Show FOR ST LOUIS The righteously indignant and thor thoroughly thoroughly frightened population of St StLouis StLouis StLouis Louis is 18 up TO arms against the th t invite invasion ion io of aquatic Uc bacilli from the germ breeding sloughs of Chicago A petition n filled fined with lifelike pictures of the mic microbe microbe robe monsters mon r batched in the slime of ot the the Chicago river and fed on packing bouse offal o al for f r a quarter of century r getting forth t the dangers to health and andI I happiness the Mississippi l and signed sigred by hundreds s of thousands of agi agitated agitated citizens barely able to control their t ir feelings or hold a pen se been forwarded to congress by a special I re refrigerator car and an eloquent el commit committee tee ee will attend to open the and call attention to the appearance habits hai its and of the wriggling og writhing pork fed led monstrosities fruit from pro protection protection is ts The sympathy of all creation outside of the Windy City is with the peo pee pre pIe of St Louis in their heroic struggle 1 against superior numbers and over overpowering overpowering I powering odors od hitherto peculiar to the j great intend inland port but destined destin d hence henceforth he henceforth ee forth to become almost as 8 common as Chicago political methods And hiIe we question if it there th re is any i immediate relief for the tho people of or SL St I Louis Loui and other pities etie ak aJo along father of or u waters there thero may ha b compensating result td which will wilt in inI I j time amount to poetic and scientific I n Ten or 0 r tv t ele lve years jears cars ago when he the the project of f the he drainage dra age canal canai cana was as first fir mooted learned men men of o 1 J science and the like pre predicted re dieted not as us prophets or sons eons of pro prophets photo but as observers and students of physical phenomena that Chicago doom would be sealed upon the day the aqueduct ct was ian opened Its tendency Is Isto Isto i it to t turn the course coarse of the water ater system westward to Up tip the basin es as s it were By and by the Niagara Nl garn river will run rim dry 1 according c to the theory th tb ory of Profesor eor or Gilbert anti and Dr Spencer of ington and other learned men m of or other centers of learning in which event the great lakes will wt l discharge di bar e their waters Into Jibe tilo Mississippi MisSi through thin drain drainage age ago canal nanal It te Is believed that the whole lake region is 15 tilting toward the south math southwest west waiL w t which will eventually inundate Chicago possibly Detroit and other lake towns to ms We did not look lewk to see Chicago take this seriously and na abandon the drain drainage age ag any city that put up with the Chicago river as It was wan u for twenty five years has haa no fear tear of ot death nor re respect respect for Cor science any city that will make a spread and invite the whole world In under such conditions has tins Ht lit lit little littie tle tie regard for the health or nerves especially the olfactory ry ones of others so o It is hardly necessary for people who live along the Mississippi I and drink its to try to frighten the people of Chicago Chicag or to expect them to listen to congress con ress even uld congress have the temerity to admonish them to keep ke their bacilli at home Chicagoans have havo havea a vulgar way aj of being too busy to pay any attention to other people and other la But never mind When the water begins to 10 rise above her waist wt st Chicago will be heard beaM calling for St Louis to throw her tier a rope and St Louis has haa been ready lo to furnish famish the rope for some time provided her hen rival would evince e a remorseful disposition to make the proper use of it L |