The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-08

| 1855. 1908. the proportion Of railway en-
ployees killed outright in This country
quarter of per cent each year the
proportion OF injuries, however, In
| creased With tho expansion OF the In
dustry the number should have about
doubled, as a fact It quadruplea For
British railway employees, fatalities per
1000 annually average seven -tenths OF ]
per cent. for American. 2.Ai per cent;
For miners we have Europe. l,i6; United
States. 3.6o-in other words. FOR eacn
10, 600 miners employed. Europe has II
TO Is Killed every year; the United states
proportion killed here Is three times the
number for any other country.
Compensation uodeniably is followed
by prevention. II Is unnecessary to re-
state here In any detail the experiences
on this point OF Germany and Great
Britain. They may be summed up IN
the words OF DIR. Hoffman who, plead :
Ing that "a most earnest effort should
be made TO profit by the industrial meth :
DDS OF European countries: says ina
least one third and perhaps ona-halt Coz
our total mortality by Intelligent and
rational methods OF factory inspection.
legislation and control He further
states that the non-fatal accidents. which
he computes as numbering in all Two
millions annually. mot only Involve a
vast amount Of human suffering and sor-
longevity among those exposed TO the
often needless risk OF industrial casual
ties
Not only have the two other great IN
dustrlal countries OF the world. Eng
land and Germany, shown us the way TO
prevent fully 80 per cent OF the average
OF our industrial killings and matmings,
but they have carried compensation TO
a science sufficiently advanced TO permit
us 70 profit by their example. With us,
In this matter, the main practical prob
lens at present relate, first, to adapting
10 ne nrACIlcG
10 our dual system OF government, and.
second, 10 bringing compensation within
constitutional limitations
II has been FAR from enough IN IN, tne
United STATES In this work OF subsusut-
Ing compensation for traditional employ =
ers' liability. TO shock and re-shock the
delinquency, The task of exposition and
protest while 1t has been fulfilled suf-
Recently TO stir 10 action groups OF men
Of advanced opinions and patriotic and
failed 10 work the truth at once dls-
graceful and terrible. into the very
hearts and minds of the general masses,
as must he done before our people iully
realize the duty thereby imposed upon
them This stage of arousing public SEN
tiInent il seems TO be necessary 10 60
over again and agaln-by repetition OF
oft printed statistics, by quotation OF an
tiiorities on the subject. h. turning the
picture 10 every angle OF fact aud every
angle Of the imagination. To accumu :
late proper noIneh,u'" :" ~
compensat ton. however, at the prcsen
stage IN The progress OF the movement
seems TO be the least battling part OF the
work support OF the people is To he
certainty. some time. We may be as
surcd bot what as 10 the Law necessary
to establish system Of uniform and
general indemnity?
In Germany and England. procedure
after conviction as to the social neccs-
slty Of relieving the working classes Of
the burden OF incident TO industrial ac-
cidents was by an open road. Ger.
many, state employer and employed
| contribute by prescribed methods TO the
compcnsation funds of the industries. In
England. employees make no direct pay
ment. the employers generally acQuit-
| ding themselves OF their part Of the
duty by bringing into service the in.
| surance companies But In the United
states n has not been made certain that
| tho fundamental law is adaptable tr
| either of these two methods or to ans