THE NAMAU r»08T: FREBPORT, N. Y., SATURDAY, BEWT^ 12, 191*
"s^ttJRDAvTTEFn^EMBER 12^ 1914
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TMS ^AiuiAll r<n.1 FL'BUullINO CUMfAHT, 22-24 Soutn Grov* Strwl, Freeport, Nuuu County, New York, Jamea E. SUIcs. rMidins ia th* villAC* ol FiMport, town of Uemp¬ stead, couDDr of Naaaau, lUU of New York, owntr and publiabar.
JAKES E. STILES. Manacinc Editor
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SHOCKING FALSEHOODS SUPPORTING VACCINATION
An Exposure and Refutation of Some Official Fallacies
WHY YOU SHOULD TRADE AT
HOME Because the village is largely made by trade. What keeps the village keeps you.
Because you want to see and com¬ pare and pcrnonally select the thing you buy.
Because you live in the community. It helps support you aud you should witiii m e.eiy idir v\ay to supiwit il. Because the'* deliveiy, credit and other store service given by local con¬ cerns desorevs your patronage.
Because home trade is oue strand in the supporting cable that joins this community lo progress.
Becausi! you can really trade in this- | village to advantage. Prices in the larger city, with higher rents, salaries and otber costs, are in tlie general run necessarily uigher.
Because you believe Jn Ltiu live und let live principle. lou make you home here, soyie of you make youi living here, and will do your share to help others make theirs.
Because you want good goods, pro duced aud sold under fali conditions, because tiungs tuai you want thai our local mercnauts do uot have in stock, will be gladly ordr-ed especial¬ ly for you, being seemed more quick¬ ly than you could obtain them, and also meeting competlLive prices.
Because your greatest opportunity lies in the growth and projperity of the community which can only come through the general prosperity ot your neighbor citizeuK.
Nassau &. Suffdlk Lighting Co , George MacLionald, Pres.
The above Is copied verbatim, ad llteratum, et punctuarum, from an ad vertisement found elsewhere in this issue. It does not conform lo the old fashioned style of ad"ertising. There is no blowing of the inaividual horn. It is absolutely and discreetly silent as to the wonders tho advertiser can perform. It (niotes no lls-t of prices for goods or service.'?. The reader does not even know who is talking ur what commodity he or they have for sc.le until the signature at the bot¬ tom is reached. Few there are that could thus exercise such restraint.
And yet it is one of th-^ beat adver¬ tisements the Post has ev*r seen.
The staff of this paper do not be¬ lieve In fads or miracles, it takes little stock in effects that cannot be traced to a clearly deflned cause, but we are almost persuaded to believe in telepathy. For weeks we have been Ul work, oub-consciously, on an* edi¬ torial on this very subject, on the mu tual relations, the interdependence, tbe need of complete team work, and the blessings of loyal, devoted help¬ fulness toward one another.
This subject was hinted at In an editorial of August 26lb under the cap¬ tion "Confession of Faltb." Therein was said "In the best and broadest sense there Is but cne reason why this, or perhaps any newspaper, shoU|ld be suported by the community where It Is published, and that reason Is that It renders service." The sub-con- sclous editorial was workiug out the fact that the deflned duty of the news¬ paper was in reality th6' duty of every meln^er of that community In a g'-cat- cr or leaser degree, according to tboir btrpngih ind opportunity. >o\v "lere comes an advertiser wjo
A dSingerous crusade of compulsory vaccination is now being forced upon the children oi all schools in this State, both public and private, in answer to urgent ealla Ihat have come to us from all over the Stale, from parents, teach¬ ers, and vcliool otticer.s for adice and assistance in this matter, we now respond to this call Ly flrst exposing and refuting tbe chief and most dangerous medi¬ cal lalS'hoadK qp which this crusade is based, and will follow later wilh other articles lr<'ating other phases of the evil and showing how it may be legally defoaled.
In iny lormer aiticlen, published in the daily papers of New York City, in last May and .June, entitled "Thc Story of a Continental Lie," I showed that the whole cult and practice of General Public Vaccination—and particularly all Conip'il.=!oiy Vaccination—like all great intrenched evils, had originated in faUehood, liin continued in falsehood, and now exists on both falsehood and concealment, viz.. falsehood as to ils absolute efficiency and certainty in pro- teclin;; against wi.allpox, falsi-hood as to the necessity of general vaccit^ation lo prevent smallpox epidemics ancl gross falsehood as to its perfect safety and Ireedm from danger to human health and life.
Now, I do not think, as a student of this subject on all sides, that 1 have ever s'-en a ^roster illustration of the truth of this charge than can be found in tlie special article on Vaccination published in the Monthly Bulletin or "Health News" for February, 1914, Issued by the State Department of Health at Albany. N. Y., which containH what I believe lo be shocking falsehoods, fallacies and exaggerations which even a tyro in the investigation of this subject could easily refute, as I will now proceed to show. All these falla¬ cies have been issued with an air of gospel truth, lo instruct the public, and to try to justify the extreme efforts of our department officers and medical doc¬ tors to force compulsory vaccination on every child and adult in this State as | not only absolutely necessary for public health, bul as the only known means to prevent smallpox epidemics, and as being an operation which is wholly benelical and enlirfiy safe and harmless lo human health and life. 1 ahall now give example.- oi the chief and worst of these medical falsehoods and follow with theii- full leliilation, as a duty clearly due to public tiutii and right.
