The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-04-22

ana personal courage, All the pistols and
shot'guns and bowie knives in Kentucky
or Illinois, welded by the gamest hands
north or south, cannot arrest and beat back
the silent moving Of the germ which car.
rles yellow fever or smallpox to the cher.
ished companion of your life, or 10 the
beautiful children about your fire side. In
utter helpleasantness and instructive con-
seriousness of right l demand protection
from the only power in whose hands pro-
lection lies
| commend to you the action of the "Ills."
state board and ask its endorsement by the
council. 1t speaks plainly, thus:
Whereas Quarantine measures for the
prevention OF the introduction of epidemic
contagious or infectious diseases from
foreign countries into the United States are
| matters 0f national concern, affecting not
| only the seaboard and Gulf States (where,
necessarily, such measures must be en-.
torced) but also and equally those of the
inteHor--as evidenced most recently by the
WIDE diffusion of imported small -pox there
| fore, be il
Resolved, That, in the judgment of this
! board, such quarantine measures should be
| under the direct control of the national
government; the necessary rules and regula.
lions formulated by q national organize
ton; aud their execution in,rusted to ma
| tional officers.
Resolved, That the senators and repre-
! sentatiyes be, and they hereby are, respect.
fully and earnestly requested to use their
influence toward securing the necessary
legislation to this end.
Adopted.
Along the track Of civilization for two cen
turtles and a halfnow the student of history
marks many stages Of advance. The discov-
cry of type, the establishment of the print
ing press, the development of new phyloso-
phies, fresh governmental ideas, their cir
culation by morning papers, the freest
thought-power the world ever knew, the
railway, the telegraph in the air and under
the sea, and last of all the audible speech
from city to city, and interblended with
all these last interests, eliminating in and
constituting the crown and glory of the
10Th century, the effort OF our great profes'
sion to make disease impossible.
This is a high aim, and this council is
recognized as factor in its possible &C
complishment. Let us be true to our
mission and set forward the great move
ment-dignity and manhood and the in
terests Of humanity demand IT.
Gentleman, we stand on higher plane
than any trod by our fathers. In many
lines of thought they achieved grand re.
suits Whatever they achieved we must
secure, but we must achieve more, neces-
sarly more, for the field is wider widen
ing with each succeeding generation, These
old fathers have transmitted to us in rich
profession the treasure of their lives. Those
of us,who are gathered here to day, laboring
jointly with the array OF comrades not with
us must add to THAT treasure; must enlarge
the benifcence of that profession by true
facts and noble deods, not false facts and
ignoble Deeds elevate it by true phylos-
ophy, not spicuous and false PHILOSOPHY,
no false thing ought to stand for a single
day in the face of science and real man.
hood. Blot it from Gods green earth. Let
lie be o benefactor and our names will re-
cevo benedictlon.