The morning call., 1892-09-08


San Francisco need not be alarmed in any
crazy degree over the arrival Of a ship from
Calcutta reporting two deaths on the voyage
from cholera or dysentery. These deaths
occurred in April. No other member of the
crew was attacked. and it's now September.
Cholera does not daily by the way in attack
ing victims. 1t passes from persol TO per-
son with the rapidity Of sunlight. Hence
the ship Frank Pendleton need not be de-
tained in quarantine one hour unless the
port authorities are bent upon giving very
literal Interpretation to tie Presidents
proclamation.
The cholera in Europe is especially malig-
nant in Hamburg. 1t is appalling to read
Of 333 deaths in one day. The number of
seizures is, however, more than double that
figure, and the inference is just that a man
or woman seized with cholera need not de-
spair Of life. The blow TO Hamburg in this
visitation is very severe. 1t Is one of the
most progressive Of German towns, and for
years it will be avoided by tourists aud to
some extent by business men. 1t is some-
what curious that cholera should have been
rife IN Hamburg. while Berlin has escaped
lightly. and that Bremen, which had the
epidemic, is now pronounced clear Of it.
1t is gratifying that the spread of cholera
has been apparently arrested in Great Brit
ain, with which the United States has hy
far its largest volume Of trade The disease
has also been checkmated at New York by
the rigid system of quarantine now in force.
There are cholera cases on board some OF
the vessels in quarantine or In the hospitals
ashore, but thus far the disease has not got
a footing In any city in the country. The
season Of cool weather is at hand, and there
need be no preciDitate alarm as to the
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not break out at New York or Boston il is
almost certain that il Will not visit the
Unite d States at all. Canada now seems TO
understand what it ought to do in neigh
bOrly quarantine way.
Asthe Sullivan -Corbett fight is over the
strain upon the public mind is considerably
relieved, and the people of the United States
may give their undivided attention to a
much more serious matter, the Presidential
ele :tion. A few millions have changed
hands in this champ ionship struggle. and
few thousands have been gratitied by the
stirring sight OF knock-down blows
straight out from the shoulder. Perhaps no
pugilstic combat has ever excited as much
attention as this one between the foremost
heavy-weights. The news of the result will
be teiegraphed over every wire TO every
quarter of the earth. The winners name is
posted in London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna,
Ot. Ieb6fSDuIR, Odlcuttd, IloUs- hODB, nlol-
bourne, Valparaiso, and in every other city
where there are American or English read
ers. The death of great poet. Whittier,
passes by with comparatively little emotion
save among the cultured. 1t is not healthy
sign TO see so much attention bestowed upon
the science of brutality But such is the
world. The struggle for existence is al
ways on lines OF antagonism.
A well-known firm in San Francisco has
suspended business from temporary causes.
But there is one cause which is not tenn
porary. The firm complains of having been
Disseminated against by the Southern Pa
ci6c Railroad. Eastern dealers are accom-
modated. Local dealers are frozen out. 1t
is the old game of the Kentucky CORPORA
tion. Every industry is bled to satisfy the
cravings for money always active among
these railroad grabbers. But time Is at
hand when the might of the people will
make its strength felt and oppressors will
20 to the wall.