The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-04-22
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tween your sick room and mine Quaran.
tine touches public health, and where pub
lie health is concerned the strong arm is
involved by public instinct. We, of this
council, openly ask exactly that, more,
we earnestly demand that
Bat the president forsooth is to be hum
iliated, dshonored subordinated, placed
under tyrannic power, and ordered to do
its bidding, execute its behests; all of which
Is not, by any manner OF means, embodied
in the constitution OF the United States Of
America. Ifhe attempts by his strong arm,
intensified in its strength by the spirit
of that tyrannic power, whose creature
he is made-it he attempts, / say, to
interpose between the people Of these states
and an invasion Of foreign disease, come
from what quarter it may, we are deprived
of inalienabe rights, and personal self pro-
! lection is trampled under foot, and no
| plea of sanitation-no plea Of betterment
TO the people-no plea Of life itself can
justify the tread Iof the tyrant! Now the
answer to all this isthat in the last eight
| or ten months this president Of ours has so
borne himself in his great Office, has doomed
| so largely as a man before the American
people, that this council is confident that
for the good Of men women and children
all over this country, he will bear as grace
| fully in this humiliation as he bears the
!! digni;ies which crowd upon him, utterly IN
conscious that he has tread upon any in
aienable right or deprived single human
being of the privilege ofself protection.
In the protection Of the worlds santa.
rIsns you will find enacted a higher law
than any rules Of lower courts which pre-
scribe graphic lines as the limit of health
measures and humanitys best being
Science outruns the surveyor and mans
demand for life overeaps all lines born Of
Jacobs staff a chain.
With thhe view of emphasizing these
opinions hope the council will reafiirm
judgements heretofore expressed and re-
Gently expressed and recently endorsed by
several states and very forciby worded 10y
the state board OF Michigan. These reso-
lutions make part OF this address
sMlLL-PoX.
But this is not the only disease against
which the council is called upon to protect
the people Of the Mississippi valley
A part Of the glory OF this country is that
we are an asylum for the oppressed Of all
nations 1t is proud boast ana has given
origin to some fine bursts of oratory, tyran-
ny, despotism, iron-hell, autocracy and all
that figures in many striking passages Of
of Legislative and stump oratorY, freedom,
broad acres and the priceless franchises
with possible seat in congress arc offered
in contrast with all this old world hardship,
and ships after ships with thousands after
thousand come in answer to the trumpet
call, Now while we invite the muscle and
the brains of an oyercrowded European
population we don't invite their diseases,
and yet the diseases come-and just now
smallpox infcsts the country from the At
lantic TO the Rocky mountains,
and from Canada to the gulf
under rapidly progressive civilization
new questions arise, new problems demand
solution-must be solved.
The emigrant strikes New York, or Bos- !
ton, or Philadelphia, but the disaster of his
coming is felt in any town or city or ham
let between the port Of entry and the sun
set city Of the pacific; who is TO look after
this great interest, who is to solve this great
problems Illinois, from her great central
city, answers ut once and says it Is anational
question and the federal good, the parental
head, must see to it that the people shall be
protected everywhere, against Il scourge
which sweeps with such loathesome inhu.
encc, blighting' what it touches and desola-
ting alike the hearthstone Of the cottage
and the mansion.
It is not in any whining spirit that we
talk about the patcrnal government, 1t is a
proud citizens outspoken demand
in support Of his most cherished right.
want protection against foreign disease. I
want protection for my wife. l want pro.
lection for my children. Personally
can't give II. 1t is not matter Of bluster