Show CHOLERA AT THE DOORS OF THE NATION THE cholera news new is not assuring reassuring re the reports of its presence at the doors doom of our country are causing much uneasiness this thia anxiety is IB shared by president harrison Harrl soo who has returned to washington on account of his solicitude on the subject the attempt to assume that the cases came on board the ship moravia 11 were to la absurd no such campara corn com para lively mild form of bowel disorder Is ia as fatal as that which carried off the im migrants mi Krants attacked on the vessel named out of twenty four persons seized with the malady only two recovered and all the deaths occurred within twenty four hours after the beginning begin nino of the attack these facts were sufficient to prove that the disease was either asiatic cholera or something so equally infectious and deadly some physicians are stating that cold weather does not kill the cholera cho lers germs but merely causes them to lie temporarily dormant according to this view they might be brought to this country during the winter in clothing etc and as soon as aa warm weather set in they would revive and multiply others insist that the plague is not necessarily a summer disease but that it occasionally goto gets in its deadly work in winter we observe that assistant secretary spaulding at washington D 0 is credited with saying if decreed by divine providence that we shall have cholera here we donnot prevent it but it is in as nearly impossible for it io 10 rat gei nere here as we can make IWO it here la is a chance for some of our local co temporaries to tell the assistant secretary that there is no such thing as divine providence in affairs of this kind and that plagues are simply the result of the want of personal cleanliness and proper sanitation and of peculiar atmospheric conditions they have an opportunity to say to the gentleman that Provi providence dences cannot use the elements to accomplish its pur pose we observe that some people who profess great things about the fre freedom edoin of opinion and its it expression are ready to leap furiously upon persana person who happen to announce views in favor of the idea that god has baa anything whatever to do with the affairs of mankind they act and speak an aa if it were out of the sphere of divine providence to interfere in any way with earthly conditions they even deew disposed had they the power to seize by the throat people whose religious convictions lead them to the conclusion that the almighty takes cognizance of poor humanity by administering corrective chastisement as an well as blessings upon the race we have no action to people disbelieving in divine intervention but when such persons persona set up a howl hewl because some other people do not agree with them on the subject we regret that they should be so contemptibly contracted and small how ever we will qualify this statement by saying that these intolerant individuals have the right to show their disposition toward egotism and if they wish to ID but the spectacle they present is neither consistent nor attractive |