Ogden Sun | 1905-08-01 | Page 4 | Human Sympathy

HUMAN SYMPATHY human sym patny is a strange and a wonderful thing and its ways ara past finding out now and then som 1 appalling accident seems to almost to atop the breath of nation it may I 1 be that several hundreds of people ara destroyed in a burning theater or per haps a trainload of passengers ara thrown into wreck and destruction public consternation becomes almost inarticulate and then from every part of the country comes a wave of generous sympathy and sorrow that will take if need be the most helpful and i material shape that Is one side ot tha picture but there is another the interstate commas sion for the first quarter of 1905 shows that the number of accidents to railway passengers and employed emp loyes amounted to killed and injured that Is for three months only now it these victims had met their fate at one time and in one place the aholo ot civilization have shuddered every american newspaper would bavo done its whole duty in the matter regardless gard less of space and probably every pulpit in the land would have voiced the universal horror but these people were gilted kilted or wounded separately and in different places the element of sudden shock to the public mind la wanting and this Is not compensated jor by th 0 disturbing fact thata large number of these fatalities were easily preventable and yet criminally therefore this army of killed and wounded finds its only record in a few lines of a commerce commission report unwept and unsung and an entirely tranquil public passes on its way wi th unconcern it Is certainly very strange croup instantly relieved dr thomas oil perfectly sate nev cr fails at any drug store the next convention of the women s international union labor league will not be held until 1907 it will take place at N J