THE NAMAU post; nncCPORT, N. Y. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER, 16, 1914.
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1914.
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ADVICE FOR SCHOOLS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE
Stop Forced Vaccination and Save Child life
Facts for School Officers and Parents of School Children Showing That the Present
' Vaccination Law Applies to Public Schools Only and Can Be Legally Suspended
in Any Public School District by Local School Officers
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. Any erroneous reiiectlon upon the .itiatiatciei, aiairiuirig or repiitation ot any peiaon, nnn or corporation which may appear in the coiunma o( The NaMau rost, will be o'ac'iy correcteci jpon requeat at tne mam ottice, Mil- er tiuiiuing, <^-^t iiouth Qrove etreet, riecpuii, u. I., N. Y.
OUR TRADE IN SOUTH AMERICA
in tbe past the attention of Amer¬ ica lias been loo mucb centered in Europe, ber (llUerent cities and coun¬ tries. Tbis applies to business, so¬ cial, and society prestige, trade rela¬ tions and financial transaction. Mot but what all these relations were ad¬ vantageous and almost necessary to America bul dependence upon an¬ other is alway Iraughi with an ele¬ ment of danger to the dependent.
The world wide effects of the great war is bringing thia lesson borne to us at the present time. Old ties must be quickly sundered. New adjustments must be made as quickly. Other out¬ lets for our surplus crops and produc¬ tions mint be sought.
As a rule we are apt to overlook that which lies at our door and hasten afar off for the needful things be they wbat tbey may. It is a well known fact that our trade and social rela¬ tions with South America countries have been strangely overlooked. The trade of theae great and growing ter¬ ritories has been almost monopolized by our European competitors.
They took every advantage of the faorable conditions. Tbey sent sales¬ men who spoke the language of the countries whose trade was sought. They made goods adapted to the needs aud requirements of such customers. Aa a result they practically controlled the trade. As a nation we have been remiss in cultivating this fleld and, now that the opportunity Is at hand, we flnd we are laboring under disad¬ vantages brought about by our own acts.
That all this must be remedied In the shortest possible time consistent with good work, is very apparent. Our bankers and great flnanciera are alive to the opportunity and conscious or the advantages to be secured. Such men as J. J. Hill, .have advocated the cultivation of South American com¬ merce for years and pointed out the proper methods to secure It.
The great city banks are taking steps in the proper direction. They will soon establish branches In the Southern Republics and do their ut¬ most to break down barriers erected by German and Englist traders. The National Department of Commerce is and salesmen all tbe assistance of tbis work and promises our manufactures and salesmen all to assistance of tbls powerful department.
I,n citie» and towns all over inls State the greatest opposition is now being made by parents of school cbijdren to>the enforcement ot tbat dangerous and barbarous law requiring tbe infection of healthy children with a vile blood disease as a condition of attending tbe public acboolR.
Tbis evil law was originated solely by medical societies in this State and was passed orginally without any general public hearing or approval, and its evil burden has been kept for years on our free schools, notwlthstand ing all cilorts made to remove or amend it by citizens and our educational offlcials, maiiily through the Influence of theae same medical societies, which are eaid to bave tbe greatest lobbying power of any interest In the State. Thc;^<e medical societies are organized all over this State with tens of thou¬ sands of members and are now such a powerful and dangerous force In the body politic as to control our medical legislation, our health departments, our vital gtatistics, and a large part of our Press, and are now Intent on forc¬ ing compulsory medicine upon tbe people In various forms, which ia one of the most dhufcerous despotisms or usurpations that couid be Inflicted upon a Iree people and much more dangerous than tbe old prohibited barbarism of compulsory religion ever was.
How far the present effort to enforce this evil law on all our school choldrtu through tbe State faiay be for the beneflt of the vaccinatora and the vaccine makers rather than for tbe vaccinated children I will now let the worda of a lormer Commissioner of Education (the beloved. Just and eminent Audrey/ S. Diaper) tell us. In his Annual Report for 1909 at page 11 the late Commissioner Draper states:
"In many cases physicians become interested in the strict enforce .ment of the law because of the fees resulting therefrom. * • » la .the more populous districts the medical fees resutling from vac cluatlou are an Important item. It is not claimed that physicians as a rule ore governed in this matter by a mercenary motive. * ' Uowt-er. this mercenary motive has been tbe controlling factor in a sutliclent number of cases which have come to the attention of the department to justify the above assertions."
