the dan- 
 ger signals that all who read may know be- 
 fore it is too late. 
 
 PLAIN FACTS. 
 
 It is to place before them the plain facts 
 that I write. It is well-known that certain 
 constitutional diseases are increasing at a 
 most alarming rate. Modern medicine is 
 
214 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 unable to cope with them. To mention but 
 one will suffice to illustrate my meaning. 
 
 Blight's Disease is not only increasing in 
 the number of its victims, but it is becom- 
 ing more deadly in its ravages. Our great 
 physicians are unable to ward it off or to 
 stay its course when it begins its deadly 
 work. They tell us no one knows what pro- 
 duces Bright 's Disease, but any horse 
 breeder could answer that question. 
 
 On every hand, the question is asked: 
 Why this increase in Bright's Disease? 
 What can I do to escape its deadly grasp? 
 Its great prevalence is due to one reason 
 and one reason only. For generations, we 
 have been breeding, or, as the horsemaii 
 would say, we have bred for Bright 's Dis 
 ease, and now we have that for which we 
 have been breeding. It is true, we have 
 been propagating it unconsciously, but none 
 the less surely. Bright 's Disease is a 
 manifestation of weak kidneys. By our 
 ignorant thoughtless marriages, we have 
 been doubling up this weakness. By our 
 social indulgences, we have been adding 
 too great a burden to the kidneys, and 
 
AMERICA A NATION OF DRUG FIENDS 215 
 
 when worries, troubles and misfortunes 
 overtake us, our kidneys give way; the 
 result is early death from Bright ^s Dis- 
 ease. 
 
 I ask my intelligent young readers to 
 think about these things. These are only a 
 few examples. I could add others and 
 others. 
 
 You of our Smart Set of New York City 
 of today are just the same as the commer- 
 cial social set of London and if you do not 
 give up your liquors, your cigarettes and 
 your indulgences and devote yourselves to 
 your health and obey the laws of Social Hy- 
 giene, your family name, which your father 
 and your grandfather nearly killed them- 
 selves to preserve, will die forever. The 
 French have a saying that * * In the commer- 
 cial social sets, it takes just three genera- 
 tions from the shirt sleeve to the shirt 
 sleeve. ' ' That means vour children will be 
 weaklings. They will not have the brains 
 and stamina to compete with the rising com- 
 mon blood that has gradually purified itself 
 by open-air work, from lack of time and 
 funds to indulge in high life and by mar- 
 
216 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 riages with better blood. Yonr children 
 will either die out or drop to the laboring 
 class. That is why the country plow-boy, in 
 lifers contests and races, always outstrips 
 in the end the city boy with his greater ad- 
 vantages. He has the stomach, the kidneys, 
 the brain and the stamina to stand up under 
 the struggle of every-day life. 
 
 The country boy from shirt-sleeved an- 
 cestry is free from hereditary Cancer, 
 Bright 's Disease and the social vices; so 
 make farmers of some of our boys. Take 
 them away from city life. No society can 
 long endure the ravages of these diseases. 
 The alarming increase of Cancer is due to 
 a doubling up of a bodily weakness sus- 
 ceptible to it. In 1915, we consumed 75,000,- 
 000 pounds of drugs, in addition to patent 
 medicines. Weakened constitutions have 
 forced America to become a nation of Drug 
 Fiends. 
 
 EECOEDS OF DEATH. 
 As a Director of a Cemetery Corpora- 
 ation, I have watched with an eager eye, 
 for twenty years, our Interment Books, 
 
THE KNIFE FOR THE $1 MEN. 217 
 
 where the real causes of death are re- 
 corded. I have seen by the records five 
 cases of Consumption and two of Cancer 
 were the average per page twenty years 
 ago. Today, it is five of Cancer and two of 
 Consumption. The reason is the cause and 
 treatment of the White Plague are bet- 
 ter known today than they were twenty 
 years ago. Cancer is one of the fruits of 
 the Black Plague and it is only lately that 
 we began to learn its cure; and, in fifty 
 years. Cancer will begin to die out if the 
 world will follow the advices of the ad- 
 vanced scientists. Cemetery records show 
 that what New York City needs most is a 
 hospital devoted solely to kidney and kin- 
 dred troubles. 
 
 Dr. C. L. Reed says : 
 
 ''Would I put marriage on a mechanical 
 basis and leave the affections out of the 
 question ? Not at all. I would have knowl- 
 edge come before love. I would guard and 
 shield the creative force of love before the 
 sentiment is aroused. I would make it pos- 
 sible for noble women to really fulfill their 
 desires, — to have a happy home, and to 
 
218 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 have sons and daughters of worth. No, I 
 would have young men and young women 
 of splendid lineage be i3roud of their an- 
 cestry and willing to conserve its worth at 
 any cost to themselves/' 
 
 I want to see the one dollar men elimin- 
 ated, even if society must do as has been 
 done in Indiana and in other states, render 
 them sterile by the use of the knife. It is 
 better for the men themselves and better 
 for society. They only breed ten-cent boys 
 and ten-cent girls. 
 
 MODERN METHODS OF BREEDING 
 ARE SCIENTIFIC. ' 
 
 Every morning, at the Patchen Wilkes 
 Stock Farm, at the beginning of and 
 through the breeding season, the semen of 
 its stallions is examined under the micro- 
 scope as to the number of germ cells, their 
 uniform size, activity and vigor. The mo- 
 ment the microscope indicates that any 
 stallion shows a falling off in sexual 
 strength, he receives attention. If the num- 
 ber of germ cells falls below the normal 
 amount; if half formed ones appear, or if 
 
PETER VOLO HAS SIRE QUALITIES 219 
 
 the energy of the sperms is lessened, it is 
 to us a danger signal. Wlien this happens 
 at a stud where stallion fees are from $100 
 to $1000, it becomes a serious matter. 
 
