Bisbee daily review., 1908-02-04
OUR GREAT PROSPERITY AND HUMAN 5UTcHERY.

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 AND HUMAN 5uTcHERY.
 The figures of our prosperity. given out by the statisticians in Washing. ton, have amazed the world and our. selves. Our farmers in 1906 got sev. en thousand millions worth out of their broad acres; our imports total one thousspd three hundred millions, while the exports exceed seven hun dred millions. The total wealth of the country is computed at one hun dred and six thousand millions, and it climbs in immense leaps and bounds every year. The strange thing is few people realize that it has a dark and sinister side; that this in dustrial Juggernaut, this triumphant lord of the world, must be fed with human lives and limbs in a manner which it is nothing short of criminal to ignore.
 Peace we are told, "hath her vic tories no less renowned than war" True. But what a shock it is to real ize that they are bought far more dearly, .In the United States" de clared President Roosevelt, the cas- ualties attendant upon peaceful in dustries exceed those which happen under a great and perpetual war"
 But who cares for such things when prosperity's mill is running at top speed? If I produce a device to save time" said clever inventor the other day, T can sell it readily in twenty places, but if offer an idea for saving life I cannot dispose of it at all"
 In other words. while we know ac- cu-ateiy the number of cattle and hogs slaughtered for food, it is no body's business to take account Of the lives and limbs, crushed out every year in this great country IL is ter rible, but true; and a brief study of the facts and figures lends poInt>to the dictum of the old Sioux chief ~It  costs too much to be white man, said he sadly.
 During the four years Of the ciyB war the number of killed on both sides was one hundred and fifty tlo1Is- and Well. in these piping times of peace our industries are sIa1ghteriHg man for man Of these and eighty thou sand more ih the same period. Ev- cry year an industrial Bull Run Of deaths is furnished by the PennsyI vania coal fields alone. while the an nuaI total of killed and wounded on, the railroads vastly exceeds the en-  tire losses of Briton and Boer in all the three years of that bloody con fiict.
 Thus it was mere lack of knowledge of the facts that caused astonish- ment in the community when man like J. J. Hill remarked gravely. Every time undertake railroad journey nowadays wonder whether 1t is to be my last"
 According to the governments own figures we kill five hundred and sev- enty-fve thousand every ten years, and injure more or less seriously five millions more. This equals the mas sacre of every man, woman and child in three great cities the size of In dianapolis, Kansas City and Denver; and the maiming of everyone in Wy oming, Washington, Oregon, Califor- mia, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Arl- zona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana and Oklahoma And the reason is cynical ly given-not expressed, but under stood: Tt is cheaper to kill men .han to protect themS For this req son it seems there is no excitement no deeply stirred public sentiment, no Hague tribunals to stop the sIaugh- ter-more dreadful, more extensive and more regular and lasting than any international war.
 Why, if fifty thousand people were killed and half a million maimed in a single year in any one community the world would be aghast while a disaster like the San Francisco fire