Life — April 2, 1908 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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Zoo 3, POO hospitals has more than doubled; while in ten years the number of feeble-minded has more than trebled, 58 per cent. of those in institutions being under twenty years of age and 85 per cent. under thirty, three- fifths being epileptic. But banish the thought that we should regulate freedom of marriage. Individual liberty must not be curtailed or what will become of the Constitution and the Eagle? x in the United States is surely happy, though it is true, according to this census— or senseless—publication that more than thousand citizens commit suicide an- there anything that we cannot ‘chy several better in?—and in alone, to wit, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Detroit, Indianapolis and Omaha, there have been granted in ten years over 41,000 divorces! Still we can be proud of our railroads. They only kill 10,000 people a year and only injure 100,000. And we only consume two billion gallons of liquor annually, with but 10,000 saloons in New York and 7,800 in Chicago. Evidently some of us do retire sober. But prohibition! Think of destroying ed inter and of the bartenders and others engaged in the cheerful business of intoxicating us who would be thrown out of employment! Is it not plain that we have a sufi of paupers? Let not our glorious liberty—especially to get drunk and help support courts and jails and almshouses and insane hospitals—be cur- tailed! And please be good enough to remember after you have read this tribute to pros- perity that you must not breathe a word derogatory of our civilization le: branded as a Socialist or Anarchis perfectly lovely—even if over 90 per cent. of us are living from hand to mouth, un- certain whether we shall be employed. to- morrow or not, be housed or in the stree feast or starve, and the other 10 per cent. stand a chance of becoming paupers ere they take leave of the world. 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