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 the Crescent
City Calls Out Nigo-
rous Protest.

New Orleans journalists have issued
the following plea;
To Our Fellow Toiers Of the Press
in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama
and Texas, from the New Orleans
Press Club Greeting:
1t is the sense of this body. whose
active membership is responsible for
the accuracy of tho local news Of the
Saily press of New Orleans, and that
sense is hereby expressed 10y the club
III special meeting assembled, that to
you, co.workers and brethren, bc sub
mittcd by us the following facts and
suggestions:
First, That with absolute fidelity
and truth nil news relative TO the pres.
ent visitation of yellow fever here has
been reported 10y us of the active pro-
fession to our employing newspapers
and have 10y them without curtailment,
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-
ell to the citys 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 ont of all proper
ton to the actual danger has been and
ia being wrought to every possible in
terest of the city, state and neighbor-
ing states by 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 off all commli-
nication, and this in spite of the fact
that the enlightened science of the
world has pronounced that no patho.
genie organisms can live through the
process of disinfection which the
United States is here subjecting news
papers and all mail under the personal
md impartial supervision OF DIR. Car
ter and tho 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 TO 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, az
brainy men and leaders in rational
thought, with our fellow citizens in
their localities to the end of removing
the restrictions on the mail 80 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 orr 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 10 be eX-
terminated by the cold, and in the
clearer light .hus afforded wisely in
time to set the wheels Of commerce in
the south free.
Henry RIGHroR. President,
]. NJ. LEyEQUE, Secretary,