First Fallacy—This OHicial Bulletin at page 48 lell.s us concerning the all ^;ed ellicitncy and necessity of vaccination as follow: "Nothing but vaccinaiion Can save from smallpox. '¦ * '¦ Cleanliness and general sanitation exert absolutely no influence upon its prevalence."
This is about as shocking( absured and false as il can be, and coming from our highest health olIicerE is certainly not creditable lo our public health .-iervice, but is so obiously absurd and untenable as to refute itself on ils very face. This paragraph thus tells us, in effect, that dense human over¬ crowding with public and personal filth spread everywhere, no sanitation or isolation anywhere and every case of smallpox left loose and at large to spread by direct contact to every child and adult and thus infect every one ri.ght and left, as in th(^ old unsanitary times of big and frequent epidemics— ail thi.s, our Health Commissioner tells us, would not make a bit of difference in the spread of the disease! And, per contra, the prevention of all these vile unsanitary conditions of barbarous times, with or without vaccination, would have no effect whatever to reduce the disease!
ten with possible .>.erious or fatal injury and that, as a matter of fact, such infections are occurius cont^tantly in children and adults from tHe various existing brands of •clean" ir-.'-pected" and ¦certifled" virus now in use. Fur¬ thermore, as to this evil hey.Tf caused only by "dirt" getting Into the wound. this audacious writer iiuist jilso know that this dangerous or ratal infection can and does come Into the wound both directly as a "primary" infection from the virus itself or as a "seccndary" Infection from "dirt" in or about the wound, and he mu.st know verv well, if at all competent to write on this sub¬ ject for public instruction, that one kind of infection is about as common and as fatal as the other, and that both are almost equally chargeable to the operation of viuclnaiion iltfif, so that to contend otherwise is merely a cov,-;irdiy evasion of the truth.
To illustrate and prove thi.'; point from the latest and highest sTatlsncai authorit-y in the v.or^d, 1 will now <iuote from the Report of the Registrar (General of Englan I lor lOlT, which is the very latest in print and has just coino to hand. Vou will remember that I showed in previous articles that the report for I'Jll tells tlu san-.e story. th.'.it is, the shocking fact of more deallis of childicn from ^accina1ion than from smallpox. The new report for 1912 now .'liuply leijcais the story for that year to doubly prove how false are the wild a.s.seriion.s niiuii- in the .Statf IJepartment Hvilletln as to the perfect safety ot vaccination.
The English report for 1312 Just received, thus gives 9 deaths from small¬ pox for that year (the lowest on record, In one of the poorest vaccinated .¦ountrifs) and 10 deathti trom vaccination! Four of these smallpox deaths were in childri-n unil" r f year.s and nine of the vaccination deaths were of children of the .'^^aine age, thu.s .showing more than twice the number of deaths of children from vaccination as from smallpox! Four of these vaccination deaths are given as directly from "Vaccinia" itself, that means a direct in¬ fection from the virus, and live cases ar^- given as indirect effects or wound infections two from "Pynemiu" and three from "Septicemia." You will re- men.ber that the Krlgli^h record for the previous year, 1911, was 14 deaths from ^¦accinatioIl iind tj deatl;.'- from sniallpox in children, the deaths from smallpox for all a.iit-s being 2:; .-ind from vaccination for all ages 14.
Now of cour.sf- a conespoiiding or similar mortality occurs in our own country from this v.'idely and deliberately inflicted disease, "Vaccinia," but such deaths aif denied and concealed in our vital statistics under the heads of other diseases, as ' have rt icatedly charged and proved, and 1 now a.i^ain ap¬ peal to a piitilic challenge of our department ollicials on thp records on this imiiortant .subject, which 1 have repeatedly demanded and which will prove the medical and .statistical fin t tliat general vaccination in this Sate of New York is now more dangerous to public health and human life than sniallpox, and now actually cause.= ihoie deaths than smallpox, particularly in chidren. in fact, the fatalities from vaccination in f)ur State of New York are relativi ly much mere than those ollicially admitted in England, because we have a very dani;eroiK< wour.Kl infection conunon all over this Stale and par¬ ticularly on Loi;,i; li^laud whidi not iirevalent in P^ngland, viz., Lockjaw or "Tetanus," to which tho \accination wound is especially susceptible and which rnuf.fs many deaths in vaccinated children every year. A reluctant proof of thi.s very fact is give n in our State report of 1912,~wliere four deaths from lockjaw in vaccination wound? are admitted, the deaths from smallpox In
Now of course every person of any common sense or knowledge simply the same year being only four in number; so that both smallpox and vacclna-
know.'i that th';.u; propositions are absurdly false on their face, and that we need pay no further attention to Ihem, except lo show by such horrible exam¬ ples how fooolish and desperate the falsehoods are that are resorted to by oomc doctors and health officers to try to force this dangerous medical evil of compulsory disease on every child and adult and that on such falsehoods it is essentially based.
