The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1910-11-25
rs INSANITY ON THE INCREASE


If certain insanity expert is to be believed the
rate at which the human family is going crazy IS SIM
ply astounding. This is subject that requires more
thought F." he concluded than the tuberculosis horror
to head off which men giving up their hundreds
and thousands of dollars An eminent physician that
has given the insanity disease his life study has de-
clared that at the rate the human family is going
crazy at present, within the next l5O years there
would be insane person to every 300, and 1t the
ratio is maintained for the next $50 years then
there would not be sufficient number of sane persons
to make bread for the nsanes." Then this alienist
began to discuss the insanity subject for minute and
was not long in reaching the conclusion that even
now almost one-half of the people in the world are
more or less crazy The heretofore easy going English
is becoming just eXcitabe as the hot blooded
Spaniard who have for centuries enjoyed seeing man
and bull put in ring aid fight each other until the
one or the other met his DEATH and it mattered very
little to them which one was killed. Today the mad pop
ulace of civilized countries is damning some one to-
morrow perhaps, the ones are ionlzng the dam
ned ones of yesterday The whole human family, es-
pecally the so-called civilized class isas restless as
Gagged tgeress rowing hither and thher for some new
excitement. Such person is only partially crazy,
but he she frets and fumes in that semi crazy cond
ton until the real thing upon him and then to
some mad house he must go. In his meditation the
man of medicine ended by suggesting thatif some
of the millions of dollars that being expended on t
bercosis be used in preventing the spread of the dis
ease of insanity, which is becoming just
as fatal as the former. This is suject
which no one seems inclined to talk about, lest
some one else thinks that the he is trying to do
something to prevent the spread of insanity some
relatives of his is crazy There is perhaps more truth
than poetry in the suggestion but that's all the great
err reason why something should be done Unfortun-
atey for the citizen of the United States he is money
mad and his whole life is spent in trying to devise
WAYS and means whereby fortune may come to him
before death overtakes him. The man in his seven
ties with sufficient amount of wealth. if properly
served to not only last him the balance of his life
but his children and perhaps his chdren's children is
still fighting for the money the the only
twentyone years of age and just starting out to make
enough to maintain himself perhaps a family in its
incpency 1t is argued that, the man that has been
active in business lines until he is sixty years of age
will die in five years. time if he should suddenly retire
from business He need not suddenly retire, but he
can begin to retire when he is ftyfve and slide off by
degrees But the man who has accumulated a moder-
ate fortune can always find plenty to do reaching
the age of sixty until the grim reaper appears besides
continuing to horde up dollars to be fought when
he is gone Think about it, do you know single man,
however wealthy they may be, that is willing to quit
cutting coupons He may give thousands of dollars to
charity or to eymonisanary Institutions but he goes
to his office the next day with double determination
to make good the amount he has given away. Most
every person with as high hundred thousand dol
lars will give considerable for the poor and needy but
if you will watch him he will take twice much as he