| Show A CAUSE OF SUICIDE two or three local experiences and similar reports from many other placer place have seemed to give additional force to the theory that suicides increase and become alwast epidemic in ID times of financial depression looking at the thing naturally it is difficult to gainsay tins this proposition for whatever may be the basis for the information we are told in four cases out of every five that financial troubles trouble were the cantio of the victims victim awful act but now comes the springfield republican with statistics which show that the theory which seems so plausible is in only a popular notion mud and can be upset without difficulty As every one knows know the greatest panic of recent years occurred in the year 1873 but the statistics show that that year did not witness any ady increase inc in the suicides in fact the rate both in that year and the next was generally low in n all the now new england states in massachusetts chu there were suicides in 1871 in 1872 in 1878 and in 1874 it in im undoubtedly true how ever that suicides have even been uncommonly frequent of late and in a good many cases the victims have been unfortunate in business but the stati statistics of previous years of business depression are against the theory that suicides are multiplied by panicky conditions |
