The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-04

graph consents to this. Prince Wlndlschgr9tz
once said that 'oue begins to be a man when he
becomes a baron and so Mr.. Schmuck and his
organ, the Telegraph, seem to think that one be-
gins to be a man when he is a property holder.
The thousands of workingmen, vino often live
miles away from their shops, and to whom the
street-cars are a blessing, have nothing to say;
only the property owners shall have the deci-
sion, sccording to Mr.. scmuck. Mr.. schmuck, as
well as the Telegraph, should know that the
properly owners have no more to say on the
street-car question than any other citizens; that
the poorest man has as much right on the street
as the richest property holder; that property is
made valuable by streets, and not streets by
property. Mr.. Schmuck is either opposed to the
new street-car company and has not the courage
to say SO, or he has no understanding of the
question.
"Mr. Schmuck sees his mistake, and declares
through the Telegraph that he is in favor of a
new company, because he said: 4 am, as a citl-
zen, and will be as an officer, in favor that the
citizens and not a corporation shall control the
Streets But without say ing how he will
eventually vote, this declaration is only a mean
lngless phrase"
AFTER all the comfort we scientific people have
been getting out of those interesting little ami
mails known as bacteria, it is Distressing to learn
that they are. so to speak, a myth. The sup
posed existence of bacteria in the human sys-
tenn has been a source of unspeakable ~satisfac-
ton in accounting for various diseases and their
transmission, the causes for which were other
wise obscure. Bacteria explained so many
things that nobody had understood. In them
selves they were not agreeable to contemplate,
but in conversation of a learned character they
were invaluable. They were of a low form of
life, and could not speak for themselves, but
they were apparently active and vicious enough
to compensate for the lack of tongues in their
organism, and, besides, we could all talk for
them. After having talked so much and so pro-
foundly, to discover that we have cherished a de
fusion and a snare is truly painful. A physi-
clan in Buffalo, one of those prying, investigat-
ing, radical men who Is never ready to believe
what he Is told, must needs investigate bacteria.
This unpleasant person has conducted a series OF
experiments, the disgusting particulars of
which need not be given here, that demonstrate
AL too plainly that so-called bacteria are not
alive at all, but are merely granules and pieces
of tibrine. 1t is sad, not to say notifying, to
admit that this is true that the little tubular
and spiral micrococcl, which have been pictured
in eloquent and scientific language as in the act
of chasing violently up and down the veins of
fevered patients, filed with a venomous desire
to escape, that they might carry contagion to
Others-it is mortifying TO confess that they are
not alive and dangerous, but are as dead as nits
and as harmless. We have depended upon bao-
terra to carry US over ne my a scientific snag, and
what shall we do, now that they are no more? If
the Buffalo doctor cannot invent a satisfactory
substitute, he should be considered as having
overstepped the regulations of the code, and be
read out of the profession.