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Show SHAME TO OUR CIVILIZATION AND OUR CHRISTIANITY Truths Terrible to Contemplate Sometimes we feel that we are about to agree with, a Socialist speaker who, when asked how long she thought it would take for the world to accept the ideals she was preaching, preach-ing, replied, "Give us a million years!" The more we see and hear of man's awful inhumanity to man the more we despair of spiritual progress. In this editorial we give readers some of the most terrible truths we have ever come across. These truths concern the poor, helpless and defenseless inmates of the various asylums of the country. They are from reputable newspapers and are a cross section of the country, reaching into every state. How much they touch Utah we do not know. Read and ponder and forever after do anything with weak or feeble-minded persons before you think of sending them to the asylums. Some prisons too, have their share of inhumanities. inhu-manities. "Patient stomped in bed, beaten to death with mop bucket." "Aged patients tied to chairs so they will die faster." "Blind man dies; patients tell of beatings." "Wim.n ,-,,- jj .;tu UT - :i -j "Woman patient found dead with broken ribs and breast bone." "Attendants choke patient to death." "Three of asylum attendants charged yith death of two patients." "American Legion studies mystery behind asylum death." "Six patients of asylum meet death by violence." "Fifty-three deaths in Illinois mental hospital due to neglect." "Forty-seven deaths in Oregon mental hospital due to neglect." "Two hundred fifty-seven deaths among mental patients pa-tients in one month." "Eighteen persons sent to asylum on faked certificates." certifi-cates." "Old folks railroaded to psychopathic." "League charges railroading the sane into insane asylums." "State representatives declare asylum facts merit charges." "Legislative groups barred from asyli-jn , investiga- . tions." "Peril to 30,889 in state hospitals." There, readers, you have the naked truth which should make our boasted civilization and Christianity blush with shame. It is high time to start a new war a battle of the best in man against the worst in man a battle of the spirit against the darkness of ignorance and brutality. We are enlisted in this war. |