Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-10-15
PLEA Of NEWSPAPER MEN
NEW ORLEANS JOURNALISTS AID.
DRESS FELLOW CRAFTSMEN.
SCIENTIFIC QUARANTINE WANTED.
Restrictions On Mail For 'ho Crescent
City Calls Out yi.o-
rous Protest,

New Orleans journalists have issued
the following plea:
To Our Fellow Toilers ( the Press
in Louisiana, Mis- issipli, Alabama
and Texas, from the Nav Orleans
Press Club Greeting:
IL is the sense Of this body, whose
active membership is responsible for
the accuracy of the locaI news Of the
Naily press oi New Orlenls, aud that
sense is hereby expressed 10y the club
in special meeting assent led, that to
you, co-workcrs and brethren, he sub
mitted Ivy us the following facts and
suggestions:
First, Tint with absolute fidelity
and truth nil news relative to the pres
ent visitation of yellow fever here has
been reported Ivy us Of the active pro-
fcssion to our employing newspapers
and have 10y them without curtailmcnt,
coloring or alteration been printed.
Second, That the New Orleans news
papers have consequently told the
facts, and all the facts, with n fidelity
which has been everywhere admitted
and in some places criticised as oppos-
el to the city's best interests. But
truth was deemed the rule to inspire
confidence at home and abroad
and has been strictly adhered
to as the highest journalistic principle
Third, That injury out If all proper
ton to the actual danger has been and
"a hat lao -, La
terest of the city, state md ncighbor-
ing states 10y local quarantine having
no uniformity and no reference to
science.
Fourth, That the most vile harm re-
suits in the quarantine Of the mail,
thus absolutely cutting of oil commu-
nication, and this in spite OF the fact
that the enlightened science of the
world has pronounced that no patho-
genie organisns can live through the
process Of disinfection which the
United States is here suhjecting news
papers and all mail under the personal
and impartial supervision Of DR.. Car
ter and the United States marine hos
pital service and under his guarantee
OF thorough protection against infec-
ton.
Fifth, That unless this quarantine
be removed, the harm 10 the state and
south, TO localities, cities and towns
may even be prolonged as neither
newspapers nor letters can bring
tidings of the condition Of affairs in
New Orleans TO great number Of
points.
Sixth, That our brethren Of the
press addressed give conspicuous place
to this special in their respective pa.
pers and use their good Offices, as
brniny men and leaders in rational
thought, with our fellow citizens in
their localities TO the end of removing
the restrictions on the mail so that as
citizens of one country we may hold
intelligent communication and wisely
direct our course of action in relation
to the fever as it pertains both to our
common safety and our common bust
ness interests.
Seventh, That it is especially i'm !
portant Immediately TO set to work on |
this proposition and first free the mail, |
since the fever appears on the wane
and is certain in few weeks to he ex-
terminated by the cold, and in the
clearer light thus afforded wisely in
time TO set the wheels OF commerce in
the south free.
HENRY RIGHToR, President,
j. NJ. LEyIQUE, Secretary,
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