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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-04

The city OF Kingston has acted prudently In
buying out the plant of the company which has
been supplying It with water. and hereafter It
will control its own waterworks Lower water
rates and an improved service are promised as
the result Of the negotiations which have been
successfully concluded after long controversy
The experience OF our cities has shown the wis.,
dom Of public water supply; those which de-
pend on private concerns are less we'll served and
the cost to the consumer is in general consider
ably more. 1t Is strange indeed that any one
should seriously propose that New-York and
Rranklvn ahould In the future out themselves Ct
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-04

The care Of the insane has been taken out Of
politics. A good many people would like to see
the saloons taken out OF politics. But the effect
OF the Rnines bill would be to put them in deeper
than ever
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
All Suicides Are. Insane

A. 81 HaIlidie, ex-president of the Me-
chanics Institute, said: ut is subject
that has.employed the thought and specu-
::Iations of men from the earliest times.
Libraries of books have been written upon
the topic, and yet it remains as obscure as
at the beginning; q matter upon which
every man must form his own opinion if
he cares to haze one. For myself, l be-
olieve that no sane man commits suicide.
The act is. to.my mind, an evidence OF in
sanity, however sane the person may have
appeared immediately before the act. The
hereafter? We do not know about that
Men are placed here for purpose no
doubt We cannot say that when man
reaches that point where he himself cuts
off bis own life ne has not BY that very
sign accomplished his destiny. who shall
say that it is an interruption-that there
might have been more for him to DO? 1t
is my belief. as I say, that man who
commits suicide must be insane.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
If Good Thing

-, So the newspapers are taking interest in
the s'prevailing epidemic2" 1t is time, for,
If suicide Is good thing we can't have too
much of it and the sooner we all take our
selves of. and thus solve the destiny of
the race" the better. But if bad it is a
good time to make quest of. the cause. OF
this the lengthening daily list is proof.
But really it is not a matter OF wonder
that so many. of the landlords helpless,
hopeless slaves commit suicide. There is
no secret about it.. The marvel is that so
many of them don't. When hope of OBJ
tanning the means to rational existence
has utterly fed it requires far more conr-
age to liye than to die.. Hunger. want and
:the fear-no. the certainty of more and
worse in store so enervate the character
and. destroy the moral force that there is
nothing left for that courage to feed on
which isrequisite to continue the struggle
against the. dreadful odcs. The institu-
ton of land ownership has "dead cinch"
on the earth-the. means Of existence.
The massgs of men, women and children
therefore live only on such terms as the
owners OF the earth see fit to impose. The
terms are limited only by the avarice of
the earthsowners. Abolish the institu-
ton of landownershIp; swing wide open
t6esgates that shut men off the unused
land: proclaim industrial freedom to the
faznishing, heart broken slaves, and suicide
will speedily be as tale that is told.
. JAMES S. REYNOLDS:
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
When a Man Is Useless

Is man justified in committing suicide? Will S. Green
the United States SurveyorGenea thinks that he sunder
certain circumstances.
Yes, there times when man is perfectly justified
and to be commended for putting to his
earthly existence said the official who better known a
the editor of the Colusa Sun. when believes that
he is of no himself to his family his country
and does not believe in life hereafter think the best
he end existence is to
himself and burden to his family the community
"I believe God and in hereafter but believe that
God in passing judgment upon such have cited
will consider that led result and not IN
the going Sleep, which clearly resulted from other
causes for which the person responsible God will no
doubt pass Judgment according to general laws in
stead OF on special laws for the taking ones
life Would you not suppose that the punishment would
be as great the acts that lead seldestruction as it
vou!d be the miserable decided to dras ont
miserable existence for many years longer? think it
would therefore justify desiling to iniict
his miserable presence community when is even
a nuisance to himself
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
Not Unpardonab1e

F. w. Dohrmann, president of the Mer-
chants Association: 81 would prefer not
to talk about thing ABOUT which l can
know SO little. Still 1 am NOT one OF
those who believe that suicide is the oun.
pardonable sin; that the spirit of the VIC.
tim rushes into the presence of its Maker
fresh from the crime Of murder. never
see an account ST a suicide without
sense of pain; for 1 feel that it must have
been the result OF intense and generally
long suffering Suicides are not neces-
sarily bad men. The act may be and doubt
less generally is the result Of such nervous
tension as to have Left the person sirre-
sponsible. In such cases the death is as
entirely one from natural causes as is
some other that died Of typhoid fever. II, .
however, suicide is so deliberately and
coolly planned that it ranks as murder,
then it may be punishable as such in
some future state. My philosophy, howe
ever, does not carry me Beyond this life.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
What Dreams May Come!


