Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1915 — Ten Dollars a Hang. [ARTICLE]

Ten Dollars a Hang.

There are 100,000,000 children in China under 10 years of age. Ont wonders how there- are so many remaining, for multitudes of children die off through exposure, ill care, starvation and diesase. Hundreds of thousands of these children live in the Chinese sanpans, which ply the rivers and throng the water fronts of the great cities. For generations these boatmen knew no other home than these boats. In case of babies, a rope is attached under their arms and if they slip over the side of the sandpan into the water they are fished out the best way possible. But life is plenty and cheap in China. “How much then is a man better than a sheep?” Not much better in China. A friend of mine, a Brooklyn judge, who arrived late at the daily? execution in Canton, and who could only stay for the day, was told that for $lO they would secure a special victim to satisfy the American’s curiosity. And they proceeded to find a man who for the sake Of his family was willing to barter his life for $lO. Of course, he got the slo— his life.—Christian Herald.-