Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-02-10
F0PnliGS XIII Americans!
100000 Killed And More
Than 100000 Wounded!

Washington. Feb. 9-Two hundred
.nd inv thousand men, women and
children are killed each. year In the
I'nited States, and 100000 are
uounacd because our statesmen re-
main silent in the face OF daily atroci-
lies wrought in times Of peace by
air. system of economic and Industrial
exploitation
Such is the toll each year in the
United States of poverty and its Off
rnriuy Dreventable disease. The fig
nres are nltra-conserYative, being but
half the total number OF deaths and
Illnesses, which, according to the
highest medical authority, could be
prevented by stamping out poverty or
merely by appropriating third the
the cost of one battleship for the pub
lie health.
me, 10 not INCLUDE tue 100, 0UC
American D.uuIes hliIeu ny poYerlJ
eacu ears Delufe Lney reach Lnen
hist ulrlnday. Inese ana bne qual
lie, III @nvn persons ole annually as
victims u d sysLeLm by winch the lev
ale projected ny Government IN the
Omut4 snip ana anDltrary cOnLr0l "a
lae anu, Natural resources ana ma
cnlntIy that should De a source OF
lue and Nell-belng TO all.
80 resident or eX-President lifts
hi. voice against the ceaseless slaugn-
ler Dy peace III America. Yet Vi
lnes greater eacn year IMAM mat VI
Tue Lusllania torpedolng.
statesmen ignore Issue.
Instead OIL attaching the injustice
ara uisAonor ana cruelty or eAplolLa-
uon al nome, or appropriatlng money
with WnlcH the deaLn-tou could be cut
III nam, our statesmen propose 10
spend hundreds OF millions 10 defend
principles ana ideals LnaL nave Deens
openly and repeatedly violated here
al ho4ne without protest ana mat are
ilUuled ana cruclhed by men VINO pose
as our leading citizens.
Nor can anyUhlng else be expected
until the victims, the workers and
Producers, organize and match their
power against that OF those who now
exploit them unchecked.
Tie Commute on Industrial Rela-
tons has used figures at the head OF
this column which have been care
fully compiled from United States
Reports by competent omclals
VINO aided the Committee. Surgeon
General Rupert Blue of the United
States. Public Health Service Is auth
GRITTY Tor the statement that nifty per
cent OF deaths from preventable dis
ease can be prevented.
The figures help to explain why
those who see the struggle to con
Quer the world for humanity and JUS
tlce as the only real struggle refuse
10 let the issue be clouded by Wrang-
ling between diplomats over points OF
honor that are raised only when the
exploiting classes Of two nations come
into conflict, and that are ignored
When these classes are committing
atrocities on the workers OF the same
country
The Committee in the present bulle-
atln will present evidence showing that
poverty is the direct cause OF peace
toll of misery, suffering and death In
THIS country surprising that suffered
by the armed forces of any belliger-
ent country in Europe.
Governmental neglect Is the second
cause and the facts about it VIII be
disclosed in second bulletin. But
\ the money now piling up in New
York banks to the credit OF men VINO
are preparing an imperialistic cam
paign OF world exploitation were dis
tributed in higher wages cheap Gre
dts and lower rents, there would be
NO need for governmental action
What Gorqas Says.
Major General William c. Gorgas
is the man who cleaned up Panama
and made possible the digging of the
Canal. He is the highest medical OF.
hcer of the United States army, and
scientist of world reputation. He
said.
The preyentable mortality in this
eounlr! is greater than the mortality
caused blythe European war. Science
knows, that the chief cause OF disease
Is poverty; that disease can never be
eliminated SO long as people are for
eed 10 live poorly and close together.
Here are the figures compiled in CO
operation with government - experts
and endorsed by them, showing hoy
poverty kills.
In Rrookline. Massachusetts, liua
the well-to-do, and the rich of Boston
Babies die in Brookline at the rat'
Of IS per thouand. In South Bethle
hem. where live the steel workers
whose Drawn and brain produces thu
wealth that has glutted Wall Stree
banks and the Golfers Of Broadwa!
VINE merchants.~babies die at TIT
rate of 233 per thousand.
Where the people work the hard
est, their babies die the fastest. iPov
erty kills them. 1t is fair to say tina
me net result Of the American Stee
industry is killing babies and making
millionairess
East Orange. New Jersey, is anothe
Wealthy suburban town, where no on
~SNEks very hard and most of the res
Cents work not at all. Babies di
C'ere. at the rate Of rs per Thousand
Three to One.
Fall River, Massachusetts,, is cer
Ter OF the textile industry Of Nel
England. The people there produc
me wealth that is spent in towns Xix
ftr,rookline and East Orange, or o
filth AVanua In Maw York An