 "Wrhenever you see the colts of an aged 
 stallion coming smaller than usual or with 
 parrot mouths, it is a signal that your stal- 
 lion ^s seed is weakening and to breed him 
 only to young vigorous mares. For ex- 
 ample, the microscopic examination of 
 the semen of ^^ Peter the Greaf tells why 
 he is a great sire. His germ cells 
 are even, full and well-formed ; there are no 
 defectives in them; they are large, vigor- 
 ous and abundant. By a similar micro- 
 scopic examination of his son, ^' Peter 
 Volo,'' I knew he, too, must be a great sire. 
 As soon as the racing career of ^' Peter 
 Volo," the champion trotting stallion of 
 one year, of two years, of three years and 
 of four years, was ended in the fall of 1915, 
 I began to prepare and train him for his 
 stud career. Eepeated examinations of his 
 life germs convince me that this champion 
 of the turf will also be a champion in the 
 stud. Why other breeders have not done 
 
220 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 the same is more tlian I can conceive. The 
 palmist says the life of man is written in 
 the palm of the hand ; scientists might add 
 — ^what his descendants will be can be de- 
 termined by his life germs. 
 
 There are many reasons why stud duty 
 endangers a stallion's fertility. He may be 
 overworked by making more than one ser- 
 vice a day. Some stallions can stand only 
 one mating a day; some nine per week; a 
 few, two a day. Too frequent mating 
 greatly lessens the number, uniform size, 
 virility and vigor of the germ cells and af- 
 fects the offspring. Diseased mares may 
 carry to a stallion bacteria which will cause 
 him serious trouble, while any disorder of 
 the bodily functions interferes with his 
 sexual force, and, so every mare at my 
 farm, before being bred, is examined by 
 means of a speculum and treated with a 
 simple bacteria exterminator. The higher 
 bred the mare, the more bacteria; what 
 is true of the horse is true of the human. 
 
 The necessity of such examinations, as I 
 have mentioned, may be seen when I stato 
 
GRADE MEN BY THEIR LIFE GERMS 221 
 
 that I once had a stallion go through an en- 
 tire season without fertilizing a single 
 mare. My men could not tell that there 
 was anything wrong with him by watching 
 him during the breeding season. One ex- 
 amination with the microscope told the 
 story. He had no germ cells of the proper 
 formation and was retired from the stud. 
 At another time, a great mare had been 
 barren for five years. A simple treatment 
 of boracic acid and milk of magnesia — and 
 the mare was in foal. What is true of the 
 horse is true of the human. 
 
 This microscopic branch of science has in 
 very recent years come to the aid of the 
 practical breeder. We do not have to wait 
 until a year has elapsed to know if my 
 horses are fertile. I find out each day or 
 week, as the breeding season goes on. 
 
 Sterility in hogs, bulls, jacks and rams 
 can thus be determined, if breeders will 
 take the trouble, by the use of the micro- 
 scope in the hands of a trained man. The 
 time will soon be at hand when breeders of 
 all animals will understand our methods 
 and the sale of a male animal for breeding 
 
222 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 purposes will have to be made on condition 
 that a microscopic examination of his 
 semen be made. We will soon grade stal- 
 lions according to the size, number, 
 activity and vigor of their germ cells, as 
 well as by their pedigrees and their blood. 
 
 GRADING OF MEN WHO ARE CANDI- 
 DATES FOR MARRIAGE. 
 
 In Europe and the Orient, whenever you 
 are introduced to a man, his associates 
 and friends will tell you of his ancestry 
 and their achievements — not one word 
 about money — but in America, the money 
 of a man or that of his relatives is the only 
 thing discussed. Such a priceless heritage 
 as a good ancestry is all forgotten. This 
 worship ot the Golden Calf must end soon. 
 The world already has her envious eyes on 
 us. We have in our midst some of the most 
 patriotic, liberal, broad-minded, gener- 
 ous, noble men and women the world has 
 ever known who, if the rights of the unborn 
 are squarely put to them, will give their all 
 to help establish in this beautiful land of 
 ours a Nation of healthy, brainy, progres- 
 
MAN'S QUALIFICATIONS TO BE A SIRE 223 
 
 sive people, and it is to each of these I now 
 appeal. 
 
 I ask, why should not men be thus exam- 
 ined and graded? Are humans of less ac- 
 count than beasts? Our young women to- 
 day are to a great extent graded by the size 
 of their fortunes. Under the table of one of 
 our richest families, after dinner, there was 
 picked from the floor a card of a well- 
 known society man and on the back of it 
 was the name of each girl at the table, with 
 her value, in dollars. The young man 
 needed the money and won his prize and 
 the young lady lost her name and her hap- 
 piness. Now, it is only fair to the young 
 women that young men who are candidates 
 for matrimony should be able to furnish a 
 certificate from a Eecord Office that their 
 pedigrees are free from hereditary ail- 
 ment; and, from an expert, that they are 
 sound, normal, and have the number and 
 kind of germ cells which are necessary to 
 produce intelligent, healthy and talented 
 children, and they be graded, accordingly, 
 in what class each stands — according to 
 his worth as a sire in the A, B, C, D, E, 
 
224 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 or F class. F represents a * * blank, ' ' a male 
 only in name. There are many fine looking 
 fellows in the F class. It is the sire that 
 marks the child as to its health, vigor, men- 
 tal and physical qualities. And, why should 
 not a wife, each spring, before she mates 
 with her husband, have him microscopically 
 examined, just as we examine a stallion? 
 If this were done, we would have healthier 
 longer-lived men, stronger and happier 
 children. The Wasserman blood tests tell 
 999 times out of a 1,000 if a man has the 
 germs of syphilis in his blood. As a suitor 
 for my daughter's hand, an intelligent, en- 
 terprising, active, healthy young man of 
 good character without a dollar, but with 
 good habits, good education, good ancestral 
 pedigree and certificate that he is in Class 
 A would stand higher in my estimation than 
 a man with many millions and a shaky pedi- 
 gree even if he had a certificate of health 
 and good character. 
 
