The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-21
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Good Effect of a Cholera Scare.

the Asiatic cholera from the
| United States. .sQuarantine re-
lgulations can shut out the yell
low kfever, because that is. Ia
pestilence that never thrives in
northern latitudes. We do not
suppose that there ever has been
a SINGLE case of yellow fever IN
Montreal, but cholera has pre-
vailed in New Orleans and Ha-
vana. Cholera is a more uni
yersal disease, and therefore it
will find its way over the world.
And the singularity about
cholera is that it RACES in win
ter as well as in summer. The
| first frost kills the yellow fever,
but when cholera commenced
| it's ravages in Europe sixty
years ago, it struck st. Peters
burg in the winter and carried
| off thousands of persons. Of
course, very warm weather has
been found to be the best chol-
era-breedlng time, as then bowel
complaints are most natural and
most common. Eight years ago,
when cholera was raging with
terrific violence in Italy and
Spain, the German scientists
proved to their own satisfaction
that it could not reach Ger
many, as they were able to de-
tect cholera germs whenever
they appeared. But in spite of
calculations of the German
scientists, and their confident
assurances, Asiatic cholera has
a foothold in Germany in 1892,
and yet no one seems to know
how it got there. A few weeks
ago England felt quite secure,
| but she now trembles because it
has entered her large cities.
Our state and treasury depart
ments, and our national board,
of health, intimated that by
strict quarantine they could
keep the cholera out of the
United States, but their predic-
tions and their efforts were in
vain. 1t came along in due
time, and the best preventive
against it is to be prepared at
home"
There should be universal
cleansing throughout the land,
and then we can defy this arch
enemy of the human race. San
itary cordons are a wise thing
| in their way, but what is the
good, if just beyond the cordons
there is so much filth and foul
ness and decomposition as to
terminate local cholera? Let
us have both the sanitary car
dons and the universal purifi-
cation in every city, town, will
age, hamlet and household in
the United States. Then shall
we minimize the ravages of the
cholera to that degree that it
will excite no more alarm than
the ordinary diseases of the
country,
An American merchant ma
rine that, under the fostering
influence of a liberal, enlight-
, ened, and Democratic CONNER
, cial policy, promised at one
. time to rival that of England,
was banished from the seas by
the piracy of tariff taxation.
And now, when that form of
piracy has grown to be more
E greedy and more formidable
E than ever before, the President
3 of the United States has the gall
to prate of the creation of great
ships of commerce.
The people of this country
are about to exchange such a
t President for one of broader
g views and more enlightened
0 conceptions of public policy;
/. one who has brains enough TO
!. know that high tariff taxation
{ never awaits the coming of
! great ships of commerce.. at
the ports of any country.
: ''S fS-s1 f-S -
The States which vote in
September have all held their
. elections, and if the Republicans
|, can find one single particle of
u comfort or encouragement in
either of them we fail to discern
] where it is. In Arkansas,
b where there was an attempt to
, fuse the third and Republican
1 parties, the Democratic vote ex-
I. coeded, by several thousand,
+, the combined vote of the OPP
posing parties; in Vermont the
! lightest Republican vote cast
! in a State election in many
9 years was pOlled last week;
4 and the reduction, last Monday,
a Of the majority in Maine to q
point which almost endangered
n the success of one of the Con-
: gressional candidates, is the
reverse of encouraging to the
!. party which generally carries
( that State by majorities rang
ing from eighteen thousand up
ward. Should the Republicans
/ do no better in November than
5 they have done in September,
[ tha States which will vote the