Kentucky Irish American

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British Educator wants Restrictions on the Workers.

The annual meeting of the British Association was held in Dublin, Ireland, last week, and the most notable feature of the assembly was the eulogium on the middle class of Great Britain pronounced by Prof. Ridgeway. The professor is not only an alarmist, but an advocate of race suicide. In reporting the convention of the British Association the correspondent of the New York World last Saturday alluded to Prof. Ridgeway as follows:

He says that a statesman, like a wise stock breeder, ought to foster the increase of the best elements which go to make up the people, and discourage the multiplication of the worst.

"Yet in our community," he said, "statesmen of both parties have adopted the very opposite policy. The children of the working classes are educated at great cost to the State, the offspring of wastrels are given free meals, and already there are demands being made that they shall be clothed at the expense of the rate payers, and that their parents shall even be paid for providing them with lodgings.

"The heavy burden of taxation which is entailed by this policy falls with special weight upon the middle classes and renders it more difficult each year for young men and young women of that class to marry before the age of thirty; for they naturally shrink from the expense of attempting to bring up and provide for large or even moderate sized families.

"We need not then wonder at the falling off of the birth rate among the middle classes. Our legislators are bad stock masters, for they are selecting to continue the race of the most unfit physically and morally, while they continue more and more to discourage the increase of that class which has been proved to be the outcome of a long process of natural selection.

"The present policy which is being pursued tends to reduce that portion of the community which in all ages has been the mainstay of every State the world over—the middle class."