Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-02-15
THE SMA LLPOx CRAZE.
IDenver Correspondence

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NY IN 'h's ssMelie'eeng century. en-
,isntened people sun yield to Ignorant
.eaIs anu .nalnaIous pfactices. regard
ms so harmless q disease az smallpox
IS most incomprehensible.
Inc sl.-R report " all over Iowa. ] I
IS ~ over Ncbra SKA. II is all over
e5saig . no Colorado ny is IN 'Iexas and
|ssShlcago ana Ntsy York And health.
boards suggest the wholesale quaran-
.lai'lns OF towns anu states Why not
Pui sliaie around me globe and quar-
an tllles ! ne woriu az large! This would
oe iullytas sensible as what we are do
ny. ternaI2s you read OF tram being
woman was discovered With Il
seapped lace. Ihlnk OF u! Some two or
'hree hundred passengers going about
lneir business With many of them.
much depending-life and death per-
ma psT-on their prompt arrival, 1t would,
as an outsider remarked, Justify the
N fighting their way out
with guns. Yesterday the edct went
loftn from our heaitn commissioner 10
aii the factories restaurants hops
md de partnient stores IN Denver that If
at the end OF the Week there was found
m any estaplisnHent an enploy@ not
Vteelhatea wlthiis the past three Years
sueh place Would be closed up and
luarahtlned. How IS that Tor land
'nat guarantees lie, liberty. ETC., 70
every citizen
E sNnat causes smallpox and from
hencs-s comes IT. An absurd question:
irHis. YET one Wnich ~ asked seriously
deserves an intelligent answer.
every physician Knows ira, smalipoX
y eiie 20 a germ whose habitate Is NTH
ana IS most common ! those countries
3 inat snow TACK OF SANITATION. In Tor
iner times wiien our land wa $ $ parsely
Secured ana we We're. isolated from alien.
races the disease Was are ana COM
tparaliyeiy easy 90 handie. hut with the
CROWN OF clvllizaiion and the eolise-
squent drawing together ana inter-.
mihIling ot nation $ with oursconAnerces
and ln1migra ana wars ana ceionlal.
SsSIaaHsipias lI!giils Y INTO contact
+ Vii q people frors eyer qiartei'spf the
slq'1e now absurd the ausston ana now
silly 70 * pect TO Keep out foniagion by
the same Old ms thods formerly en-
pioyes'i
snaer such eonditiens dlssase germs
are bolina 70 naul,ipiy ands I haza''d Inc.
i'fssiic'ion tha1 We siiiilia haVesl ll'er1ed
"a ter on something worse IMAM small
pt'x- Is s. cope ssuccesstully @1th these
ssviss VIII, fancy, REQUIRE more hefs'if
Iaea sures IMAM We are NOW Wilde -
adopt. nfy "iil ierce our q t'e ht.9n ~
the laws 81 liie anu eo'Hiei Us ep resu
late our eating ard ga ilitati9n- men
swiilasyei'y person depend upon himself
Tor exemption from dlsea Sell :sistaa %
upon tbs doctor drugs ara ar'itac'al
restrictions
We slieves CIT s lnssliI1oS started here
among our returned soldiers frefn tae
I'hIlippines and l,Ios1a NY Yours may ps
traced 70 ne sa me source
In view OF these facts what are we
aoin gsto DIG ABOUT " lreat disease M
'ettlgenllS sWt'l ine4hous aua I'ssus 70 s'ui
iisws ana hhnslhg .eohai''s,i's' y CON
iiHhe va sht SAINT ot'i "sasT7t'' iiisti
wltnS tll 8 flgh - iiotsi,lNs pu siilsss st9s
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justice sotss lhat measure. VIXEN iiaa58raer
g protect the guilty, ignora NJ, eafeeFs
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