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

kent her streets and her alleys clean.
Heat and moisture alone are not suii
cient there must be vegetable and ANNA
matter going to decay under the influence
of this heat and moisture, Thus there are
three factors necessary to the production OF
yitiated atmosphere Having under con
tro, then, one Of the factors we are held &c
q rigid responsibility. Sanitarians accept
the responsibility and say, be clean
They say also quarantine must touch
other things besides the man it must cover
all things to which the morbitic agency may
attach. 1t is idle to exclude the man and
Yet admit his clothing and his merchandise
| These things are as surely impregnated by
the materies morbi as the individual who
owns them, and if they are transported to
any locality whose atmosphere is made up
of the necessary elements, you may look
with absolute certainty for an outbreak of
yellow fever. ac I'd
The value of quarantine is too thorough
| ly established to be any longer held as a
question open TO discussion. 1t has the
same value TO threatened cities that isola-
ton of the individual has to the family.
You isolate the case of smallpox, his
clothing and bedding. Keep out of the
reach of morblic agencies, and the disease
does not spread; quarantine your infected
| ship, anchor it out, isolate il, and the city
| is safe.
Now what have said about the proven
ton OF yellow fever believe about very
many other diseases, The words drainage,
cleanliness, isolation, and quarantine carry
| along with them the ideas which are prom
inent in the minds Of sanitarians as proven
tive measures
Now over this quarantine, not only as Il
speculative PHILOSOPHY, but in the practl-
cal application to our own protection
against the most fol midable of foreign dis
eases, this valley council claims some con
troll. The millions whom we represent are
exactly the millions who stand in the sweep
of its progress. Criminal beyond forgive.
ness If we do not so speak as to be under
stood. Questions which involve the vital
interests OF half continent; by all possible
scientific and moral and legal means are to
be encouraged forwarded accomplished;
nature and the right demand it. These
Interests are too dear and high and far
reaching to be thwarted by caprice or mar.
rowness or local assumption. would as
soon attempt 10 circumscribe the berif-
cence of sunlight or restrict the spirit OF
christianity. Absolute freedom of scienti-
tic thought is not more essensie then
universal appreciation ofsanitary measurers.
have inflite'respect Of clear convictions
and for strong impulses, but when convic-
tons run athwart the worlds judgment and
impulses assume supremacy over reason and
in great emergencies OF life propose TO con.
troll the destiny OF millions we look for dis
aster instead of help.
The influence of foreign has ceased to be
local matter, telling only upon ports of
entry. BY reason of wonderful develop
ments in the last quarter of century, Civ
ing rapid transit to tens Of thousands
through every corner Of the continent, it |
has become an American question and if
the national arm is paralized and fails to
reach the cast or the west, the north or the
south the millions whom we represent are
powerless, unprotected and at the mercy of
ports Of entry, and ports Of entry are some
times warped by commercial greed, and
commercial greed cats deep into the highest
human duty money first-health after.
But human health which is an over
mastering human interest, transcends all
assumed restrictions by geographic lines,
You have general control over your town
lot or your thousand acre plantation, but
when you permit health nuisance which !
affects your neighbour nature itself revolts
and justice demands its abatement. 1t is
sad that the law is wiser than any one man. |
So public justices is higher and stronger
than any personal right, The liyos Of forty
men, women ard children are of infinitely |
greater interest to the state than your |
private right to nuisance which breeds
disease. Very many personal claims, I'M
der government, must be subordinatcd to
the public good. We, Americans, talk !
very tlippantly about our rights. You
have no rights which are in conflict with |
my rights. This is an axiom Of civilization.
1t is simple justice. Science, and christian.
ity, and sunlight are the world's-not yours
alone, nor mine alone, but the worlds.
Where money 10 involved, and secret is
sought to be protected, as my brain work,
nNo nlmttancun is written over the door |