The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1897-12-17
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.


B NV
' l came here last Thursday to look
after patent protection on my rift saw
mill, and happily found the way clear,
, aud will secure a good strong patent.
, On the very day of my arrival, ! met
our Representative, Hon. W. f. Love,
and found him busy Us a bee In IA tar
bucket. He is ce~rtainly-a hard-work-
Ing Representative. There are three
questions that are giving him much
to do, and to think Of, viz: National
Quarantine, Ship Island Quarantine
Station, and some kind Of effort to
aid our deep water harbor matters. l
found Mr.. Love anxious to do what Is
best in each and all Of these matters.
Senator Gallery, Of Louisiana, and
Representative Hepburn, of Iowa,
have introduced bills for National
Quarantine, and while l wish we
could have the United States to pay
all quarantine expenses, yet l fear
there are plenty Of ''snakeS" in these
two bills. l believe II they are passed
that State and local guarantees are
things of the past. l found Senators
Money and Walthall both much inter.
csted in this quarantine question. |
learn that all our Representatives are
anxious rabout the matter. l think
all our people who have any mature
Thoughts on this matter, ought to
write our Representatives at once, and
aid them in this most important
question to our Southern States. Ac.
lcompanied by Mr.. Love l had several
hours conferences with Surgeon Gen.
eral Wynian on Thursday, and on
Saturday night he called at my hotel
and talked for V G an hour. | find
him Il most excellent gentleman, and
his whole ambition and desire seems
to be to save Jul people. He heartily
approves OF Our Moss Point Quaran-
tine, and highly compliments us on
our success, and thinks it a criterion
To 60 by. & He Is In favor " a National
Quarantine, but wants the greatest
care taken to protect local interests.
l found him q strong advocate of
keeping the quarantine station at
Ship Island, and declares there Is no
evidence To show that the recent out.
break came ashore through that STA
ton, still he seems deSlrUuS of learn
ing. from those OF our people who are
connected with Our shipping, just
what is best, and declares he only
wishes to serve them.
He asserts, and 1t seems to me with
r,,xnL f,rnA Nknt y vuo SCALA s,A,,,1,
go away OFT to Chandelier or Iortugas
Islands, to lie out their quarantine,
then that would greatly injure our
shipping.
l am now trying to get Mr.. Love to
ask for a Congressional Committee to
so down there about January 18th and
fully investigate this matter and also
other matters.
l have had long conferences with
Mr.. Love and Senators Walthall and
Money about II deep water harbors
on our coast. l find them all anxious
to do all they can. Senator Walthall
says it is by far the most important
matter before the people Of our State,
and says he has kept well up with all
the efforts we have made, and paid
ME a high compliment for my efforts
through u Legislature, and advises
us to keep trying. But he, and all
our delegation here, declare that the
Zone great obSticle in the way Of their
helping us, is the fact that our people
have not settled on any ONE place.
They all say that II people ought
and must, either by q Coast mass
meeting, Or legislative inquiry, fully
and finally settle on ONE aud only
ONE place, and then they will have
but little trouble to get big govern
ment aid. They say it is worse than
useless to try to get aid for two or
more places. Now, why cannot we do
this? II we could get a good Con-
gresslonal Committee to 20 to our
Coast about January 18TH next, and
then have a good, level-hcaded COM
mittee from u Legislature to meet
them there, and then have the U. S.
Engineers and General Wyman to
meet US, we could then take up the
Ship Island Quarantine Station ques-
ti0n and the location OF a deep water
harbOr, and also discuss the general
quarantine questions, and much good
would result therefrom. l hope all
our people will write our delegation
here asking them to dOthis.
This Is Sunday morning and / have
been to,hear the great and only DR..
Dewitt Talmage. To my surprise,
his church house is a very plain one.
while 1t Is OF curse ten times as
large, yet 1t does not surpass in elc-
gance, in house or furniture, the
Methodist church house at Moss
Point. The congregation seemed to
be OF the middle class. II there were
any who came in carriages | did not
see them.
The dresses Of the ladies we're not
more expensive than those If our
town. Nor were there any new or ex-
travaRant carrying on, but everything
Old-fashlOned and sensible. DR.. Tai.
mage very much resembles Il late
Walter Denny, a little larger man
perhaps. He is In no ems eloquent
and his gestures are many, but not
easy, and seldom at the right time or
IN the Right place. He keeps his right
hand In the bosom OF his coat much
Of the time, and his left hand behind
uIo uoLn, diu tuC uuBCI VI UidU ndUu
are always twitching and clinching. In
fact, he Is much more nervous than /
am, and your readers can readily see
that lie must be almost q veritable
jumDing-jack.
Norishe by any means a fluent
speaker;1lle hesitates and stammers,
and when compared to ever such men
Rev. u. w. Knight, lie Is in no sense
a speaker. But after all this, and
this Is a true picture, DR.. Talmage Is
today the greatest Gospel preacher on
earth. II so, the question suggests
itself: In what is his greatness? After
reading after him for u quarter of a
century. and knowing his life, and
hearing him preach, l can answer this
by saying, that his greatness comes
from his close association with the
Master he serves.
The simple story Of the Cross, that
he gave to us today, Is the force and
power that enables him to preach