Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-27

ny AhI. Ci NILS. IL SdIlIlOl NC poooipiS
that he read in November last the arti-
Gle from which we quote above. If he
did read it, how can we credit him
with sincerity in stating that Mr.. Per-
kins has given him sympathy in the
fight he is making? II he has never
read it, he will find it in this issue OF
the Chronicle, a marked copy of which
will be mailed to him. Any explanation
that the senator may make will be
given publicity in these columns; and
an explanation is certainly due from
him. to the republicans of Iowa. He is
advocating the nomination of Mr.. Per-
kins on the ground that the latter has
given him sympathy and encourage
ment in his fight for a just rate bill.
The. record, in Mr.. Perkins own hand,
shows that the Sioux City candidate
has opposed the vital principle of the
the fight of his life. 1t is the privilege
of The senator to support Mr. Perkins
if he so elect; but when he asserts
that Uncle George has been in SYM
pathy with him in his fight for rate
legislation he is going too far. Sena-
tor Dolliver has only one reasonable
excuse for his support of Mr.. Perkins,
and that is his promise which he says
was made nearly year ago.
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LIFE rs CHEAP
Washington Press
Iowa is jumping onto DR.. Creepy for
introducing into the senate a bill .cgal-
izing the putting into eternal sleep. via
ana esthetics, incurables. cripples, i'd
lots, weak-minded, malformed babies
just born. 1t is said the bill and it's in
PRODUCTION are the result of a joke,
even as DR.. Osler's statement that men
reaching the age of so should be chlor-
oformed, was jest, but joke that
caused lots of old, discouraged people
to suicide
The bill provides that when vic
tim Of cancer consumption, Bright's
disease, or any other hopeless COM
plant, expresses a wish to be relieved
from suffering that is vain, and his
friends consent, and consultation of
doctors say there is no hope or chance
for recovery, the victim may be pain
lessly smuggled across the river Styx,
and the act shall not be murder, but a
legal act.
Instantly popular "holler" tears
the air: at is murder, it is monstrous,
life is a sacred thing"
Is life sacred, viewed historically?
The blood is the life. When so good
and humane a man as President Nc
Kinley declares war on Spain he inn
mediately sanctions a wholesale MUIR
der. And, first and last, a good many
lives were lost in consequence. He or
dered life to be taken.
The fact is, life has been the cheap
est thing in the world. Lives by the
billions have been sacrificed in war
legalized murder, as DR.. Gregory would
legalize medical murder in the interest
of comfort and peace.
If a doctor, delivering a baby, sees
that it is horribly deformed, or will be
idiotic, burden to itself lifelong and
a joy to nobody, but, instead, sad
charge and humiliation to it's family, if
he quietly lets its tiny breath slip away
for aye it is rated murder, when, real
ly, Il. is mercy and beauty.
If man is eaten up by inches with
cancer, or the white plague is decim-
atin,y him, or he has become merely a
sugar factory, and cannot possibly get
we'll, and hates to suffer- and his ply
sician gives him an overdose of NOR
phine to put him to everlasting sleep.
that, tco, is rated awful murder, tho it
is blessed mercy and beautiful peace.
Some way, there's an inconsistency.
War isn't counted murder, especially a
just war, but to cut the breath of an
idiot who is a comfort to no one-that
is human crime.
Oh, well, fix it up, everybody, to suit
themselves.
sos
SUNDAY BASE BALL.
IFort Dodge Messenger
In the state of Iowa going to have
another law that will probably be ig-