The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-15

you have heard of rough trains through Arkansas. got q new version .0f tnis rough busfnes when reached Texar- Eana I thought that as was armed can-a-pie with the proper certificates
 and credentials would move aions SC
 renely. But no such good luck At Tsxarkana the train nah not VII s,onnsd before soldiers began filing into Inc ear saw them coming.
 thousht 1t was some holiday the people
 were having and the soldiers had been
 called out to ornament the occasion,
 heinz headed maybe for point In the
 country farther up.
 'sNo. these soldiers were having ho
 holidays. They meant business ana I
 soon found this out. young man a a
 the uniform of a private approached me
 and called for a showing on paper. !
 was glad to reach in my pocket ana
 null out my certificate and did so witn- out delay. 1t was sworn to ana sup-
 scribed to and certified to in every way that could think of but still there was an objection. The soldier detected what he thought was a flaw. He told me would have to get off the train and be put under guard because the doctor who signed the certificate did not put M D. to hts name l asked | him If the title to the name on the pny-
 sician's letter-head was enough. He
 did not think so. On the contrary, he wanted to take me of and subject me | to an investiTatien to make sure things
 were all right. argued with him. ! guess, some half an hour, and he did not give any signs of coming down | from his height in the matter. The l conductor about this time intervened
 and begged me to submit to the re- | quirements of the officer as he would | be unable to go on with the train. The | militia would not let the train so on l Fortunately a commissioned officer fin- ally came up and approved my certifi- | cate.
 l Then the train was allowed to go on but I was not near the end. Of my | trouble. Soldiers boarded the train at other points and while they were not altogether so obdurate they went | through a lot of red tape. Then at Memphis humiliation awaits you Po- 1 1icemen meet the trains and escort the l transfer passengers to the union sta- | tion or from the union station to the other stations. The bluecoat that had charge of me insisted upon putting me I in a cab with some negroes whom had reason to believe had come from dam gerous places. After putting np. a de- fense of my constitutional rights. the policeman reluctantly permitted me to select my own cab into which myself and friend stepped and were driven across town 10 the uePVt
 "In Texas the quarantines are not
 much better. There are places where a person cannot get of and feel easy. am thankful quarantines come once only in a few years. When turned l back into Alabama there was not the least inconvenience. The officers had me fill oit their affidavits and in this there was no useless interrogation. In Arkansas I would tell the ofiicer I had travelled over the Iron Mountain Route, for instance. and would have to get out my guide and show him the road did not touch an infected town. In Ala bama all had to do to satisfy our in telligent trainfnen was to enumerate the routes I had gone over and 1t was enough.
 q believe in civil quarantines such as Alabama is conducting. but I don't believe a community or set of men ought to go into hysteria when hun dreds of miles away from case or two of yellow fever. Sometimes the repu-
 tation of q State is at stake when quar- antine Is put in force It is bound to
 reflect the attitude of the State on law and order more or less"