To lurcher illustrate this point, I have just received a letter from a moth¬ er of school children in a town up the State, where the doctors are trying lo btrictly enforce this evil doctor-made law, and In which she significantly points out that the health board doctor of the town is also on the school board and is the doctor who will aslo get the fees paid by the school or town for the vaccination of the school children! This women Is only one of many parents who send touching letter from all over the State, giving in¬ stances of cU»ath and disaster from vaccination, and asking for help to save their children from the horrible barbarism which would inflict upon their
ated ahall b<- adiiiitttd or r<(eived into any of the public schools of the State, and the Irusteos or other offlcers having the charge, man- iigement or control of the school.^ shall cause this provision of law to be enforcf^d. They may adopt a resolution excluding such children and persons not vaccinated from such school until vaccinated and whon such resolution has been adopted they shall give at least ten days' notice thereof by popting copies of the same In at lea.it twt> public and conspicuous places within, the limits of tbe school govern ment."
II. There i.s no power Kiven In this law or in any other law in the State lo compel any person, whether in public or private school or anywhere else, to he vaccinated against his free will and consent. To compel or attempt such vaccination by intimidation or force, by any doctor or health offlcer or other persons, is iile-'iil and ( riininiil under the Penal Code and decisions of our courtb.
III. One vaccination, v. liet In r "successfur" <jr not, is sutthient to sat¬ isfy the law and to authorize adrnis.slon to school. See opinion of Attorney Geucral John Cun leen in 1901. This point was also decided by a court nnd jury at Rochester in 191-. The two practices, therefore, of requiring re- peatetj vaccination until it "takes" and of re-vacclnation repeated after a certain uumber of years, as now practiced In the schools, are illegal and un¬ tenable and mu'=t be ab.indim> il ilrif varclnatlon only irt enough under the law
1\ , This vaccination inv,. I.> it:j own UlMtinct term;;, ii eiiruiceable uuly by the board of education, the lucal school board or trustees In any town or district, and by no other offlcert. No power, therefore, is given In this law to the Comm'ssloner of Educaiimi or the Commissioner of Health to enforce this law or overriilf ihe action of the local .scluxil offlcers thereon.
v. The law is dlscretloniiiy witli the local offlcers and the discretion lies in the heconil'para,i;r;ipli. \i/..; "Tliey (the trustees, etc.) may adopt a resolution excluding such ( liildien," etc. It will therefore be obvious that the law Is not In force al all e.vceiil when the local school ofllc-ers choose to pa.is the enforcing' resolution and put up the ten day's notice, etc., which they "may" do vhen they think it necessary and proper bul not otherwise, and no one can force tlieni to do this against their discretion as the law itself places ita eiifbrcenient in their hands only.
VI. Il IF. evident thai the lirst clause only appears mandatory, but this is modified by the second clnuse and please note this fact, the history of tbls law shows that this first clause is i\n unauthorized interpolation in the law, riiiide by a codifying coniniittee in 1893, which had no power to alt< r the law, but who unlawfully or inad\erienlly introduced the present Hrst clause in place of the original a.s found in the law lirst passed in 1860, which was (-learly
rx. It, therefore follows that tbe threat made In circulars Iaaued by the present '"ouifilasloner of Education and the Commissioner of Health to the local schools officers to penallM these locai omcers, or their schools, for not enforcing this law 1« an untenable and Illegal threat which they may properly and safely disregard.
X. Tbe local school officers have good ground and an actual precedent furnished by the former Commissioner of Education himself for suspending th's law^, as was actually done in the town of Olean, N. Y.. in 1912, where 2,000 children left the schools and refused to be vaccinated. The school offi¬ cers finally decided to suspend the law—First, because a niajorlty of parents and tchool children refused to submit to vaccination as being a violation of their rights and a menace to health, and because the virus then in use w^as Infected and dangerous to health and life and caused many injuries; Second, because, as a matter of fact and law. there was a conflict between two laws, viz., the law of compulsory education and the law of conlpulso^^• vaccination, and both could not be strictly enforced.
