Show THE SCARES ANp THE PROOF An account was given In yesterday mornings > Tribune of a cusc whore a man who plainly had smallpox wat going go-ing about his business in the ordinary way coming In contact with others Oojn time to time and making light of he fear they expressed on account of the liability of contagion This conduct if proved as alleged Is of so reckless nnd l Illegal a character that there should be no lenity shown to the one who was guilty of It But It wIll be a question of proof We all recollect what what said of the qis jogard of quarantine regulations by tho Jones family In the western pnitlon of tho city how some of the neighbors signed a crfrd making charges that were most serious against the Joneses la this respect And yet when the Health Department De-partment visited the scene and undertook under-took to get the facts with a view to prosecution no case puld be made not enough evidence for even a persumptlve > case could be collected Now either there was In hls case an unwarranted charge or else the witnesses wit-nesses weakened when they were brought to the scratch It often happens that people think they know a great deal about a thing until they come to put it in plain black and white and then they find that they dont know as much about it as they had supposed It may he eo alKo in thc more recent case We by no means wish to repress the enthusiasm for the law or the alarm of those who see things they suppose to be Wrong J or who arc put In i peril of con tagjpn Nor would we In any way do sire to wink at even the sllghest violation viola-tion of thp wholcfcome > and strict quarantine quar-antine regulations established Hut we submit that raising needless nnd unwarranted un-warranted scarce Js not conducive to public peace or content nnd does no posqlbe good If any person is In fact derelict reckless or Insubordinate as to his proper restraints such person should receive immediate and summary punishment pun-ishment The man who is moat recently charged with going about with the disease dis-ease plainly upon him lias been taken to the posthouse If It turns out that he in fact had the disease and baa Infected others with it ho should bo mndn such an example of that no one else would over dare to t follow his example |