DIES IRAE!

NZ Truth, Issue 80, 29 December 1906, Page 7

DIES IRAE!

DISEASE, DEGENEfUGY. - DEATH. THE EXTINCTION OF BURSAL UFL To What We ars Progressing. . A Mad and Starving World. ,-.,■ Degeneracy is increasing with such, alarixiing rapidity that, according to ' Dr. Forbea Winslow, the great expert m mental disease, there will, if something drastic be no i done, eventually be more insane persons- in the world than: those with sound minds. At the same time, cancer and suicide are m- ' creasing, whila the birth-rate is decreasing. Unless society be scientifically reorganised, the human race will become extinct. The facts as "to the great dangers that con* front humanity, of degeneracy, disease and death, are thus given by "Wilshire'a Magazine," a periodical issued m the Unit&d States.— "STARVE, GO INSANE, OR DIE OF . ♦ CANCER. .--.., j "A specialwork of 'Wilshire's Magazine' is the demonstration that the economic system is boijnd to soon come' to a finish , thro-ask the appearance of an insolvablo un- ! employed problem, the result of overproduction. The trusts, m our opinion, are -die clouds that foreshadow the coming ' deluge. However* the present social system is nob only menaced, by an unemployed problem, but also, by a number of other factors, any one of which might be fatal to it. For m- - stance, the concentration of wealth m tha hands of a few, if it goes on long enough, is &ure to result m a toppling of- the struc ture. This' is not only necessary economically, but also psycholbgicallyi For instance, if Rockefeller ' ■'.■•: OWNED ALL THE EARTH, > it is evident that the people of the earth would not stand for want of room, notwithstanding that economically 'they might be just as well off as they are' now. And -yet no one tuui deny that the" tendency to-day is all towards the one-man ownership of the earth. Again, the birth-rate is continually.decreasing m every civilised country. If this keeps up, it means the extinction of the ; civilised races. Not only is the general birthrate decreasing m an alarming degree, bufc the death-rate from certain diseases, espe- ___. cially cancer, is increasing alarmingly, and unless it be.ebecj_.ed, cancer will exterminate the human race. Again, one of the most alarming features of to-day is the .tremendous increase of insanity. The following is from the "New York Times":— THE WORLD GOING MAD. London, Oct. 4.— The delightful forecast of the world gone mad is held up to ua by Dr. Forbes Winslow. i "Accbi-ding to the statistical figures on ■ insanity," says the doctor m an interview, "ifc can be shown that before "long there will be actually more lunatics m the world than sane people. The burning problem of bhe day is how to prevent this increase of insanity- What is iha us<_ ol wasting time and energy on an Education Hli when we have before us this absorbing problem, the contemplation of an insane world, to deal with?" "Br. Forbes Winslow is no alarmist. Jie is - simply giving tho plain facts of the casa. "Suicide also is increasing m a tremendous degree, especially m the United Sta.GS. So humanity has tho pleasant chcicc of »*• tinotnon either by the death-i-ato EXCEEDING THK BIRTH-RATE or dying by cancer, with ih_> alternative o£ suicide, or going insane. "Finally, if it should escape all these evils, ifc is bound to" starve to death ai.ro ugh a great unemployed problem. "I might also speak of f.ho menace to Europe from the industrial development m China and Japan, bat this is mere or less cf the same kind of .a dan,?cr is the development of an UtV-t-npioyed tiio&em.