Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1881 — Fifty Men Let a Child Drown. [ARTICLE]

Fifty Men Let a Child Drown.

London Fall Mall Gazette. On Monday afternoon fifty stronglybuilt and well-dressed Englishmen stood round the basin In Kensington Gardens and deliberately watched a little girl of 4 years of age drown in two feet of water. It would be a comfort if we could persuade ourselves that this chance sample of the nation all happened to be so exceptionally thick-skulled that they did not know what to do in the emergency, but a review of the whole circumstances admits of no other conclusion than (hit they did mot care to wet their boots, Arn old man who had brought another child out ten minutes before, entreated them to repeat bis action, as he was himself too feeble at that moment, but none of the selfish cowaids would move. Our hero asked his dog to do something, and the four-footed brute set the best example he could to the bipeds, who stared in astonishment at his prowess. The dog failing, bis proprietor tried the effects of a pole, but the pole being too short, the philanthropy and invention of the assembled company were exhausted,"and the poor child was left to perish. If any one had said beforehand that of fifty Englishmen, taken anywhere at random, twenty-five of them, singly or hand in hand, would not have, dashed even into deep water in a moment, and on a manly impulse he would have been told that he was slandering the race. Monday’s humiliating proceedings, however, reveal to us how we actually stand, explain it as we miy.