THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. MONDAY, JULY 30, 1906.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8197, 30 July 1906, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. MONDAY, JULY 30, 1906.

President Roosevelt apparently doss not intend to allow Iris operations against the trusts and monopolies of the country whioh he governs to ceasae with his cleansing of the Chicago pa'oking houses. While public opinion is alive to tne necessity of action he is preparing to push on reforms far beyond the Sooidist; programmes outlined by Democratic rivals. The President has already grappled with the insurance, Standard oil and railway monopolies with marked suooess, his chief victory being the drafting of a Rate Bill, whioh gives the Federal Government great power over railway systems, whioh have hitherto defrauded the people of the United States in a most barefaced fashion. The President undoubtedly has the great bulk of public opinion with him la his flght against the trusts, ani ti2S3 organisations fully rsalisa

he formidable nature of their adversary, who is unfettered by politioal promises, and who, incidentally, will not be a candidate for a third term of office as President. The trusts are consequently making a bitter fight for life. Their subsidised newspapers are printing columns of abuse directed against the President, and their agents are being sent into every State with instructions to spare no money in an effort to turn the tide of public opinion. Mr Koosevelt is described as a "dangerous demagogue," who will overthrow Amerioan institutions and inaugurate a veritable reign of anarchy throughout the land. With characteristic pertinacity and diplomacy the President is not replying to these attaoks except in the most praotioal way. He is, he says, when asked for his reply, too busy drafting further anti-trust legislation to bother with the allegations of the enemy. It is freely stated in offloial circles in Washington that the Presi dent's next move will be to reserve forty million aores of public land in the west, containing rich metallic deposits, and which he intends shall be worked under v Federal supervision. The President is determined to prevent; the magnates from buying up all the oil yielding territory in the country, and with the strong weight of public opinion at his back he will probably go far in securing his object.

"It has become generally acknowledged lately that a man may be the host of diptheria bacilli, cholera vibrinoes, or other pathogenic bacteria without necessarily developing the corresponding diseases," Professor Mie Metchnikoff, of Paris, declared recently in the first of the Harben lectures delivered in the lecture theatre o? King's College. Professor MetohnikofE's auojeot was "The Hygiene of the Tissues," that is to say, the problem which scientists now have before them of how to nd the body of the microbes whioh infest it. He dealt particularly with the tyhoid bacillus. "Until a short time ago we were convinced that the principal, if not the Bole, cause of outbreaks of typhoid fever lay in drinking water," he said, "yet it haa been shown that persons have acquired the disease who never drank water, or drank only boiled water, and who never ate raw food. The faot is that perfectly healthy persons, espocially such as have oome in contact with fcyphoid fever patients, or with persons who have suffered from enteric at a more or less remote period, often harbour the bacillus typhosus in oonsideranle quantities in iheir alimentary canals. Such persons have teen termed bacilli carriers, and must be considered as important sources of infection for this disease. The typhoid bacilli can remain in a virulent state for many years in a body unaffected by their pathogenic action. What reason can be given for this remarkable and prolonged immunity? This is a question to whioh leading scientists everywhere have been devoting their attention. An extensive series of experiments carried out in the last few years has shown that the essence of immunity, lies iu the living elements of the body, and that it ja the phagocytes which deliver U9 from our enemies. If bacilli carriers can sow disease broadcast in their surroundings without themselves falling ill, tne reason is that their living oells react efficiently against the pathogenic microbes, and can rapidly pioduoe subetanues injurious to those mircobes." Professor Metchnikoff declared, in closing, that persons who indulge too freely in alcohol show far less resistance to infectious diseases, especially 10 croupous pneumonia, than übstemious persone.