The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-16
INSANITY EVER
ON THE INCREASE
Five Million Paupers and De-
pendent Afflicted Crooks
OF Various Kinds, Not In
GLIDING Political Grafters,
Cost Us 100000,
Annually.

m"shihston.-When Prof. Charlie
). bushnell, Phi. D., of this civ mad
HIS recent statement that the Amer
'"n puOhc was on the verge of bank
aupIc! because it expended Sc 600 600
oVV year on the criminal, pauner am
vicious classes, while the animal -
crease of wealth aggregated on1,
So'VVO'VVO,OOO, he called down unor
ni0 mead storm of adverse criti
slSm' But Prof Bushnell is not to he
frightened from his line of attack IN
WHAT ne calls the social ills of the
country through adverse criticism and
lie Felterates the accuracy of his flo.
oieS ana the logic of his conclusions
1t was to be expected " ba soid
mat some of my statements would
arouse lncredulity in the minds Of
those who do not realize the nnhIio
ignorance and widespread unfortunate
eOncealment of facts vital to the wei.
lafe and happiness of the whole nao.
PIE. ANY honest. faithful study of the
au'hontles and sources to which ra-
Go,
ler VIII convince the most skenticaI
tnaI my statements are surely in the
main sound and even conservative"
Lose More Than We Gain.
Ut. Bushnell submitted a set ~
tables upon which his arguments GRO
Daseu' lhese are the figures, he SAYS
winch show positively that the nation
is drifting into bankruptcy:
H. said DR.. Bushnell, I'VE com.
pare TABLE B with Table A II annears
mat as a nation We are losing more
wealth. every year through distress.
ing conditions of social disorder than
we are annually saving. This is tho
main conspicuous fact of the situation
ny unscientiically disjoined and he'll.
Hserent methods of business and at.
Nenuant vicious social habits we are
producing as nation less than half
OF What we ought now to be producino
WIN our present methods of scientific
technology Surely this is too great
price to pay for our Wanted com.
mercial supremacy.
Poverty on the Increase.
Ten millions of our people, one.
eignth OF the population, are now con.
stantiy in such poverty that they are
unable TO maintain themselves in
physical efficiency; and 1000 600 of
them are public paupers. In 1899 one
OF our prosperous years, IS per cent
OF nearly one-fifth of all the people
OF new York state, had to apnlv for
charitable relief: in 1903 IA per cent
OF all the families of Manhattan were
eVlcted, and every year about ten per
cent OF all who die there have pauper
ourlals The average wage of I'm.
skilled workmen throughout the cour.
try is less than the scientific minimum
necessary for maintaining the AVERAGE
worAingmans family in physical eff.
fciency. o''
The last three United States ron.
suses' also, show that the insane in
this country have increased faster
'nan the population. We now have IN !
Tue united States in continuous char. |
ltaoie care probably 100000 abnor.
mai dependents, including paupers in.
sane blind deaf and dumb, indiean+
anu uiScouraged-representing a dead :
loss TO the nation every wear enuo1 - 2
Inc total wealth we have invested - l
III the colleges, universities and tech.
noioglcal schools of the whole countrv acr
u we could abolish this one item, 81 flo,
aohormal expense we could double lea
ne facilities of all our instjtu+iono ~ cri,
llsler education every year, and do II oils
Win no extra effort at ALL " sal,
Industrial Accidents. VIII,
0ne large source of this abnormal con
dependence is our vast agsrnootn ~ 9th
necessary industrial accidents Few tins
cope oegln to realize our ANNA, M. the
ohal loss from this source, Ar q oon. tina,
figure 100000 workers IN tici
he United States every year Arc kiI,od CON
injured in industry by accidents of mer
hich three-quarters are proven bv The
uropean experience to be wholly I'M. cont
ecessary, and which cost the nation nate
ln"i' III iost earning capacity and help
'i""ee suils at the lowest estimate the
amount equal to the whole wage will
come OF all the mine workers or all laws
farm laborers of the entire conn. ness
:. Josiah Strong says the least DOS.
lie estimate of our annual Industrial Al
'ualtieS is about $4,000 of :
Taking the fact at this lowest fg. strik
!. appears that IN our present in. DR..
'trial warfare We are killing and of W
lring more people every year than "H
the average annual casualties OF have
civil war, our Philippine war and the /
russian''apanese war combined. living
nix OF our carrying on three such to be