 Recently, as handsome and fine a speci- 
 men of physical humanity as you want to 
 look at, one in one hundred thousand, came 
 to tell me that he was about to marry. I 
 
UNDERTAKER NEVER DECEIVED 225 
 
 immediately sent him to a chemist, who 
 years before had helped save his life from 
 the dread disease, syphilis, and, to his and 
 my amazement, a few deadly germs were 
 found in his blood. After a short treat- 
 ment, he was well — the test showed that he 
 was cured. Just pause and think of the 
 amount of agony and sorrow saved ! 
 
 Another man, whom I know well, lay sick 
 — and the idea occurred to him that, per- 
 haps, there might be left in him some germs 
 of gonorrhoea, of which he had supposed 
 himself cured thirty years before. He sent 
 for a most distinguished genito-urinary 
 specialist, and right in the urethra was 
 found a hard cyst, and, when cut open and 
 put under a microscope, in its center were 
 gonococci. A germ, like the seed in the 
 mummy, three thousand years ago, never 
 dies, for it propagates its progeny and its 
 family is immortal. 
 
 Some years ago, three eminent surgeons 
 were examining me, the object in view 
 being an operation for a blow over the kid- 
 neys, which had burst a blood vessel and 
 left a large blood clot. They told me that if 
 
226 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 I ever had contracted or inherited syphilis 
 I would die from the effects of the opera- 
 tion. I stated that I never had contracted 
 nor had I inherited the disease. Later, I 
 discovered them examining my blood, and 
 said to them, ^*Why did you not believe 
 meV^ They laughed and said, ^^You have 
 no idea of the large percentage of people 
 who either have syphilis by inheritance or 
 from lack of care. We never take anyone's 
 word on that poinf I replied, ^^Yes; I 
 know you do not for our cemetery buries 
 thousands, yearly, for whom you doctors 
 give certificates of death from heart failure 
 and the like, but you never deceive the un- 
 dertaker." 
 
 Marriage is for the purpose of founding 
 a home and family. When a woman ar- 
 rives at that state in her career, and is 
 ready to agree to a partnership with a home 
 and family in view, it is due her that she 
 should know all about the man whom she is 
 about to marry. Science is now able to 
 give the exact information and to tell her 
 wJiat kind of children she will produce if so 
 
YOUNG MEN OF TODAY LACK BREEDING 227 
 
 mated, instead of the traditional ^^leap in 
 the dark.'' 
 
 Should I sell a mortgaged house and lot, 
 asserting to the purchaser that the prop- 
 erty is free and clear, I would go to the 
 penitentiary; but if a young man encum- 
 bered with disease today marries a trust- 
 ing young woman, knowing, as he must, 
 that he is sending her to a life of misery 
 and shame, this scoundrel gets off with con- 
 gratulations from his boon companions; 
 and the question is, — ^^what are you going 
 to do about it r' 
 
 Did young men know that, at certain 
 ages, they must submit to examination and 
 be graded as to physical and sexual vigor, 
 and the results of those examinations be 
 made available for the use of the public, 
 and the report made an official record^ 
 there would be a wonderful change in the 
 amount of wild oats sown and a great les- 
 sening of the harvest of social diseases. 
 *^ Safety First'' would be their motto. 
 
 GOVERNMENT RECORDS PROVE 
 THAT 75% OF OUR YOUNG MEN ARE 
 SO INFERIOR IN BREEDING THAT 
 
228 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 THEY CANNOT PASS THE SIMPLEST 
 ARMY AND NAVY MENTAL AND 
 PHYSICAL TESTS. 
 
 That some attention should be given to 
 the future of the American boy is brought 
 out by the Government Report on an exam- 
 ination of the recruits accepted by the 
 United States Army during May, 1916. 
 There were 14,020 applicants for admis- 
 sion to the army. Of this number, 11,081, 
 or over 77%, were rejected, because of 
 their physical or mental unfitness; and, 
 as I before stated, only defects were con- 
 sidered which prevented applicants from 
 active service. The rejections in certain 
 New York City recruiting offices were 80% 
 of those making application. A few of 
 these cases come under the head, ^Mue to 
 inability to speak and write English,'' but 
 the rejections for the most part are due 
 to physical defects, the main physical de- 
 fects being the ears, eyes, lungs and feet. 
 
 The use of alcohol and cigarettes causes 
 some to be rejected. The chest and muscu- 
 lar development of the country boy exceeds 
 that of the city boy ; but the city boy, after 
 
EXAMINATION BEFORE MARRIAGE 229 
 
 having a yearns training, acquires about the 
 same chest development as the country boy. 
 The German Army records show that army 
 training lengthens the country boy's life as 
 much, often, as five years, and adds more 
 to the life of the city boy. This is due to 
 the conditions under which the boys of to- 
 day are being born and reared. It shows a 
 steady tendency to physical degeneracy. 
 Where will it all end? 
 
