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Show FIGHT YOUR MARRIAGE LAW OUT, DR. 5EATTY! ALL STRONG MINDS fflVOR IT (BY ZtJLA NEV1TT.) So Dr. Beatty of the State Boaxd of Health is going to aak the coming Legislature to pass a bill forbidding the ; marriage of the feeble minded, the lm- beetle, first cousins and others of the I gTeat Clan of the Unfit! j Hurrah for you. Dr. Beatty. and may ! the bill that you have fathered go j through the Legislature like a sky-; sky-; rocket! i It is high time that a David arose to strike a blow at that great big Goliath j of an American bugaboo sentimen- j tality. j We legis;are about railroad conges sion .and pure food ar.d divorce, but we j must not approach the aered dem.ene ; f m a ' r i m on v. j We appropriate millions annually to are for the idiot? and the affii-'ted that ! th"sr who never should never have been a'l"w ed iv a tv have brought in- 1 to the world. Wo maintain homes anl ' high salaried doctors to make the lives of the..' unfortunates a li'tle more bearable, and 'et the hideous bla. k j Mde of imbc'-i'itv and insanitv .i-e higher and higher, until it infects 'he j verv fiber of ci i h ..a r ion . Hut even I venture to hinf of rest raining mar j riage. and if sends indignan' shivers cavorting up and down our sentimental American spines. An Inalienable Right. Marriage is a sacred and inaiier.ab:e 1 right. It dors put mafer that the man who claim it has the taint of iriar.i' v . in hi b!o.,l. white as virejv as the ;n shines wi'l overshadow the lives of h's children, it makes no rlifferenep that he is imbecile ,-,r in the fatal grip of the d'e.ad whit plagm I.e him inr'v and replerish -ae ear'h with his kind i fill 'he insane asvlurrs, the cour.fv bos 1 pital?. the jails and penitentiaries Buf 1 as you value public opinion, don't da-e ! to talk "f subie.-ting that fender, timid, sept i'ner f x 1 ltfte germ of so called lo-e to the hard unfeeling f,-, p8ss upon its flnes. i uir seutimentaht is must be respec t e,i ' i Recommendation that a bill forbidding forbid-ding the marriage of feeble-minded and imbecile individuals and first cousins cou-sins be passed at the coming session of the Legislature will be made by Dr. T. B. Beatty, secretary of the State Board of Health in his report which will soon be submitted to the Governor. The bill, which is strongly favored by medical men, will ask for restrictions in the case of marriages between feebleminded feeble-minded persons and first cousins and is the first blow to be struck in Utah in the great fight for the coming generation. genera-tion. The bill is being fathered bv Dr. Bea'tv and he is also conducting a campaign cam-paign of education on the necessity of such a bill in I'tah. Pr. Beatfv intends to bring the question before the session ! of the State Medical society which meets here on January 1 and impress upon that association the necessity of legislation to prevent the marriage of those afflicted with epilepsy, tubrreti losis or venereal troubles. Little Thought Given. ''The average citir.cn.'' declared Dr. Beatty. ''gives but little thought to these great problems. Personally, he would probably prefer not to marry any such afflicted person, but the absolute and dire necessity of preventing one , generation from inflicting inherited ills on the next is not commonly thought of anv particular moment. Vet the pres ent generatiou stands as a sort of providence provi-dence to the next, and those selfish enough to wish to inflict their troubles on the coming ones should be prevented ' bv law from fainting the future race Reports from fown and cities outside of Salt Lake show that there ar in the j State 134 feeble minded persons and thirty four idiots under the age of 'J'1 years. The reports do not cover the whole State, however, but onlv a ma , joritv of the farge towns and cities No I report has vet been compiled of Sal' Lake Many Feeble Minded. From the reports so far submitted to i the State Board of Health it is learned ! that there are in the State oiio feeble j minded persons of all ages. Sixty per j cent or 2'i'l persons are under that age. i The question arises as to what to do with these "00 feeble minded persons. It is expected that the Governor will take