Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1885 — The Epidemic of Crime. [ARTICLE]

The Epidemic of Crime.

Whence comes this epidemic of snioides and murders? Uecent discussions have named several causes. Hon. C. H. Reeve, of Indiana, charges if to infidel teachings—holding that hopelessness of a future state cripples lortitude for bearing life's ills. Another der olares suffering from the universal business depression the cause. A third writer attributes it to increasing Insanity. A physician thinks much of the tendency la inherited, while temperance advocates lay the responsibility upon strong drink. Free-thinkers have committed suicide, but so have orthodox churchmen. Financial straits many, but the wealthy have aitfotaken their life. Insanity and dissipation have preceded suicides and family murders. One leature common to almost every such crime challenges attention. Wellnigh every report of suicide and family murder mentions the perpetrator as having ‘-for some time been subject to melancholy.” Whence tomes this? All recognized medical authorities tell us that tho fire which consumes the bfJrtnls' 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 circumstances, a preventive should be sought, and for this Warner's Safe Cure is sovereign fact conceded by the best authorities in the land, and it is especially commended by the celebrated Dr. Dio Lewis.—lf ochcster Democrat.