 It appears that rejections for the Navy 
 run as high as 871/2%? for they are more 
 rigid in their requirements than the Army. 
 Not all rejections, by any means, are due to 
 hereditary defects, but a large per cent, 
 are due to hereditary causes. A nation, in 
 its defense ^nd in its commercial and busi- 
 ness enterprises, can rise no higher than 
 its manhood. It seems to me, the time has 
 come when we must consider a method of 
 securing better mentally and physically fit 
 men ; and, to do this, we must, at once, edu- 
 cate our citizens to realize that to have its 
 men and women free from hereditary phy- 
 sical and mental defects is of greater value 
 
230 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 to our nation than the means of acquiring 
 wealth, for such wealth is temporary. 
 
 In a certain recruiting ofSce in New York 
 City, 90% of those who applied were re- 
 jected ; in Kentucky, 65%. In the Navy Ee- 
 serve applications in Illinois, 76% were re- 
 jected. 
 
 The recruiting officers of our Army and 
 of our Navy must reject men because they 
 are too small and lack chest expansion, be- 
 cause they have defective vision, hearing 
 and lung expansion, because, in short, — or 
 defective bodies. To sum it up, they are 
 physical weaklings. 
 
 IF OUR ARMY AND NAVY COM- 
 PEL EXAMINATIONS OF MEN WHO 
 ARE TO BE FOOD FOR CANNONS 
 AND SUBMARINES, OUR GOVERN- 
 MENT MUST PASS LAY\^S REQUIR- 
 ING THE SAME KIND OF EXAMINA- 
 TIONS BEFORE MARRIAGE OF OUR 
 YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN, IF THEIR 
 OFFSPRING ARE TO BE OUR FU- 
 TURE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS. 
 
 If the United States Government will, to- 
 day, only accept for the Army and Navy 
 
AMERICAN NATION ON THE DECLINE 231 
 
 young men, who are the healthiest and best, 
 physically and mentally, for food for the 
 cannon, is it not equally, if not more, im- 
 portant that laws should be passed that 
 will insure the breeding of such individ- 
 uals? And to insure this before marriage 
 licenses are issued, equally as rigid exam- 
 inations as the Government makes today 
 for the soldier or sailor must be made of 
 the young men who are candidates for 
 marriage, for they are to be the sires of 
 our future citizens, our future soldiers and 
 sailors. 
 
 If such a large percentage of our young 
 men are rejected today, why, fifty years 
 hence, we will have no young men who will 
 pass the present Government examination ; 
 for there are three infallible laws in breed- 
 ing, viz. : 
 
 First : Like produces like or a likeness of 
 a former ancestor. 
 
 Second: The inferior of any animal is 
 the more prolific. 
 
 Third: Defectives produce offspring in- 
 ferior to themselves. 
 
232 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 With sucli proofs before us, is it not evi- 
 dent that the American Nation is on the 
 decline? And, is it not time for patriotic 
 Americans to inquire what is best to be 
 done to avert this inevitable crisis? 
 
 I recently had a talk with a high 
 official of our navy. I remarked that I 
 was glad our Government is building so 
 many valuable additions to our navy. His 
 reply was: ^^I don't know where we are 
 going to get sufficient competent officers to 
 command tliem. We are having trouble 
 now to properly command the ships we 
 have. What we need for a Secretary'- of the 
 Navy is an energetic able man of business 
 ability, who has spent a good part of his 
 life in the navy and knows its needs, and 
 is skilled in naval affairs. The position 
 should not be a political plum, a reward for 
 getting presidential votes. Why, if our 
 Naval Academy at Annapolis and our Mil- 
 itary Academy at West Point were filled 
 today to overflowing, they could not supply 
 enough officers for our ships or our army. 
 The ships we have in the navy today are 
 not properly commanded by competent of- 
 
THE AMERICAN BABY 233 
 
 ficers. That is wtiy we have lost so many 
 ships. As for sailors and marines, you 
 have no idea of the number of mentally and 
 physically unfit who apply and are re- 
 jected. What we need are young men of 
 superior brains and good health for our 
 naval and military academies, but they are 
 not to be found. ' ' 
 
 We have no use for a weak horse. We 
 breed them so they will have vigor, stamina 
 and endurance. Men who can successfully 
 carry on the industries of our country and 
 defend the nation against her foes must 
 be men of vigor, stamina and strength. In 
 a word, they must have good constitutions 
 and the right ancestry. There is but one 
 way to secure such men and that is to breed 
 them, just as we breed horses or cattle, 
 to meet and fill every condition and purpose 
 for which their station in life intended 
 them. It will be sure to produce more con- 
 tentment and happiness, but the all-import- 
 ant thing is to see that our children come 
 into the world free from physical and men- 
 tal defects and that they are superior in 
 every respect to their parents; and when 
 
234 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 parents are not actuated by such desires 
 and motives tliey lack filial affection and 
 patriotism. 
 
 We now breed horses to go, at the age of 
 three years three, four and five or more 
 mile heats, in longVirawn-out grilling races, 
 \ at a gait of less than 2 :08 for all the heats. 
 We do it by selection for gait, for speed, for 
 stamina, for intelligence, for soundness, 
 and for toughness. There is nothing to 
 prevent the 80 per cent, of rejected men 
 reproducing their kind. We seem to think 
 more of a horse, or a cow, or a hog, than of 
 a man. 
 
 Years ago, I used to write, occasionally, 
 for a little sheet, called the *' American 
 Baby." Dr. D^vid Starr Jordan was a 
 regular contributor. It finally lost its pa- 
 tronage and failed, because it exposed to 
 the world the weaklings our American 
 mothers were producing. Mothers were 
 not inclined to take a practical view of the 
 situation and did not care to educate their 
 sons and daughters so as to avoid their par- 
 ents' mistake in mating but were inclined 
 to tell others in confidence how each had 
 
UNBORN NEED ABLE CHAMPIONS 235 
 
 made unfortunate selections in their hus- 
 bands. 
 
