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PREJUDICE ARISING AGAINST AUTOMOBILES.That there a widespread prejudiceagainst the automobile is true*. That the automobiles are mainly if not wholly respoiisihle for tins prejudiceis also true. The pul lie has come ] quite generally to look upon the horseless vehicle as a dangerous racing machine only and not as a means of legitimate transportation and travel. And in this the public is measurably justified by the reckless use to which the owners of these* conveyances putthem. j! The principal purpose to which the automobile has thus far been utilized is the making of speed records. If the racing were confined to private tracks, j the public could have no reason to complain. When, however, the automobile drivers tala* plt; s rssiori of suburban streets and country roads and in brazen defiance of law and decencyrecklessly drive then* various colored“ghosts and “devils” and “demons at breakneck speed, utterly regardless of the rights of the legitimate users ofthe streets ami jhas a right to complain. The Kev. Dr. Lorimer, an eminent baptist clergyman of New York, put a the case rather strongly:The mon who ride down people In automobiles are generally rich men. They are likely to be j rsotia t i cultivation, and personally their U * lings toward the poor are doubtless am la hie enough, but when it is a matter of interfering with their amusements the life of a poor man counts for nothing with them. Kvery life that is sacrificed in that way ought to be paid for in the electric chair.I)r. Lorlmer's words illustrate something of the intensity of public indignation which the automobiJistg are bringing upon themselves. Scarcely a day passes that the news dispatches do not bring reports of fatal and serf- j ous accidents directly caused by the speeding of automobiles beyond the limit set by the municipalities and j townships through which they pass. The automobilists ought in the interest of themselves and their sport to j have sense enough to check their reck- j less speed. If not. the law should le made to deal with them with the ut-most severity and promptness.
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Xenia Daily Gazette and Torchlight
Xenia, Ohio, US
Mon, Jun 23, 1902
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