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CONSTITUTION

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OF THE

CANADIAN ASSOCIATION

FOR THF STUDY AND DISSEMINATION OF

SOCIAL SCIENCE.

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ORIGIN

THE CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY

AND DISSEMINATION OF SOCIAL SCIENCE.

The formation of an Association for the study of Social
Science in all its aspects has been the subject of private
conversation for some time among several gentlemen who had
read of the importance of similar organizations in Europe and
in the United States. These private meetings and conversa-
tions took a more practical form when the following gentle-
men at the urgent request of Dr Larocque,Federal Statistician,
who may be regarded as the founder of the Association, met
together at the residence of Mr. James Baylis, 55 McGill
College avenue, Montreal, September 17 th, 1891 : A. B. La-
rocque, M.D. ; Louis Laberge, M.D., Medical Health Officer,
Montreal ; Rev. W. J. Smyth, M.A., B.Sc, Ph.D. ; James
Baylis, Merchant; L. H. Pignolet, Advocate ; J. L. Coutl6e,
N.P. ; Ludger Gari6py, Merchant ; L. E. Beauchamp, Presi-
dent of Merchants' Society ; Ovide Dufresne, sen., Merchant;
L6on Gerin, Advocate; F. X. Moisan, Merchant; Dr. S.
Lachapelle, and Alderman N. A. Hurteau.

Dr. Larocque was called to the chair, and Rev. Dr. Smyth,
was requested to act as Secretary.

Dr. Larocque gave an elaborately prepared paper on the
subject of Demography, and showed that there was great
danger of sacrificing mental and moral progress by the undue
attention that men give to material progress.

He entered largely into the necessity of building up a
healthful and united nation by the spread of those grand
principles of reform in political and social economy, and by
bringing the spiritual to bear upon the material progress of
the nation.

He also showed how that, by the study and comparison of
our vital statistics, with those of other nations of the past and
present, we could be better qualified to investigate our own
position, and see whether we are tending towards national
decline, or towards a higher and stronger existence.

Dr. Larocque also drew attention to the need of studying
the habits of the people so that we might put into the hands
of families, and into the schools through the governing bodies,
such literature as would help the rising generation to under-
stand physical laws and the natural penalty for breaking
them; and to learn those principles of health, through the
study of Hygiene and kindred subjects, which would tend to
heir physical and intellectual improvement.

After an interchange of ideas on the part of all present, a
Committee, consisting of Rev. Dr. Smyth and Dr. Larocque
was appointed to consider the name of the association, set
forth the objects, and prepare plans of procedure.

Subsequent meetings were held at the residence of Rev.
Dr. Smyth, 385 St. Antoine street, and at the residence of L.
E. Beauchamp, 265 Sherbrooke street, the outcome of which
was the preparation of the following Circular ; the adoption
of the Constitution ; and the formation of the Society by the
appointment of the following officers : —

Hon. President,

President, A. B. Larocque, M.D,

I St Vice-President, James Baylis, Esq.

2nd Vice-President, L. E. Beauchamp, Esq.

Secretary, Rev. W.J. Smyth, M.A., B.Sc, Ph.D.

Assistant-Secretary, J. L. Coutlee, N.P.

Treasurer, F. X. Moisan, Esq.

Council.
LudgerGari^py, Esq. ; Louis Laberge, M.D. ; E.F.Ames, Esq.;
Leon G6rin, Advocate; Wm. Drysdale, Esq.; Ovide
Dufresne, Sr. Esq. ; L. H. Pignolet, Esq. ; Dr. S. La-
chapelle and Alderman N. A. Hurteau.

THE CANADIAN ASSOCIATION

FOR THE STUDY AND

DISSEMINATION OF SOCIAL SCIENCE.

The promoters of the above-named Association do not
consider it necessary to make an apology to the thoughtful
people of this Dominion, for endeavoring to meet a great
social need by forming a society for the study and diffusion
of knowledge bearing upon social life in its physical, moral
and national aspects.

The idea is by no means new, as both in Europe and the
United States of America there have been many societies
formed for the purpose of watching and diagnosing those
conditions of society which are unfavorable to true national
progress, and to advance such measures by the dissemina-
tion of scientific and economic knowledge, as shall, in a large
degree, lessen the irregularities which mar the social order in
our national life.

As a justification of the course we are now taking, it is
only necessary to give the names of a few well-established
or<ninizations in Europe and America : The " Association
Internationale pour le progr^s de Sciences Sociales ; " the
" Congr^s International de^Statistiques ; " the " International
Congress of Hygiene and Demography," which met in Lon-
don this year ; the " American Association for the Promotion
of Social Science; " the " American Association of Statistics."
These are a few of the many societies at present existing.
The extent of the ground covered ; the character of the work
done ; and the alarming reports submitted by these societies,
regarding the physical, moral, domestic and social conditions

of the nations represented, have had a large share in inspiring
and guiding the promoters of the Canadian association for
the dissemination of social science, in the inauguration of a
new society.

