The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-10-30
THE SOUTH AND THE FEVER.

and the scare shave proved DOM
inant could not be mole prostrat-
ed than which the past two months
have witnessed, and all from the
quarantine. No source, not even
the seourge at its highest, could
encroach in a greater measure on
the normal success of conditions,
This quarantine, duplicated by
more than in a single instance
has shown itself, unless some hid
den Inconsistency existing, pre-
cautionary measure which does
not ward off, as paradoxical as
this may seem. The quarantine
evades the strictest of sentinels
and despite all other measures
contrary to the conduct of its Wis
itation; the air would appear poi
sonous and infectious.
Reports from all parts south
would indicate the precipitation
of business into an interminable
drift of ruin, every tributary to
activity is impeded and every To-
cality robbed ofits mainstay, and
so low the ebb, that it would be
but common to apprehend results
most direful. 1t il, safe to say
that under other circumstances so
trying as this phase would presage
of seditious turmoil. Numerous
are the opinions centered on the
belief that this is an embryo
which will know no awakning but
only after great while-a period
long after the harbinger is sent
broadcast announcing frost, when
the embargoes will be no more.
As this would portray the con.
cldsions, the results of certain
reasonings by many, and we do
admit things are well nigh paral-
yzed, inestimable interests have
succumbed through the lack of
trade stimulant and places pau
perized where the dollars were
wont to flow, yet the question has
another phase, a distinct color to
it.. Regardless of what density,
no dark side can but have it's
purple and gold, or the darkest
cloud etc, ard the present tide is
no exception as the rule invara
bly, applies.
The time is soon ripe for the
trouble TO pass its zenith, and, too,
the time is about ripe for The ac-
tive season, but the latter in it's
ascendency. Cotton, king cotton,
cane and the kindred industries,
incidental for the promotion Of
these, and powerful as they be,
all along the line of work will have
full sway regardless of the past.
The activity, the prosperity that
belongs to the season whose eve
is today, will rejuvenate those
tendencies arising from the past
that would threaten the fu-
ture. If the term can be applied,
the south, this particular section,
is immune to these difficulties.
No such calamity at this time can
intimidate the south's determina-
tion, its pluck, progress, push.
Yellow fever, the genuine, equal
ly if not more trying than the re-
lentless bars of this barbarous,
unsysuematic if not idlotic local
qaurantines generally prevailing,
| plyed and played havoc at times
with several parallels in this gen.
Grafton, but the ruinous effects
were only temporary. Why not
from pestilence if from the crisi.
of war new south has risen ovel
the old? So it will be with the
jeopardy of our business.
No better lessons do we learn
no better do we acquire know
ledge than from those which
we have studied; these are alwayi
from the past From the past
as well as from the present wher
circumstances are so propitious
let preparations go forward NOR,
vigorously as if demanded by tn,
inauguration of a new era, the an
ticipation of fond hopes, th'
aurora of a new dawn.
I The south and the fever are NJ
strangers, they have met and here
tofore fought The former ha
always dealt keenly, but coulC
never best its vanqgisher, due t.
an intervening agency of frusta-
ton; however, the south and yeI
low fever should meet no more
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