The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-12-23
A WARNING.

still there; that they lie dormant in every
place where the pest appeared and was
virulent last summer, and that when the
winter is over they will be warmed into
activity again. Indeed, since it still pre-
walls in Russia, and reappears in Ham
burg in winter, it may be said that cold
weather is not in all cases its enemy.
Now, when We consider that quarantine
at one port, even when not SO thorough as
it might have been, and though it was not
up to the national standard, did, along
with good fortune, save us from the march
of the pest through the United States in
August and September, and that quaran-
tine against the cholera ought to be ma
tional, because the neglect of a single
State reduces all to its level Of protection,
the conviction must be that Congress
should take hold of this quarantine mat
ter, and give such authority to Federal
officials as they may need but have not
now. More than that, very large sum
should be so placed that the President of
the United States may at any time have
ample means to provide for rigid quaran-
tine.
1t is simply ridiculous to talk about
State rights, State pride and local author
ity when the people of the whole nation
are to be assailed and there is power
y,1o tn
arm, if the authority is given. Ohio.
Illinois, California. all interior Western
and border States have an immediate and
common interest in having the coast lines
Oh the east as well as on the west. and
the nations borders north and south.
fully, strongly guarded against the in
coming of the common foe. There is
neither reason, justice nor common sense
in the prattle that New York State has
jurisdiction, and to her must the people
look for protection from importation of
the disease at her ports; that for protec-
ton in Massachusetts, Maine, Delaware
and the ports of other States we must de-
DSAiu u pun bl4C 4OteAl 1ltAbl1OI ibIG5s
What we all want is the best and
promptest quarantine that Skill and coin,
and authority can give us; it must be
uniform, systematic and thorough, and
that it never can be under the patchwork
and divided responsibility system With
such to lean upon, the whole people may
be exposed to the peril to result from the
stupidity, petulance, jealousy or igno-
rance of a single doctor in some six-by-
nine jurisdiction, where no opportunity
to gain experience i'll quarantine work
has been afforded.
Quarantine to be fully effective must be
ordered and maintained under trained
sanitarians and supervised and directed
/ by experienced physicians, responsible
TO some authority that is ample, dignified
and positive. The Federal Government,
in our army and navy, field, coast, fort,
barrack and hospital service, have forces
that can be trusted, and that are strong
/ and large enough to establish and enforce
/ quarantine along the whole Atlantic
| Coast if necessary.
If the news is verify, and we have no
reason to doubt it, determined efforts are
being made in New York already in be-
/ half of local quarantine doctors to have a
protest made against the Federal Gov
eminent concerning itself about cholera
quarantine. The Governor has been ap-
piled to, political influences" have been
brought to bear upon him, threats of his
political death have been made if he does
not stand inn with the New York quar-
antine doctors. Even the proposition has
been made to compel the Chamber OF
/ ( Commerce of New York City to join in
the protest; the threat being held over it
by the local bosses that when it wants
/ something done the local quarantine
bosses will see to it that it is not done.
On the other hand, Massachusetts,
through its Health Board, has for a dozen
years been urging Congress to so legis-
late as to provide for the establishment
of national quarantine, uniform, strong
ana systematic. Still other quarantine
physicians are reported as siding with
their New York bretheren, and insisting
upon local protection as sufficient. O
course there are rich picl1ings in loca
quarantine that the bosses do not propose