The Commissioner of Education, the late Dr. .\ndrew ."^ Draper, then decided that the school offlcers were justified in thus suspending vaccination and approved this action. In these words, in an official order or letter Issued .lanuary 14, 191::, lo the Board of Education at Olean. -
"There is an inconsistency between the provisions of the health law '^nd those of the education law. ' '-' Hoth of these statutes
cannot be strictly enforced. '¦ The education authorities are
chiuged with the duty of keeping the children in the schools rather than of keeping them out. * * Therefore. 1 am of
tbe opinioii that some discretion was intended to be reposed Iwth in tbe board cf education and in the board of heiilth by the educa¬ tion and health laws, and that, pendiiie the i onsideration of the con- lli( t beiv.een these laws whith it its ptoposed to ask of the Legis¬ lature >our hoard will be justified in rts( inditii; its a<tii)ii excluding unvaccinated children from the schools."
Here is clearly ii tli.sliiii t re( oinition h> tin.' head of the Deparlnu-nt of Education of tliscietioii in the local otlieers in the enforcement of the vaccina¬ tion law aiin a good j-'ionnd is also olfulalU stated lis the Commissioner for sii-pendini' this law by sin li Im al ollii i;ih; uiiiil the Legislature can correi t the serious uintlii I In thi' n... I.iws As I uinlei .--tiiiid the Kducatiuii 1-aw, an order or iltciriiuii i.i il... ^^.lllllll^^¦|^.Iu i i^ hiiiUinj', er flnal on the Depart ment, aud tin.-. I iiimlv .-tuir; the |Mc^«•l|t Coiiiiiiissioiier from overruliiir.
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healthy oodles a dangerous festering disease Which, as I have already clearly ! •^''''¦•'"""^'V- ^^ '« 'he present second clause, which has been left almost
proved, now kills more children than smallpox and Is actually more dangerous to them on the average than natural smallpox—and all this as an alleged mode of producing public health and as a condition for the exercise of that most fundamental public rlgbt of tbe child, education.
Now we have received so many letters of this kind asking for help in the present crisis, not only from parents of school children but also from teachers and princlpalb and trustees of public schools, all over the State, asking for advice as to their legal rights and powers In thla matter and as to the dls- cn.tionary powers of tbe local or district school offlcers In enforcing or sus¬ pending the present vaccination law, that we have found it impossible to answer all of these letters fully by mall and hence now take the better way of answering these inquiries through the public press, before tbe re-openlng of Ibe schools, so that uot only our numerous correspondents but the general public can get the beneflt of the facts and advice now given, which we will nere slate in a series of distinct propositions: —
I. The present school vaccination law applies to public schools only, not to private or parochial schools, and it only authorizes the local trustees or boards to exclude children from the schools who are not vaccinated. The following Is a copy of the two flrst paragraphs of the law, which form its most essential parte:— (Law of 1893, now In force). "No child or person not vaccin-
iiualiered. This history will, therefore, affect the interpretation of the law in the eyes ol u <'0iirt, and will make a second clause govern in inakinu the law Uiacrttioiiary, as it obviously is when taken as a whole
VII. I am iiwarc that the Coniiiilssloner of Education, under an o|jiiiion of an Attorn' y Ceiieral, regards the law as inaiulat'ory, but 1 think this opinion is not legally comet, for the reasons given, which were not known or con¬ sidered when that opinion was rendered. In any case, such ojiinion is "not Infallilde or conclusive, and only the decision of a court can deternitne this duenlion. And as this law is enforcable only hy the local school ofli( ers. they cannot be overruled in this matter by other officers or departments, and 1 therefore advise all local school offlcers to hold firmly to the view that the law is discretionary in essence, both verbally and hist-orlcally, and that they may inlorce or suspend it at their best judgment of local conditions or necessities l;ntll a court shall decide this question one way or the otber. ^,
vni. At this law is enforcable only by the local school offl. ers, and on their .jiiilmn. ::< or discretion, not by the Commissioner of Education or the Comii:;- ion 1 of HeaTth, it is obvious that such local offlcers cannot be legally p. aahzed In any way, nor can the State funds be legally withheld from their local ."-chools as a punishment for not enfon ing this law, when the law Itself places the power and discretion for enforcing It in these local olflcers themselves.
AUTOMATIC FIRE ALARM Hempstead has an electric arrange¬ ment ao that the syren used for a flre alarm will give tbe number of the district by automatically giving the proper number of beasts. A good idea. Let machinery do all that it can, es- -peclally where haste and accuracy are needed.
A machine has been deflned as something too stupid to make a mis¬ take. And the perfect machine Is cer¬ tainly n'ore accurate than the average htiman mind.