Shakespeare says; "oh that the Everlasting had not
fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughterp'
Generally speaking suicide scarcely justifabIe
Of terminating ones earthly is frequently
considered cowardy escape difficulties that might
beTeady by little further of personal
determination do not think such sweeping generaiza-
ton is altogether warrantable.
From point of view requires less courage to ve
because have reasonable knowledge what tomorrow
may bring whereas the future many an unknown
country and to such people that plunge tie dark it
requires considerable courage.
Punishment in the old-fashioned sense do not believe
in. Instead affirm the doctrine of consequence That is
say, the of mans life become the deter
mining factors to his personal condition hereafter
Suicide is resored to to escape mental moral or affec
tional worrles disgraces dsappomtmen Now unless
the the individual destroy portions of his
he must necessarily take them him with all
that belongs them at the time he so unceremo
nfously shuf1ed off the mortal coil,
of fact, he merely changes his condition of
but his state of This fact for
strongest argument against and the rea.est
condemnation of suicide.
As we never know the innermost thoughts of our
feow:creatures it is unwse unjust condemn even
the apparently most unreasonable suicide J. j. MoRsE
Lecturer of California PsychicaI Society
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
From a Spiritua1ist

sprituaistic philosophy teaches commit sui
eide that other existence get rid either
o our trouble ourselves We recognize the fundamental
fact spirit and that at death he only changes
M does mitigate the evils of this state
According belief escape the reaping of
bis sowing
Personally believe suicide under certain circumstances
rfectv iustable. If being eaten mn hv ca,car
m nv other incurable maady, nv Iife's
on meant only menace to the living should take the exit
Sill would not wish say any more that mieht
age the mania
There must be something radically wrong with civilization
that causes people make with themselves regard
less OF the consequences. DR. N s. RAvLIN.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
Henry NJ. Clements Guess

Henry N Clement said: sit all depends. Crcum-
stances and conditions temper judgment of sui
eide and the suicide should everything ese When
has lost his honor when he is rredeemaoe in this fe
he do better thing than cut oprovided always
that he leaves his family those dependent him in
circumstances from want Otherwise he leaves
them struggle themselves under the weight OF shame
that he has brought them then his of suicide only
adds to his disgrace Raston could have done nothing bet
ter. He could have recovered himself Personally he
submerged BY killing himself he incurred additional
reproach His memory softened instead Without honor
better be dead There other circumstances that
stand in paliaton of suicide has right to judge
for himself whether he benefits the world most by staying
going. But for the who quits the fight leaving
his dependents helpless than before there is only
the judgment-that ne is coward. For
takes his life the result OF temporary
through chagrin disappointment
other such slight there also only be
contempt As to how the act OF suicide may affect the
future state of the VICTIM that question that of
not prepared to believe that God follows
individual with rewards and punshments after death
have sought what information could from the
reliable sources, and after fty6ve of life have
the conclusion that nobody knows anything about
just good guesser any OF them and can't
guess. hope for something better, to be but have
nothing convince that death does
ALL willing to subscribe to the beautiful sentiment
inscribed Huxey's tomb.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
The Suicide Is a Coware

don't think suicide under any circumstances ust-
fable. l think in the of young who has
good family and good home and everything
that makes life worth living it is only extreme selhshness
that bring him act of that kind. Because if he
stopped for consider the effect those who
are near and would realize owed it to
feel proud of him.
OF there times in the life of every man
when the future looks forbddng the old adaee
that it long lane that has be constantly
applied indeed Jade if she
will never smile upon
matter dscouraging the present prospects are it
seems that suicide is the OF coward because
man any energy any ambition certainly try
to surmoun mishaps that befal him. Time will event
uay bring least of success and with perse-
yerance perhaps complete success JULIUS KAHN.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02