 AMEEICA NEEDS ABLE CHAMPIONS 
 OF HER UNBORN BABES. 
 
 What we need in this country, more than 
 anything else to-day, are patriotic states- 
 men of great brains and power of expres- 
 sion, educated as to the needs of our nation 
 in these respects, who will look into these 
 subjects from a scientific standpoint and 
 will then champion the cause of the 
 ^^ American Baby.'' The German Kaiser 
 is the only great man who has had the as- 
 tuteness to solve these problems and the 
 power to direct the passing of laws to even- 
 tually eradicate from Germany these so- 
 cial diseases and their effect on his sub- 
 jects' descendants. The Japanese are fast 
 attaining importance as they look into 
 these subjects, and where will we, as a 
 nation, be in 100 years, if our great men 
 and our great teachers of science do not 
 come to America's rescue and show our 
 young people, before it is too late, the im- 
 
236 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 portance of these matters to themselves 
 and to their children? 
 
 The time is near at hand when the United 
 States Government must, for six months at 
 least, take every boy between the ages of 
 fifteen and sixteen to a Military camp or 
 on the Naval Reserve and give him a train- 
 ing in the rudiments of protection, and edu- 
 cate him and instruct him as to his duties to 
 the State and to himself in sex hygiene. If 
 this were done, the country would be safe 
 from foreign invasion and we would have 
 healthier, more loyal, and longer-lived citi- 
 zens. 
 
 Society would heartily endorse such a 
 propaganda could it be known how great is 
 the agony of the thousands of good women 
 who, in marriage, have drawn blanks, in- 
 stead of men. The story of the divorce 
 court reveals something of what these 
 splendid women have had to endure and 
 there are more of such cases than the world 
 generally knows. I would call in the aid of 
 science in the way of preliminary examina- 
 tions for the purpose of making the disap- 
 pointment and the agony of such divorces 
 
WASTED LIFE REFLECTED IN CHILD 237 
 
 unnecessary. One further step, perhaps, is 
 necessary to guard the life and health of 
 the wife, as well as the unborn child. The 
 penalty for a husband knowingly to carry 
 the social disease into his home should be 
 more severe than for the crime of cold- 
 blooded murder. 
 
 Such examinations as I am advocating 
 would prevent a condition to pregnant 
 women which often is seen in the incubation 
 of eggs. The life germ of the egg, due to 
 a union of a germ cell from the male and 
 female, will show various degrees of vigor. 
 Some die before development starts ; some 
 germs live 3, 5, 10, 15 or 18 days. Anyone 
 who has operated an incubator has seen the 
 little black spots in the egg appear and 
 knows the germ is dead. Others are too 
 weak to break away from the shell, while a 
 certain per cent, have only vitality enough 
 to carry them for a few days after hatch- 
 ing. If you examine such chicks, you will 
 discover that many are defective ; club feet, 
 twisted necks or backs, or are otherwise 
 physically and mentally irregular; and if 
 vou examine the dead chicks in the shells, 
 
238 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 you will generally find they are physically 
 defective. 
 
 The lack of life force in the developing 
 chick is due to the sexual weakness of 
 the male bird. One of his defective life 
 germ centers at the time of mating has 
 floated over and joined one of the centers 
 of the female, thus producing a defective 
 chick. Prospective healthy mothers find 
 themselves often trying to bring to the 
 hour of birth a new life too weak for the 
 ravages of this old world, because the father 
 of the child had wasted his \dgor in riotous 
 living and his seed was diseased or too 
 weak or there were hereditary defects in 
 his life germs which produced offspring 
 that were physically and mentally irregu- 
 lar. Would a girl marry a used up man, or 
 one whose germs of life to her mating were 
 likely to produce club-footed, crooked- 
 spined, lop-sided or mentally defective off- 
 spring if her eyes were opened to the mis- 
 ery sure to follow? A lady who had given 
 birth to five children, four of whom were 
 either club-footed, crooked-spined or had 
 other physical or mental imperfections, at 
 
WHY THEY CRY BIRTH CONTROL! 239 
 
 last gave birth to a perfect specimen of a 
 child and, in her joy, exclaimed to her 
 friends, — ^^My doctor told me my husband 
 and I were perfectly formed; that there 
 was no known reason for our defective 
 children, so I just kept on having children 
 and now I am happy ! ' * Was this fair to the 
 unborn, or to the children who were born? 
 If, instead of consulting a doctor, she had 
 consulted a scientific poultry breeder, he 
 could have explained the cause. 
 
 Just such examples as these have pro- 
 duced the present hysteria and the cry 
 about ^^ Birth Control." Get to the cause! 
 If men and women would only lead normal 
 natural lives, give up liquor, cigarettes and 
 drugs, be themselves free from disease and 
 hereditary defects, they would not give 
 birth to defective children and no woman 
 would have any fear of giving birth to 
 children. 
 
 We need far more stringent immigra- 
 tion laws, laws compelling the social dis- 
 eases of men and women to be made a sub- 
 ject of public record, that men be ster- 
 ilized who are so diseased and defective 
 
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 that they can only produce defective off- 
 spring; laws should be passed, as I have 
 suggested, forbidding the marriage of per- 
 sons whose defects are hereditary. 
 
 THE VALUE OF REGISTKY ASSO- 
 CIATIONS. 
 
 The first object the eye meets in the stud- 
 barn hanging on the wall of any breeding 
 farm is the framed State Veterinary Cer- 
 tificate of the horse, jack, bull, etc., setting 
 forth that on such and such a day of that 
 year, this stallion, bull, jack, etc., whose 
 number is so and so in the Eegistry of the 
 Association in which he is classed, and 
 which Association is recognized by the 
 United States Department of Agriculture, 
 has been inspected by the State Official and 
 he has been found to be free from disease, 
 hereditary and physical imperfections and 
 that the State will allow him to stand for 
 public service. 
 
