The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-04-18

whsnsver there has been q cholers
scare in this country the Pacific coast
states have generally feared that the dis
ease would advance upon rs from the
ports Of Central America and Mexico and
that with an efficient quarantine Of
San Francisco neither Washington nor
Oregon had much to fear. The discus
sion before the recent quarantine con-
ference ct New York city shows that
our Pacific coast needs the protec-
ton Of the recently enacted national
quarantine Law TO prevent the approach Of
the cholera BY the lines Of transcontinen.
tai immigration from Canada. DR.. Do
veaux. Of North Dakota, In his remarks
before this national quarantine conference
charged that immigrants had come to
North Dakota lately via Canada from Hal
flax who had not been disinfccted, nor
even supplied with personal certificates.
lie said that Canada Was making q gate
way OF North Dakota ~ Q convenient
place where undesirable immigrants
might be dumped into the United States.
He declared North Dakota as helpless to
arrest this. The state of Georgia is also
without . state board of health. These
facts make il plain how inefficient 10 our
partial system OF state quarantine com.
pared with national quarantine. New
York today 10 able, under its strict regula-
tons of state quarantine. TO keep the chol-
era from entering the country through its
port, but without Federal quarantine the
cholera could enter through Georgia on
the Atlantic and through North Dakota
on the Canadian boundary.
Certainly the Pacific states have reason
to congratulate themselves that the new
national quarantine law can be enforced
by the Federal authority In North Dakota
or any other state or territory that Is open
90 the contamination Of cholera through
Canadian immigration from the port Of
Halifax. II is very easy to denouncs the
national quarantine act a. another step TO
centralisation. but legislation that makes
lie. liberty or property reasonably safe
when otherwise there Is small sense of
security. viii always be welcome Nobody
on this coast, unless it be Gov. Psnnoyer.
VI 0stkVHt - 0Aiihk ~ &c
damned. and good Americans are too prac-
teal 20 dread that drift TO Capitalization
that makes ~ eli more secure from dis
ease, from social or industrial riot
Government that gives to the largest
number the most perfec, protection for
life. liberty and property Is the kind OF
eovsrnmsn that mankind needs, and il We
cannot get il without GENERALIZATION let rs
een,raiixs the powers of govern meat until
We do get IL When the yellow fever was
raging at the South ia ls77 there we're
voices heard crying out thai our govern
ment could not constisutionally aid the
sufferers from the pestilence; the same cry
Vas heard when the levees on the lower
Mississippi we're broken and vast region
inundated, but the government neverthe-
less did furnish tents. supplies and medi-
Cal aid. The situation had reached the
dimensions of a national calamity and the
Federal government; gave its hand Of help
- the people Of the states. Ii Was Q
stretching Of constitutional authority
probably, bet the safety and security OF
the whole people is the end and supreme
ls~ II all good government,