Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1911 — Make Fourth Glorious and Safe [ARTICLE]

Make Fourth Glorious and Safe

KRAUSKOPF

ORE than FIVE THOUI▼ 1 SAND persons, among ' them from one thousand to fifteen hundred children, are annually killed or injured by our manner of DESECRATING the Fourth of July. The blank cartridge alone slaughters on each Fourth of July more than one hundred boys between the ages of six and eighteen, over 85 per cent of whom linger for days amid the awful agonies of tetanus, agonies which, according to medical authority, were not paralleled even by the most EXCRUCIATING TORTURES of the inquisition. LET US INSTITUTE A MODE OF FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION THAT SHALL BE BOTH GLORIOUS AND SAFE.