The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1899-06-24
STATE PRESS.
Items of Interest and What the
Newspapers Have to Say.

of yellow fever which occurred in
New Orleans two weeks ago went
farstowards re. establishing the con-
fidence of the country parishes in
the good faith of the Board of
Health, and il produced good eff
feet throughout the country. The
suppression of the facts concerning
yellow fever, we have always con-
tended, works greater harm than
an epidemic would work, and if
the Board Of Health would adopt
an unvarying policy of truth-telIipg
it would soon find that all this ter
ror which is alleged to exist in the
country wou d prove to be myth.
The existence of yellow fever in a
community cannot be concealed, d
fac, we'll known in the country but
viii. IL does not seem to be under
stood in the city, and any attempt
at ctncealnent must of nee rssity
result in failure and cause great
resentment IL the country. There
no terror in Louisiana when
the first case was announced this
year and there will be no terror a,
any time or under any Circum
stances if the Board of Health will
continue to act in the same frank
and honest manner. One season of
rigid adherence to the truth would
knock the guarantees into smith
Greens in so far as Louisiana is con
Cerned.
Baton Rogue Advocate: The
pharisaiCal and hypoCritiCal action
Of the trust-ridden and trust
controlled Republican Convention
of Ohio, points out to those who
may honestly engage in the fight
against trusts the danger they will
have to confront in making the
fight. The cry of ''down with the
trusts" is probably the most pop.
ular campaign cry which the cam
paisn of 1900 will develop and all
over the county the agents of the
trusts will be climbing into the anti
trust band-wagon and shouting
against trusts as Justify as the most
ardent opponent of the trusts can
whose only qualifications consist of
a pair OF leathern lungs which
enable him to howl most loudly
against trusts should be watched
and none but capable and honest
men should be put on guard. In
order that it may -uCCeed the fight
against trusts in the. several States
should be conducted lntelligently
and with a firm and honest purpose,
and empty blatherskites should not
be permitted to make It simply a
rallyIng cry by means of which to
get office. The best Democratic
sentiment in this State is praC-
tlcaily a unit against trusts and we
look for intelligent legislation upon
that subject By tie next legislature
to I've elected in 1000.
Florida Parishes: The mex,
"a palSn SnOuIu not DC conducted
as a still hunt for office, bul should
be entered upon with resolution
to SO judiciously prepare the plat
form Of its principles, and so at
tractively to offer candidates for the
popular choice, that it shall be
triumphant. We are not now speci
tying any of those measures to
which it ought to pledge itself,
further than to say it ought to, as
in the past, unhesitatingly announce
itself IN favor of radical reform;
the sweeping away OF all abuses;
the uncompromising opposition to
the methods by which power may
be either unfairly acquired or main
tai ned by corrupt practices at the
ba lot boxes, the humiliation of the
political trickster, and the enforce
ment of perfectly fair methods at
all primaries, which are sources OF
popular power which should be
kept absolutely unpoluted.
Crowley Signal: The annual
readj ia stlnent of pOstmasters' sala-
rles has just been made public,
and it presents an interesting