The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-12-05

contemporaneou press reports It would
appear that the deaths were about uW9Ne
an Ihs 1O0 persons attacked. Ihat es-
innate omius fatal consequences Ci lts
disease following conval= seence from ehs
prime causae The death list IS heaNy,
7fotwfthst landing the alleged mtfdhess u
the malady Now, the army that I-gSs'
killed twelve in the 100 l,2OO in the H.
O00 engaged. has suffered more than
either coanbatant ait Shiloh, GettySburgh
or Chickamauga- As to expense th.HuSn
all the ramifications, OUTLAWS of refugees
unnecessary at home suspension OF
transportation, cost of quarantine, sus-
pension of labor and trade, these sacri-
fees probably excesd=d the los to Gen.
Rosecrans resulting Iron the famous
and unexampled rand of Gen. Wheeler IN
the Sequachie vaIlzy aft5r Chickamau-
ga, costing the enemy 1000 fine mules,
hundreds of richly laden army wagons
and many hundreds of prisoners.
Quarantine in Alabama was not effec-
tive IN tbs laUe epidemic, as wrunlss
Greensboro. Probably no police regula-
tion would excite an equal intensity OIL
criticism or effort to escape it as state
quarantine. The state pr SIS invite the
public to consider federal quarantine.
Is federal quarantine within federal, au-
thority?
There are two Chassis of stata rights.
internal and external. As to the iaster,
Article l, section 10, Of the federal con-
stftution says mo state shall ent@r
into any treaty, alliance or cenfedera-
tion." Alabama therefore has federal
or external rights which are essentially
stats rights. The state rights argument
that stops short with the insernal class
of rights is only half way up to the
theory. Alabama, Florida, Mississippi,
Louisiana and Texas need common de-
fence" against yellow fever. The state
rights argument Is, tbs federal govern
ment shall do nothing the state govern
ment can do and the state government
shall do nothing the people can do for
themselves. Tha negation is then stated.
The proposition in its origin is, the It'd
eral government shall do such things,
consistent with personal hbeGGy, as the
state government cannot (not will noD
do and thsa state government shall do
such things the people cannot do for
themselves. Alabama should be as
jealous of her federal rights as of her
local Sovereignty.
The clossr contact ths United States is
to have through the gulf and South At
laIltic ports with COUNTRIES afflicted in
cessantly with yellow fever calls for fed
eral quarantine as a pubic security.
If the little tongue or land, thirty light
miles long, dividing Gadsden en- the Coo
sa from Guntersville on the Tennea5ee,
be cut by canal to utilize the creek
waiter found there and river water also,
the map shows that there will be con-
dfnuouS navigable water between the
of North Dakota, the Mississippi and
all its tributaries are denied unbroken
connections with the bay of Mobile by
thA narrow land thai separates the Ten
nessee from the Colosa. The commerce
of Mobile but for this insignificant OBJ
structfcn, would have possible inland
navigable connections. in milage double
or treble this Atlantic, United States
coasdng trade and intellectually more
fruitful of commerce. Engineer ]. c.
Long, of Jeffeuson county, under Maj
Mcfarland, of the United States army
engineers ran THE survey from Gadsden
to Guntersville, some twenty-five years
ago. He found a creek bed with large
volume of water available and 9th II
water supply which justified his report
of the practicablity of a navigable canal
along that line. A better from Mr.. Long
and other reference TO ths interesting
subject is to be found in The files of The
Birmingham Age. 1885,
Cut through the little infinitesinal OBJ
structfon in Sand mountain and the re-
suit is inland naviga lion connecting the
bay of Mobile, via Montgomery, Gadsidsn,
Guntersville, Paducah, Cairo with Chi
cago.
Wall street don't want th4 connectinn.
Mr.. Watterson comes along to distract
attention from the greed of Wall street
and its oppres sion of the people by pro-
nouncfng some soft words upen an i'm
aginary Abraham Lincoln your uncle
Josiah Patterson will come latter with
his injunction, don't shoot back at 'em,
boys, 1t only makes 'em madder!' High
Priest Bynum sis upon his record, bay
ing at the moon i'm mock limitation of a
bona fide salutation ito the rising sun.
Wall streets protest against inland
water connection beitwesn Mobile bay
and Chicago is based upon the rarospects
of the most wonderful revolution in COM
merce the world has ever Witness
River boats laden with Chicago COM
merce would unload, not upon elevators
or wharveS at Mobile, but on board
ocean steamers at the wllarves of the
southern and WESTERN city. The return
trip would pick up along the Alabama.
the Coosia. and Tennessee rivers, naval
stores for THE laks trade, cross ties, cot
ton, iron, lumber, beef cattle and hogs
for Armour, coal, slaves, the finest mar
BILE, building s.ors, fertilizers, oil cake,
etc, in an the richest round trip inland
navigation the world ever saw. Shall
we have it?
This federal administration has be-
gun with THE Dirgley tariff and a pre-
concerted shortage in revenues to be
accommodated by a new issue of bonds,
all having THE direct effect of erecting in
Wall street. the arbiter of this country's
enterprise and development. "rhus
far and no farther shat thou co. saith
Wall street to the mighty empire i'm
patient of the duress fixed upon 1T. How
long? Do not say, "how long o Lord"
uffull Wuu frt ISHduN put yOuT OWn
shoulder to the wheel. Your own cour-
age to the task of your own rescue, and
reinsta; ement. Democrats, populists. re
publicans prohibiticnf,ts of Alabama,
ona and all, upon Whose minds sufficient
Night fails from allows to guide
them around a stump in the
road, each man for himself knows
that the presen federal administ ira
ton is bent upon the aggrand-
izement of plrtocracy at th+ cost of the
masses. Redemption has passed the
limit of party jurisdiction The cause
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