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FREEPORT PIONEERS ARE TO_W£D SOON
Members of Grand Army Or¬ ganizations The Courtship of Isaac Post and Miss Alice Noon Has Been Ro¬ mantic One—Vivid Stories of War Told Before the Hearth Fire Fascinate Miss Noon
The love Inspiring charms of the «mbrolded girdle have again been playing trlckB, but this time with tTTO of Freeports older residents. The secret, known to but a few for many moons, could not be concealed longer. The marriage of Isaac J. Post and Miss Alice Noons will be eolomnlzed at the parsonage ot the Methodist Episcopal Church next Monday eTen¬ ing, Noyember 9th. The groom is 74 and the bride 64 years of age.
For nineteen years Mr. Post has resided with Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Val¬ entine and Fred Ortell in his cottage on Bedell street. Although it wm known esipecially to the members "^f the Grand Army Post and the Wo¬ man's Relief Corps that Mr. Post and Miss Noons wtre good friends and of¬ ten companions on the outings, no one out elde of their immediate house¬ holds suspected that Cupid had been shooting dart« until to day, when BOTlng Tans backed upto the door of the Post residence to convey the be¬ longings of the Valentines and Mr. Or¬ tell to another abode on Church street The secret was out. Mr. Post had of¬ ten declared that he would neyer live alome.
It seems that the courtship has been a romantic one. Three years ago the couple met at a Mott Post Function, as they had done many times before, but they nerer became quite such good friends as at this one. Time and time again they met and the friend¬ ship ripened. As they set before the log fires, reflecting, Mr. Post would describe vividly the scenes of the war, the camp fires, the battles, the hardships, the successes. Amd as he told of the victories in which he play¬ ed a part, describing minutely the movements, Mrs. Noons' friendship developed into admiration, and ad- ¦xiratlon into devotion. Next week they will be companions to share and share allk«.
Jack Davies and Prize Pony The Pride of All Baldwin
CHURCH SERVICES
Next Sunday will be Temperance Sunday in the Baptist Church on Grove street, when the pastor Reve¬ rend Elmer E. Loux will preach on subjects relative to temperance, at both morning and evening services.
In the Sunday School there will be special instruction on that topic. Ths Sunday School classes have grown materially since the pastor has been appointed Superintendent.
On Taesday afternoon, November 10th Miss Louise Schofleld will de¬ liver an address before the Women's Missionary Society at the Baptist parsonage. Miss Schofleld is superin¬ tendent of the Heartsease Home in New York, and will speak of the work being don In rescuing women of the city. All the women who can spare time to attend will lt>e welcomed.
SHOE SHINING PARLOR
HATS CLEANED AND RENOVATED CIGARS, CIGARETTES
J. A. CHARKALIS
44 S. Main St FREEPORT
JOHN M. SIMPSON
Expert Machiniat
Engine Installing and Re¬ pairing. Marine Work a Specialty Lawn Mowers, Skears, Sick¬ les Graand, Bicyles, Locks, Engines Repared
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socumr season opened
CRYSTAL LAKE FESTlVmES
Mrs. A. E. Froat Entertains Drsanw land Cast an& Dance Parties
Mrs E. c. Chapman Opens Seaaon With First of Seriea of Dances
M'rs. E. C. Chapman gave a delight- Ejection Day was a busy one at ful dance at the Chapman home on the Crystal Lake HoteL In the mom Bayview venue last week Thla was ing a party of six arrived in automo- the first of a aeries of dances that i biles for fishing in the waters near Mrs. Chapman will give this winter. I herf;. An elaborate dinner was given Those who wers fortunate to be her by them to a number of friends at two guests last season when she gave a | o'clock, number of these dances are delighted j Iq the afternoon Mrs. James Stiles
to again enjoy her hospitality.
