The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-09-23
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Goodwin's Weekly

1 Goodwin's Weekly
The cholera is raging in Russia; no
one knows how many victims have
fallen under it, but they are number
ed by thousands. 1t has pushed its
way out and has reached Italy. In
some of the districts 1t is very severe
but we suspect it's intensity is con-
cealed in the newspapers for the tour
list season has been more profitable
this ear than for three years past, and
all those countries are interested in
doing nothing to drive guests away.
Every scourge of cholera or in
fluenza or plague has started in Asia
and until ships were so plenty and
travelling SO general, the course of
ever epidemic has been to the west.
They are every one the progeny of
filth, and poverty; they rise like birds
of prey from their loathsome food
and on black wings take up their
sinister flight. They do not cause
so much terror as formerly, for they
are better understood and their cause
| and how to fight them is vastly bet
ter understood then ever before
Since science accepted the germ the
| DRY to be true, not only is the dis
ease itself better understood, but so
are the means to close the gates
against it's approach. That cleanli-
ness is next to Goodness has received
new emphasis and new significance
from the new explorations of science
in the past thirty years. Because of
the knowledge the cause of typhoid
and multitude of other ills have
been chased to their lairs and are
growing less and less. The enemies
visible and invisible of human life,
in the air are being overcome, in no
field has science won more triumphs
during generation than in searching
out and stamping out disease.
Most of the diseases known to man
have, like men, moved from east to
west. Now there is a return wave.
Railroads starting from the Mediter-
ranean are extending east, Russia has
pushed her railroad across the whole
stretch of her vast empire, even to
the oceans shore. With the rail-
roads civilization will, likewise, re-
trace her steps, reconstruct her shat
tered affairs, and preach her sermons,
where they were first preached. The
work of redemption will be more
slow and difficult than it would be
among savage tribes that had never
seen the counterfeit reflection of her
light. But it will hold it's way and
reconquer its lost Kingdoms. Among
other things she will teach those peo-
pie the necessity of perfect santa
ton, and when that is perfectly un-
derstood, and practiced, then no more
epidemics will rise from there on in
visible wings to scourge the earth. |
There is yet work for all the inhabi-
tants of the world to subdue it's rough |
places, to open it's mines, to cultivate |
its fields; but there is vastly great
er work in redeeming it's people and
fitting them to live and to die. Steam
has come to help; so has electricity;
so has the power press; and all these
physical agents are doing their part.
But science is doing loftier work
still in carrying to the wretched and
despairing healing for their bodies,
the light Of knowledge to their minds
the certain proof that life is worth
living and that the cleaner the body,
The cleaner will be the soul and that
1t was not myth that the ancients
taught, that this life was but prep
aration for higher life to follow.
The peace congress is working out
he problem of how wars may be
'verted; the perfecting press is filling
he world with books; the magnetic I
and wireless telegraph are seeking
stations in all the worlds Businesses 1
md working their miracles to give !
vi men object lessons, to prove that
nan, in his intelligence stands only {
little lower than the angels, and sci
nee in her laboratories is every day
working out new splendors and
ringing new mercies to men. The Ia
exemption of the world is mighty /
ask. but 1t is being carried on. a