New-York tribune., 1879-05-24
this country from England in the systems OF cattle
palmed off upon our dalrymen by interruptions

this country from England in the systems Of cattle
palmed off upon our darymen by INSCRIPTIONS
English exporters However. there is no help for it
now The damage is done and the business has been
checked There appears to be no way TO restore the
business except by securing a repeal OF the British
ORDERS and there is way TO do that except 10
abolish the cattle plague from American soil.
That the cattle plague exists IN our territory TO-
day IS in part the fault of our own citizens. III "
well known that contagious plenro-pneunonia has
prevailed on Long Island since 1913, and ia New
Jersey since lS49. This covers period of thirty
six years 1t has been well known that indlvidua
farmers were losing from 81 900 TO $4,000 worth OF
stock from its rayages. The attention of the agri-
cultural public has been repeatedly called to the
subject through the columns Of IHE WEEKLY IRiB-
UNE. Professor Law, authority on this subject.
has warned farmers and agricultural societies. by
vOIco and pen, for years, that malady
was prevalent IN this country which has
cost England the sum Of abOut $500, 100000
since 1912, and which might easily cost the
United States several tunes that sum, should the
malady extend to the West In Massachusetts and
Connecticut the warning has been needed. and
those States have stamped ont the contagIon several
times from their borders but the great State OF
New-Yorl and her sisters TO the westward have al
lowed the plague to flourish absolutely unchecked
until the present year. An admirable law was en-
acted at Albany. in 1873 in consequence of the ex-
hortations of Professor Law, which was step IN
the right direction, but tho law was not called into
operation until the publication of the British Orders
in Council last February. The fact that the con-
tagion prevails to-day for $50 miles along the At
lantic coast, and in places much 300 miles in
land, is due as much to the apathy of our own peO
pie as to any other cause. An article elsewhere In
this paper will show how severely the disease has
been raging in this region
Considering that much fine stock has been sent IN
different years from New-YOrk and NewJersey to
the dairy States of the West, 1t is marvel that
there has vet been no outbreak of this disease in
that region. The West has escaped far, and is to
be congratulated thereupon. But how long will it
enjoy this immunity 2 single train of freight cars
infected by the transportation of a few sick cows
somewhere in the East would be sufficient to carry
cOntagiOn throughout tho West. The disease is
spread by causes so simple as that. Should it once
reach the great herds we might never be rid of it.
Tne time appears to have come when there should
cease to be any trifiing with this plague. The
safety of The West and the restoration OF entire
freedom 80 the export trade in live cattle demand
that the contagion be confined to the six seven
coast States in which 1t now exists, and that 1T
there be attacked in manner calculated TO stamp
it out speedily. In New-YOrk and New-Jersey
everything is being done that can be desired. But
what are Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and
Virginia doing and what is Congress doing to aid
the poorer of these commonwealth to wage ade-
quate war on this terrible pest1