Sunday morning globe., 1901-10-20

Chicagois in the lead, as usual, in every
thing pertaining to the advanced depravity
of the highly refined and over-civilized
portion of the human race in whom disease
of the blood appears to secure an iuesisti-
bic development, leading to perversion of
sex madness and suicide Specialists in
nervous disorders would starve to death if
they had TO depend for patronage on men
who live by toll, physical or mental. But
very few of the advanced intellectual type
fall under the classification of nervous dis
orders such as sex perversion, mania, or
uurcsisting suicide because they are intel
lectual, and when so afflicted the disease is
due Co some other cause than their superior
brain equipment
And it may be said that fewer still of the
classes who earn bread by manual labor
come under the influence of such ailic-
tions But there is a respectable fraction
of the ovcrre6ucd leisure class which seems
TO catch the infections mentioned, and
these afflicted individuals soon, happily for
the human race, cNtuguish themselves and
are planted 20 enrich the various cemeteries.
Chicago proposes now through one OF it's
imported citizens from the sunny South, TO
abbreviate, If possible the unnatural eNis-
tence of this class and make their taking
of" as pleasant as it is expeditions
Dr. Charles Jacobs is his name and he Is
nerve specialist a member of the New
Orleans Yacht Club and well connected
throughout the South. For several years
he has made a study of suicide. He calls
il am iucurabe disease And here is what
he says to his fellow citizens Of the Windy
City
81 have come TO Chicago to make suicide
easy not to say attractive We are con.
stanty shocked by a body found in the lake
or lying mutilated in the park Seriously
viewing the matter, there are annually hun
dreds of people in this town and its vicinity
who are determined to kill themselves.
"rhey are driven to the frightful ex-
tremity of the rope, the revolver and the
most violent poisons. To refuse TO extend
TO them a less horrible way would not be
humane So ! am making arrangements TO
establish a place where death shall be
swift and painless. The man determined to
die, who sees no other recourse, can come
into my establishment sit down in my easy
chair, touch a button and project his spirit
into the beyond
Being asked if the law would not step
forth and prevent his cheerful scheme, he
replied:
The law of humanity ought to be the
law Of man, and humanity seeks to make
the grave easy of approach Understand
that in my laboratory shall do everything
in my power to save the would-b be extermi.
nator of self will feed him and strive TO
dissuade him.
Hgrisuca has never made as ~ urorounpe1
acknowledgement of il, but the imagined
necessity for self determination is born in
the liver In the incipient stage IL may be
eliminated with careful treatment and total
abstinence from alcohol But il permitted
to develop, Brighrs disease is not SO sure
an agent of the great world beyond
I'm this country there are twenty.thrce
suicide clubs To each one of tn .se incor-
porated organizations of obligated death ]
have sent a circular. And of that circular
this is the vital point. 'Gentemen-When
your inclination, In obedience 70 your oath,
determines the time for your shutting off.
please communicate with me
The moral obliquity Of Dr Jacobs is too
apparent to be pointed out by the GLOBE.
The man who will deliberately open an es-
tablishmcnt and under the plea of human
ity, make self-murder easy, expeditions aud
respectable is pretty uear the line himself
which the suicide and the pcryeu steps
over and obhterate themselves as members F.
of the human race. The Doctor ought 90 .
become his own patient and treat himself .
for the nervous" disorder hedcmonstrates f.
by this enterprise he is so rapidly develop .
ing The GLOBE viii not Dee surprised II it T.
is called upon in the routine of its duties .
In the telegraphic column TO announce the .