Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-23

there Is great jealousy existing between
the business interests Of the two towns,
bat don't think the business men Of
Fort Worth feel auy towards us, neither
are we actuated by such spirit towards
them. The quarantine Is inlur-
ious TO both places. Then, too,
sometime when we get a little
smallpox In Dallas, Fort Worth may take
IL into its head TO quarantine az. feel
assured that II the business men oi Dallas
could raise the quarantine, they would
doit.r
Mr.. Ed. Rodds was satisfied that a
majority OF the business men didn't think
the quarantine was right; That they be-
lieved II entirely unnecessary and great
injustice TO Fort Worth.
MIR Harry OF the firm Of Harry Bros.
was not posted IS TO Tire condition OF
Affairs In Fort Worth, but thought II
there was any necessity at all for quar-
antlne IL should be quarantine, inti-
mating very strongly that the present
fErce was satisfactory TO no one.
Two newspaper friends, who have
thoroughly canyasscd the matter, tell me
there Is no doubt that the quarantine Is
obnoxious TO the business men Of Dallas.
PROFESSIONAL OPINIONS.
DR.. II. l.. Thompson, leading ply
slclan, assured me that the quarantine
was not at all popular in the city. al
tnlnk," said he, "that you will find that
the thinking people are all against IL. II
was entirely unnecessary, and an outrage
on Fort Worth"
DR.. j. A. Pace, another prominent ply
sjclan, believes the quarantine an abb
surdlty, aud without any warrant what
ever.
"Why," some one asks, ''did the coun-
ell levy the quarantine II there was no
respectable sentiment In favor of it2"
Remember, first Of all, that Maj. John
Henry Brown Is prudent man and the
FIRST principle OF q prudent man Is om-
bodied in that time-honored couplet;
ole that nghta and runs away
May live 10 light another day"
But there Is another reason, which the
reader may evolve out OF
PARABLE
There was once great newspaper,
which having come In with the Conqreror,
got Its Identity muddled and finally
came TO believe that IL itself was
the Conqueror. It's home was on a sand
bar, productive chiefly OF asthma and
musquitos and which was dependent for
a permanent place In geography on the
hope OF untold millions In the way OF
federal appropriations This hope hay-
ing vanished the (self-imagined) Con-
queror determined to invade territory
TO the North, having marked its
spells that they were great and
It's greatness that II was permanent.
The Conqueror came, the picket line sur
rnnHapaH aud tho Dnngntnwfr
AZ once the conquorcr assembled the
throne. The sovereign was not as con-
siderate OF the interests OF his subjects rs
he might have been and they became dis
satisfied. Outside attacks narrowed his
Kingdom until It's extreme boundaries
were within speaking distance without
the assistance Of telephone. The Con
queror was In despair; rcbellious subjects
must be silenced by war, Il war Of revenge.
There are traditions which relate how
loathsome diseases have been introduced
by unprinciplod foes into rival armies.
Such II policy at present might not be
feasible, but TO advertise the existence OF
loathsome diseases would accomplish
practically the same result. Such, the
conception, Big headlines, Munchausen
statements and loaded sensations the
means.
nut THE DEVELOPMENT WOULD NOT BE
EVEN AND SYMMETRICAL.
Does the reader underestimate Perhaps
an incident, without names and dates,
may better illustrate the situations
The agent of q foreign newspaper cor
poratlon approaches local stakeholder
In branch Office of that corporation
"Why Is 1t that the merchants OF DIS
fail to properly sustain us with their pat
ronagePr
"My dear sir, publish DIS newspa-
per and you can get all the DIS advcr-
tlsements you WANT
Again:
'sEND Us, or SEND Us sENSATtoN.n
A correspondent in a rival city with a
rival newspaper who has known OF the
existence OF smallpox In his town for
several days, receives tolegraphic in
structlons TO report IL. The next morn
Ing IL flares out In all the display of black
headlines and loaded type. Is there any
wonder that the mayor OF that city should
not know of the existence Of smallpox at
San Antonio with thirty cases, and yet
should believe an epidemic 10 progress
AZ Fort Worth with twenty casosg
DALLAS FREE FROM H.
In justice TO Dallas, IL is stated that II
there Is any smallpox here IL is kept
under such good control that no one hears
or sees anything OF IL. LARA.