up the matter at oni e. as he has : been giving if much attention. These feeble minded persons are per miffed to be at large, as there is no pro vision made at the State Insane asvlum at Provo for them. The plan that is recommended is for the establishment at convenient places throughout the State of institutions wherein the feeble minded may be taken care of and where there would be industrial departments where they emild be trained in the use ful trades and taught to be self de pendent. The expense of maintaining these institutions, it is suggented. could ' be borne either wholly by the State, or in part by the State and in part bv en dowment. ! i apd later, when the farmer was taking j him in'o town. Lechman riding behind ; j him on the same horse. Lechman , i reached over, took a hammer from the i i farmer's pocket and knocked him sense- i lcs. ! Drank Victim's Blood. ! Then he cut hi tnroa' and drank the ! warm bb.d as gushed from the w.n.rd. Lecnman was ii'er lynched bv ! the ief.irred c'ti'cr.s "f Las Animas ; county, but tna' d'd "o' trai 'he actvng ; Vearf of t re farmer's n dow . :;or feel ins children If I.e.-h it; ' pa-ent . ' who w ere n'cnta' v a n-1 m-'ra'H de-j de-j rb'io-.t. peen ' i'rv. l .iw.av in a su" able i.iiM'h" b f. i e r, . became par rr', fh',re uou'd bf '-art broken j wo?ran i" ri:-' v..r i "''i.;-, l Sta'is'ics ief -, t ' a , imbe -ilitv and j tnsanf are increasing at an a'arni i tng rapid r-i'e i.-t t: are s.im 1 thing e'se we niertc.i -s !gnoe. but I tr.". are i;un''u! pe rsi er 'hires to get are,'-. I Insatvf v i "- t -e increase i I in l't;iK )r p.cat'v i s. and r'ght now ? i i s t he 1 1 m c t o c h c c ; i The First Cousin Evil. j Tiaf n-arriage ci t! r i'f.;.in is a , hippy 'hoiight. '" !'r v'T' ; i h , po'e praise to v : f - li"pg r. s g- ges' 'ha" be ,ro ...,,,) We have per bepn so t r1 - - .- i-. a triage 'f ti'St c.vii"S as r- r. nor jp K ". g ' land Over 'rev r ' ''quite rh i rwapih thing, lone nerkn iw. ' ' a " --e weak nvde l. ! . -re" 'hat we ! know as t v pica 1 Lrg' - tords. t h ! anaemic and e,yja:iv ici.v, H -i-il igan of the I.on.iTcn sl.:'isi i h resi;i , of such marriages ''So vo n-, n " i ' To a rrv on ' own c o-; s i n ' H a e -" ' h 1 rd pe, , - ' j . s,s it doens of ' lives' No Thought of Results. Rut do vou e.r 'rar th err av a word abou" the po.--. weak, co-s -.m-i'iv e idren that all 'c-i ..ft-!: ar- re : ' of sue h i: n ' on s ' H'.i' Ctah is n g m -g 'e . b'.-t on its es."t -,- ;f I ir an help li ' n pr ,r g v ' , W! I be f eillowtr g the . ( ; '. .1 -. teen other St.t-es t'-a" ! . : a "o marriage of . s w r : ' .;' borders. And this verv -".'- ' a -.v n . . -v largely reduce the 5 r, ep.T.ge :,;. 'ir.d i:nbecile Like Our Novels. I We are v'i much like our popular novels, we Americans. Thev epo! with j the wej.iipg bells, and we sre left fo i I infer fii.at everybody lived happy ever j af'er. Hut we won't be bore. with the ei.mmonpla.-e details of how thev really ', did live. ' , How John Jones earns the dailv j bread and butter which he puts in the i mo;th of Mrs. Jones and tne l:tt . Joneses; how Mr Jones perhaps quar re's with Jones when the stove smokes and the baby is cross from teething rii.es not appi.a' fo us at all. We do not want to hear about the hopeless human driftwood that fills our asvlurr.s and penitentiaries, and we hear about those who ought to be in these institutions, but are not. onlv when some terrible crime, some horrible and : unnecessary shedding of human blood l thrusts it upon our notice. It is all so unsentimental. Let the Law Say No. j Tnsentimental fiddlesticks' If the ! law said a good, loud "No!" to the marriage of the insane father and the I irresponsible mother of the youth who ' committed the horrible murder that was i I served up fo vou in the evening paper I with red ink and scareitjads, and if the law had followed it up'bv putting them in institutions where tnev would be properly cared for, all that sickening shedding of human blood would have been spared. Over in Tolorado a tragedv happened recently which cost two lives. An insane in-sane man. Gustave Lechman, killed a farmer who had befriended him, and drank his blood. Lechman had begged , and been given lupper by the farmer, |
