Show CHILD INh INSURANCE URANCE the recent agitation against insuring euring in the lives of children is likely V ti bear good fruit outside of that commonwealth ws a toe the subject IR in being taken up in other states and is being discussed with the result that thus far public sentiment is io in favor of anti insurance laws law with respect to children from the statements which are made of the effect of child insurance the state permitting it ought to be classed alamed with herod on the plane of the slaughter of the innocents at the beginning of the christian era it to is said laid and records are cited in proof of the assert loo that the amount of child murder for the sake of insurance aurance ic money Is increasing to an sl alarming armIng extent the statement of dr samuel boyd secretary of the state board of health in tennesee Tenn eee essee is an illustration ot of the reports received upon the awful crime he isyk aay there is no doubt that many children have perished in my city nashville for lack of proper treatment who would have been living jiving today it if no inducements of a pecuniary nature had been held bold out many too loo have to my opinion been murdered cut right for the purpose of getting the insurance su ou the boston Herald given the report of the chairman of the massachusetts special deolal committee on the subject dr 0 F wright in which be desaye says were the statements not well substantiated they would be almost incredible the means employed for the murder marder of the innocents is generally no more violent than the withholding of a mothers care starvation and the lack of medical attendance we are told that conviction for the crime can seldom be secured although abundant circumstantial evidence can be presented I 1 it the st ries ut child murder fr fir the insurance are substantiated au betant as claimed it to high time one of the motives for the appalling crime that of the pecuniary profit should be removed by legislative enactment wherever it is found to t the accounts given of the i laughter of the little ones for the purpose named tell lell an awful tale ot i depravity in ia this country in the love loss of natural parental affection and the disregard for human life |