Corporate Indifference to Human Life
By Editor
WE have before remarked the indifference there is manifested to human life and safety on the part of great corporations. Street-car dummies, unprotected, unguarded railway crossings, and electric light, telegraph, and telephone wires, have proved veritable demons of destruction in some of our large cities, with entire indifference on the part of the corporations immediately concerned, and with no change in their plans involving any great expense or loss of means. Rev. J. C. Grimmel, at the burial of Peter Clausen, the last victim of the electric wires in New York, uttered the solemn truth when he said:— "If the deadly wire had dropped at the door of one of those who employed this man, the danger would soon have been removed. Nay, even pet animals would have been protected. . . . "This is no mysterious Providence. The law has been transgressed. Blame there is somewhere. There was no necessity for this sacrifice. The electric light dispels the gloom of night, but if electricity turns into a Moloch to feed on human blood, in the name of God let us do away with it. God's law has been broken by cruel greed. The transgressor will at last be called before the judgment bar of the Most High. The cause of slavery called for a deluge of blood. Rome crumbled and decayed when the individual life was of no more consequence."