Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-11-03
A New International Law Needed.

A New International Law Needed.
Europe is Jnly nursery to raise pop
ulation for America, the able orators
say. If this is true then we ought at
least to have some choice as to the kind
of children that are raised for us. We
would be better off today if our popula-
ton were million less than it is, pro-
vided the right ones could be weeded
out. Mere increase of population is no
credit at all TO family or a nation I'M
less the quality of the increase is an i'm
provement on its progenitors. Where
this quality remains the same or even
deteriorates it would be better to dis
pense with the increase.
We have had the offscouring of
Europe and Asia poured upon us long
enough. AS long as the paupers and
criminals of other countries know that
they and their children can be landed at
any time ON the shores of the United
States, and be sure of a living, it will
not matter to them how many millions
additional of paupers and criminals they
breed. We cannot prevent these
wretched, wicked and filthy classes from
breeding and swarming like maggots in
their own country, but we can prevent
them from swarming over upon us.
We owe it to our own preservation as a
nation to do this.
When to filth, wickedness and crime
are added pestilence, like cholera and
typhus fever, then the civilized nations
of the world ought to take some con-
certed action to stop the food which
threatens to overwhelm them all. Ger
many, Great Britain, France and the
United States ought to enter into a
health league for self protection. They
ought to pass international immigra-
ton regulations that will be for them
all a mutual barrier at least against dis.
ease, and while they are about it they
might quarantine against crime and
pauperism as well. Eastern Europe
must be taught that she can no longer
pour a poisoned stream upon western
Europe and the United States. 1t il
better that the scum population of east
ern Europe should be starved to death
at home than that all the rest Of the
civilized world should be made rotten.
AS to the international precautions
that will stamp out cholera at its source
DR.. Popoff writes in the New York Sun
The delta Of the Ganges is the permanent
abode of cholera. While il remains there the
world at large is safe and well. But when,
under special meteorological conditions, II
oversteps its usual boundaries, it is high time
TO beat alarm, and the civilized world should
unite its forces against the common deadly
foe that carries away more human lives than
any war.
In case of cholera the solidarity Of interests
of all civilized nations is self evident. Why
then do they not unite in establishing some
measures that would tend TO keep the plague
at its home for good7 This is an opportune
time to raise the question Of of an interna-
tional anticholera congress. II Europe up TO
this day has not done anything Of the kind
why should not we, the Americans. raise this
vital question: Common sense suggests that
an international sanitary Gordon should be es-
tablished on the very delta of the Ganges
The cholera comma is pretty well known
nowadays; there are plenty Of telegraph lines
even in India; why then is the world not
warned of the danger in due time? Is it not
an international crime to let cholera ravagt
the world over7