After college, Wiggam worked as a newspaper reporter, writing for the
Minneapolis Journal, and as an
assayer at a mine. In 1896, he moved to
Denver, Colorado, where he operated a greenhouse. He became the first person to telegraph flowers. He sold the business within a year. He left Chautauqua in 1919. The book, and subsequent works by Wiggam, were republished every few years and were popular sellers. In
The New Decalogue, Wiggam called eugenics a "new social and political Bible." He quoted Bible passages that he thought reflected eugenic beliefs. Wiggam's eugenics works and lectures focused on urban environments and individuality versus the rural nuclear families (the latter were more common in the eugenics canon). He considered individuality and personal improvement as an opportunity to improve one's social, moral and economic success. Wiggam also supported "permanent race improvement" and believed that Americans of Nordic heritage were superior to others. He believed that economically successful people had "good" genes and that African Americans, criminals and immigrants did not have "good" genes. Wiggam did believe that African Americans were better than African people living in Africa. He believes that Black people could not perform "higher integrative processes of the nervous system." He also believes that men were superior to women. He believed that the greatest achievement women, specifically women of Nordic heritage, could achieve was having "well born" children. ==Later life and death==