The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-23
A SIMPLE SUGG ESTION.

| To the Editor Of the Eagle.
When the United States poses az the
| philanthropist of nations, is it not terri
| bly, black blot On her escutcheon that those
| numerous railroad accidents with their &C
companying loss of life cannot be reduced
to minimum of their present number?
Is her humanity not large enough to
prompt or her intellect greath enough to
devise some means to that ends
That this can be done there is no ques
ton. 1t is proven by the conn., aratively
few accidents which occur on European
railways.
Leaving generaIities and striking home,
let US consider the accident which occurred
on the A. L. and S. F. near Usage City a
day or SO ago. What was the underlying
cause of that accident? Cupidity. The
lowest passion in human nature. And
wherever money is at stake there il will be
found, lowering like buzzard over its
prey. 1t is thing incarnate, cold. calcu-
lating and bloodthirsty; ousting every
human instinct.
Why. an express company might as we'll
load down its car with dynamite or nitro
glycerine as to put million Of dollars in a
train loaded with human freight.
1t is equally as dangerous; because it
arouseS more or less of that diabolical pas
sion in the soul Of everyone who knows of
it; and neither human passion nor natures
forces care for the destruction in their
wake.
fact, that the presence of that currency
was the cause of that accident and its re-
suits. But what of it, Are four or five
lives (it might as easily have been as many
thousand) worth a million dollars'
Is it at ali probable that the next time
there are a few dollars in currency to be
shipped, a railroad company will send it
out on a special with extra precautions
against accidents because of this late un
pleasantness?
To be sure even a special might have
been ditched; but with Only one car and
its guards. with a much greater chance
for their lives, instead of the dozen or 30
OF coaches that went to their fate
Let the bullion and currency be ont
classed from the passenger traffic are
dynamite and other destructive agencies
aud is 1t not reasonable to suppose that
accidents arising from causes of this
nature may not be entirely eradicated'
1t might be supposed that a especial"
that is u train that is not on the schedule,
that does or does not carry passengers
according to the purpose tor which it is
or HoOsic tunnel to be eXcavated from
the rariety of them. AS applied to such
purpose. But it really isn't.
If then political rally, or, cyclonic
disaster to be viewed they are ordered out
ad finitum, but with very few precautions
against accidents it must be added. \
little currency Is the great motive power.
For absolute murder. life long suffering,
desolate homes and broken hearts what
cares corporation SO that its dividens
show up all right!
Through its treasury and charter only
can its bowels of passion" be reached.
Human life it is generally admitted, is
the most sacred thing in this broad uni
verse. By what mighty power Is this
sacred thing to be bulwarkeds The law?s
What are those laws? Who makes them!
The people!
BY the way, 1t is said there are no laws
in Kansas. That must be miserable
howl. II. NJ. Ii.