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;nia paitaPREJUDICE ARISINGAGAINST AUTOMOBILESS5 S fig . *c !Z\ '--'C *That there is a widespread prejudiceagainst the automobile is true. That the automobiles are mainly if notwholly responsible for this prejudiceis also true. Tlu* public has come quite generally to took 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 esc to whichthe owners of the lt;* ;them.The prim 1 purpo to which the automobile lias thus far been utilized is the making of speed records. If the racing were confined to private tracks, the public could have no reason to complain.. .. When, however, the auto*mobile drivers take possession of .suburban streets and country roads and in brazen defiance of law and decency recklessly drive then* various tailored“ghosts” and “devils” and “demons”at breakneck speed, utterly regardless of the rights of the legitimate users ofthe stro. is um ways, the publichas a right to complain. The Uev. I)r. Lorimer, an eminent baptist clergyman of New York, puts the case rather strongly:The men who ride down people In automobiles are genet a Uy r:. h men. They are likely to be pt rs«ns lt;i cultivation, and personally their U • lings toward the poor are dout tUrs amiable enough, but when it is a matter of interfering with their amusements the life of a poor man counts for nothing with them. 10very life that is sacrificed in that way ought to be paid for in the electric chair.I)r. Lorfiuer‘8 words illustrate something of the intensity of public indignation which the autoinobilists arebringing upon themselves. Scarcely a day passes that the news dispatches do not bring reports of fatal and serious accidents directly caused by the speeding of automobiles beyond tlie limit set by the municipalities and townships through which they pass. The autoinobilists ought in the interest of themselves and their sport to have sense enough to check their reckless speed. If not. the law should Ik? made to deal with them with the utmost severity and promptness.
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Xenia Daily Gazette and Torchlight
Xenia, Ohio, US
Mon, Jun 23, 1902
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