The morning call., 1894-08-11
BARBARIsM AT MILWAUKEE,.

The quality OIL the luInlRi d1ion "hiS
has been pouring into this country during
the past ter years is demonstrated ny
THURSDAYS riot at Milwaukee. In that
CITY the foreign element has settled IN the
southern part of the city, south OIL MITCHELL
avenue, and along Forest Home avenue.
They are largely Poles. Hungarians ana
Russians. A few days ago cases OF small-
pOx were reported to the Board OF healtn,
and the usual orders were gwen LOT VIC
transfer of the patients to the SMALLPOX
hospital, in order to Isolate them. case
occurred in this foreign quarter ana "heh
the health officers attempted Its removal
the people turned out to the mum Der Oh
several thousand and fought a pltcheu
battle with the police.
Similar affairs have occurred not unfre-
ouently in Europe in the past ten or twelve
years, When the cholera broke out on
the borders of the Caspian Sea. four or five
wears ago, mobs attacked the hospitals,
tore one of them down and maltreated the
surgeons. About the same time in Murcla,
in Spain, it was necessary to dispatch
troops to protect the surgeons who had
volunteered to attend cholera patients !;
the peasantry could not be dissuaded from
the belief that the surgeons were dissent
mating the disease from maleyolent pur-
poses But it has not been generally be-
lieved that any of the cities of the United
States contained many such benighted
specimens of the race. 1t seems that we
have more kinds of people here than OBJ
servers wot of.
Barbarsm is a rugged plant which sinks
it's roots deep into the soil. and is not
easily extirpated. 1t is not peculiar to
any climate or any meridian. Sometimes,
when a particularly shocking example Of
savagery occurs in a newly settled coun-
try people say, What could you expect in
such benigh.ed region? But from time
to time we hear of transactions in the
metropolis of the civilized world, polished.
cultured, refined Paris, which can fairly
compare ia primitive crudity with the
most startling performances Of the wild
and woolly West. There is no country.
however new. in which assassination
societies flourish so luxuriantly as they do
under the nose of the project Of police OF
Paris. No Western exhibition OF pro-
vincialism has been so contemplate as
the refusal of the well-dressed Paris mob to
hear Wagner's "Lohengrin." Nor is there
any city in the United States in which the
dowager Empress of nation with which
we had CHANGED to go to war could not
show her face without an army of police
to protect her from insult.
The degree to which the outward and
visible signs of barbarism can be depressed
is question of the moral tone of the com
munity aud the measure of its education
in the amenities of life. Most men hate
their enemies, in spite of Gospel teaching
and not unfrequently they class as enc
mics not those who have done them an H.
Jury, but those of whom they are jealous
and envious. A large proportion of man
| kind are 80 incapable of logical reasoning
that they hate people without any grount
whatever; like the English rustic who
seeing a stranger passing. wanted to 'eavt
'alf brick at him. simply because he wa
a stranger. lt is the Office of education
not book learning so much as training IL
| social ethics-to overcome this prlmeva
| tendency. In an ideal community tn
Philistine who is forever throwing stone
would be a pariah. His place in society
would be made 80 hot for him that b.
would presently court exit as boon. Blu
in community where the stone-throwe
enjoys the secret sympathy of his fellow
he might flourish for quite while.
We smile contemptuously as we read o
the poor Poles and Russians at Milwaukee
who preferred to run the risk of smallpox
rather than have member of their rae
isolated. But they had reason for th
faith that was in them. They undoubt
eddy believed that the Board of Healt
meant mischief to the patient they carrie'
off. They acted according TO their lights