A HoUsvUle dog. Gyp, has the am¬ bition to succeed the lamented Roxle as mascot dog of the Long Island Rail¬ road. He la a good natured little Boston bull pup, aald to be very Intelli¬ gent. He will have to be aome dog and mighty winning In bis ways to travel tree, get petted by everybody and bave a bank account
THE COST OF WAR
Newspapers and thoughtless people talk lightly of some comparatively small European nation pulllnb a mil¬ lion men in the fleld, armed and equip¬ ped, ready for service and battle.
Such people bave scarcely an Idea of tbe vast number contained In one million of units, and certainly no idea of what It means to arm and equip such a force.
A soldier Is one of the most expen¬ sive things that fi nation can Invest in. A soldier must have close to three pounds of nutritions food per day. 'This is fully necessary as the coal In the tender for the locomotive for eith¬ er man nor machine can work with¬ out fuel.
If poorly fed, his present efficiency ia not only greatly impaired, but it depresses him mentally ao he is atill further unfltted lor his trying duties. Napoleon truly said tbat au army, like a snake, travels on its belly.
Then he must have a uniform made of good material, and sufflcient to serve him In all climates and condi¬ tions. And he certainly must have a costly and efflcient weapon, modern and as good In every way as the ones in the hands of the enemy, he is ex¬ pected to meet.
He must also be paid a living wage, for uo army will give efflcient service wltbout receiving aome equivalent in the money that will buy the neceaai- tlea of life for the family he uaually leavea behind.
Tbla la not counting In the aat ex¬ pense of transportation, of artillery, of a vast number of valuable horses and hundreds of other things tbat nev¬ er enter into the clvUiana calculatlona.
\\ e must atill add to this huge devil column the loss of theae men's ser-
Most of them are men of high effi¬ ciency, of good earning capacity. By a jugglery that seems almost ^atanlc, the builders of a country In time of peace are turned Into ita burneds In time of war.
To a very superficial calculation win show that one million armed men must soon be met by a war expense of one million dollars. Not even the richest country can endure this long. Then quickly follow depreciating con- vency, inflated prices and a huge war debt to hand down to future genera¬ tions. And nearly every so called civ¬ ilized country In the world today is paying this enormous and wholly use¬ less Indebtedness.
"ON TO RICHMOND"
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FREEPORT'S PROSPERITY
Citlens of this village are certain ly fortunate. A quiet pretty village, filled .with comfortable homes, good banks, and buslnesa houses, merchants with stocks ample to supply eveiy need. F>eryone Is going their peace¬ ful way; business, pleasure, conven¬ tions, flshlng, picnics, banquets and the movies.
No war—only rumors of war. The Insane struggle across the water caus¬ es only the faintest ripple here.
And fortuna!.' too are we In our distance from that hungry monster that lies about thirty miles toward the setting sun. The big City has bor rowed about to her capacity and is now obliged to prfV 6 per cent, for a little loan of 1100,000,000.
We are juat far enough away so her htmgry Jawa have neyer closed on us and given ua the glory of belonging to the "Greater Belonging" Is used advis¬ edly. So with all these advantages let ua try and keep it tbe banner town
defending nichnioiid ami on lields distant from the Capitol city Miselt, did Uichiuond hcKiiii.' ;in easy |ir<\v to the I'liion forcfs.
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WAR AND OUR PRESIDENT
The European war has certainly aid¬ ed the President in his flght for re¬ duction of the tariff. It hasnearly wipe d It outof existence. .\nd still the President Is not happy over this condition. Hisvlttated object was to lessen, the cost of living And >.t il has gone UJ) by leaps.
liut the Chief Ruler is not to Ijlaiiii for this. There- arc jiDwers that are suiierior to hini or even his Secretary of Slate. So with li'ss.-ned ii'venn.- from customs, the President appc.ils
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NO HARNESS MAKCM
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of Long laland and atrive continually vices to the country in tirw ot war. to make it even better worth living In.
Eight pouns of potatoes tor 10 cents; green corn. 12 cents per dozen; lima beans. 5 cents a quart; tomatoes, r» cents for two quarts; carrots. 5 cents a bunch and so ou in Uke proportion. This certainly sounds good, and such prices will be a boon to poor people In the city and aid them to live com¬ fortably on a smaller supply of meat.
