Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Friday, December 30, 1910. "Race Suicide".

Cornell University Professor Walter F. Willcox delivered his address, "The Change in the Proportion of Children in the United States and the Birth-Rate in France During the Nineteenth Century", to a meeting of the American Statistical Association in St. Louis. In it, he posed as hyperbole that statistically if the trend continued, births would cease by 2015.

The paper variant:

This was taken for what it was, a statistical example, by listeners, but Theodore Roosevelt used the talk to boost his talking points on "race suicide", which essentially held that the WASP class was dooming itself to extinction due to its lower birth rate..  The concept, long held in repute, has revived during the Second Trump Administration, probably making this one of the very few points that MAGA and Theodore Roosevelt agree upon.  It's the basis, to some degree of the Pronatalist movement, which likewise holds that European American women are not having enough children.

Anglican minister and astronomer T.H.E.C. Espin became the first human to see the birth of the new star.

Rancher Luis Moya declared for Madero and began to assemble an armed force.

The New York Times reported that Federal troops had defeated Maderistas in battle the day prior.

Last edition:

Thursday, December 29, 1910. Oklahoma City became the capital of Oklahoma, replacing Guthrie.

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