 Next hangs the pedigree of the stallion. 
 It will tell the class to which he belongs 
 in trotting, running, draft, etc., etc., and 
 will be certified to by the Board of Eeg- 
 
SPENDING MILLIONS ON CATTLE 241 
 
 istry of that Association. It also will cer- 
 tify that they have examined the ancestral 
 pedigrees of that stallion. Likewise it will 
 show the tap roots from which the ancestors 
 of this or that family came, going back, say 
 fifty to one hundred years or more. The 
 official number of each male ancestor will be 
 given and the names of the most illustrious 
 offspring of each ancestor, with their 
 achievements and their records, with refer- 
 ences to the official registry book. 
 
 What is true of the stallion is true of the 
 bull, the boar, the ram, the jack, the dog, 
 etc.; so, by a glance at the pedigree, any 
 intelligent breeder, who brings his mare, 
 cow, sow or ewe to be bred, will have a 
 general knowledge of the kind of colt, calf, 
 pig, sheep, etc., the mating will produce, 
 and be able to judge in a general way about 
 what their value and future achievements 
 will be. That is why a breeder pays one 
 dollar for the service fee of one stallion or 
 one thousand dollars for another. 
 
 The people of this country have no idea 
 of the millions and millions of dollars that 
 
242 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 are today invested in tliese ancestral pedi- 
 gree associations of our domestic animals 
 and barnyard fowl. 
 
 The Am. Jersey Cattle Club owns a $200,- 
 000 fireproof building in West 23d Street, 
 New York City, in which are kept their 
 records. Today, there are on their books, 
 520,000 cows and bulls registered, worth, 
 perhaps, $150,000,000. They employ a 
 small regiment of examiners to insure that 
 the blood of their breed is not mixed or 
 polluted by outside blood. 
 
 The American Guernsey Cattle Club has 
 its registry at Peterboro, New nampshire. 
 The Holstein-Freisian Association has its 
 club house at Brattleboro, Vermont. It 
 has eight thousand members and its regis- 
 try covers, perhaps, $150,000,000 worth of 
 cattle. These and other clubs all act in 
 connection with Continental clubs, etc., etc., 
 but not one dollar is spent by our United 
 States Government or by any state or by 
 any association to see that the blood of the 
 *^ American Baby'' is protected from the 
 imported, unhealthy mixed blood from 
 
HUMANS NEGLECT BREEDING OWN GET 243 
 
 Ghettos or the cellars of Europe or the 
 Orient filled with filth centuries old. 
 
 In the Department of Agriculture, at 
 Washington, D. C, there is a sub-depart- 
 ment, ^^The Bureau of Animal Industry." 
 Every one of the departments of the Ani- 
 mal Industry in the various State Colleges 
 of Agriculture in every state ; and every one 
 of these Eegister Associations of Domestic 
 Animals and Barnyard Fowl and Kennel 
 Associations, file, yearly, their reports 
 here ; but we have no Eegistry that has for 
 its object the up-breeding of pure blooded 
 American babies. Every man, woman and 
 child in every town or city in France, 
 Switzerland and Germany, has a record of 
 his or her birth, life and death kept in the 
 Town Hall, a real Human Registry, but 
 we have nothing of that nature here. 
 
 Each of our Custom House Officials has 
 a book, telling only what foreign Registry 
 Association of Domestic Animals, Poultry, 
 etc., they are allowed to accept. But, where 
 have we a Human Registry that will give 
 the pedigree of each immigrant and his 
 achievements when he comes into our coun- 
 
244 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 try! Oh, no, for, if there were, in ninety- 
 nine cases out of a hundred those life his- 
 tories would shock us. 
 
 None but the ignorant or fools deny that 
 recognized laws of animal breeding apply 
 to humans, as well, but custom, the tyran- 
 nical master of men and women, founded 
 on centuries of senseless sentiment and 
 false pruderies, has prevented the prac- 
 tical application of these laws to the breed- 
 ing of a great race of men and women. 
 Men and women devote their best energies 
 to improve animals ; and the same men and 
 women, experienced in anim^al breeding, 
 close their eyes as to their own get. 
 
 When it comes to the human family and 
 the future of our offspring, we, who pride 
 ourselves on our cleverness, fail to open 
 our eyes to see what is to be seen and close 
 our ears to hear what is to be heard — and 
 all this in the 20th Century, while o«r 
 boasted civilization is sweeping along the 
 path that leads to social decay and oblivion, 
 when a little care and attention would turn 
 the tide the other way. 
 
MUST RECORD SOCIAL DISEASES 245 
 
 MEDICAL MEN MUST MAKE A 
 
 EECORD OF ALL CASES OF 
 
 SYPHILIS. 
 
 To cover up and conceal the hereditary 
 and social ills of man, laws have been 
 passed to close the lips of the medical pro- 
 fession about the family failings, diseases 
 and achievements. We do not improve 
 the breed of a horse, or any animal, by 
 concealing his ancestral history and fail- 
 ings. Then, why conceal human failings; 
 why not let the life of man be as an open 
 book? Let the medical profession make 
 man's life record a public record, just as 
 we record the building of a grand struc- 
 ture or the incumbrances and easements on 
 property in our Halls of Record. It will 
 do more to breed a healthy nation and to 
 save our daughters from disease and mis- 
 ery. An innocent girl married into one of 
 the oldest families of New York to find that 
 no one outside of their distinguished family 
 doctor knew it was tainted with hereditary 
 insanity; that some one of his family was 
 constantly in a sanatorium with fits of tem- 
 porary insanity; and that in other branches 
 
246 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 of the family, the same phenomenon was 
 occurring and had occurred for generations 
 back. 
 
