Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-11-16
TAe TUBERCULOSIS CRAZE.

Director Hills of the State Agricultural
college, DR.. Rich. the veterinarian of the
institution, aud others are raising great
rumpus about tuberculosis in cattle, and
an effort Is making to get the legislature
TO establish $1,000 a-year commission
to look after the disease.
We trust that no radical legislation will
disease is no new thing; indeed, the bull
lctin of the agricultural college dealing
with the subject saws that it has been
known from antiquity both in man and
tuberculin by Koch. the German sci
enlist. there was no adequate test for the
disease Since the use of tuOercuin be-
gan it has been found that many appa-
rently healthy animals are diseased. 1t
does not follow. however, that just be-
cause man has learned how to tell wheth-
er or not an animal has disease. IA
disease hat has existed from tiu.e i'm
memorial, and, for aught we know to the
contrary. has been as prevalent from the
beginning of things as it is tOuaY, we
must now have an expensive commission
to 90 about making examinations OF
farmers herds and slaughterng right and
left of its own sweet will. Unless the
people of the State are willing, for the
sake of guarding themselves and their
stocl, from the spread of the disease to
l., l,..f,
tives will do well to act cautiously.
a writer in recent issue of the Mime
apolis Tribune has something to say that
Is worth considering in this connection.
The article is too long to reprint entire,
but few extracts will serve the same
purpose as the whole. lie says:
Modern science has made many a won
dertul discovery. bur unfortunately not
all of its discoveries ar welcome. 1t
has revealed the beautiful processes Of
nature. but it has also revealed her des-
troying agencies. The more closely
man has studied, the more complicated
has he found conditions and the
more dangers has he recognized.
/ Where all is outwardly lovely, he has
found Inward harm. \ ears ago people
lived in calm confidence that whatever is,
is right. They had faith in all things
To-day people have faith in nothing.
/ They are like pilgrims walking through
the valley of the shallow of death, feel
ing thick about them horrors they could
not see. They have learned that The
very ali, once considered lfe-givng
nectar, is peOpled with ferociOus micro
bes seeking whom they may devOur.
They imagine their insidOus enemies
perched on restaurant chairs, sitting
atit on the passing coin, flying from
shoulder to shoulder in the jostling
crowd. They have learned that one
article of food is bad for the nerves,
another heats the blood, another is hard
to digest, and sn on through all known
menus. They have learned that imper-
feet sanitation and ventilation endanger
health, aud that proper conditions are,
moreover, very rarely attained. Sen
sitive souls are reduced to state of
abiect terror when they think of the
small chance man has of life, health and
prosperity. in the face of those Ogres of
science. What shall they eat, where
wthal shall they be clothed, what can
they in safety do. when in all things
lurk death and disaster?
Certainly science has evolved much
truth, and its warnings are worth the
needing. But the warnings of science.
like all other advice, should be referred
to a iudicious committee on common
sense. 1t should be remembered that