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Nome, Alaska, July 10, 1010.
CAUSE AM) EFFECT.
Infantile paralysis is one of the
diseases of poverty. It arises ac
cording to investigators from the
lack of sanitation that surrounds
the lives of the very poor. The
commonest means of conveying thi3
disease from cne afflicted being to
another is the horse fly which takes
it from filth and other unsanitary
sources and transfers the germs to
human beings.
But like many other of the ills
that the poverty stricken are richly
heir to, the disease leaves its humb
le surroundings and strikes as well
the palace as the hovel, the man
sion as the tenement v/.vren.
When we read of the epidemic
spreading through the greater citj
of Now York, we must clearly u.i
derstand that nothing could more
emphatically explain the poverty anc
filth of the tenement district thar
the fact of this epidemic.
The very day that it is rnnouncec
that N> w York is the g'eatest city
as to population in the world, come:
also the intelligence that New Yorl
is a pattern of filthiness and bread:
such a disease of filth as infantih
paralysis to such fa extent as t<
defy the offices of physicians am
expert medcal men in its cure.
It is spreads out from its tenc
ment3 and its filthy origin to af
flict the children of the rich.
Another disease of poverty i:
tuberculosis. But it does not re
main such. If it did mighty litth
would be said or done against tin
great white plague. But tubercu
losis and infantile paralysis leavi
the places where they arc constant
ly originating and strike aliki
rich and poor with their evil grip
Now it is emphatically right tha
this should be so. Were it not tha
these diseases spread beyond tin
poor who are the first stricken anc
whose evil condi'ion of living ori
ginates the plague, littlo or no at
tention would be paid to it.
There are terrible diseases tha
afflict the poor which are occupa
tional diseases strictly, and whici
cause much suffering pain and hor
rible death but they do not leavi
the poverty stricken cnvlronmen
wherein they were born und in con
sequence medical science has sadl;
neglected them.
Really it is only when disease af
fects the well to do that th-^re i!
manifested serious interest in it:
extirpation or in its cure.
Because sleeping sicknesj afTectec
the workers and made them inefli
cient, scientific men, paid by riel
men's foundations, devoted theii
career to the cure of this disease.
Infantile paralysis is one of the
worst of the plagues of poverty
It is the cruelest fall. It strikes
the very helpless without ruth 01
pity. It attacks without warning
and never departs without leaving
some sickly imprint of its formei
'presence behind. It was common
enough for years. But it was con
fined like typhus or Jail fevor only
to the very poor or the very ill
jeourished, or the most unsanitary.
But within a memory it has begun
stretching out. It is now affecting
rich and poor; just as typhus loaves
its plebian quarters and strikes at
;tbe patrician mansion.
So society is beginning to make
some to-do about it. It ic all very
well to destroy the children of the
extremely poor, but it will never do
to kill of the children of the ex
tremely rich. Science must aid and
science will aid by discovering some
means of confining it witihin its ori
ginal bound or curing it when it
shows its presence any where.
Four fifths of the diseases to which
flesh is heir could be eliminated
were mankind afforded a compe
tency as to food, fresh air and
wholesome surroundings. Clear and
clean water to drink; fresh and
wholesome air; sufficient and nour
ishing food—granted these things
and ordinary sanitary principles be
ing recognized there will be but
scant illness.
But that is not possible. Air comes
dear in the tenements. Water i3
polluted long before it reaches the
thirsty in the slums. The high pri
ces preclude anything like a suffici
ency of wholesome food and hence
disease is inevitable. And the
funny part of it is that when the
wise scientific men combat the disea
ses wheh poverty gives rise to, the
last thing they think of is of eli
minating poverty.
Instead they will discover
serums or toxins or some
other dope which will kill
off the germs when they make
their appearance In the system o!
the afflicted one. They will be able
to cure providing that the victim
has the money to pay for a cure;
but there will be no prevention.
How many thousands die from
tuberculosis annually we dont jusi
recall. But the number is enorm
ous.
i | Now every one of those live'
could be saved by prevention.
1 Everyone of those lives could b
^shaped so that tuberculosis could
’ j affect them not at all. Prevcntior
1 is better than cure, said the ole
saw But because the preventior
' J of these diseases of poverty mean:
'' the extirpation of poverty first o
I all, there can be no such thing a:
1, prevention.
To our present scheme of civiliza
1! tion, no matter how we beat abou
:: it, poverty is an essential. We mus
have lots of very poor willing t<
1 sell their labor power to employers
' We must have tenements so tha
; the few can have mansions. W<
must have poorly paid workers s<
that the department store, mai
order houses, mills, factories an<
manufacturing plants can make lot:
1 of money.
