The herald., 1896-06-15
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balance may ultimate in murder or sui
eide. and in either the cause lies deeper
than In the person committing the act,
Motives compel the acts and the actor
is the victim of instrument
Who or what creates the motive? Paul
says, 1t Is God that worketh in you both
to will and do as he pleases. What Is
meant by that every mind must con-
clude for itself. But we must conclude
that individual man does not create the
causes that move him to action either
for good or bad.
The statistics show about 900 sui
cides during the year 1894 and about 1000
murders. All of these in the United
States. A terrible record for free and
And from present appearances this year
will nearly double the sad work.
There lies a cause for these growing
crimes or evils. What and where lies
the cause? Well may we ask, and If we
look carefully we will not need the x ray
to find 1t. Yet think If Roentgen or Ed
ison would turn their kodac and Crooks
tube on Washington they would find the
skeleton in the closet.
Want, destitution and poverty in its
severe forms are potent causes for un
balancing the minds of men and women
who have been educated to the standard
Of sovereign citizens and with deep re-
spect for self. Knowing that plenty is
in the land, and they have helped pro-
duce 1t, yet they cannot enjoy 1t, 1t being
held by those who have produced moth
ing except poverty. by acquiring with
out compensation. At least so they, the
sufferers, feel.
Now, for sensitive persons to sit by the
side Of loved ones and see the suffering
of want often unbalances the mind and
creates a desire for death to give them
rest, and the desire becomes father to
the act. and to save their loved ones
their anguish they extinguish their
lives.
Is It right? Yes. according to the
cause producing it. Yet, relatively, the
greatest wrongs known are murder
and suicide. Now, who Is to be blamed?
Am 1 my brothers keeper? Yes, every
man is his brothers keeper. and the
struggle Of life should be to preserve
every member of the body polite from
injury or suffering. And that can be
done only by providing for their comfort.
When that Is done there will be no sui
cides.
When a cancer locates on the body we
know that 1t must be exterminated or 1t
will bring distress and death. 1t does
its work by appropriating the life force
and the substance of the tissues. Now
in the body polite when q vampire To-
cafes on any llInU OI us SeTVlce IL IL Is
not arrested 1t will destroy the normal
condition of society and it becomes q
cancer that will destroy the vitality Of
state and cause premature death of its
members 1t does its work by robbing
the whole system to feed local tyrant
cancer. A death producing sore. Con-
slider the monopolistic sores as cancers.
They are sucking the life-giving ele-
ments from four or five millions of
would-be willing laborers and produc~
ers and centralizing the substance in To-
calities where 1t can only be used to dis
tress and finally kill the political body
and dwarf every industry of our coun-
try, destroying self-respect and love Of
order, and will ultimately end In a state
of anarchy that means not suicide only
but fratricide and blood to the bride
bits.
The cry has gone out: "Wo unto you,
rich men. Weep and howl for the miser-
les that will come upon you. You have
defrauded the laborer of his hire" etc.
GEO. w. CARPENDER, M. D.