As I said before, it is time that the narrow-minded reactionaries should be taught that they are not the pillars of the true Church and the pillars of the ideal society that they have supposed themselves to be; they are neither good, nor pious, nor useful. They are the real enemies of knowledge, reason, Christ and God. They try to murder childhood with ghastly lies about hell-fire; they try to enchain manhood and womanhood in shackles of mediæval, nonsensical, character-rotting superstitions. TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW YORK _American Industrial Independence_ [TO THE EDITOR OF THE FORUM] DEAR SIR,—The peril of dependence on foreign nations for production and over-sea transportation is demonstrated in the European war of 1914 as never before. The loss of human life in this war will be appalling, the resulting sacrifice of the fruits of the labor of generations inestimable, and the loss of capital will be enormous. We must use our best judgment to prevent these disastrous conditions from weakening our industrial capacity. This is the time when we should think and think hard about conserving and developing industrial independence. We have issued the following announcement: “_To American Producers_: Please report to us any article or articles (raw material or finished product) of use in agriculture, mining or manufacture in the United States, for the supply of which we are dependent upon any foreign country.” We shall take up every article thus reported, investigate the possibility of successful production at home, and urge upon Americans the desirability of such changes in our existing tariff system as shall create new industries in every line where we are now partly or wholly dependent on foreign countries. A. D. JUILLIARD Chairman, Executive Committee, The American Protective Tariff League. NEW YORK _Eugenics in Wisconsin_ [TO THE EDITOR OF THE FORUM] DEAR SIR,—As supplementary to your editorial on _Eugenic Tests_, which appeared in the August issue of THE FORUM, I am submitting herewith my editorial on the general subject, which appeared in _The Milwaukee Daily News_ recently. As, of course, you know, Wisconsin, at the last session of its legislature, placed on its statute books a law requiring certain examinations and tests to be made before the intending groom could secure a license to marry. The law provoked widespread discussion and far from general approval. It was thought, in some quarters, to be too drastic to be capable of full and complete compliance. However, it is still on our statute books, and while some of its most drastic provisions, like the laboratory tests, are not being insisted upon, the belief is general that the law is doing some good along new and, heretofore, untried lines. It gives notice that something beside matrimonial misery must be a condition precedent to the marriage relation.