The home was decorated with au¬ tumn leaves and a buffet luncheon served. All the latest dance music j was played by a Victrola. Those pre- i
children's dancing class numbering about forty had instruction in the latest steps. On account of a num¬ ber of the members of the Dreamland company holding their dance In the
Jack Davies, the popular lad of Baldwin, winner of the Chubbuck pon- ny contest oan be seen every day rid¬ ing about the two villages of Freeport and Baldwin. The pony is of the best stock of the West and Jack is taking particularly good care of him. Bach morning he arises before break¬ fast in BufBcient time to go to the stable and clean and bed him for the day. In fact Jack is a bit kinder to his horse than most men usually are.
The lad is one of the brightest boys
for his age in the Baldwin school. Al¬ though he spends considerable time with the pony yet he Is careful not to neglect his studies.
Jack Davies certainly worked hard and consistently to win the contest. From early to late he was out canvas- ing among his friends and the friends of his family in and out of the village. He never failed to sell a large supply of the Thursday specials. The award of the i>ony and cart was a Just re¬ ward.
sent were Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Donald-1 evening, Mrs. Stiles class for grown son, Mr. and Mrs. C. Stroughton, Miss j ups" was postponed for a week. H. Barrle, Miss M. Bolton, Miss O. There were about thlrty-flve of the Patterson, Miss H. Smith, Miss E. | Dreamlanders joined In the dance on Bedell, Miss Winifred Taylor, Miss i was served.' These members have
M. Patterson, Miss Ellspeth Taylor, H. Clock. J. Blue, R. Blue, M. Smith, P. Roe, B. Ousterhout, S. Smith, A. Chapman, D. Ackerson, Mrs. John J. Taylor and C. D. Smith.
formed a social club and will hold another hop on next Saturday even¬ ing at the hotel, when they and their friends will dance and have supper served during the evening.
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William R. Noon of 226 Smith street j
Freeport, a competent and thorough
Mrs. Lander, mother of William Lander, Lay Preacher of Roosevelt, Floral Park and Forrest Hills, is re-
pianist Is giving class and private les- covering from her sudden illness con- eons. He offers special inducements tracted while visiting with friends in to beginners. He teaches the Virgil Nyack, e expected to return to her method. Tenms on application. Adv. I home in Brooklyn in a week or two.
ACONFLJer OF LAWS
THE SCHOOL VACCINATION LAW AND THE COMPULSORY EDUCATION LAW EXPLAINED—HOW TO LEGALLY DEFEAT THE EVIL VACCINATION LAW SHOWN-SPECIAL ADVICE TO VOTERS
Illegal Usurpations by Department of Education and Department of Health- Pointed Out Commissioner of Education and Commissioner of Health have no power to coerce local sohool officers in enforcing Vaccination Law.
No Law Whatever in this State Directing, Requiring or Compelling the Vaccination of Any School Child or Other Per«>n. " *
School Vaccination Law Merely authorizes Local School Officers, and them only, to exclude children not vaccinated, with power to suspend vaccination at discretion—not to compel vaccination of any one.
Sohool Officers must Admit All Healthy Children who "attend upon instruction," under Compulsory Education Law, whether vaccinated or not.
The much misrepresented Decision of Court of Appeals In Ekerold Case explained. Has no application to any parent who faithfully cause, his child to "attend upon instruction," whether vaccinated or not
The following letter is similar to many sent to parents of school chil¬ dren and to public school offlcers ail over this State in response lo requests for information and guidance with regard to the school vaccination law, and this letter is now published as a guide for other parents and school officers throughout the State, and particularly as a suggestion to our Kreat Department of Education at Albany, in the hope that it will see the error made in allowing Itself to be misled by the big medical and vaccina¬ tion interests in this State, and playing into their hands In attempting to overstep ts legal powers against the power and discretion of local school of¬ flcers in forcing a dangerous crusade of compulsory disease on all the public schooi children of the State, which is not only unnecessary to pre¬ vent smallpox, but is actually more dangerous to their health and life than an epidemic of natural smallpox would be. And we further hope that the Commissioner of Education will see the propriety and necessity of follow¬ ing the precedent set by his illustrious predecessor, Commissioner Draper, in the case of the town of Olean in 1912^ which recognizes the power of the local offlcers to suspend the vaccination iaw in order to obey the education law—a doctrine we have been preaching to the department for the last five years.