Former Paator Viaits E. W. Ault The Rev. aod Mrs. M. H. Kishburn of Fraser, Pa., spent the early part of last week in Freeport wilh tbeir nep¬ hew, E. VV. Ault. manager of Chub- bucks, Freeport store. Tbey had been attending the Hlble Conference at Stoney Brook and motored o\er to Freeport. The Rev. F'lshburn was pas¬ tor of a church In Rockville Centre some 20 years ago.
ad\ise parents to .--.-ml ih.-ir this va(-ciiialion l.iw does noi will I.e entirely ii-penled.
A Kieat (Ifoii has he. n iii;;.!.- nii-inl.x \i\ \a..inaiors to fone vaccina¬ tion al.'-o on tht-si- iii-i\al.- and pain, liial schools and to ti\ to show that the law applies 01 liiii be siiet.-li.-d lo apidv to tlieni, 01 that the health board doc-tors have pow.-r 10 force \ui(iiiation on these siliools, and Attorney (Jeii- eral Carniody has just ;:i\.ii a \ai;iii- opinion on this subject; but this is till a fallacious i'nd ille.uul 1 <ini.-iiiUiii. as shown hy the latest decision of the liiyhest coiiii in the .Siat.-. llie Conn ot .Xjipeals, in the ca.--.- ol tin- I'.-ople \ Kki-likt t'.au.i .liUir :.'. r.ill. \sliiie lliis pestive statcim-nt is mad.' wlil.li roiiiiil. ii-l> (li>nisi-hol il.i- hit. -I 111. .11. al -at .1 li-,i:al tallai-.N :
¦'rm- \a.-.-iliali<iii stalnt.- ulii.li w.-Ji;i\'.- Iie.-n i<iii«'idi-i in^; a|iiilii-s .,.i,l> 1.1 ll,i |,r|ili. ¦.. l,.iob ¦¦
II, Mdiliii.iii to llii.-- I want Ul I'.'iK-ai .-iiipli.ii i. .illv tlial no doit.n or In-allli II: Slal.- lia.- aii.s l.-;al po'v^.-' wlial. v.-r lo .-oinin-l ali.\ oin- to sill) itiatimi a:;ainst will and (oiiseni. 01 hy |oi<-.- of intlniidalion. or 1 forced iiuarantiiii- or dischaiL-.- 110111 (inployinenl; and IIiIk is sell ltd by dei-isions ol our lii^;liesl Slate Conns in Sniitli v. Emery in ]89t. and oili.-r cases. Si-.- also I'.-nal Cod.-, s.-ition .'.:!0 and fiKO.
.Mii. In .i:ell(-ial. I would. tli.-i.-U-ie, ad\ist- local s.liool ollicers that tli.y .sliouki suspi nd va. liiialioii in .-\.-iy siliool (listrht wli.-n- public oiiinion is decidedly oiiposeii to ii 01- wlit-i.- il is mort- dangerous lo health or life than hi:ialli)iix itself, wlii. li is the lai-t in many insiaiu-es; for examiile, when there are other infections or epidemic diseases i>ie\ ailiiij.; or when there is some danf^eiouH iiiU-i lion in the \irus sii.li as the epid.-nii.- of IihU and mouth dls east- ill !'J(i" and 1908; or in the cas. ol lo.-alilies where wound infections prevail whirh are specially danu.-roiis to va<-c-iiiation sorc-s. The latter con¬ dition IS iiaitic-ulHrly till- case in ,N«-\v York Stale and on I>ong Island, when- oiii- of tin- 1'osl common and fatal '.vouiid infections, known as lockjaw 01 "tetanus," exists generally and litiin wliiili many more deaths an- caused every .\<ai tlian from sinallpov, so that to h«- vaf-clnated In these lockjaw districts is f imply to run t.-n .11 on.- huiuli.-d limes more risk of death from vaccination and In. kjaw than from smallpox alone if left entirely unvaccinated XIV. I will lianlly iioini out to hoth school ollicers and part-nts of scliool c-hildren a nindami-ntal, \iiMl and l.->ial reason of the greatest force for sTis peudiiit; Un- vai-i itiai ioti law in any school, al any time, whlcji Is tliis:-»It is simply a crime ai ..unmon law to deliht-rai.-ly inflict a dangerous or fatal disease- on the- l,i,.l.\ 01 an> p.-ison, partii ulaily on a child, and vac .