It may be claimed by some, that in a young and prosper-
ous country like ours we have nothing to fear from the moral
and social disorders that are so formidable in European
countries. At present we are indeed comparatively free
from some of the morejvirulent forms of vice and moral disease
that 'destroy nations. The time to be alarmed, however, is
not when the evil has come, but before it comes, so that
barriers may be erected to arrest its progress.

Separated as we are by an imaginary line, called the forty-
fifth degree of latitude, from a nation whose laws relating to
Marriage and Divorce are exceedingly lax and very varied
in the different States, and whose sentiments respecting family
responsibility are growing in an anti-chrislian and even
criminal direction, we ought to give the most earnest heed to
every abnormal indication, so that our country may be saved
from the fate |of some of the older civilizations of the world,
and from the dangers that threaten the countries of Europe
to-day.

There is no short path to the goal of national excellence.
The road must be paved with scientific and moral teaching,
and hedged by strong and christian leigislation.

Instruction should begin with the family, which is a divine
institution. It is most essential and desirable that this first
unit of social organization should be raised to the dignity
which God intended it to possess, through pure moral environ-
ment and religious and useful instruction.

Where purely material progress and outward develop-
ment only are made the goal of human life and energy,
parental responsibility and filial duty are apt to be woefully
depreciated. Hence, to the ennoblement of ihat sacred realm
of human life in the family circle, shall the efforts of our Asso-
ciation be mainly directed.

The great and only safe basis on which all domestic, social
and national greatness rest, viz.: on a knowledge of God and

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of His revealed will, admits and encourages the spread of that
knowledge which relates to physical, social and intellectual
progress.

It is our opinion, therefore, that the study of domestic
hygiene and domestic economy should be promoted in every
family, and that it is the duty of the State and the Church to
foster every movement and encourage every effort to dissem-
inate a knowledge of these subjects among the people, either
through special circulation by boards of health or through
their introduction to public schools.

In the month of August of the present year the " Interna-
tional Congress of Hygiene and Demography " met in London,
and was presided over by His Royal Highness, the Prince of
Wales. The subjects discussed were : the prevention of
communicable diseases ; the science of bacteriology in rela-
tion to-communicable diseases ; healthful homes for the labor-
ing classes; the hygiene of infancy and childhood ; the
hygiene of houses and towns ; the disposal of the dead, and
the duty of the Government towards the nation in regard
to health. All these subjects may very properly come before
our Association for consideration as occasion requires ; but as
our national conditions differ in some respects from the
nations represented in " The International Congress of Hygiene
and Demography," we shall probably differ in the subjects for
discussion and in the modes of operation.

An important part of our work shall doubtless lie in the
endeavor to secure improved and rehable returns of vital
statistics. As mariners, usually, by heaving the log and the
use of the sextant, are every day able to determine both the
rate of speed and position of their vessel upon the sea, so we,
through reliable statistics alone, can estimate our rate of speed,
favorably or unfavorably, and determine our exact status
among the nations.

At present the machinery for collecting statistics is very
imperfect, chiefly due to ignorance and neglect on the part of
parents. Much has been gained by the late publication of
the compulsory registration law, but much remains yet to be
done. By considerable trouble we can obtain the number of

marriages and deaths, but it is impossible as yet to secure correct
returns of natality. The hands of our health-officers, our sta-
tisticians and our Government, are at present tied for want of
a perfect municipal, provincial, and national system of col-
lecting and comparing our vital and social statistical returns.
It is only by the possession of such true returns that we can
compare our social and national conditions with those of
Europe and the United States, where evidences of approach-
ing national decline are only too plain when mortuary and
natal statistical returns are compared.

The population of the United States is rapidly increased
by the steady flow of immigration; but according to the
opinion of men who have investigated, the death rate in the
native population is rapidly approaching the birth-rate.

This is alarming in a new country like America ; but what
shall be the story when the nation has reached the age of
France, where it is stated that it is only due to the primitive
virtue of some of the mining, manufacturing, agricultural and
pastoral departments, such as, Le Nord, Le Pas-de-Calais, Le
Morbihan, La Lozere, La Finstere, Les C6tes-du-Nord, La
Vendee and others, that the death rate has not exceeded
the natality rate.

Our young Dominion, as far as our imperfect statistics
show, is not so censurable as many of the older countries of
the Continent, in encouraging or practising those evils that
are the worms that gnaw at the root of social and national
vitality. But vice, like disease, travels fast, and already we
are alarmed at the symptoms of encroaching infection, which,
if permitted to spread, shall soon run riot through the arteries
of our national life. The only remedy in the experience of
the world is that of a sound, moral and scientific education.
In the great campaign of self-protection, the quiet spread of
scientific knowledge and truth has done, and shall yet do,
more than the threatening ramparts of legislation.

To this holy task of leavening society with knowledge, the
promoters of this Association have given themselves, in the
hope of receiving that due patronage and confidence from the
intelligent people of this Dominion, of which the cause is

worthy. We have erected no walls to limit the subjects to be
discussed but such as belong to the individual mind. We
are no political society for furthering the interests of any
party. Our sphere of labor is as broad as the nation and as
deep as the human soul. We cannot avoid the study of
political economy, because it grows out of domestic and social
economy, and is identified with our national progress. In our
Association there is neither Rouge nor Bleu, neither Liberal
nor Conservative, for all are united in the great objects before
us.

