The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-09-18
State Aid.
LETTER FROM HON. C. A. LUsK, REPRE-
SENTATIVE FROM KINDS.

JACKSON, Miss, Sept. IL, 1873.
EDITORS CLARION: / heartily indorse the
suggestion of Hon. H. M. Street, that the
State should extend material aid at once to
the afflicted people in the plague-stricken
communities within our borders Let it not
be said to our shame and reproach, in this
supreme moment of peril, that the great
State of Mississippi tailed to do her duty to
her own suffering citizens, and relegated
them to the sympathy and charity of stran-
gers. God bless the large-hearted and
great-souled people of the West and North
for their many good deeds of mercy and
charity to our seEely-tried people. They
have exhibited in the noblest manner the
Hottest attributes OF humanity, and have
demonstrated that duty is the sublimest
word in our language"
We are brought face to face with an APP
palling crisis in our State. Vicksburg and
Grenada cannot be said to be cities of the
living, but rather morgues of the dead! In
the untimely deaths of many of our best
and most useful citizens, we have sustained
a loss that is well nigh irreparable. Time
has demonstrated the wisdom and enlight-
ened public spirit of the last Legislature in
creating a State Board of Health, for the
protection of life, the preservation of health
and the prevention of disease thine at
last sets all things even," and in this in
stance it has also demonstrated that the pit
iful sum of 81 800 that were appro-
propriated last winter, to enable the learned
and humane physicians com posing the State
Board of Health, TO carry out the purposes
for which it was created, and to put their
machinery in motion, was wholly made
quate for the purpose. Even this small ap-
preparation ($1,500,) asked for in the sup
plemental bill, encountered in hnsine the
most OBSTINATE AND DETERMINED OPPOSE
TON on the part of some of members, and
nothing but the hrmneSs and vigilance of
the friends of the measure prevented it from
sustaining a Waterloo defeat. The distin-
guiShed physicians OF the State Board of
Health should have had a much larger ap
preparation placed at their disposal, to have
enabled them to meet the insiduOuS foe and
fell destroyer at the threshold and stamped
out" the germs of the disease. In view of
our present Xperience-bitter as the waters
of Marah-I do not hesitate to say that the
NEXT Legislature will give the State Board
of Health sufficient amount of the ''sinews
of war" to enable them to enforce better
sanitary regulations, and to meet the dread
ed enemy on his chosen ground.
In conclusion, Messrs, Editors, permit me
to say that THE CLARION has given forth no
uncertain sound as duty of the State aU-
thorities in rendering aid to our suffering
people, and desire to second its efforts, by
urgently but most respectfully, suggesting
TO his Excellency Governor Stone the ne
cessity for IMMEDIATE action. Let him ex-
tend material aid at once from the Golfers of
the Treasury to the stricken communities in
our State, and as an humble Representative
in the Legislature of the good people of the
county of Kinds, will pledge myself to
sustain his action in the premises, even
should 1t become necessary to expend the
last dollar in the Treasury not otherwise
appropriated.
Truly your friend.
CONRAD A. LUsK.