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For Man Is Born Again

The prevalence suicide in San Francisco is not to the
contemplative mind surprising.
The frantic after artificial exisence the self
lshness and form of uncharabeness ambition for
material gain at costs most nqutous ntemperance greed
haste waste OF the precious ener the Unsuitable
thirst for sensation which makes hard nhumanshe
conditions of this centurys end ALL of
selfdestructioD.
The intense suffering which must precede deed rash
should render the suicide under conditions most
voung creature deserving sympathy and reverence
from his surviving fellowmen-for know not what
of our rhoughtless ignorant -advsed may have
caused the untimey taking off OF brother sister, Each
thought and deed should therefore regulated
lives to make impossible the mpanting of bitterness
desolation or desperation
In the sou-tnat wondrous word with nhabitant-
there heights and depths and powers and possibilities
inconceivabe to the imagination of This aone
makes suicide Incompatible tragedy solely
whole but likewise for the harmony nature which
thereby disturbed long suspension
spiritual life.
The suicide cannot ter into the Karma
Loca the celestial satisfaction of Denacbaa
has earned them; he must in consequence of the
aton of mmutable law be reborn exactly the
plane of consciousness which he has sought escape,
and thus his allotted earth life with all his mserie
intensified, multiplied by compound rate of interest,"
When the cooperative shall have the place the
system when the material replaced Dy
the spiritual in human calculaton when leisure wrested
nordnate activity cynicsm suppanted by reverence
and deerepce contempt eradicated by kindness
longer nsurps the place of pcity when
rules where feverish haste holds sway suicides will
be relic OF the savage EUeENA KELLOGG HOLMES
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
Most Suicides Insane:

believe that per of the people who commit sui
eide insane aborn under temporary alteration of
the mind. Perhaps the percentage is too small There
exceptionally few persons who will deliberately take their
lives, for reasons.
In the first place suicide rather than being act Of
cowardce requires tremendous deal of courage, if be
consciously committed -:
Secondly people who would lightly dispose OF their
lives have no belief in responsibility the
that they descend into darkness annihilaton would
neutraze the physical they might have take
the- own lives.
So suicide being generally act for which mind is
notresponsibe is almost useless the question
its being nstfable. To be sure is not instifabe if
admit that 1t be act argument against
Qssfabty f it has been presented so often that not
necessary to say another word about it..
-. -: JACOB VeoRsANeE
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
It Is Braver to Live

1t has happened to each of that alone
rom agr at unknown live out span called life with
me same passions emotions sweeping souls
later alone into the nfny beyond. Those are the
main conditions in fes probem civilization has coinpi-
Gated matters for by evolving powerful forces intellectual
and ethical and now this close OF the century
SO great the need for light the subject great
must needs ask, as life worth living? Is suicide
ushabie ~ The whole universe governed by farreachng
law. All evolution shows law. Obedience to Law is the
great rule of the universe
1t is the law that shall be born shall live and
die when the time in the due process law This
cannot be broken without somewhere somehow anv
than can any other weldeerm1ned law eveni there
we're not ethical reasoning guide Not letting the
teachings OF Christianity enter into the problem
unwren standard which will not let go down before
defeat True bravery laying down arms.
It means stay by the fight till the fiuishl
Life is great forceful mighty infinite possibilities
to be lived out to the end be that bitter sweet
may govern its conditions five try-we cannot end them.
No laws be made for individual only-no one
axe laws himself may he break the laws
written or unwritten, which govern the human race.
But because We know the exceeding bitterness life
conditionsbecause with Infinite sympathy divine
pathos in neghbors yes-we might ofener
comrade by the hand and say, Friend let help
over the hard place in thy it will be thy
to be helpful" MoIiIE E. CoNNERs
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
Is Never Justifiable

