Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1877-12-05
SUICIDE AS A REMEDY.
The Worst Thing . Man Can

Tne Worst ThinY 2 Nan Can d
| with Himself.
| New York Herald Editorial
Voltaire says the worst use to which
society can put man is to hang him
The worst use to which man can put
himself is to send bullet crashing
through his brain, to cut his throat, OF
to take his own HE BY some other violen,
means. When man is hanged it is gen.
orally for some Ofense against the laws,
of heinous character, and while it il
true society after the operation has no
further use for the carcass the punish
ment is usually deserved and the example
is likely to be beneficial. When a man
kills himself it IL for what he no doubt
regards as good reason. His health is
bad; his business does not prosper; his
wife leads him an unhappy life; he has
been drinking too freely; he has lost all
his money; his sweetheart has Tilted
him, or, if Frenchman, the weather
has been unpleasant and depressing for
week or ten days. A bank president
blows out his brains, and, wonderful to
relate, his accounts are all straight, but
he has feared that he might become par
alyzed, and so, as a permanent prevent
i've, takes to suicide. An inventor of a
watch-case spring meets with bad suc-
cess and is without money, 80 he begs q
drink and then puts pistol ball through
his temple. A young woman, after q
too free indulgence in liquor, is found
on the street dying from the effect Of
Paris green, and abuses the policeman
who picks her up and saves her life. A
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self after numbering his three children. |
A young lady with dissipated husband
poiscns herself. A simpleton, whose
sweetheart has deserted him, jumps into
the river from a ferryboat and is
drowned; and SO on through the list
Now, the world is world of ups and
downs; of sickness and recovery; of sue !
cess and failure; of wealth and poverty;
of bacEsliding and reform. The man
who is depressed by sickness, probably
through faulty digestion, may before
long hit upon remedy and be restored
to health. The bankrupt of this year
may, with good courage and industry, be |
the thriving business man of next year.
Money has wings, and flies from full
pockets to empty ones in a mysterious
AA'oipesSioAi may UC VNClNOuC
and infdelity compensated. Its better
to wait for these changes than to make
improvement impossible by swapping of
the thread of life prematurely. A sick
man can take no worse medicine than
cold lead; poor man can never be rich
after he commits suicide. A Tilted lover
if he dies is certain never to find a new
sweetheart more constant thsn the old.
aaef ailef ,a49fls nnU perref nave sent his
wife to an inebriate asylum. The old
sayings, at is long lane that has no
turning" and Daylight always comes
after darkness" ought to be fatal enc
mics to the suicide mania. Brave men |
believe that "while there's life there's
hope." Cowards only seek forgetfulness
in self-destruction. There can be no
real necessity for suicide, except perhaps
in the case Of the Partisan during spell
of bad weather, and in this broad coun-
try, where there is elbow room for every
body and where no man of courage and
energy need despair of a living, the
crime ought to be unknown.