The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1899-06-01

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/ Atlanta, not outside, having the unre-
lstricted liberty pfS peranlbulating the
streets, would Introduce the disease
into the Jail 1t means this or nothing.
Now will the indignant Constitution
denounce Sheriff Nelms as having ''in-
lfamously and '.maliciously" SANDER
ed ATTAIN ta.R who is near at hand, or
will IT coIifsne its dastardly denuncia-
tion To the Marietta Journal ?
/ The Constitution knew of these facts
Tor it did not. fit knew of them and
Iwilfully denounced our statement as
untrue, = it then it places itself in q
position to have it own epithets brand
ed upon it as a malicious SANDER
| er, or it has SOME ignorant and lazy
reporters.
But there is other evidence to sus-
tain our statement. A few weeks ago,
Hon. B, F. Simpson, lawyer, of Al
pharetta, was in Atlanta in the United
States Court room for several days,
nsingling with the "saints and sinners"
Of that healthy city. He, with his
wife, came on to Marietta. TO visit his
brother in-law, Col. z. ID. McCleskey.
After being here a week, Col. Simpson
broke out with the smallpox, and from
him Col. McCleskey and a colored
woman caught the disease. He caught
the disease, he says, in Atlanta, as he
had been nowhere else to catch it.
Now, if Atlanta had no smallpox, how
did Col. Simpson catch it? Was it a
spontaneous development with him?
Isn't it more reasonable that he caught
it in the court room, or on the street or
street cars, from some one outside of
the pest-house, broken out with the
disease, which the sanitary department
with all it's vigilance, had failed to dis
cover?-for Col. Simpson had not been
out in the suburbs, but in the very CEN
ter of the busy city.
Two years ago, Marietta negro
man went to Atlanta on Sunday, re-
turned, and in few days he was
broken out with the smallpox. This
year Col. Simpson visits Atlanta,
spends few days on legal business,
comes to Marietta and breaks out with
smallpox.
Thus it will be seen that every time
Marietta has been visited by this loath-
some disease, Atlanta has furnished it,
entailing upon our tax payers, city and
county, heavy expense to quarantine,
care for and stamp it out. Yet, the
great and good" Constitution would
make people believe that the city had
been slandered and that the health of
that city was peerless and that her
sewers and water closets exhaled the
sweet perfume of ottar of roses, and
that her negro settlements were Ar
cadian paraiises, clean as the driven
snow; that nobody was alarmed in At
lanta, and that the discussion of pro-
viding doctor to visit all the public
schools to daily examine the health of
the pupils was not prompted by the
presence of small pox, scarlet fever or
anything in that city.
Well, if Atlanta should take this
precautionary measure, why shouldn't
we warn our citizens who visit Allan ia
to be careful, in view of the informa-
ton above given, that other cases of
small pox might not be brought to
Marietta as it has in every instance
heretofore, and thus prevent its
spread, and by this precaution aid our
authorities to stamp it out.
With street cars radiating from the
center of that city to all the suburbs,
as the blood flows from the heart of a
man to all parts of his body, and back
and forth, it is absurd to say that there
is no small pox in Atlanta. Col. Simp-
son found it inside of the corporate
limits.'
When people can visit Atlanta with
out bringing small pox to Marietta.
then denials from the great and good"
Constitution will have some weight,
but until this is the case then our citi-
zens will believe that Atlanta has a
pest house and small pox,
We say this in all kindness without
malice. Atlanta is so close to Mari
eta, commercially and socially, that
we are vitality concerned that no con-
tagious diseases should prevail "out-
side" or inside" of the corporate
limits of that great and prosperous
city, because Marietta has to suffer in
furious consequences from such con-
dition, as we are suffering now. and as
we did two years ago.
We think this Justification of our
published statement, and that it was
not prompted by malice, the great
and good" Constitution to the contrary
Notwithstanding.
The Western 4 Atlantic road accord.
ing to tirst-class authority, will, before
long, build 'cut, off" from Crayens
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