Show SIXTY THOUSAND A YEAR YEAH Price In Human Life That We Pay for Civilization Los Angeles A Record During a single year Jear American men women and children were killed by accident During the last 19 years the rail railroads railroads railroads roads of America killed per persons persons persons sons the same period persons have hale been Injured by Amen Ameri American can railroads ft e eThe The railroad toll alone for 20 years ears has been more than American fathers and wives and children During the last 17 years American coal mines have killed men made at least widows and upward of orphans The total life lite cost of the civil war var from disease as well welt as death was vas less than lives In the war of ot the revolution the American dead and wounded together numbered less than The total cost of ot Cuba and the Philippines has been less than 2000 American lives During a single year year American street railways killed and Injured a few fe less than persons In New York Tork the record of 27 days alone showed 42 1 deaths deat s and 00 Injured Every year ear Americans lose their lives In fires tires i American Industrial Ind plants are esti estt estimated estimated mated to kill every v ry year at it least I Im men m man n and to injure more American building operations cost lives every year and other persons sustain Injuries Pleasure costs more than 1000 Ameri Amen American can lives each year The American automobile accidents of the last year Jear took 22 lives without estimating the thousands more or less seriously injured American last year num numbered numbered numbered There are arc 1000 American murders each year Each American Fourth of ot July costs approximately SOO 00 lives Jives with Injuries to other merrymakers mt All of f which means that each and arid ev el elery ery ei year ear the United States yields up the lives lies of of Its citizens In payment p for or its civilization |