Show bUUT THEM OUT It strikes us that about the most effective plan for keeping the cholera out of this country would be tho ono heretofore suggested sug-gested of refusing to permit the landing of immigrants from infected ports This plan would also have the merit of punishing the shipowners who persist in bringing across the water hundreds and thousands of people peo-ple who the natural supposition is have the germs of the disease For weeks people peo-ple by the hundreds have been dying in Hamburg in which city the deaths are so numerous that corpses lie for hours and sometimes for days before they are buried the authorities being unable to remove the bodies That is a great point of embarkation embarka-tion for America more emigrants sailing from that port than from any other in continental con-tinental Europe The emigrants spend from a week to a month at Hamburg before embarking living as a matter of course in the poorest and filthiest quarter of the city If there are cholera germs about they will be certain to find them Since the outbreak of the epidemic several Hamburg vessels have sailed to America with emigrants one of them having more than a thousand steerage passengers on board and cholera was brought by every one of these steamers Lower harbor at New York is full of quarantined ships and at the quarantine station there aro 3500 people awaiting death or a chance to reach the city It is an outrago that these steamship companies should thus endanger the American community for the sake of the fare money of tae disease ladenwretches It would serve the companies right if they were compelled to take their infected hordes back to Europe We dont know what authority the president has in tho premises but if the laws permit per-mit he public would sustain him in the issuance of a proclamation absolutely forbidding for-bidding immigration from cholerainfected ports until all danger of the post being brought to this country ws passed |