DEGENERATE AMERICANS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 11 March 1912, Page 1

DEGENERATE AMERICANS.

EFFECT OF MONEY MADNESS. -Mr. William Muldoon states'that tHe American race runs the risk of degenerating "owing to fch<» _money-hogß ( and money-madness." . x This statement seoures attention in New York, because Muldoon is known throughput the United States as a famous 'physical trairietf who has achieved remarkable success in treating human breakdowns. - Some»of i the best-known men, including Mr. Elihu- Root, former Secretary of State, liave passed' through Muldoon's sanatorium, entering as derelicts and emerging with, all their forces renewed. Muldoon declares that the corroding influence of greed for wealth' is being felt in every walk of life, and has strewn the path withi human' shipwrecks. "Yes," continued Muldoon, "I take the millionaires who have achieved wealth. I get them, lots of them, worn out, dissipated, crazed by their perpetual struggle for more money. • They are burnt out, body and soul, and their children are worse. The younger generation loses -its vitality, its ambitions, its morals, and its reputation. They, are no good to themselves and no goocf to anyone else, and all this is the. result of .'too much',money. It is impossible to see where this degeneration, will stop;, ■every year Ht gets worse,arid Mien aN driving themselves at a . grater pace. Then comes the inevitable v collapse. Nearly all my patients aro neurasthenics, their nerves ragged, and their indigestion gone, and sufferers : from insomnia: It is alarming, the. increase of .degeneration, mental and physical, with which we must battle." . The simple life, rationaV diet,, physical culture, and mental discipline are the underlying secrets of Muldoon's success, and this truth is increasingly, recognised an America and emphasised by* publio health authorities more and more every year. ' .'