Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1885 — The Epidemic of Crime. [ARTICLE]

The Epidemic of Crime.

Whence comes this epidemic of suicides and murders? Becent discussions have named several causes. Hon. C. H. Heeve, of Indiana, charges it to inlldei teachings—holding that hopelessness of a future state cripples fortitude for bearing life's Ills. Another declares suffering from the universal bus ness depression the cause. A third writer attributes it to increasing insanity. A physician thinks much of the tendency is inherited, while temperance advocates lay the responsibility upon strong drink. Free-thinkers have committed suicide, but so have orthodox churchmen. Financial straits have beset many, but the wealthy have also taken their life. Insanity and dissipation have preceded suicides and family mutders. One ieature common to almost even - such crime challenges attention. VVellnigh every report of suicide and family murder mentions the perpetrator as having ‘ for some time been subject to melancholy.” Whence comes this? All recognized medical authorities tell us that the Are which consumes the brain is always kindled by derangements of digestion; that good digestion is impossible without pure blood, and pure blood Is never known when the liver and kidneys are out of order. Under such ciroumstances, a preventive should be (ought, and for this Warner’s Safe Cure is sovereign—a fact conceded by the best aulhorities in the land, and it is especially commended by the celebrated Dr. Dio Lewis.— Rochester Democrat.