F.. 1t is my belief that exceedingly few peo
pie commit suicide who are not insane.
OF course there may be cases where man
takes his own life for good cause, .but L
believe that insanity generally precedes
the act. L speak thus from my own expe-
rience. Only recently we had three in the
offices of the society which 1 represent.
certainly don't consider selkdestruc.
tion iustifiable under any circumstances.
even in case where man has disgraced
himself. If man has not got the man.,
hood to stand up and bear his troubles he.
is weak minded in my estimation.
Ii we had any positive knowledge of the
other world we might have some excuse
for trying to get out of this;. but we
haven't, and in my personal opinion it is
legally, morally and religiously wrong to
do so.. FRANK A. HoLBRooK.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
Thinks Suicide Should Be Encouraged

d ds % int depend enc he
destruction good n fact thin kuth
t manype dhec committing
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hb f and ernt ndo the
di instead in d o. carnival of
simply hauled o
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tn h hadof
san epHed tssafhne
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
Sometimes Justifiabfe

People who commit suicide in most all
cases are laboring undef a species of
temporary insanity brought about by mis-
fortune. cares. anxiety and business, love
or family troubles which they want to es-
cape and for that reason perform the.
1t is true that many things occur in
this world which appear unbearable. TO
a sound mind these troubles appear of
temporary character, while the weaker
mind becomes unbalanced under the un-
usual stress and attempts to end it all by
self-destruction.
I believe, however, that suicide in very
rare cases could be considered iustifable.
ADoLPH SUTRo.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
It. All Depends

Captain L. W. Lees, chief of the detec-
tive force of this City, does not believe in
the moral right of a man to take his life,
but his belief is. qualified. He says:
1T all depends on circumstances. Sup
pose a man is sick, and that he knows he
must die;. doctors: whom he trusts have
told him SO. and he feels it himself. Sup
pose he. is in pain, and to live is only to
.prolong his sufferings: Hasn't. he the
right to"end it all at opce2
81 own r don't like to say exactly
whether he has the right or not: People
may not credit it, but. 1 am a good
,churchman and believer in the Bibles
am satisfied to take what the Bible says,
ano suicide is forbidden in the Bible"
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
a sea Of troubles, and by opposing
end them''---The Melancholy Dane.
SOME
IATTER-DAY OPINIONS
BY THINKERS
100 90 30
More Prevalent Than We Think

interesting this connection
ito
able form fit and how far actually vn for ourselves the poss
would
the whole subject.
history thought
Men, with they
of
given of Judgment
that
indugences promptly avail OF the etngdown;
excluding absolutely
penalty all
and leaving
the
ALL beginnings
but ourselves What
ifng dofa all
suicidal
wickedne
the be labor itsr
REV. JOSEPH WORCESTER Pastor swedenborgian
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
Man Comes Back to Live Again


OF malaluc teach
both The mateist fouts the idea that
other than heetng
consists of act
and then the curtain forever
Egot and ignorance have led men in the West to fancy
with the
the divine methods would
that all about them nature
might significance the
human anoth manifestation of Divinity.
believe that man is
until
longer afford helpful conscious And this is the
theory
der the Reincarnaion human
will all
luton underits nfxb decees Therefore
ouand oulhas of
will made experiences
infinitely
in effect which
vicious balance he inflicted others life
the consequences of his
with suicide
untoa He in his imagination all the
details his himself
No this for he has appealed
infinite law abide its
JEROME A ANDERSON MD. +. T. s.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
Coward or Insane

Very few suicides occur except under
great mental strain, or through desire
to escape the consequences of some pre-
vious act. They would rather flee from
the ills they know rot of than bear those
from which they are made to suffer in this
world.
l do not consider it justifiable for any
human being to take his own life, for it is
either done through cowardice or while
laboring under mental alteration In
the one case it is unmanly and unphilo-
sophical, but in the other, of course, there
is no moral responsibility.
E. BLACK RYAN,
Tax Agent Southern Pacific.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
Might Be. Justifiable

spirit should leave this existence the Epened
grain gradually pass into that other world the mind
wakefuness sleep There circumstances
though my mind would render suctde justifabe
If one were stricken with oahsome disease that
lingering believe that were the hastened the
person would be justified in doing L have heard the
theory undeveloped spirits cause
suicide but can hardly how this could be so
believe that when life is changed SO ruthlessly and
suddenly the spirit remains for unconscious
the succeeding existence the awakening af the re-:
morse and abdes with the spifitouht
been dssipated according to the natural laws
MRS. Dr. LOUIS SoHLEsINeER. =
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
A Mans Life Is His Own

