St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-02-12
Fever Yarns.

5 ICVC1 Il ltk 1lSs
We are informed by some of oul
country friends that many sales
men and drummers of other cities
E who are now opeI ating in New Or.
leans territory, are using stories oi
, yellow fever to boom their business
and are inventing some very wild
tales Of fever prevailing here in the
hope of preventing the people OF
the interior towns from buying in
New Orleans. OF course, they
would not go to the trouble of in.
venting these falsehoods if the busl-
ness men OF New Orleans were not
Offering better terms than they can
give.
We are not surprised at this IN
formation. Among certain travel
ing men the idea has been quite
popular that anything is fair in
sales, as well as iD love and war.
and New Orleans is not the first
city that has been slandered and as
sailed in thie way. There is un-
fortunately no law covering libel of
this kind. Any citizen libcled Or
injured by falsehood can recover
damages or punisi. the libeler
criminal!y; but the man who INJURIES
an entire community can do SO
with impunity.
The cnavelliers d'industrie can
do less harm than is supposed, be-
cause the people interior see how
dangerous scandal-mongering and
sensationalizing IS just now. They
certainly owe it to the peace of the
South to stop these men, who are
travelling through tins section seek |
ing to cause panic for their per-
sonal advantage, and who are WILL
ing to indict thousand of dollars Of
loss on this section to secure q petty
advantage to themselves.
Fortunately the health condi;lcas
of New Orleans are so satisfactory
at present as not to leave q suspi-
cion upon which these scandal
can rest their stories.
January is usually month of heavy
here, as elsewhere. for 1t
is the period of sudden changes of
of violent storms.
cold winds, etc. 1t is lucky that
,his January has been the healthlest .
hat New Orleans has ever known.
The death rate is far below the
lverage for the month, below even .
he average for the spring, when
New Orleans is at its best, and be- y
ow that OF any American city in il
Which accurate mortuary records 81
re kept, as they ale in the East. h
t is absolutely free of yellow fever,
+ any other fever, or any infectious !.
r suspicious disease. It is cleaner "
han 1t has ever been at this time p
the year, is enjoying better 81
ealth, and the winter, in point of m
feather and health, has bsen tue \,
est ever known. :
These facts are we'll known y
lroughout the South, and those 81
lo do not know this can easily in
,rm themselves on the subject, for n,
ealth records OF the city are open :,
nd pnblic to the world and pub "
shed in full. al
We know of no legal way of pun B
hing or preventing tue falsehoods "
lat may be circulated about New TT
rleans. We Go not imagine. how =
'er, that they will gain credence -
nong intelligent people. Those OF
no invent them deserve no con- We
deration. for they are dangerous tn
the public peace and ever ready ha
start panic. The people of an nm
terror town who listen to q drum :
er turning out yarns about the
How fever will do well to rcmem- slz
r that the same drummer is Just to
likely to invent similar falsehoods ri
'out their town at the next place ~,
here he stops. In the interest of W
e South such scandal-mongers de-
rye little consideration. 1t would
we'll il their names aud their
'r,es were made puplic. II the 9"
'rles are true they ought to be Or
'bllshed; If false, then some the
ance will De given to disprove "a,
EN-. We are all interested in get =.
e at the truth, and in preventing -
circulation Of falsehoods, winch SEES
= DO great deal OF harm. In Sci
g not New Orleans alone, hut the Fee
lolc South. Is interested, and all n,
ould work together to that end -.
get at the truth, and to suppress s"e
school. -Times-D ing
VIII
Mr. Menier, the Partisan mil tin,