The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-08-11
SENSIBLE TORDS FROM Il SENSIBLE
SOURCE.
Mobile Register, August 7th.


The New Orleans Bee, always deacon
and sensible, thinks that Mobile has better
reasors for quarantining New Orleaus thar
| irrational panic or desire to cut off busi
ness relations with that city. The Be,
very properly Gays:
| The Mobile authorities have read In oul
papers that we are taking extraordi nary meas
nres to combat the epidemic, and using al
conceivable methods-which naturally leads
| them to suppose that the danger is terrible
Aud these came authorities will shortly read
| in our journals-if they should be able to get
them-that We are taking the most unheard OF
precautions; that we have suspended not only
All works OF excavation and digging, bot even
grading for the laying down Of rails In an
avenue of our suburbs where there are not
twenty houses, although this throws more than
two hundred laborers ont Of work they win
nance eDjoining the Chief of Police to Danish
from streets where there are sick people, the
bell OF the lemonade and ice cream men, the
bell OF the scissors and knife grinder, the bell
Of the milkmsn. and the cries Of tho fruit ven-
dor, wood dealer, charcoal selier, and all other
voices of traffic. They will read In our jour.
lest by the 9Th We reiesSe spSsc
exhalations {; they will read that We are pour
ing floods of csrbolic acid everywhere. They
will to-morrow, perhsps, read in these same
papers that gardeners owning lots Of ground
in the interior or on the confines of the city,
are forbidden to dig or upturn the soil lest do
leserious miasma should thence arise; and
whom the Mobile authorities read all this, per-
haps you will still expect them to feel no
fear, and to place their hopes of safety, after
the u'anuer Of orientals. in Providence alone
we'll dispense with SO many precautions, for
yellow fever seldom visits the country but il
these country places are smitten with panic, |
and lat every panc has been inspired by our |
selves. why. then We have no right to blame |
them for taking the same precautions adopted |
by ourselves; and God knows we adopting |
enough of them to make the bravest quake
with fear.
The Bee means that New Orleans, by
her severe precautions against the spread
of disease, is COZ firmiDg the fears of the
cities and justifying the quar-
sntine regulations which Mobile and other
;ities have established. 1t means to re-
ouke such patent ackn wledgment of grave
langer. Bat surely the authorities of New
Orleans know what is best for the inter
'sts of their people They have adopted
he very severeet methods for con6ning
be fever, and cannot comp'ain that other
;ities have resorted to severe methods.
We say to the Bee what We have not
aid to those silly sensational Journals, the
limes and PicGyune, that the City of
Mobile is not responsible for the railroad
'mbargo. 1t is the county of Mobile, |
lnder an act of the General Assembly that
las laid the embargo.
The State of Alabama, looking upon I
dobile county as the entrepot to the State !
las taken the management of this thing in !
Ter own hands. The city no doubt en-
Iorses the action of the agents of the STATE;
mt if the New Orleans journals and the
ailroads have an idea of sueing anybody ,
or damages. they can go ahead and sue I
he State. Just now the State of Alsbama
ant be sued. Perhaps the carpetbsg
udges of the Federal Court, whom a six-
lule team C0nlh mt draw hack IN MnhiIa
'om Ohio and Wisconsin, will sit on the
aee and nulct the State in damages We
hall see !! No doubt Bruce would just ss !
Don do it as not. !