Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-08-17
WATCH WELL YOUR CHILDREN


Several of the leading writers OF the
present century have made themselves |
names forever by writing books, having |
for their object the showing up OF the
multitude of devices by which ailing hui
manity is swindled, and often deprived OF
life, under cover of the law. Dickens,
Wilkie Collins, and some of our own
writer's have laid bare the scheming ever
practiced by a certain class of humanity
to obtain the custody of invalids from
whatever cause, who are wealthy, and
the very suspicious manner in which
such patients usually meet their death.
The case of Mrs. Robinson, OF Somerville,
Massachusetts,, proves how easy it is for
cruel-hearted, conscenceless woman to
ply vocation OF murder for gain, right
in the heart OF one OF the highest cul-
tured communities in all the land. This
woman, though surrounded by competent
medical men, regularly poisoned her
victims it is claimed, for the purpose OF
obtaining the money for which their
lives were insured. The tie of blood did
not afford barrier to her inhuman
cruelty, and now that it has been un-
earthed, the populace are wild with the
thought that such things could be among &
them and they not know it. Recently a
leading physician OF New York City,
while strollng through the children's
part OF Central Park in that city, OBJ
served the nurse girls give something
from small walls to babies in car
riages, and on investigation he fount
it was common practice thus tc
dose the innocents with laudanum in
order that they should sleep and thei
nurses be given time and opportunity t.
court the attentions of well-dressed LOAF
, ers who congregated there for that pur
. pose. All of these and kindred crime
are the outgrowth of the prevailing styl
of fashionable American motherhood
which holds the baby a stranger to ade
q quate maternal care, on the crimina
:. ground that it would interfere with tn
giddy round of pleasures. How man
= poor victims of disease have been thu
given to strangers to nurse for none
4 consideration, and how many OF ther
:, have been deprived of life throug
poison will never be known, bl
: that they are so poisoned, tn
;. exposure of the woman Robinson career
g proves beyond doubt. How man
:, hundreds of infantile hearts are stille
y, in death through the means befoi
alluded to are also unknown, but it is ia
90 to presume that they are many, and tt
lives of those who live into boyhood {
= girlhood are so impregnated with poiso
=, that they are never in health, and the
: lives are burden to themselves and
!. society. These strange things are mol
. frequent in occurrence in America tina
j., elsewhere, and have their origin in IL
:, fast-growing disposition on the part
:. American mothers to be rid of the respol
:, sibilities of motherhood, to give the
-. time to fleeting hours OF vanity and eas
= Outraged humanity will, however, asse
:, itself in all such cases, and it is to
hoped that the punishment will be
as dire and unmerciful that all such womt
- will be in themselves examples to the
ly younger sisters, that nature cannot
u - abused with impunity, and may lead
no the wiping out OF this un-American al
-, unnatural sin. Careless OF the chile
~ welfare, he grows to sickly manhoo
n and becomes the prey OF the humt
,a vampires OF whom the Sommervi
ro woman is fair specimen.
NC