The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-08

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 Referring to the wonderful editorial in the Register and the apparent com munication in the same paper of Oct ,, we wish to say that we have some peorle who are Without children, and who are without heart, judging by their talk, the same as the writers of the two articles in the Register appar- entity are, either heartless or childless, and don't care a continental for any one else-a case of pure commercial ism of the brain. We would like to ask what the money consideration in this automobile matter amounts to. Whatis $20O if one single arm, one sin gle leg, and one single life has been saved by the fact that some of the reckless ones have had to stop their madden speed because of the fear of arrest? There are only few of these mad autoists as will be seen by the testimony that has come out in court, for when 25 to 40 autos have been timed, none knowing the timers were out, only one Or two and some days none who went over 20 miles an hour.
 This is the statement of the timers. Now every one who gets Into a ma-
 chine knows what It was and what it
 is to-day Burglars hate to be inter-
 fered with. They love to do as they
 are a-mind to.
 We wonder If these heartless men and a few women, who say that there should be no speed limit, but get the numbers of those who do injure persons
 and property and put the screws 10
 them-such perile argument Is hardly
 worth the notice 1t had-for all who have taken pains know that as a rule | it would be an impossibility to get the numbers, and like case near New Ha- ven, where the driver got out, took off the number and sped on-how could a number be obtained and in case of the student few days ago in New Haven the number was not secured by the police, and on they went-they never like others who are human and do stop when they get into trouble. A year ago much was said about the auto arrests in Madison, and how the men who were responsible would be politi- cally buried, or words of that inten- tion. Yet the people, the legal voters, almost to a man, voted to keep it up, and this year no doubt 1t will be the same. Of course Madison is not 'po- Heed, and the talk of getting numbers and stopping machines, Is the very oo1I e,f of way to get them is to trap them as in the past. As before said, we wonder if these advocates of no time limit, etc. would be moved to tears if one of their neighbors' little girls or boys was run over as that little girl in New York city Saturday was on a cross walk. See Sundays New York papers. And when the big auto truck passed over the body the mortified spectators saw that the little girls head had been severed from her body-head in one place, body in another. We wonder if
 1t had been their child if tears would have come, if they would for mo- ment become afraid that the law Is to be enforced and would drive away from a town these autoistrg who they say are good spenders. Is the dollar above human life? Has commerciaism an- other mania joined hands with speed maniacs and spenders liberally of money, to kill people? We hear daily that some one who is out riding is killed. Now we don't like to read of anyone meeting death accidentally. but If death must come by the auto route, we prefer it would be those who are mad-speed mad--for then the danger is being gradually eliminated to to pedestrians and the autoists who run their machines for pleasure and for business, and every time a drunk en driver and speed maniac in q. ma- chine is killed, we do not say we re- joice, and perhaps the angels In heav- en do not, but all conservative people love to see everyone enjoy themselves in their autos. We would be in as bad dilemma if horses could be rushed through the streets by mad-speed drlv- CTS and drunken men, and that noblest of animals does get the laeh of such too much as 1t Is, but those who try tu lLlolhS et COlllpdF ISU0 Wlln IdSL horses on the highway with mad drivers of autos it seems to me 1t would be like a comparison of man catching a fast baseball with a man trying to catch cannon ball with smokeless powder be- hind 1t. It is not guesswork, but at least three very narrow escapes from the mad auto speeder have occurred here in Madison, but they say miss is as good as a mile, but we would pre- fer 10 let these defenders of reckless autos be the ones that they miss-just mts for time-and when they are killed we/ have but little doubt they
 would vote that a miss is an unwel- come thing, and the question is similar to other big questions of the day. Autoists are, many of them, men with plenty of money. They kick about fine, vet pay it and go and violate the law the second time or many times because they c2n gay @ flne but a jail sentence of 50 day- fist violation. double every time caught. We opine. not many would be caught. No s29.- G00,060 fine Standard oil. Is paid. Who pays it? Consumer. A jail sentence.