Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-09-14

s ast typh0 r Ong our soldiers sold sas
believing that khanfsauao is in barge part
dysentery. the Asiatic plague. leprosy, ty
phoid fever are all germ diseases. knowing
the causes of these Diseases. the life his
tory of the germs and the remedies to ap-
ply, 1t Is hoped that In a very few years
the biologist the bacterfologfst.~ the sani-
tartan, all working together, Will make
tropical diseases to be no more dreaded
than are the diseases of temperate regions.
AS warm countries become better known
physicians will certainly become more skill
full to treat the diseases peculiar to them.
Rapid transportation and rapid commune
cation between the tropic and temperate
regions Will rob the former of many terrors.
When person can communicate with his
family every few days or by telegraph in
few hours, and when he knows he can reach
his old home readily. one element which
!, disturbed former pioneers Is removed.
Rapid transportation and the discovery
OF the process of canning fruits. vegetables
and meats. together with the process Of
manufacturing ice, and Of cold storage
methods. make 1t possible for a person in a
hot country to enjoy the foods to which he
was accustomed in his old home. This will
be great help until he has learned to use
native products.
Education and Good Laws Needed.
Education and good laws will remove
from the tropics many undesirable features
has been already remarked that the people
In these islands have no knowledge OF SAM
tauOn and live in utter disregard Of all
the well-known rules Of hygiene. Some of
the most striking examples of this are the
living in their own excretions sleeping in
alright compartments, the lack of a va
riety OF food, working long hours in the hot
sun with an empty stomach, using rum, to-
bacco and coffee In place of food, the utter
lack OF any restraint of the sexual instinct
Dy either men or women Of the lower
classes and by the men of all classes, pro-
duclng Well-nigh universal corruption Of
blood.
These insanitary and unhygienic condi-
Tons have dwarfed the tropical jewellers In
body and in mind. These things cannot be
laid to the climate. They are due to ig-
norance. The same condition would pro-
duce similar results in Pennsylvania or
Connecticut. and such results We're seen
generation ago In New Mexico California
and elsewhere.
The laws under which these people have
Marriage has in some cases been actually
discouraged: there was little opportunity
ana little mducement to accumulate prop
erty There were few schools. and they
were OF poor qualitys. The different races.
Wmte. indian and, African. have fully COM
mingled, and the result, the world knows, is
pad. me strongest arguments against the
mixing or the ECsucasfon- and the African
are TO be found in the West India Islands.
me mixed races viii be much harder to
zeal with than puse bloods of any race.
The climate in Cuba and Porto Rico-and
the same is claimed for the Philippines
equal 10 any in ting ytatskssOuth Of the Caro-
mas With the massey educated and with
wholesome laws these ,tSlands will all be-
! come garden spotsi andrwll ultimately be
occupied by pure-h4oode6 Anglo Saxons, the
present Inhabitants disappearing before the
stronger and pH.hlnplla1