Charles Davenport, founder of the Eugenics Record Office, argues: "This three or four per cent of our population is a fearful drag on our civilization. Shall we as an intelligent people, proud of our control of nature in other respects, do nothing but vote more taxes or be satisfied with the great gifts and bequests that philanthropists have made for the support of the delinquent, defective classes?” He insists that funding eugenics programs would be vastly more effective than giving to charities.