Our population is composed of the descendants and adopted
sons of some of the noblest races and nations of the earth.
As the French and Anglo-Saxon tongues gracefully blended
after the Norman Conquest in England, and have left happy
traces of such union in such words as honour and favour
(which ruthless vandals have lately destroyed by the elimin-
ation of the historic letter «), so let the Anglo-Saxon and
French-speaking peoples of this Dominion hopefully, peace-
fully and enthusiastically blend their interests and fortunes
and energies to the rearing up of a nationality of strength and
purity and durability of which our descendants shall have
cause to be proud.

In our Association the matter of creed shall not be con-
sidered. We agree that " GodUness is profitable, unto all
things, having the promise of the life that now is and that
also which is to come," and we shall aim to encourage, and
spread it. But each member shall have the liberty to wor-
ship God according to his own conscience. Our motto is
union in all that concerns the building up of a strong nation-
ality. All races can surely rally round such a standard as we
propose, and work together for the physical, social and
moral welfare of the people. We have the holy boldness
to declare that our aim shall ever be to inspire and sustain
that "rig/ikousnesswhich exalteth a nation," then we know
that God will be honored, the nation benefited, and our own
souls blest.

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CONSTITUTION

THE CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY
AND DISSEMINATION OF SOCIAL SCIENCE.

1. The Name —

The name of the Association shall be " The Canadian
Association for the Study and Dissemination of Social

Science."

2. The Objects of the Association —

(a) It shall be the first object of the Association,
since we believe the time exceedingly opportune, to seek
by every worthy means to promote the building up of a
pure, strong and united Canadian nationality, irrespec-
tive of race or language.

{d) It shall be the second object of the Association to
take special cognizance of our vital statistics, and en-
deavor to secure through the proper channels the fullest
returns possible, so that our authorized statisticians may
be able to approximate more accurately the ratio of our
national progress.

(^) It shall be the third object of the Association to
discuss questions which bear intimately upon the physi-
cal, intellectual and moral welfare of our people ; to
study the social status of the different nationalities inhab-
iting Canada, and the research of such reforms as shall
promote the best interests of our common country.

(d) It shall be the fourth object of the Association to
encourage and stimulate the dissemination of such liter-
ature among our families and public schools, as shall,
instruct the rising generations in the laws that relate to
physical health, and in those principles of moral and
social order which shall make them good, reliable mem-
bers of society, and help them, as required by God's Holy
law, " to glorify God in their bodies and their spirits
which are His."

3. Membership —

All members must be elected by ballot, after being
nominated 'at a previous meeting. Associate members
may be elected after notice being given, but such mem-
bers cannot vote at any of the meetings. Honorary
members may be elected at any time. The active mem-
bership fee shall be one dollar annually. Twenty dol-
lars shall constitute a life irember.

4. Officers —

The officers of the Association, who shall be elected
by ballot, at the annual meeting, shall consist o fa Presi-
dent, first and second Vice-Presidents, Secretary and
Associate Secretary, and Treasurer, with an Executive
Council consisting of 9 members. Should a vacancy occur,
It may be filled at any regular meeting. An Hon. Pre-
sident may be elected ac the annual meeting.

5. Meetings —

The annual meeting shall be held on the last Monday
of September at 8 o'clock.

Regular meetings shall be held on the second Friday
of every^month at 8 o'clock.

Special meetings may be called by the President, or by
the Secretary when requested by two or more members.

6. Headquarters of the Association —

The Association shall have its headquarters in Mont-
real.

7. Local Associations —

It is most important, and shall be the purpose of the
Association, to form Local Associations in every City
Town, Hamlet, or Municipality throughout the Dominion
of Canada. These shall ha\e the same objects ; be
governed by the same constitution j appoint their own
officers j arrange their membership fee; elect a representa
tive to the annual meeting of the Association ; collect and
classify and forward quarterly all matters bearing upon
the objects of, and of interest to, the Association in Mont-
real. In large cities, where the population is mixed

national groups or sections or other departments may be
formed, with the view of collecting information on the
social or domestic status of the people, for the Local
Association. In Montreal national groups, or sections,
may report directly to the General Association.

8. Local representation shall be based on the principle of
one representative for every 25 members, and on the
payment to the General Association of $5 for each
representative by the Local Association. National
groups, or other sections, may arrange their own affairs,
subject to the approval of the Local Associations.

9. It shall be competent in each Local Association to form
a class of students, or analysts of social phenomena, who
shall be trained to observe and collect facts, thereby
facilitating the comparison of the data furnished from
several localities.

The Association shall maintain the most cordial relations
with kindred societies, and shall co-operate with Muni-
pal, Provincial and Dominion Authorities in securing
the best statistical returns possible ; in restraining social
vices and promoting the best physical, social and moral
conditions of the people.

Any alterations or additions to this constitution can be
made only alter due notice has been given — (at least one
month previous). '

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