| Show THE SELF MURDER MANIA A SUICIDAL mania has swept over utah during the last few days the record is appalling and unprecedented not many years since sin oe in this territory a owe case of self destruction was so rare that when one occurred it created a sensation that did not subside for weeks and was perhaps wade made a subject of reference for months afterwards after warda such an event to is now so common that it scarcely occasions more than a passing comment and it at te won soon lost sight eight of by public attention being directed to i n other edi exciting etting conditions por for the past nine days there has haa been an average of one case of actual or at tempted in utah every forty eight hours this Is IB most deplorable A person in contemplating this ghostly ghastly social enormity instinctively attempts to discovers discover a cause even a cursory investigation renders one conclusion inevitable that the multiplication of caw cases of self murder Is ie largely due to the growth of various phases q of immorality intemperance and sexual sins sine are leading causes of we this disposition borne bome are am of coulse theano insane when they commit the ant act but even then the cause of that condition 1 I is often traceable to one and sometimes bothof the two beset besetments ments named and sexual Ulal crimes whether separate or combined unman the individual the physical and mental effects are such as to frequently drive those who indulge in them to despair unal they foolishly seek to end their sufferings in death financial and dome domestic troubles sometimes cause people to destroy themselves theme elvee thus thug showing that they lack the energy and courage neo essary to meet with a stout heart the thorns and briars of mortal existence E hence it is a mistaken idea that people who take their own lives livee are courageous the rule runs rone the other way physical sand and moral health are preventives ven tives against the spread of the suicidal mania an ag these conditions decrease life will beom eem to a certain class clan of unfortunate people not worth living they have no conception of the object of mortal existence else they would never in their sane moments it at least seek to cut it short either slowly by the insidious inroads of sin or the swifter proem process of self murder |
