The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-10-14
Laws.
BISHOP GALLOWAY SUGGESTS
RADICAL CHANGES.
PRESENT POLITICS DO NOT MEET
PRESENT CONDITIONS.

In an interview published in the
Times Democrat, Bishop Galloway, of
Mississippi discusses the best means
Of preventing these annual panics
over the appearance of yellow fever,
as follows:
sour condition demands that we
study the larger questions involved,
and make some other and wiser pro-
visions for the exlgcncies of the fu-
ture. To this study we must bring
not only scientific research, but the
broadest craftsmanship and the pur-
est patriotism. In it is involved the
very life Of several great common
wcaltlls. Only one supreme purpose
should inspire this dilgent and pa
ticnt inQuiry-the best possible secu-
rity for the lives and property Of the
whole people. Every other consider.
alton should be eliminated; personal,
professional and political ambitions
should be annihilated. Political the
cries or vagaries, however ardently
embraced, should be subordinatcd to
the higher claims Of human life aud
national prosperity.
ut is folly-next to criminality-to
wrangle over the doctrine Of States
rights when the health OF the people
and the values OF the country are in
peril. And the fear that some citizen
OF another State should be ap-
pointed the health guardian of an
other section is too narrow and self
ish to rise to the dignity OF a decent
objection. What we want is protec-
tion from disease and the protection
of individuals.
"Of one thing the country is CON
vnced-present politics do not meet
present conditions, which conditions
will become more perilous with an in
creasing population. 1t Is sad spec
tacle when one case Of sickness will
panic a community aud stampede the
whole State. The medical profession
yet stands helpless before the disease,
and acknowledges its impotcncy by
advising the people that their only
safety is In flight. Depopulation is
the only remedy suggested, and an
annual hegira towards the frost line
is the only security promised. But
the patient cannot long survive the
drastic remedy; the country cannot
carry the security. There must soor
be a change Of treatment, or there
will be State funeral.
IL have the profoundest respect fol
the medical profession, and from my
birth have been united to 1t by tht
tenderest OF ties. For the magnifl
cent progress made In some branches
Of the profession during the las
quarter Of a century the world Il
deeply grateful. But the most dis
tinguished representatives Of tina
noble profession have admitted tina
little has been done In arresting tn,
progress, or in the successful treat
ment Of yellow fever. They pu
more confidence in quarantine sta
tIons than In all materia medica.
"And there Is another factor In TIL
problem. State aud local quaran
tines, however vigilant and rigid
have demonstrated their incfilciency
True, protection may be given t
small communitles--to a few squar
miles here and there--but this la
been secured at the expense Of hutna
life In other exposed localities.
have no doubt that the cruel grave 1
Edwards contains noble victims tha
would be alive to-day had 1t notsbce
for the folly and frenzy OF other ez
cited communities and their ihhumal
quarantine restrictions.
"And, furthermore, such quaran
tines areen impeachment OF tile hu
maulty aud the broad brotherhood o
man.. ltis little loss tlian barbaric u
consider our own household Or smal
community wren otbst6 Ats In immI
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