Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1892-10-30
some OF the clap-trappers know what
he is there for.
CURRENT COMMENT.

for the burning of all the garbage that
is customarily dumped into wagons and
carted off to tester and produce disease.
The satisfactory disposition of garbage
and sewage is the most difficult sanitary
problem that modern civilization has to
deal with, and the outcome Of the ex-
pertinent at Chicago will be watched
with deep interest.
Undoubtedly cremation is the best
disposition that can be made of all cast
off organic matter. 1t perhaps should
really be turned into fertilizing mate
rial, and might be if there was any way
of treating it chemically, so that it
would not be both offensive and danger
GUS. But until that Standardization
method, which will deal with the mat
ter successfully, has been found, GER
tainly the best thing for public health is
to erect crematories in which both gar
bage and sewage may be consumed.
Then we shall know for certain that
whatever possible good is lost the GER
tain harm they do will be avoided.
They are converted into harmless gas
and ashes, and cannot poison either
earth, air or water.
Meantime there is a private. crematory
in every house. and that is the kitchen
range or stove. There garbage, grocery
papers and trash Of ell kinds can be con-
sumed effectualiy, making clean
sweep, destroying their power to draw
either reaches, flies or disease germs or
to rot and give off disease germs of their
own. But the question of effective pub
lie garbage and sewage crematories is
one that should claim the efforts of san
itary engineers generally.
Pathetic enough is the latest utterance
Of blind old Louis Kossuth: IL am re-
solved never to set foot in Hungary as
long as the country recognizes the EN-
peror Of Austria as its king. 1t is ter
rible for me to think that, with all the
blows Of my purposeless and joyless life,
l should have to bear the burden of liv-
ing beyond my ninetieth birthday" Yet
it is not so bad il the old patriot could
see the real power his native country
Yields 1t is true he did not succeed in
making Hungary an independent repub-
lie, yet today she is the controlling power
of the Austrian empire. A German is
nominally emperor, yet the national
spirit aroused by Louis Lossuth in 1S4S
has propelled the Hungarians on till the
Magyar blood threatens to drive out the
Teutonic element. When Kossuth be-
gan the fight, which he now proclai1ns
with so much bitterness to have been
fruitlees, men spoke only of the empire
of Austria. Now they call it Austro-
Hungary. II in different and peaceful
way the Hungarians conquer Austria,
will not the Same end be accomplished?
Hon. Carroll Wright continues in The
Popular Science Monthly his instructive
lessons drawn from the last censuf
This month the chapter is devoted to
the vast increase in the proportion Of
our foreign born citizens since 1850. In
1775 one-kfth Of the population of the
American colonies had for their mother
tongue some other language than Eng
lish.' French, Swedes. Dutch and Ger
mans, in the order named. made up the
one-fifth. In 1890 of our 65. 900 900 one
third instead OF one-ffth were born OF
had parents born in other lands than
ours. This sufficiently tells the story Of
foreign immigration.
OF actual foreign born residents of
this country the per cent. in 1850 was
9.68. OF foreign born residents in 1890
the per cent is l4.77. Twenty-Five mil
lions Of the inhabitants Of the United
States are either foreigners or the chill
dren of foreign parents Since the fierce
barbarian Huns ard Goths poured out
of the heart of Asia and overspread and
conquered Europe there has been no
such migration Of nations as this. In
the Fifth century the Vandals and other
wild tribes swooped down upon Rome,
and at one fell stroke destroyed the civ
ilization of ages. If our young Amer
lean civilization can stand without stag
gering this invasion of tribes from other
lands, then it is stronger than that of
old Rome.
1t may be argued that the tribes now
invading our shores are civilized, while
the destroyers Of Rome were barbarians,
but an inspection of the people who
flock to this country in the steerage by
both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts will
show they are not civilized to hurt, es-
pecially in the matter of cleanliness.
The emigrants from Germany, Scan
dinavia and Great Britain were welcome,
but the class has SO changed in the last
generation that the situation is wholly
different. Now the time seems to have
come when we should insist that Russia
and Italy shall make their children take
a bath and learn to re,<d and write be-
fore we undertake the task of making
men and women Of them
Another interesting fact about our
foreign population is that so far Ger