The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-06-08
TWO MURDERS LAST WEEK

IWO MURDERS LAST WEEk.
"Cause Of Death-Criminal Carelessness"
This is the office record of the Kenosha Health
Department in the case Of two children who
6ied from whooping cough during the past ten
days. The police record does not show that
any arrests have been made and possibly the
people who were directly responsible for the
death of these children on account of their I'M
willingness to observe laws of quarantine will
turn their backs and say, mot mine the fault" .
We want to say right now that the man or wo-
man who does not observe the laws OF quaran-
tine and who permits his or her sick child to
carry disease to other children is guilty or
manslaughter The man or woman VINO de-
Iberatey goes out to evade quarantine rules,
who slips out Of the back door Of quarantln-
ed house, who sends the boy or girl suffering
from disease to party or a theatre is guilty
Of premeditated murder. That is hard charge
to make against any one but it is the only charge
known to the moral law to fit the case.
The man or woman who has a child sick with
whooping cough or any other contagious dis
ease or who suspects that a child IS suffering
from such disease and who does not notify
doctor or the health department is guilty or
criminal negligence
We do not mean to say that these men and
women go out deliberately to kill little babies.
We do not say that they have stlletto conceal
ed somewhere in their pockets and that tney
90 into the night to stab sleeping babies TO
death but they are just as much guilty OF man.
slaughter as the man or weman who runs down
a child with an automobile. These fellows clio
not mean to do it but they are guilty OF
criminal carelessness which brings death. When
the white crepe is hung on home 1t does not
matter much whether the child was killed by
being hit by an automobile or killed by the GRIM
inal carelessness of man or woman who al
lowed that child to contract disease. Child
life has been snuffed out by carelessness.
Of course you may suggest, this does not
mean me -- | only let the boy go to one party
and he wasn't very sick any way. 1t may be
that your strong rugged boy can stand an at
tack of whooping cough or measles or scarlet
fever or diphtheria but the neighbors boy may
not be so strong
The uplifted hands of little children,
killed by criminal carelessness are calling to the
people of Kenosha to prevent further slaugh-
ter Of the innocents Famine and floods may
sweep down little children and it is terrible but
when children die by the scores and the hun
dreds the victims of preYentible contaglon the
crime of their death rests upon the people who
refuse to do what they could have done to save
these children.
Kenosha must get away from these child
murders The courts of the city should be
crowded daily with the men and women who
care more for their own convenience than the
lives of their neighbors children. People who
show unwillingness to protect the children of
others should be ostracised by society. 1t mat
tiers not how much money they may have, how
long their families may have lived in Kenosha
or how much prestige they may have, if they
refuse to protect the lives of little children they
must be regarded as murderers and the out
casts of society. The man who shoots down a
fellowman in the heat of passion is not nearly
SO much of criminal as the woman who deliber-
atey seeks to prevent the city protecting her
children and the children of others from the
ravages of ,whooping cough and other commun-
cable diseases.
Just put it down in your memory that not
obeying quarantine laws is manslaughter and
that deliberately evadng such laws is murder