 France saw the danger of this years ago 
 and passed laws making the concealment 
 of such life histories quite impossible. To- 
 day, we all see how like a Phoenix she has 
 arisen from her ashes. Her soldiers today 
 have not a superior in the world for cour- 
 age, stamina and intelligence. 
 
 Germany did the same, and we all know 
 with what energy, courage and stamina her 
 soldiers have fought; how their brainy 
 Kaiser has rushed them from the East 
 Frontier to the West Frontier, or to the 
 South Frontier. 
 
 THE GEEMAN KAISER ^S CONTRI- 
 BUTION TO BENEFICIAL 
 SCIENCES. 
 
 The German Kaiser was once the great- 
 est Ruler that ever sat on any throne. He 
 saw that syphilis would soon undermine the 
 German nation, so he called to his aid Pro- 
 fessors Erlich and Harta, and gave them 
 full power to go ahead, at any cost of dis- 
 
GOVERNMENT WELCOMES HUMAN CURS 247 
 
 eased life or expense, and make a discovery 
 that would eradicate syphilis. When they 
 sent out to the world ^^606^' and then Sal- 
 varsan, they gave to the world the greatest 
 boon since the Christian era. They made 
 it possible to eradicate diseased blood and 
 to advance the breeding of healthy men. It 
 is a crime for diseased men or women to 
 marry. 
 
 The German Kaiser is, unquestionably, 
 the ablest, brainiest and most energetic 
 sovereign that ever sat on any throne since 
 the world began; he has made Germany 
 what she is today. But, before this dread- 
 ful uncalled-for war is over, it will be found 
 that this great man is a victim of heredi- 
 tary insanity, which, with his ambitions for 
 Germany's advancement, has worked upon 
 his mind and warped his judgment. 
 
 It is not my province to discuss this sub- 
 ject, but to give credit where credit is due ; 
 for, under the Kaiser's guiding hand and 
 mind, the greatest and most marvelous sci- 
 entific discoveries of late years have come 
 out of Germany ; and there is not a thinking 
 intelligent man in the whole world, but must 
 take off his hat to his genius. 
 
248 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 OUR GOVERNMENT EXCLUDES ILL- 
 BRED OR UNSEXED ANIMALS, 
 EXCEPT UNDER A PEN- 
 ALTY, BUT WELCOMES 
 HUMAN CURS. 
 
 The United States Government will not 
 let you import into this country, except 
 under a heavy penalty, dogs, pigs, cows, 
 horses, rams, chickens, etc., unless there are 
 attached to the shipping papers the health 
 certificates and breeding certificates of the 
 Registry of the Association to which the 
 animals belong; and this association must 
 be recognized by our Government and certi- 
 fied to by the Government of the country 
 from which the importation is made. 
 
 This registration certificate sets forth the 
 animaPs number in the Registry; and, if 
 it be a stallion or mare, its color, marks, 
 age, etc., are given with a certification that 
 its ancestry are all of pure blood — no mix- 
 ture — and every animal must be entire — 
 no gelding, no blank. Otherwise, it cannot 
 pass the United States Custom House ex- 
 cept under a penalty. With some animals, 
 even the foreign health certificate carries 
 
EXAMINE EMIGRANTS MICROSCOPICALLY 249 
 
 no weight ; and straight to the Government 
 Quarantine Yards they go to be watched 
 and inspected by onr Government veterin- 
 aries. 
 
 If our Government passes laws to insure 
 only pure blooded dogs coming into this 
 country, why do they open the gates wide 
 and invite in all the human curs of Europe, 
 the Orient, and the rest of the world, 
 to pollute and disease the standardized 
 blood of the Plymouth Kock Colony? 
 
 Some years ago, one morning, we found 
 the Jersey Coast strewn with thousands of 
 bundles of grapevines, perfectly packed and 
 in fine condition, washed ashore, as we 
 thought, from a shipwreck. I took pains to 
 investigate, and found that some recog- 
 nized Grape Growers' Association had dis- 
 covered that some microbic disease had 
 broken out in the vineyards of France or 
 Italy, from which these young vines were 
 coming, and had communicated with the De- 
 partment of Agriculture. The United 
 States Government had sent to all Custom 
 Houses a contraband order on all ships 
 importing such grape vines; the con- 
 
250 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 signees in New York, having received a 
 copy of the ship's manifest by fast mail, 
 discovering that they had on board these 
 contraband grape vines, had sent a tug 
 down the Bay to intercept the freight 
 steamer and to notify its Captain that if a 
 single one of these grape vines was found 
 by the Custom House on his ship, the whole 
 cargo would be condemned; so, before en- 
 tering port, overboard went every grape 
 vine. 
 
 Neither our Government nor these 
 steamship companies, who bring diseased, 
 feeble-minded, ill-bred specimens of human- 
 ity to our shore, have a medical examiner 
 with a microscope to select out and throw 
 overboard those humans that they find in- 
 fected with microbes which cause infantile 
 paralysis and other diseases of which we, 
 until lately, never heard. Oh, no; for the 
 steamship companies get five dollars, eight 
 dollars or ten dollars per head, and, in many 
 cases, they get a bonus from foreign coun- 
 tries for removing their rotten human de- 
 bris, just as we pay the garbage men for 
 
DENIED CHILDREN— GIVEN PUPS 251 
 
 calling at our kitchen door and removing 
 our garbage. 
 
 Unfortunately, our dear beautiful coun- 
 try is looked upon by these foreigners as 
 the proper place to dump their diseased 
 human wrecks. 
 
