The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-04
The Doors Locked After the Mischief Had Been
Done, and Only Then Because Of the
American Quarantine Circular.
Nearly One Thousand New Cases Of Chol-
era Reported at Hamburg Yesterday.
Slight Increase at Paris-Decrease at Other
Infected Cities-Bsggage Of Cabin Voy-
ayers to America Not Disinfected.


WHERE TIE BLAME REsrA
Filthy Russians Responsible for the Spread
of Cholera Throughout tho World.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
LONDON, Sept 3.-The one absorbing
topic is the cholera and the danger arising
from foreign immigration. England and
Scotland have, of late years, got very little
immigration of q desirable sort. To Scam
dinavians and Germans, or even the
French, there would be little objection.
The two former are kindred races, and ia
the French England Is indebted for the
origin of profitable industries. But the
Scandinavians and Germans 60 on TO
America; the French stay at homo, and
What England receives is the refuse from
Poland and Russia that body wants. The
people, many of them filthy bey ond descrp-
tion, In fact SO dirty that 1t 10 often
difficult to tell whether they are black OF
white, are utterly unaccustomed to the
wants and unacouaInted with the benefte
of civilization, and throIg into crowded
cities to challenge the intelligent native
born Englishman. Scotchman or Irishman
in the struggle for bread. Their passage
.here is usually paid by some charitable
Hebrew society. and as soon as they arrive
they are thrown on their own resources
They gravitate to the most crowded and
offensive regions of the East End with
the same instinct that an eel takes
to the mud, and they at once
become the prey of the sweater. who gives
them work at wages that an EnRlismsn
would starve on. England is actually get
ting the worst of the Russian Jews. When
one of these proteges of Baron Hirsch is so
filthy, 80 absolutely and irretrievably OBJ
noxious that his rejection is feared even
under the liberal system of admission
prevalent in the United States. he 10
dumped into London to hide his dirt and
infection in this city of swarming millions.
The menace of cholera has aroused the
people of England to the danger of this
repulsive immigration as they have never
been aroused before, and there 10 @ pros
pect that 1t will become an important na-
tional issue. The Liberals are inclined to
favor free trade in immigrants. as In every
thing else; the Tories. OH the other hand,
lean toward restriction. and may make q
point Id the coming Parliament of demand
ing restrictive legislation. If they adopt
such O course they will have behind them
tn epotent sen timent Of the working classes.
lt is said here that the reason the steam
ships between New York and Hamburg
have persisted In carrying the Russian pas
sengers In face of the danger of infection.
and after cholera had spread not only in
Russia. but in Hamburg itself, is that the
Hamburg American Steamship Company
has contract or understanding with
Baron Hlrsch to carry these peUple. and
has hesitated to break the arrangement {
There is no doubt whatever that the Rus
sian Jews brought the infection to Ham,
burg. The cholera travelled clear across
Germany In the trains in which the emil
grants were O1,s conveyed; r,;. without delay, ,yy,
shows how the disease can be
kept within lImits The trains which
bore these emigraDts doubtedly, bore the
cholera, but. as the emigrsnts were not
permitted to leave tho trains, the disease
did not spread. The plague Was In effecs
kept In quarantine on the trains until the
emIgrants reaching their transfer depot as
Hamburg, were allowed TO leave the trains,
and with them the cholera also etaiked
forth to the city. Hamburg is paying the
price for having been selected as the depot
for Baron Hirsch's colonization scheme It
has been the Mecca la Europe OF the Rus
sian Jewish emigration TO America For
q while this emigration brought some pront
and money, and now it has brought the
| pestilence.
Germany has experienced week of such
excitement as she has not felt before since
the Franco-Prussian war. The exact num-
| cumbed to the cholera is not known, and
will not be known until careful examina-
| tion shall havo revealed the facts which
| the Hamburg authorities have been con.
| cealing. The scale on which the Germans
| have been lying was shown more clearly on
| Thursday when they reported but 13s fresh
GASES and forty five deaths. although 651
| fresh cases and over two hundred deaths
| had been brought to their notice. In Ber-
| lin the mortality from cholera from all
| Germany during the last week 10 estimated
| at about 1.s00-2500 however. would be
| much nearer the truth.
Many appeals are being made to the Em.
peror to countermand the orders for the fall
maneuvers on the western frontier. Sew
eral medical opinions have been laid before
| the War Departments to the effect that tho
| mancuvers would be attended by grave
| perils. Not only would the long marches
and drinking of strange water induce
| choleraic dIseaees, but the gathering OF
thousands of men from districts where the
| cholera has appeared could result only in
| general infection of the three corps TO he
engaged. Ii Is thought that the En-
peror will consent to omit the
maneuvers from his fall programme,
although his Alsatian trip and review have
| been one of his pet political schemes of the
year. In Austro- Hungary. where the dis
ease has made comparatively little prog
ress. the Emperor has set an ex xample To his
| fellow sovereigns by commanding that tho
coming manenvers both in Austria and
Hungary bc given up In Russia. where
/ soldiers were led into the iield IN spite OF
dangers from the plague. fresh cases by the
| and deaths in the army alone reach the AVE-
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