; Brooklyn, N. Y.j October 20, 1914. Mrs J. T. Brook,
Pelham, N. Y.: — Dear Madam—
I have your letter of October 15th, a.sking .idvice on the school vaccina¬ tion iaw, and have carefully consldeied the eame. I
I herewith send you a copy of my last press article, entitled "Advice i for Schools, Public and Private," which covers most of the points on which j you write for information, and I now give you further advice, as follows: I
Commissioner of Education Exceeds His Powers j
I think the State Department of Education is making a great mistake ^nd is exceeding its legal powers and making a catspaw of vaccinating | doctors and the State Department of Health In alliance with them in try¬ ing to force compulsory vaccination on ail the schools of this State. I em¬ phatically contend that the Commissioner oif Education haa no power to en¬ force the school vaccination iaw, and that tliis rests solely with the local school offlcers. The vaccination law Itself gives the sole power to the local trustees of each school district to enforce this law. This law, you must remember, is a health law, relating to public health solely, and is not an education law relating to education; and the Commissioner of Education has power only to enforce laws relating to public education or "any other general or si>eclal law i)ertaining to the schooi system of the State," as ex¬ pressed in Section 96 of the education law referring to the powers of the ("ommissioner. Now, the vaccination law does not relate to any "achool system," but relates purely to public health (or more properly, as we view it, to public disease); and this law, although it relates to public health, is not made enforceable by the health offlcials of this State, but, by the very words of the vaccination act itself, is confined for its enforce¬ ment to the local trustees having charge of the local schools in each dis¬ trict.
Power of Commissioner Advisory on Vaccination
It Is true, however, that the Commissioner of Education has an ad¬ visory capacity with the local school officers In all matters relating direct¬ ly or indirectly to the schools, as specifled in Section 94, Paragraph 2, of the laws defining the powers of the Commissioner of Education, where it says that he "shall advise and guide the school officers at all districts and cities of the State in relation to their duties and the general management of the schools under their control."
Now, It is quite proper for the school trustees of any local district to consult with the Commissioner of Education on any matter relating to the schools. Including vaccination, and get the beneflt of the advice and judgment of the Commissioner and his great Department of Education, but this does not mean that the Commissioner shall dictate to and overawe the local school trustees against their own best judgment and discretion concerning a matter, school vaccination, which the vaccination law places directly for its enforcement in the hands oif these trustees themselves.
Whole Matter Legally Settled in 1912
As a matter of fact, therefore, the school trustees have already advised and conferred with the Commissioner of Bducation In this matter, as I have publicly pointed out In the caae of former Commissioner Draper and the trustees of the schools In Olean, N. Y., in 1912, where the Commissioner recognized that these trustees had discretion to suspend vaccination if they saw flt, and that they were justified in sus-pending it, because the law of compulsory education conflicted with the law oif vaccination, and the trustees could not possibly enforce both; and, therefore, as public educa¬ tion was a much more important thing for children than vaccination the trustees should suspend this conflicting vaccination law until the Legisla¬ ture should remove this conflict In the two laws—which suspension has continued in Olean from that time to the present day, and several thousand unvaccinated children are now attending school under this rule there. Vac¬ cination is also suspended in Newburgh and several other towns in this State under the same rule and power.
