The day book. [volume], December 02, 1915, LAST EDITION, Image 24

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and you will then have the greatest
democracy possible. John Soller,
652 Hamburg St.
TO R. F. PAINE. You, in your
poor, morbid way, have characterized
the doctor in the Bollinger baby case
as a brute.
I'd like to talk to you for a few
minutes to look you over a man
with your poor, distorted ideas of
motherhood, fatherhood or religion:
and I judge you must, of course, be
worth looking over (or overlooking).
A crank is not worth the time of men
who think.
Do you realize the hardship the
average strong, well-built, able young
man has to face when they "hit the
line" in this great world of ours?
Why send a poor, maimed, distort
ed being out to take these hardships,
without a known chance?
God ha His infinite wisdom put men
like Dr. Haiselden here to decide in a
case like that He gave him power
to decide, and I glory in Dr. Haisel
den's decision, poor, unfortunate
minds to the contrary notwithstand
ing! Let us have more men of wisdom
and judgement in this world and
fewer knockers. H. M. O.
WE GOTTCHA, PLUTE! Having
had the opinions of doctors, lawyers,
clergymen and others, not to men
tion the well-known ones of the un
dertakers, we'll now give the state
itself a chance to offer some views on
the Bollinger baby case. This au
gust body may make a spiel about
as follows:
"From what I've learned about
the case the child could never have
run an eyeletting machine, tipped
shoe laces, labeled cans or run er
rands, etc. Still, I wanted to give it
as much exaggeratedly religious pub
licity as possible, so as to put enough
emphasis on the value (to us) of all
human life, since to (just about)
maintain itself it must produce prof
its for well, for us. Better to build
sweatshops than infirmaries. As to
the child in question, better dead
than unexploitable. And, by no
means incidentally, I extend through
you my sincere congratulations to
our emissaries, Drs. Park-Hearst,
Billy Sunday, et al. Finally, always
remember that one of the main es
sentials of our prosperity is a well
crowded labor market So hang the
looks of those of our reserve army,
but let's not have charges in the
shape of total imbeciles. In other
words, let's look out first for our
selves, understand!" John Jacob-son.
CHLOROFORM IMPERFECTLY
BORN. Dr. Haiselden will go down
in history as a pioneer in a new field.
He has defied both church and state
and stuck to Shakespeare, who said:
"Let mercy season justice."
It would have been brutal to have
asked the child to struggle along
through a short earthly fife, full of
constant suffering and intense pain,
and neglected because it did not pos
sess ordinary normal faculties. Even
at that Dr. Haiselden's act of mercy
was only a fifty-fifty proposition. He
compromised with Satan, as it were,
like Wilson and Bryan on woman's
suffrage, who indorse the new move
ment by states but not nationally.
The doctor should have gone ahead
and chloroformed the infant when it
was first born, after proper consulta
tion, and ended the intense suffering
and strangulation the babe suffered
for six days until it died. Even at
the stock yards they are more hu
mane than this and they are not al
lowed to kill lambs and sheep any
longer by slow bleeding and a .death
of torture. But we human beings
allow our hopeless kind to die by
inches and intense suffering. Oh, we
humans are wonderfully consistent!
When the spirit is forced to dwell
in a temple of misery it should be
mercifully released by what is called
death. It would be more merciful
to chloroform all hopelessly insane
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