We can’t do without poverty, pov
erty the most abject under our pre
sent scheme of things. It is not si
much a condition as an institution
It is part of our civilization: liki
1 the tenderloin, or the slum, or thi
jail or the pest house or the crimi
1 nal court or the crooks, the graft
■ ers, the parasites. And with it gi
the diseases of poverty, tuberculosis
infantile paralysis, sleeping sicknes:
venereal disease.
John D. Rockefeller spent million:
1 trying to cure sleepng sickness it
1 the south. Hs fame, thanks to ju
dicious publicity by 26 Broadway
was blest by hundreds in conse
' quence. But the fact was not statec
that this same sleeping sickness h
due merely to mal-nutrition. It ex
lsts because the vctlms aro not suf
ficiently fed. They dont get enougl
to eat. They are In a state o:
diron-c hunger All of which be i
respectfully spoken is part and pai
cel of this same civilization whlcl
grinds out Industrial derelicts like
these diseased victims of poverty
and Industrial overlords with man
sions in the Catskills.
So when people talk about pre
paredness let it be rememberec
that the civilization that they In
tend to uphold is .this same system
of civilization which breeds poverty
as an essential.
And it would be a welcome thing
to disco.ver some person in the high
places of government who would de
vise some kind of a preparedness
plan which would consider the de
struction and total abolition of pov
erty from the scheme of things.
There would be something worth
while..
It surely would be worth while to
know that here is a country where
the tubercular victim could haunt
us no more with his stricken pre
sence; that here is a city where the
babe in arms would be safe from
the cruel suffering of infantile para
lysis; where dread occupational di
seases would not spread their slimy
development into something worse
and where the most hateful of all
ills would not be a menace to so
ciety because natural lives are for
bidden the' sexes.
There's some preparedness for
you that would outlast all the con
quests that the most imperialistic
mind lias ever dreamed—that
would be well wof-th striving for
and well worth dying for if need be.
Then would be no question about
graft or pork. Then would be no
ulterior motive; no secret sense ot
unjust design nor unfair demands.
The doctors do very well as it is.
They struggle to ovrecome these
social plagues as best they can. But
they try to keep out the waters of
the ocean by sweeping back the ris
ing tide with a broom. As fast as
they cure one, the system grinds out
another. Day after day a victory is
recorded, but the teracherous foe
they fight breaks through their re
solute lines hour by hour.
The doctor’s greatest enemy is noi
ignorance. It is poverty. Poverts
provides a hundred victims for the
reception of disease, day by day
hour by hour: relentlessly, tireless
ly, pitilessly, ruthlessly, everlasting
ly. It poisons the air; it pollute:
the water; it denies food. It break:
down the tissue in the lung; atro
phies the kidney; impoverishes th<
blood. Before such an enemy medi
cal science is powerless. Befori
such actual conditions theories an
a vanity.
Yet rather than recognize the fac
that Poverty does all these thing:
and that the social health cannot bi
improved without the abolition o
poverty, men have to content them
selves with treating the effects o
that grim social cause of almos
all disease.
The only hope the poor have i
the democracy o£ disease an l th
iconoclacm of death.
Disease knows no rank; draws n<
clas3 line; recognizes neither rac
nor creed nor caste. Born in th
lowliest surroundings, it penetrate
the palace of the rich. The bal
dress of a princess made in th
London slum conveyed diptheria t
royalty and the world stood aghas
at its profanity. It was nothin
that the poor should die of it, bu
when a princess is stricken scienc
is called upon to attack the plague
Hence we have white plague socle
ties; tuberculosis congresses air
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Wm. A. Kjcllman, your heirs,
executive, assigns or personal re
presentatives:
You are hereby notified that i
have expended in labor and improve
ments the sum of one hundred dol
lars each year during the
years 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914 and
1915 on the Relief claim, a placer
mining claim situated on the
north bench of Specimen Gulch and
recorded and more fully described
’ in Volume 6, at page 93 In the
’ records of the Cape Nome Mining
and recording district, In the
r Second Division of the Territory of
t Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended in order to hold said claim
under the provision of the Law, con
cerning annual assessment wotk
upon Mining claims, being the
amount required to hold said claim
And you are further noticed, that
i» within ninety days after the lest
j publication of this notice, you fail
to contribute your proportion of
said expenditure, your interest in
^ said claim will become the property
_ of the undersigned your Co-owner
’ under section 2324 Reviced Statutes
of the United States.
J. C. WIDSTEAD.
Co-Owner.
• Date of first publ., April 10, 1916.
Date of last publ. July 10, 1916.
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