You will, therefore, see that this whole matter has already been le¬ gally acted upon In this State, and the present Commissioner of Education and his Department are, I think, taking a very illegal and discreditable attitude in this matter by trying to upset the precedent already esUblish- ed by a former Commissioner, which I think is untenable under the educa¬ tion law governing tho powers of commissioners. Furthermore, the Com¬ missioner Is supinely and unwittingly playing into the hands of the big vaccination interests in thiis State, represented by the State Health De¬ partment and the big medical societies of the State, to which the health doctors belong, comprising OVBR TEN THOUSAND MEMBERS, with the great vaccine mongers, capitalized at OVER TEN MILLION DOLLARS, In commercial alliance with these doctors as buyers, users and proclalmers of their products. These medical elements constitute a gigantic medical interest, to whicb a general forced vaccination in this State would be worth millions of dollars, but to the public would mean the loss of hundreds of lives, particularly of school children. As a matter of fact, the attempt to enforce this evil law on the school children of this SUte, with the help of tbe Department ot Education, is now catialne the death all over tbe State of little school children from lockjaw, septicemia and other suppormUw diseaaes in tbe raccinatlon wound, with a mortality greater than woald be
caused by a wevere epidemic of natural smallpox. Surely the business of an Education Commission is to furnish BDUCATION to our public school children, not to inflict disease or death upon them; and surely it would not add any honor to the mt-mory of any Commissioner to have virtually placed this barbarous sentence over the door of every public school in this State during his administration, viz: ¦• ;
DISEASE. BANISHMENT OR DEATH TO ALL
CHILDREN WHO SHALL ATTEMPT
TO ENTER HERE
Deaths from Vaccination Concealed
These facts as to deaths from vaccination, directly and indirectly, are being denied and concealed by the health offlcers aii over this State, which is a medical crime on the people of the State; and the.se grave facts the Department ot Education can readily investigate and determine for itself if it makes any effort to do so, as newsijaix-is from ail over this Slate are reporting these deaths almost every week.
Health Depaitment haa no Power to Enforce School Vaccintion
I have already told you that the Commissioner of Education in this State has reaily no legal power to enforce the vaccination low over the heads of the local tru.stees who are given the sole power of enforcement by this law itself; and, of course, it is a further fact that the health ofll¬ cers of the State have no power what'ever to enforce this iaw. Recogniz¬ ing this fact, the State Health Department tried to have a special bill passed in 1910, known as the Whitney Bill, which would change the power to enforce the law from the school trustees to the State Health Depart¬ ment, but we defeated this bill just in the nick of time by showing that the people of this State did not want any more enforcement of school vac¬ cination but LESS, and that at that very time the annual reports of the Registrar-General of England showed that there were more people killed by vaccination than by smallpox, and that in the year 1906 the total deaths from .smallpox were 21, while the total deaths from vaccination were 29. These reports aiso showed the awful fact that for the six preceding years, from 1905 to 1910, the deaths from smallpojr in hildren under live years (the mo«t susceptible age) numbered only 26, while the deaths in the same age for the same period from vaccination amounted to 98, or nearly four times more than .smallpox! These shocking facts were enough for the late Senator Cassidy, who then had tiic bill in charge, to decide against u, although it had the powerful vaccination interests behind it, and to con¬ clude that it was better to leave the law as it now is, with the power to enforce or suspend only in the school trustees themselves.
School Truateea Have Sole Power Over School Vaccination
You will therefore see clearly from aii these legal and historical facts that the school trustees have power io suspend or enforce the law in any case, as they may deem proper under thedr own good judgment and dis¬ cretion, and they can admit any child unvaccinated whose condition of health is such as would be likely to be injured by vaccination, and in this they can act on their own good Judgment entirely and do not need any dor- tor's certificate to this effect if they choose to dispense with it. Hence the conceited health board doctor you refer to, who thinks that school trustees must necessarily consult him before a child can be admitted into school unvaccinated, would better select a s^eat quite far in the rear and .sit down in it out of sight.
Illegal Threats to Withhold School Moneys
It, of course, follows from all that has been said as to the legal powers of the school trustees over vaccination that the threat to withhold school moneys by the Department of Education, as a penalty for not enforcing the vaccination law, is Illegal and untenable and may be disregarded, as the Commissioner of Education has no such penalizing power whatever with reference to the vaccination law.