-inatioii is such a d : easi- which actually and dc-monsirtibly now kills more children than smallpox, and therefore, its c-nforcemc-nt in our schools at any lime or place Is esstiiliaily illegal, notwithstanding Un- existing law on the subjei-i. This law was passed hy Ihe lc-j;is^ture uiulei a inectic-al -leicptiuii mid Is now inainlained en the peopl.- hy a jji-oss-tjjc-iUchI deception that this operation is enlirely l-eiiefliial and iieif.-c-lly safe and hatinlc-ss, never c:auslng injury or death, wln-i.-as. it in fact, now. by ^¦c>\ .rnini-nt n-c-oi-cl, kills more- c-lilldreii than smallpox, as shoun hy tin- upoii.s ol ili. Iii;<li.-si siatistk-al authority in.the world, th.- Renistiar C.-neral of l';ir.'laiid 'lliis positive fail, therefcjre, elllili-ly al;c-is Un- a^l..-.I ol tlll^ n.. di. al 0|ii;iiion li.-lon- llie public-, tins courts, and tin- law. so iliai ili.i.- is siilliiicnt solid gronnd in lliis l<-mil, liygieni. and -i.-u i.-11, al la. 1 aloii.- to .juMify any local school hoiiid to at oil. I- sii'I" I c' \ :i.-. iiiai ion in any .'.ImmiI di-tiirl v.Imh- tlii.--. lai |iai.-ill 111 I 111 'I iillli ial iiiiii.l.
.W. I l'iiMf.)ii- liiially :icl-. I', all .Hi/, ns. \ol. parents ol m nool .liildn ii, to i.si-i lnmly e\c-rywbe;i- of this .-vil law l.u ll,.- inuipnls cate in OUl pulilii .-.iliooh. or .iili'i pla. i-s. a.^ iriininitl Molation ol siinl and Inn.laiii.-nial lii-lii- and to de.iisiid a suspeiislciU of iit . .nnpnl-m > dUtric-l In 111.- Stall- and to llinily lnr1<-t on lln- thcii heallli < hiicln n in oui piililn .lio.il^, iiiid.- law, w hethi-i \a. . iiial.-.l 01 noi. ainl in ad.lHion oni-e upon til.-it lo. al l.-i-'lslatoi •; III.- .ally r.-pi-al cciliiiiill-oiy \ ai . Inat mil ill iv.-iy .-liai-.- anil loim
IIIAKI.I-.S \1 llliic;i.NS, 'li.a-iiii I .Am i\aci ination L.-ai-ii. ol Am.-11.a 211 .Ninth S11..-1. r.io..lJ>n. N V . S.-pl.-ii.l..-i II, I'd I. Main Office of The l.,caj.'.iie . ML'o ili.stiiili Slic.-i, fbihidi-lpliia. I'a John I'itcairn. Pir.'idc-ni I'orler I-'. Cop.-. Sc-.retaiy.
NOTE t persume yon lia\. i.ad lie- pi.-\ioiiH press article entitled "Shockln.4 Falsehoods SuppculiiiM \aii inat ion. ' which was publisln-d In tho Brooklyn l-iafd*- and lirooklyir Times of Sepli-mlx-i -Itli, in Ihe (ilobe and Evc-niuL' Post ol Sept»-iiih(-i r.tli, a:iil in tin- Ilciald and Tribune- of September 7th. If not, you should look np and readihal arliile at once, as this article* 1.-? KUiiplc^tneiital to It. 'I'll.- pr.-\ions attic lc- exposes and refutes some shoi-IC'- Ing falsi-hoodh on wlii. h out Slate- di-partnients of health and educallciii now erroneously try to fone a dangerous ciusacl.- of <oinpulsory diseatie on all school childic-n in the Sl.iti-. which would be- in fad ati artlflclal epidemic, dclilieratc ly inflicted upon them and more- dan.L'e-rous to their health and ll(<« than an epidemic- of natural smallpox would be-, whic-ii is a disease to wbi<:h school i.-hitdren are least siisi-eptible. and naturally most inimiine of any age- class in the population.
In a f.w days a thud aitiil.- vwll ai.p.-ar --iiiii;- Mdnc- letters from parent* Of school children in ilifii-ient parts ol ih..- siaii-, |)rote8ting against- thle evil vaccination law and demanding its siu;peiisic)ii and repeal, and giving recent Instance-s of disasii-i and death caused by this evil doctorniaile law, to force which upon any person, child or adult in this State is a medical crime. c. M. H.
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