 Our Government protects the grape 
 growers from germs that infect only vines ; 
 but they do not protect the American baby 
 from the germs bred in Ghettos and dark 
 cellars of the Orient. 
 
 The ^^ Pothouse'' politicians are delighted 
 to receive these foreigners and instruct 
 their Congressmen not to interfere with! 
 their landing. Their votes are valuable to 
 District Leaders ^4n blocks of 5," — more 
 grist to their mill. 
 
 Any intelligent importer of old masters 
 will tell you, that we have no beauty of face 
 or form today, that compares with what 
 existed 400 years ago. The portraits also 
 indicate, that the physical and mental quali- 
 ties of our highest types of today fall far 
 short of those of even the medium of by- 
 gone days ; the cause is lack of breeding. 
 
252 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 CONCLUSION. 
 
 The Eugenic Bureau at Cold Spring 
 Harbor, Long Island, is today being pri- 
 vately consulted by various people in the 
 East, and the time is not far distant when 
 every great city in the United States will 
 have its Eugenic Bureau; when laws will 
 be passed that doctors will have to enter 
 in the Bureaus of Public Record the dis- 
 eases, ailments, mental and physical defects 
 that are hereditary, of every family, just 
 as they do in Germany and France. 
 
 We know the good and defective charac- 
 teristics in the horse, dairy, poultry, pig 
 and other families of domestic animals. We 
 have seen what such information has done 
 to improve these breeds. Then, why should 
 not like information be recorded as to the 
 human family, so that the present and fu- 
 ture generations may take advantage of it, 
 to make our human family the best bred 
 instead of the worst? 
 
 We employ paid legal and medical ad- 
 visers, paid consulting and mining engi- 
 neers, in fact, no intelligent man, nowadays, 
 undertakes any great step in life without 
 
MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HERITAGE 253 
 
 securing tlie paid services of some expert 
 in that particular line. 
 
 Then, why not pay for the services of an 
 expert scientist to look up genealogies 
 and give advice on the all vital questions of 
 life, namely, what shall my children hel 
 Shall they have health, brains, refinement, 
 with good inclinations and good habits, 
 good tendencies ; or, shall they be born un- 
 healthy, brainless, ill-mannered, with bad 
 inclinations and vicious habits'? Most peo- 
 ple, even when they purchase a horse or a 
 bull, consult a specialist in that line. 
 
 This is the question that must come home 
 to each and every young man and young 
 woman who contemplates marriage. With 
 the advance of science today, all can be 
 foretold; and any young man or young 
 woman who fails to take advantage of this 
 opportunity before marriage should there- 
 after hold his or her peace. Their remorse 
 will, perhaps, lead them to see that their 
 children do not make the same mistake. 
 
 The purpose of courts is to secure justice 
 to all. There are courts for the living, 
 the criminal and the civil; courts for the 
 
254 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 dead, to settle their estate after their death, 
 the surrogate and the administrator's 
 courts ; and, to look out for the interests of 
 orphans, we have orphans* courts. There 
 are courts for juveniles, courts for the ir- 
 responsible, where all may have justice 
 meted out to them, but where is the court 
 for the unborn? Who guarantees to the un- 
 born child its right of a decent heritage? 
 The most fundamental, the most inalienable 
 of all rights is the right to be well born ; to 
 have perfect health, and physical and men- 
 tal force, capable of development The 
 child deserves to come into the world 
 sound in body, sound in brain and sound in 
 morals with good tendencies. 
 
 How can these things be guaranteed to 
 children when besotted, or soaked in al- 
 cohol, or syphilitic men and women, or men- 
 tally defective men and women are allowed 
 by our laws to marry and bring into the 
 world offspring with unhealthy bodies, per- 
 verted intellects and handicapped with the 
 worst of earth's ills? Is society doing its 
 duty to the next generation when it allows 
 this to happen? Let every man ask him- 
 
A BABY'S PRAYER 255 
 
 self, am I honest and square to my own 
 name, to my offspring, to my wife and 
 to the State? When these things are well 
 understood, common sense will win the day 
 for the cause of eugenics. 
 
 There are enough subnormal babies pro- 
 duced by accident of development and of 
 birth, where every possible care is taken by 
 fit parents. It is an absolute defiance of 
 nature's laws to expect the unfit to endow 
 their progeny with a good heritage. Our 
 duty to the next generation will not be 
 discharged when we turn over to them our 
 rich soil, great cities, national highways, 
 efficient manufacturing plants, multitudes 
 of colleges and universities, churches and 
 schools. There is need of a court to guar- 
 antee justice to the unborn, to guarantee to 
 every child the heritage of a sound physical 
 body, the heritage of a strong brain and 
 nerve force, and the heritage of good 
 morals and good tendencies. 
 
 To sell my colts, their heritage must be 
 above reproach, and they must be regis- 
 tered by a Board that guarantees their an- 
 cestors, that gives their achievements, good 
 
256 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 
 
 or bad. Is man not worth more than a 
 horse? The only way I can get horses 
 *^ worth while" is by mating the healthiest 
 and most distinguished individuals of the 
 breed. 
 
 The myriads of unborn babies stretch 
 out their tiny hands to us from the mystic 
 future and plead in baby voices, as before 
 an august Court of Justice, for the right 
 of decent, healthy and normal parentage, 
 for the right of cultured, healthy, well- 
 bred parentage, for the right of talented 
 parentage. Out of the insistent demands 
 of these shadowy babies the most impor- 
 tunate of all to my ear is the one which 
 declares : 
 
 ^^Eefuse to give me birth, or else let me 
 be well-born. ' ' 
 
 Will not this generation grant this 
 sacred request? 
 
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