Illegal or Criminal Threats to Parents by School Officers
The compulsory school age, during which a child must attend some schooi, public or private, is from 7 to 14; so that, if your youngest boy is not yet 7, he does not need to go to school al present, and perhaps by the time he becomes of age this evil vaccination law will be repealed, as It must be.
As to the threats made to you by school officers about being arrested and taken to oourt and fined, you should pay little attention to them, ex¬ cept to warn these school offlcers to be very sure of their powers before carrying out any such threats; otherwise they may flnd themselves liable to criminal prosecution under Section 530 of the Penal Code in Coercion.
Some (rf these foolUh school offlc rs, under the same baneful and bully¬ ing influence of the vaccination inter ^sts, seem to think tat they can force or intimidate parents into having their children vacoinated against their will and consent under a combination of the vaccination law with the com¬ pulsory education law. but this Is not so; and It Is time that they learned the true scope of the vaccination and education laws of this State.
No Compulsory Vaccination Law in This State
.... It connot be too emphatically stated that there is no compulsory vac¬ cination law in this State—that is, there is no law directing or requiring or compellng any person to be vacclnateA or requiring or compelling any parent to bare bis cbild vaccinated in oi-der to atend public scliool—none whatever. And our courts have detlded clearly in a numiber of cases that there is no power possessed l^ this State to compel any person to submit to vaccination. The only law referring to vaccination in this State is the absurd law applying only to public schools, which empowers local school of¬ flcers merely to exclue from these schools any child or person not vacci¬ nated ; but tbis law, of course, does not compel eoy^o&y to be vaccinated. T^ law. b^ng a health law and being applied arbitrarily to only one sec¬ tion of tbe population and proposing the infliction Ot a dangeroas disease iiI>on tbe buman body, wblcb now actually kills more children than small- I>oz, is of coarse absolutely illegal on tbe broadcast and simplest legal
KTOonds. and baa only been susuined so far by oar ooorta becaoa* Vtrnf- bave been misled into an utter misconception of tbe fkcta by oor s<m»1ML bealtb ofBcials aud medical authorities and because tbe caaea ao tar triaC in qur courts bave been badly bungled and have not been tried oa ttaa proper pleas and Issues, and when so tried will surely reeuU^in tbe utter invalidation of all such laws. It is not only a medical malpractice but a crime on its face to inflict on the human bcwly, under the pretence of neces- siiy for public health, a dangerous disease wnicb now kiila more children tlian the greatly feared epidemic dtseate of smallpox—Just as criminal, ot ,'GUise, as any act of maiming, assault, abortion or manslaughter would be; and our vaccinating and falsifying health offlcials who are now doing everything ihey can to conceal and deny deaths from vaccinaiion occurr¬ ing ail over this State will soon find out the force of these legal, medical and statistical facts, as soon as any r.^ul trial is made of our vaccination iavs before a full court and jury. Tae. Supreme Court of the United Slates decided in 190.'>, In the case of Jacobson. appealed from Massachu¬ setts, tliat tae vaccination law ccruid not be enforced against any person who could sliow that the operation was d.ingerous to his health or life. In ai later article 1 will deiuoostrate how the vaccinating doctors and health of-' ticials in this State are denying and concealing deaths from vaccination all tnrough this State, which are, in fact, greater than the vaccination mor¬ tality reported every year in Englan.l on account of the greater prevalence of Lockjaw as a fatal wound infection in this State.
