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...their children. The birthrate of the United States, now about 22 per thousand population, as well as of all the more advanced countries, has declined steadily in the past half century since the agitation for birth control (starting in England with Robert Owen, Francis Place and the famous Bradlaugh-Besant trial) became widespread. It is well known that many physicians give information to their private patients. But the lower classes, economically and mentally, have been shut off from such sources. It is these classes, including the majority of immigrants, which have the largest families and contribute the largest share...
...which is signed by the author. A story entitled "The Drummer of Company E" follows soon after and the next thing of importance one comes across is an article on "A Cosmopolitan Language," illustrated with portraits of Max Muller. Sir John Lubbock, John Bright, Earl Roseberry, Charles Bradlaugh and others...
Best general references: Congressional Record, 51st Cong., 2nd Sess., pp., 828, 889, 1, 646, 1, 763 et seq., 1,860 et seq., Reynaud, "Histoire de la Discipline Palementaire," II, 355-400, 417; Dickinson, "Rules and Procedure of Foreign Parliaments," 204-276, 356; Bradlaugh, "Rules of the House of Commons," 78-80; H. H. Smith, "Rules and Practice of the House of Representatives...
...question "Who are the coming men in England?" by saying that there seems to be no coming man in the world of poetry, no future Disraeli or Gladstone in politics, but that such as they are the "most coming" are Balfour, Moriey, Sir William Harcourt, perhaps Labouchere and probably Bradlaugh. Max O'Rell's paper on Lively Journalism is much more "lively" than thoughtful. Its views are conspicuously superficial. "Family life among the Mormons" by one of the fifty-six children of Brigham Young is just about what might be expected from its origin, being both weak, unveracious and silly...
...Bradlaugh has won his suit before Chief Justice Coleridge against Mr. Newdegate...