Evening star., 1909-05-15

mons words. His back on the Wa
BASH story described the clapboards of
the houses. through which the snow fl
tered in the winter time and covered
folks in their beds before it was time to
get UP. Also he said, that when he
was twenty years old. back on the Wa
bash. nobody of his age had ever met a
real bathtub. and that the clear and
limpid Wabash suff1ced for the morning
plunge. Later in his speech, speaking
of Fairgrounds. he said:
Let us have Fairgrounds, and let us
get all We can, and you still won't have
Wabash. when the snow drifted in dur
ing the night
Continuing. Mr.. Cannon said:
Il do not know much about tuberCu-
losis. do not much about medicine
in fact, / do not know much about
anything, and the little I say will be
said. not from what 1 have learned from
reading or speaking. but from what
have discovered lookink through the
gimlet hole, so to speak. of the universe.
The old-style physician did not know
much OF surgery or medicine. yet he did
seem to know that the second congestive
chill from malaria meant death unless
he gave you ten grains Of calomel, and
OF castor oil. followed by quinine, when
quinine was worth 81 an ounce.
Encourages the Work.
"Again l bid you Godspeed. 1 do not
discourage you when you say that you
will take the imperfect. the abnormal, and
do the best you can with them. The
strong can take care of themselves, but
for those with defective spines or who
are mentally weak, oh! how the heart of
the parent protects the weakest. Natures
laws are universal and they would de-
stroy the human life as quickly as they
would destroy the life of mosquito We
must reckon with these laws of nature.
Therefore, l praise you and commend
you in your efforts to upbuild the race
and render 1t more virile by the preven-
ton of this disease.
Society must travel hand in hand with
hope and faith. If you take away hope
from a man who is diseased. he will
surely die. 1t is hope that is eternal, and
should aid nature and not run counter
to it."
DR.. Osler Extremely Hopeful.
DR.. William Osler's speech was full of
optimism and he expressed the belief
that the world would soon see tuberculosis
held in almost complete check, compare
lively speaking. To bring this about the
public must be aroused to a sense OF its
responsibility, he said, and should take
an active part in combating the foe. DR..
what they had done. and was warm In his
praise of the legislators and philanthro-
pistS whose money had been used in the
war on the white plague. Money. he
said, is of vital Importance. He was in
favor of small subscription Of 10 cents to
a dollar, and declared that the war could
never be carried on successfully until
each citizen understood that 1t was neces-
sary for him to play part
In closing, he said:
This is not battle Of a year or a gen.
Grafton. The probabilities are that it will
take two or three generations. at least,
before we have the mortality from tuber-
typhoid fever now is in well regulated
countries. 1t Is foe that is very deeply
intrenched in the human race, but when
we think of what has been done in one
generation, how the mortality has been
reduced in some localities so per cent, and
we can battle with hope. and so long as
we are fighting with hope victory is in
sight"
Ambassador Bryce's Tribute.
Ambassador Bryce had much praise for
the workers in the cause against tuber-
culosis. "They belong to all the people"
he said, land no scientist ever uses his
results for any but worthy purposes.
There Is no man of science who does not
feel that his duty Is to truth and to hu-
manity, and who does not feel inspired
with the thought that it is for all human
ity that he is working"
In closing he paid tribute to the medi-
cal science of the United States, declaring
that the stamping out OF yellow fever in
Cuba was one of the grandest things hu-
manity has ever seen.