Law for Compulsory EUi ueation But not for Compulsory Vaccination
While, therefore, there Is no iaw m mis State for actual compulsory vaccination, there Is a law for actual compulsory education, which com¬ pels all parents under penalty of flne to cause their children from 7 to 14 years af oge, in proper physical and meatal condition, to "ATTEND UPON INSTRUCTION ' at some school, public or private. If, therefore, you send your cliildren to public school every day, whether vaccinated or not, and de¬ mand that they receive public education, you fully obey this compulsory education law, which asks only that you cause your children to "attend up¬ on instruction," which you do when you thus send them to school and de¬ mand Instruction for them. If the school offlcers refuse to admit your chil¬ dren because they are not vaccinated they thereby break the compulsory education law, and not you, for you cannot do any more than you are re¬ quired to do under the compulsory education law when you cause your chil¬ dren to attend &<.-hool in proper mental and physical health. There ib noth¬ ing whatever in the compulsory education law relating to vaccination or stating that parents must have their children vaccinated or making that in any way a condition for education under this law. And I have also ahown that there is nothing in the vaccination law compelling any one to- be vaccinated. In Holy Writ, as in common law, therefore, "Where there is no law there is no transgression."
It is for these reasons, therefore, that Commissioner Draper in 19U said that there was a conflict betw£«n the school vaccination law, whlck is a health law purely, having no relation whatever to education, and the compulsory education law, which lelrttes entirely to education; and that the school oflieers could not pos.sibly onfoive both laws, because if they turned away a healthy child from schjol who was not vaccinated they broke the education law, and if they a Imitted a child unvaccinated they might seem to break the vaccination law. Therefore the Commissioner held that they should suspend the vaccination law, beaiuse they had dis¬ cretionary jjower to do so, and they Woiild then obey the education law, which is sweeping and positive in its nature and can readily be enforced, whereas our courts have decided that there is no power In this State that can compel anybody to be vaccinated against will and consent—and how, therefore, could the school compel an., parent to vaccinate his child as a condition of school attendance?
Decision of Court of Appeal* in Elkerold Case Elxplained
At this point 1 must refer to the recent decision of the Court of Ap¬ peals in the Bkerold case, which has been entirely misrepresented by vac¬ cinators and the health offlcials of this State and by many of our school olflcers who do not seem to understand it or want to understand it. The terms of this decision, as expressed In almost every paragraph, apply sole¬ ly to the case of a parent who waa so foolish as to fail or refuse to send his child to any school because he di 1 not believe in vaccination, but It does not apply to any parent wlio will persist In sending his child to public .•school and in demanding education for him there, according to the compul¬ sory education law, whether vaccinated or not, as by this he causes his child to "attend upon instruction," whereas the decision in the Ekerold case applies solely to a parent so foolish as to fail or refuse to cause ftii» child to "attend upon instruction," and also, according lo the words of the decision, to a parent who is anxious to escape his responsibility for send¬ ing his child to schooi, not to a parent who is anxious and persistent in performing his legal duty of sending his child to school.
How to Legally Defeat the Vaccination Law and Obey the Ed¬ ucation Law
I would therefore advise all parents in your town who, for the sake of the health of their cliildren, refuse to have them vaccinated (that is, who make use of their clearly legal right to protect their children from the infliction of a dangeroiLs disease which now kills more children than small¬ pox) to -send their children regularly every day to the public; achool, and demand admission and instruction fo t;i(Ui; and I wouid suggest that all parents opposed to vaccination have thinr children attend in a body each day, rvsserting this right and making this demand upon the school offlcers. Aud you will find tiial iio one wiii attempt to arrest or prosecute these parents under the compulsory education law, which would be false arrest and malicious prosecution under such circumstances, ami you will further find, 1 think, that if the parents keep up this bold assertion of their rights that your school officials will discover tliat they have full right to admit tlie children, and will do so under the precedent alrijady set by the Com¬ missioner of Education in the case of Oiean, and tliat the position of the l)arents and of your school offlcers i i this wise will be absolutely impreg¬ nable in a moral and legal sense.
