The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-12
THE cRnAr VICTORY OF PEACE.

THE GREAT VICTORY OF PEACE.
The state Department in Washington
received news yesterday that the army
o. Ecuador was being disbanded and
that TIE men were being sent to their
homes SIS rapidly as possible. The
troops had been stationed FOR some
months or the Peruvian frontier. and,
Until the recent arbitration was &C
cepoea by PERU and Ecuador, they had
seea expecting 10 cross the frontier
and give battle 20 the enemy. They
were useless where they were, but the
EoaA3o.eaa government would prob
sssy have kept the men in camp until
FL 1ttzo1i.ies between the nations r I'D
aeea ss.t!ed sut :or the discovery that
yelew fever lad broken oU. among
sAea tbs dispersed them more
7ra-7.ty kaa more eTeosualiy than an
sessai,, Il. IRIS ha.s carried oorsterna-
asa TO -he heart OF every rlaa 81 the
le-s s-zy. TO -Aeua yellow .ever Is
Ae rcrst plague .hat aSlcts raAn-l
n. 2seaieacs th.as wa.ketA at MONDAY
I'D hey dread It more than any dis
ezse LaoE1 70 science. When the yell
lcw s7ots 2q7sz- On q mans body
VIXEN lie grows deGr.ous gna when his
.epe- leaves 10 doubt as 70 his nalady.
X. people ring .heir bells ana decorate
.het- sh-3nes and humble themselves
Lnd pray Cod to remove tie plague
ron the,- dwelling. They Know what
yellow Fever does aad they fear SIS -ay-
fEes.
Twenty years ago similar outbreak
IN our owa,sr1y- would have spread con-
ste-nalon II America and Il our health
authorities would have had no bet
ter Judgment than to send infected men
10 their homes, there would have been
many heavy hearts in America and
rany anxious mothers. Yellow fever
visited America in the early days OF
the spaniards ard left great galleons
unnamed at carthagena; st gained q
foothold in Cuba and turned Santiago
and Havana into vast charnel houses
IL swept santo Domingo and turned
back the army Napoleon had intended
should occupy Louisiana In 1893 yell
low fever appeared in Philadelphia
amidst horrors the like of which Amer
lea never saw:tit came often to savan-
nah. and in 1885 It was discovered in
Norfolk and Portsmouth. Those who
remember that sad year or have read
accounts of It know that Virginia and
the nearby States were In mourning
for months. while scarcely q home In
the pest-Hdden cities was without its
enblen1s OF mourning
All of this Is changed to-day, and
we no moro fear the ravages of yellow
fever than we fear an epidemic OF
smallpox or an outbreak OF bubonlc
plague. We know how the disease is
spread and we know how to master it.
Thanks to the services OF Walter Reed
Ia virgintaN. tha.nk Heaven, even
though his'iather did come from North
Carolina-we have found that the
germs Of yellow fever are carried only
by q definite species or mosquito. and
we have found that where these mos
quttoes cannot breed there will be no
yellow fever. We have learned too,
that when we kill the mosquitoes and
drain their breeding places. such cases
OF the disease as appear before these
steps are taken Will the only toll!
OF the disease, New Orleans free from
yellow fever and Panama as healthy as
any city in America are lasting monu-
ments 10 the fulness of this knowl-
edge.
After all. an achievement OF this sor
Is the greatest victory OF peace. Whes
we save the lives of men by the thous
and, and when We stamp out diseas'
and all the sorrow and all the sadness
that follow in Its train. We have don'
more than when We take a city or con
quer an island or win war. When W.
give men sound bodies and strive K
exalt the spirit in those bodies, we have
has,ened the coming OF the kingdom
more than when we conquer the stub
born forces of nature or make the skis,
a path for man,