with us in Virginia, it is strictly a humanitarian and economic provision. I conduct the only white institution for mental defectives in Virginia and this State, with a population of about 1,600,000 whites, is not financially able without a greatly increased tax rate to care for more than a handful, comparatively speaking, of anti-social women and girls of one hundred counties and twenty cities, who bear illegitimate children, and increase the population of mental defectives to a degree which cannot be calculated in fifty years by any mathematician.
Our purpose is to use, as I have been trying for some ten years, this Institution as a kind of clearing house to give these young women educational, industrial and moral training, sterilize them and send them out to earn their own living, and permit them to enjoy ‘Liberty and the peaceful pursuit of happiness’ guaranteed in our Declaration of Independence, and to relieve the State of this enormous burden.
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