The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1905-10-18
Quarantine Sugge sti0ns.

quarantine ouxxeSAtO1Se
Our neighbor, the Crowley
Signal, doesn't believe in useless
guarantees nor futile ones
either, but wants a quarantine
that will "cut some ice". It dis
courses as follows:
The news of the outbreak of yellow
fever at New Iberia will at least pre-
vent the raising of the quarantine on
the 18th inst, as "a contemplated,
and it now seems likely that it will
be necessary for us to wait for frost
to relieve us of the restrictions.
While this is disappointing, and to
some of us may seem unnecessary, the
majority of the citizents of the parish
unquestionably object to quarantine
being raised under the present circum-
| stances, and that settles it. If the
fever had not appeared at New Iberia
it is probable that we should have been
relieved of the quarantine incubus and
nobody would have been the worse for
|! it, but since the consensus of opinion
is that the bars shall not be let down
entirely we might as we'll submit
gracefully to the inevitable.
But if we must have quarantine I'M
til November, and possibly longer,
why not make it apractical quarantine.
Our quarantine is all right as it is
but who is the better Off for it? Who
makes a dollar out of it? Whom does
it inconvenience? Who cusses because
of Acadia's quarantine? Who calls us
a bunch of mutton-headed fat-wits be-
cause of our quarantine? Who rakes
off anything?
Our neighbOrs, on the contrary, have
a quarantine that ''cuts some ice"
Look at forehanded Jennings, for in
stance. Buy a ticket to Jennings for
fifty-five cents. Go armed with health
certificates enough to pass a West
Point examination and permits to
burn, ard the memorable Cerberus
who stands at the gate will turn you
back. There's nothing doing for you
if it cost you only fifty-fve cents from
Crowley. But if you want to get to
Jennings bad enough, come back and
hire a team for five dollars and d, i've
to the oil field, where for the modest
fee of one ,''buck'' you can get a
certificate of physical or moral
character that will pass you across
the Nezpique and for another dollar
the bus driver will see that nobody
bOthers you when you reach Jennings.
Now there's a quarantine that cuts
sorLe ice. It's q sensible quarantine.
1t does somebody some good. 1t may
not shut out much yellow fever, but
none of them do Nobody believes
for a minute that any quarantine ex-
cept the quarantine against the fever
mosquito ever kept out infection or
prevented its spread. But this kind
of quarantine, the same kind that is
in force at other points Ia C~alcasieu,
on the Texas border and on the
Arkansas line, is practical. 1t keeps
money in circulation, for one thing.
and it helps people to get hold of an
honest dollar occasionally that may
never earn another one in their lives,
if We never have another quarantine.
1t also keeps the circulating medium
out of the hands Of the railroad COM
panies, which are s0ulless corpora
tions. 1t also tends to hasten the
millennium by promoting the general
morality Of the world by keeping
people in Crowley and away from
Jennings, Lake Charles and other
wicked little towns. 1t tends to dis
courage the wicked scramble for
wealth by tying up the wheels of COM
merce, and it keeps Calcssieu people
1T home, which may enable the rest o.
us to evangelize the world before
frost come il We hurry.
1t we must have quarantine let's
make something out OF it. What's
the use of . futile embargo that
neither helps nor hurts anybody!
Let's get some graft out Of it, as our
sensible neighbOrs are doing.