As this whole subject is a very important one and has been clouded with the most shameful niisrepresen aon l)y our vaccinators and so-called health offlcials and some of our school ollicers, 1 liave gone at length into the matter in this letter, so as to cov r all points, and i would suggest that you have this letter published in you;- hwi\\ paper for the proper informa- uoii of the parents and school officer < in your town. Yours very truly,
CH.VS. M. HICKJINS,
ADDENDUM
New Falsedoods Scored and Radical Reform Suggested
Treasurer Anti-Vaccination l.#ague of America. Serious Illness for .several weeks past, the result, partly, of exhausting work in this cause for the past year, mis delayed tho continuation of these articles, but they will now be continued, as soon as strength permits, ac¬ cording to the plan already laid out lo fully expose the fallacies, false¬ hoods and fatalities of vacscination ani show how to most effectually sup¬ press this great evil of medical falseliood and compuh^ory disease now forced on the people by those who profit by it. After the completion of tills work th-e iiriacnt writer will have to retire to give place to other work¬ ers, but in case of inability to complete these articles an outUmi is now given below of the proposed official reform which must be adopted if the people are to be freed from this niost dangerous menace of medical domi¬ nation and compulsion.
Laymen and Doctors Must Control Our Public Health and Vital
Statistics
In the next Article I Intend to expose and refute the gross falsehooda contained in an official statement re.-ently Issued by the State Depart¬ ment of Health entitled, "Smallpox and \'a<clnation," and published In sev- e-i-al newspapers in the upper i>art of tic Ktate, wliere tin-re is now gre^t opposition lo all compulsory vaccina Ion and wliere many d«iaths have oc¬ curred from II. In the said s'.rticle th • iUallli Departjiient attempts to an¬ swer my previous exposures and refu at ions and defend itself from tho ^'loKsly false statements already dispoved, viz., that vaccination is the sole and only protection from smallp ' and that sanitation, isoiation and otber rational means are of no effe<;i whatever, also that vaccination Is perfectly safe and harmless and never causes any serious Injury or death except that brought about by the patient's own carelessness. I'his offlclal statement even attemi)ts to falsify my Impregnable facts as to vaccination deaths quoted from the Registrar- Ge ( rai of England, as well as the facts as to deaths from vat'cination in the town of Niagara Falls. Such gross falsehoods and concealments as to deaths from vaccination, which have gone on for years pnd which fain be easily proved before any (^ourt and Jury, form, I believe, a medical crlm.' on the people of this State, and In a future article 1 propose to show th;it the only effective remedy against the repetition or contamination of su h medi(«l falsehoods will be a radi¬ cal political or official reform which w II remove from the head and control of all our Departments of Health ani Vital Statlstlcyi all vaccinating doc¬ tors and memliers of medit^l societies, who prafstlce and profit by vaccina^ tion and who have, of oourse, a professional interest in dienying and con¬ cealing deaths from vaccdnation and other medical orieratlons. And, In¬ stead of these interested doctors noiv In control of our public health and vital statistics, we must nut in tnelr places able laymen with honest doctors under them, as is now done in EngUnd, where the Minister of Health and the Registrar-General are both layme i and where the vital statliftlcs are admitted to be the most reliable in th ¦ world, where no atempt is made to conceal deaths from v»c^;ination and where the general death rate Is one f»f the lowest in the world with declining vao<.-lnation and increasing sani¬ tation.
Constitutional Amendment Urged
All citizens and organizations opposed to this most dangeroua and barbarous evil of compulsory medicine must also combine to impress on the next Constitutional Convention the neciesslty of adopting an Amend¬ ment to the Constitution which will prohibit this barbarsm of Compulaory Medicine, Just as effectually as our fDreflatbers bave prohibited tbe twin barbarism (rf Compulsory Religion. CHAS. M. HlOOINfl.
Issued from 271 Ninth St.. Brooklyn, N. Y., Gototwr 28, ltl4.
Main Oflice of League: 1420 Chestnut St. PbiMelpbia, Pa. Joha Pit- cairn. President; Porter F. Cope, Secretary.