think every ought be allowed to decide the
on for himself whether he should take his ife
think would be crime for advise
another to commit suicide But there might be crcum-
under which it might be the wisest thing
could do to put to his existence.
Where the circumstances are that perfectly
clearly that the proongation of his life will only
result in misery and unhappiness himself and to others
he might wisely determine to end it.
This of altogether apart from any religious be-
lief who believes in religious doctrines has right
take his life under any stances, for would be
sin for him to do
mans life belongs to himself and he has the right to
quit it if it becomes too burdensome.
WILLIAM III. BEATTY
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
When Men Believe They Exist Forever


really commit d He mays from
him to e miserable bu he ecnoten of
hm Man mo H
e tn tina d. nseuntyye ramo % n d
f ayrenzeh heni i him umd dnty generating
aus h mmt them h 10 a
pil b
in orpodin to suicide own
h d O. phnosphy
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
Suicide Cowardly and Unn1an1y

commit
the beides.
prevalence
remdb durable Poverty fear OF undoubtedly
suicides
civilized
aer al gnoramus. We do poverty
the of their natural earth them
JOSEPH
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
Agrees With I1gerso11

| believe with Ingersoll that man
should be permitted to go out of this
world whenever he thinks fit-that is,
when he thinks he would be better off out
OF 1t than in it. don't see where he in.
lures any one by going out of it.
/ don't think it is established by any
means that man who commits suicide is
insane. / believe many men commit
suicide who are perfectly sane. Nor do I
think it established that the act of suicide
is an act OF cowardice. E. L. CoINoS.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
0 0 0 Q 0 0 0 o 0 0 0 D
HOW AND WHEN
JANUARY. 1895.

4th-ROBERT II. MOORE, pistol.
14th-E. L. MOLASS. pistol.
2Oth-E. F. MYNOTT, pistol.
23d-ALBERT MORATH, pistol.
2sth-THOMAS L. ARLINGTON, morphine
FEBRUARY.
7th-BERNARD LIGHTHoLD, pistol.
sth-FRANK CACTEC, drowning.
21st-MICHAEL COIN, carbolic acid.
22d-JoHN DOLLAR, pistol.
25th-FRED KAIES, cut his throat.
2sth-MRs. ]. FoNCLERE; coal gas
2sth-CYRUs CREGA, drowning.
MARCH.
1st-GABRIEL BISHOP, arsenic
1st-JAMES MACK, opium.
1st-WILLIAM H. BYRNEs, cut his throat
5th-JoHN H. PETERS, pistol
.5th-CECELIA RICE, carbolic acid.
6th-E. B. LOVE, morphine. !
12th-JOEN GAGGI, cut his throat
17th-WILLIAM GILUs, drowning. 5
1sth-BERTHA L. BRYANT, carbolic acid.
23d-JAY GORDON, shot himself.
26th-JoHN NJ. GRAY, pistol. e
26th-HENRY MONTFARRAN, pistol. {
.27th-E. H. HATHERTON, drowning.
2sth-PHILIP RAMOS, cut his throat
31st-MRs. OLGA. DUEsS, asphyxia by gas.ss
APRIL.
4th-GIUSsEPPINE ALBERA, strychnine.
4th-C. H. wARDER, shot himself.
12th-MARY BLAINE. carboiic acid.
15th-H. HANSON, DIR owning.
1sth-JOHN MUTH. shot himself
I9th-JACoB SCHAERTZER, pistol.
21st-ERNEST WEBER, hanging.
21st-CHRIsT HELM, hanging.
23d-CHARLEs sCHEFFER, cut his throat. :,
3oth-EDWARD H. DALEY, coal gas.
30th-T. Il. MONAGHAN. coal gas.
3oth-ALBERT LANGENBERGER, carbolic
MAY.
3d-MAE KLINE, shot herself.
5th-GEORGE. A. HAAG, strychnine.
6th-ALEX ANDREWS, pistol.
13th-MARIE EIsMANN, coal gas.
15th-wILLIAM GAULATZ, earbolic acid.
19th-JoHN BRADLEY, arsenic
,.n n n n a n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
Some Higher Responsibility


wrong
higher He
suicide
a man-it cowardice
and sick and
no right Suicide is wrongt is cowardly'