| Show the wisdom of railroad companies encouraging genuine collisions c olIt between locomotives for show purposes may be doubled the question that arises Is not whether castoff cast off instruments are arc used up in these mimic catastrophes ta tri but what Is the tt le effect 0 of this sort of a show Is it to create respect for property clearly not it Is to teach destructiveness it la is to arouse a vicious spirit in human nature it la Is to make destruction spectacular and thereby stimulate the weak the imitative and th perverse to repent repeat in earnes a most t the experiment presented as recreation for an all admission fee the abad ing effect of such a spectacle Is 18 an incitement cit ement to brutality for sensation the same instinct makes boys torment dumb animals the same low love of sensation without regard to morality Is seen in vivisection carried on for amusement if reading frontier mock heroics has brought many a boy to amateur the genuine railroad collision to which great corporations po rations lend themselves as ed accessories will inspire real railroad wrecks thle Is the first time the ethics and taste of the dime novel have been applied to railroad corporation financing |
