A Chinese Writer Protests Against Infanticide The Chekiang Provincial Council writes a correspondent of the Chinese Press, has recently taken census of the province and finds the population amounts to For persons. Of these GO2SNH ave males and—2,028,812 Females se that the mares outnumber the ternates by 2574077 The Government account for' this by the fact that Chinese custom has Always Veen to rejoice at the birth of a bey and to be disaprointat the birth of a girl. The inequality of 1 the disparity in the population, Yrom. thie sprang the custom of infanticide and many girl infants fare drowned ut their birth. But fogs and pirls are equally human Beings: they are endowed with the ame life and this is a good reason Why. the evil custom of destroying: Kirt babies ought to be prohibited. Our late President has said "for the last bundyed years there has been nw increase in the population of oar country. According to the Citimate of the American Minister, Rockhill, the population of China not mere" than 300,000,000.
rhone knows that China's popu! ation is said to be 400,000,000 but. according to the estimate of foreign scientists and religious bodies, two years ago our population was 310, {00,000 and last year it was 300, (000.000, "It is evident then, that unless we prohibit the destruction fof child life, and so increase our Honulation, the number of our people will continually decrease." This the second jooed reason why the Dad practice of infanticide should
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