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Show I A PRACTICE THAT SHOULD BE STOPPED A stranger died in an ambulance rhile being conveyed from the city iail to tho Dee hospital on Wednes-3 Wednes-3 ay. That was the simple recital of a :ragedy back of which is a story of man's inhumanity. The dying man jrifted Into Logan a day last week, tn a helpless condition. He was not wanted by the commissioners of Dache count;., who, when Informed j that he could live but a few days, had the sufferer carried to the train, with a ticket for Ogden. A dog would be accorded better treatment A mangy cur in the stree.t. struggling against death, I would be comforted by the first per-' per-' son to observe his agony The ani-I ani-I mal would be given 9uccor and rest ' Strange that in these days of high civilization money should count more than human life, even among those entrusted by law with the task of relieving the helpless in extreme distress! dis-tress! The Cache county commissioners ara imf i h o, nnlv offenders of this stamp. From Rock Springs, Wyoming, Wyom-ing, Indigents have been sent to Ogden Og-den to die. Not long ago a laborer, with both legs cut off. was hurried out of Wyoming, to become a public charge on Weber county This should stop, first, as It is a crime to thus mistreat any human be-'. be-'. ing, and, second, because an injustice is perpetrated against those communities com-munities that seek to do right in the treatment of the afflicted poor who are without friends or home |