| Show g t A i Pel Pct liap haps the Iho most significant concession con con- cN cession lon ever o er made to the principle 11 of or national national nt fo over O affairs nals nal's was the vote vole ot on the federal T bill li which passed the tho lower or JO house house of or congress R on qu Tuesday day by a ante vote vole of oC w to 26 G. G II I is jR a measure meas meas- ure nrc In the merest interest of those sections which have Ve most mosi severely suffered d from visitations of or yellow fever feyer That Thai ThatIs Is to sy say It I Js Is a measure SUIe drawn draun for forthe the benefit of the thc south And mI the demand for a n hand In the te management manage manage- ment of that visitation stronger than rn any riny state tate could provide pro can came caine e from the vury IH people OIl who ho have from Crum the beginning beginning be be- c- c ginning h hold bald ld hat that thai the nation n U J must t not nol noti i be he allowed to lo Interfere with the affairs affairs af nC- fairs fahs of if state It I is the same IH peo- peo O- O plo 1110 who VItO have havo held that each state stale was allic able tu to o Inke c care rc of or Its Is own 1 0 business u I Yellow f r ff vor Is a n local condition 4 I IH seat seal is in a v limited l f ton of the I. I n tn Her Heretofore e the people In the thc li ippi valley talley have ha held each ech state stall must combat the Hie disease dis- dis s- s ease in the way each ech saw Pw fit ft The r. r result ha has been an an armed strife beI between be- be I tween t ll the people of those states where tl th Iho disease was 1 likely cJ to lo be e elone developed Usually yellow Ce fever CeI I has first h ben been n found round In New Xe Orleans an and Texas lexas has lins flung Cung a n shotgun aimy army amy to fhe- fhe f border o of that thal commonwealth th or orders r to lo prevent ent the ingress ingres r f any n one from Louisiana Tennes- Tennes Ie e. e Mississippi I a and anc Arkansas have qi olne In lit the Individual and amI expensive r gle le lor for lh the treatment nt of the r disease dis OI- ease lle and ant the Ut result resul has has been great creat suffering terrible hardship and no progress J rc with the handling of yellow yellow- fever Ce ever Last year when th the fever er e was first t discovered tco In New Orleans Orlean the l local nl i authorities there undertook to 10 control control con con- 4 H It nn and failed There was the usual J i I Investing of Ir st stalo to h borders with wih guards and anI the u usual ual conflict J Ir of one lne state stale with wih all ni the thc others oLem f Then the government go took look a hand At t the suggestion u of President Roose- Roose volt th the chief ort officer er of the the marine murine hospital service ser was as placed in control f New Xe Orleans and nil oJ of Louisiana yielded t tp the authority and accepted 1 loyally O- O OI I the task of obeying federal orders even in the most intimate Int- Int inti- inti mate details of city regulations And the thc result resul was a diminution of oC fatalities a control of oC tie the disease aH and tho the eventual obliteration not nol alone of oC ca cases lS themselves but the conditions conditions condi condi- tons which gave ga rise to tn the plague It is which the cit I a thing city cily never ne could have done of of l Itself eJ II It I 1 is a thing which the would not not an and J 4 coull could conid not nol have done one It 11 I IB Is fi tt d thing v t. t which reactionaries i all aJ over o er tl th south J tried to lo prevent pre ent for Cor a time hut but which S they the accent when they the see sec the r advantage I vantage to b be he gained 1 Anti And nd on in Tuesday the cle elected tel rep rep- of oC that whole section ex- ex Rome some of or Texas Texas Indol Indorsed ed the national control In natters mailers of or quay quay- antine It I is a 3 condition which runs ruins I j counter to all al the state stale right theories I that have over ever o er been uttered An And It II is significant because it I strates domO the he common recognition of the need of a u national control of big affairs There was wa a line lime when the states stales could take lake care of oC their thell own a affairs fal yg a and n ti t there Lu eve WOK was wa no nij need of or national oversight o of if an any sub sub- jCL But Bui with the growth th of the nation na Ila- lion tion ton th that t day n has pa passed l The coun country i Is h too loo big to be he manag managed Il by hy ume- ume nn and diverse authority Intercourse Inter Inter- course between the sections has be- be comb so common and so 10 rapid that I yr UJ ru e t aro are no local local- Interests ts that tb do 10 t t not nol become general In their effect n And the whole count country I becomes the force fuce in those affairs controlling which touch the Int Interests of the whole J t This Is a nation naton not nol d a federation it If is a union of states stale not a a t lot of states associated It I t is a mighty might comi commonwealth com corn 1 i in fri which the heat best results can be he obtained from Crom a central power and not from Crom independent ent unrelated an and mutually disputing authorities r With ih the tle acceptance of national conr cono control con con- o 1111 In iii the Ihu matter mailer ii of nf quarantine the I. I far south has hns abandoned l ls Its an ancient and untenable doctrine of state slate rl rights forever fore |
