Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-02-25

And that If there were added those in
whom serious mental disease exists
but is unrecOgniZed, the number un.
der treatment would reach half a mil.
lion. z&ss
To this vast army of lunatics or
semi. lunatics, 10000 new patients-a:-
most the full strength of u regular
army-are added every year.
The cost of conducting the institu-
tons in which this vast number OF
persons is cared for, Doctor Patton.
says, is SO great that in several states
it is exceeded only by the amount ex-
pended for education. In New York,
expenditures for the insane cover one.
fourth of the total annual appropria~
ton of the state.
1t does not require a Thaw case,
with its melancholy and morbid fea-
lures, to assist appreciation Of this
staggering problem. And this is ono
Of the things that made President
Wilson really reluctant to veto the
Burnett bin, because the bill would
have placed in operation vitality need
ed administrative forces to limit our
insanity prcolem at its source, the I'M
migration stations.
1t is an open secret that for many
years Uncle Sam has been saddled
with the cost Of handling a large part
Of the insanity problems of other ma.
lions. ''What is it going to be-" men
like iMr. Burnett ask, latter this WARP
War Breeding Lunatics and Idiots.
According to experts the European
wal is rendering insane or idiotic
a terrible percentage of %combatants
and noncom5atants. This will be one
argument which is calculated to hur.
ry forward immigration law. amend
ment and it is only n OF several a..
guments.
Another matter Is the exclusion O.:
those openly addicted to sabotage, tho
wanton destruction or injury Of ma.
chinery or other forms of capital in
order to damage the employer. The
Burnett bill would have rendered the
American immigration laws for. tho
first time specific and practicable il
dealing with those people! Both la
Dor and capital. looking at the mater
broadly, are equally interested III the
repression and suppression of sabot-
age. No leader of organized labor
worth the name believes in the wilful
destruction CT property, and the time
has gone 4py when employers of Labor
a close their eyes to the fact that
they must choose between orderly
and law-aoiding trade unions and the
5lawless and thanksgiving dupes OF an
archists sailing under syndicalist bar
ners. There are many, both inside ant
outside congress, who think that III
dustrial commissions and industrial
conferences will spell time and money
wasted until labor and capital accept
the fact that both are equally inter.
ested in the p"rmanence OF employ.
ment and in preventing, where poss'-
bile, strikes, lockouts, and periods Of
local %stagnation or depression due to
local Industrial friction. Will it is
admitted that the governments new
plan Of distribution should ;De advan.
tageous in dealing with local problems
arising from differences in seasonal
employment, it is commended by many
members of the house and senate whc.I
have studied this question very close
ly. that ever this sort of distribution
will prove both costly and disarpoin,
ing in practice. if great armies of I'M.
employed are allowed to mobilize the
seaboard gates through unchecked ad-
mission of unskilled labor. OF cours
here it Ms a straight, clean-cut fight
between the advocates of cheap labo.
at any cost and those who appreciate
the inevitable relation between hands
and heads, and tire right Of the Ameri-
wage-earner to- a wage and steady
employment which will enable him to
conform to American standards of liv.
ing. 1t will probably take some time
to clear the air on this matter, be-
cause it Is now purpOsely suroharged
by masses of misleading statements
and statitic. But these who stand for
restriction Of unskilled labor be
.ieve they have the facts and that
they can MAKE them appreciated by
The general body of the electorate.
May Be 1916 Issue.
1T is Just possible that Mr.. Wilson'S
veto and causes originating through
he European war may make the i'm.
migration problem one of the vital is
sues in 1916. Why not?' a gooC
many say. Because, even If rms were
% accept the argument Of the anti
'estrictionists that the war will send
millions of the finest blood ana