The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1898-10-22
As Others View Our Epidemic.

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yellow fever and the panic exist
ing in consequence give yer
serious outlook for possibl
widespread epidemic. The stricli
en- districts are apparently with
out any protection against an in
evitable spread of the disease ir
every conceivable direction. Tn,
state government has ceased to ex
list, the governor has left his pos
and the health authorities are
practically without any power fol
consistent and concerted action
| The different communities are SC
thoroughly demoralized that the
only consideration is that of indi
vldual safety. Confusion is worse
confounded in the realization of
the utter uselessness of appeals for
state AID IN the apparent helpless
ness of health boards in enforcing
necessary sanitary measures. All
this occurs at time when climate
influences and inefficient quaran-
tine regulations conspire to dis
seminate the pestilence and in
crease its mallgnaney.
As it is clearly proven that the
state authorities are incapable of
grasping and controlling the press
ing issues of public safety, it be-
comes the duty of the health Of
ticials of the general government
to establish national quarantine,
and speedily and efTectually bring
order out of chaos. Fortunately
the marine hospital service is the
competent means to this end, and
it should lose no time in getting
to work. Its prompt action is the
hope in the dire emergency. No
better opportunity could be of
fered it of proving the utility of
centralized authority than when
every other capability of helpful
ness is paralyzed and when the
local officials share the panic of
those whom they should protect.
The Herald took sides with the
advocates for a national system Of
quarantine which should guarantee
in a proper and sensible manner
the greatest safety for the largest
but the failure to secure
proper legislation in the required
direction last year has left us in a
great measure crippled where we
should have been strong. Still, |
all that is left us now Is to make |
the best of what we have. New |
York Herald.
We do not recall, either in eX-
perience or in reading, more
hideous and revolving spectacle
than that presented by the state
Of Mississippi today, There are
instances of communities panic
stricken by some dreadful vista
tion. There are instances of
ravaged by an in
sensate terror and their popula-
tions abandoning themselves to a
degrading superstition. But the
spectacle of an entire common
here at the close of the
nineteenth century, reverting to
nrimeyal conditions, repudiatlng
aw. obllleratlng government,
humanity and civiliza-
lon under foot, forgetting pity,
nercy. morals and Christianity
his spectacle has not been even
approached in the history OF
modern times.
No word of ours can do even
partial justice to this fright
fal, this inconceivable situation.
No such absolute extinction of
civilization has occurred within
The century. And all this in
State whose official representatives
last winter proclaimed their re-
Dudiat1on of Federal interference
in the matter of quarantine, boast
fully paraded their ability to take
care of themselves, and lmpru-
IDENTIFY declared that their courage
their experience and their wisdom
we're more than equal to any de-
mand that yellow fever could
make upon them Washington
Post.
Fried Chicken VS.. Pork and Beans
Congressman Griggs, of Geor-
pia. has fully vindicated Southern
table fare. A New England CON
nressmnn had the audacity to