Second Fallacy: The next major fallacy in this Slate Department pulle- tln relates to the alleged perfect safety of vaccination, aa follows:
"There is not the slightest risk In the process of vaccination wheu it is carried ou'. with cleam virus (now guaranteed by Government intpection) and when the vaccination itself Is kept clean. 'Sore arms' come from dirt getting inlo the vaccination, not from the vac¬ cine it self." Now if the man who wrote this fallacy knows anything extensive on this subject he must know whal nc states here Is not true. And he know^ that no such things as "clean" virus is now, gr ever was, made or can be made, that is, no virus without some, or many, dangerous suppurative disease germs of one kind or another, known or unknown, which will not be likely some time ' or other. In some persons, to bring about a dangerous infection of the sys-j
tlon aro thus clearly fhown to he equally fatal in some years m our State, by our own oflicial nportf; whereas tl.e English report of 1912 and the reports for many years pievlous show that, regularly, vaccination is more than twice as fatal for cliildi<n as s^malliiox. ""^ »
f ih( rtfore do not think that 1 now need to say anytlilng further lo prove tliat the staiemeni as to the perfect saley of vaccination made in our State Department I;ullctin is a dangfious nirdical fahu'hood tnul a soiioiis decep¬ tion of the public mind, whicli should be immediately corrected, and that 1 am pcrformin.e a duty lo the public by here exposing and correcting it.
When .such I'al.se and untenable statrnunts are issued by our highest health official in the State, it if not to be wondered al that not only the gen- (¦ral pnbllc. Iini other important Slate Detiarlmenls will be seriously misled. Hen ( -.'e . . ^ not surpritsed to see the State Department of Education adopt¬ ing ii;;i: :e-' ' i oing these grave errors and sending them out to all our public schools, as in the circular issued from Albany, March, 20, 1914, and addressed to'local scliool ofT'cers ihrotighout the State, in whicb these errors are freely quoted and Impiesscd oi< lociil sclioo! trustees and boards, as a reason why they .'¦l.ockl siricily enforce the evil vaccination law in all school districts of till- .Stale.
I am painfully surprised and grieved in tbis case to flnd tbe name of an esteemed Assistant Commis:.«iloner signed to this circular as its chief author, who heaitily co-operated with us in drawing and presenting a Bill to the Leg- slalure in 1910 for the leforiii of the present evil law so as to admit unvac¬ cinated children in the schools, according to the recommendation of former Commissioner Andrew 8. Draper, in his report of 1909. This Bill was defeated by tbe same medical socieiiet' ol this Stale which fastened this law orginally upon us and which, of course, profit largely by such a law as Commissioner Draper pointed out in his report for 1909, page 11.
This circular of March 20 goes even beyond the error of the Department of Health -where it states in paragraph 8—"The proper enforcement of this law is vital to the health of ti.e people of the State." What a dangerous fal¬ lacy and folly this ie, when 1 have proved that even the present partial en¬ forcement of Aaccinaiion in England and this country now regularly kills more ohildri-n than smallpox! Surely it is a strange way to vitally improve the health of the people cf a State by dellberntely inflicting on its healthy chid¬ ren an artificial diseris-' which now actually kills more of them than the natural dl lease against which it is directed as an alleged preventive!,
Uo you l:iiOw that the school at;i;. 6 to 19. is naturally the most vital and in inuiie of all ages iu the population and to an extraordinary degree? .Vnd do you know tl.at this ate fhuws regularly every year only about five per csnt. of the total annual dsatht from all causes, although it forms about one- quarter ot the whole iiopiilation? See State Health Report for 191:. And do you know that, notwith.'^tandii'g all the false smalltiox panics forced on us by vaccinatois (who piolit so highly from them), smallpi \. iniluding both epi¬ demic and^on-(;pi(^tViiic years, is actually one of the most insigniflcant of aii our cfiuses of dtalliV
Now, if vaccination can be proved to be an i-ffective protection for any pioloii;,'eu period from .s'naM'icx. there iniylu be some hope of its being "vital to the he.ilth of the peopK cf the State" U it were forced generally upon all infants and adults whiih lorm three-quarters of ihe whole population and pre most suscptible lO s!i!all|io.\: but there is no hope of its ever noing con¬ sidered "viial" .to iiublic healtii when forced merely on the school age, which fo nil s only oiu quarter ol tl;e populaiion and has over ten times the natural immunity against str.a'lt'cx ;m tl all other diseaseu wlu'ii compared to the Ililant aiitl adult classes.
It theiefore follows, ii i'll.cmatiri liy. logii all\ and it resisiibly, that, as smallpox is Mtiually oin- of tlu most insignificant ol all out causes of deatli at d as the v.i((iiiate(l ar.d uii\ a« cinHlrtl coiiitait and die of smallpox almost equally (i:u-i cises and deaths beiiij. almost always among the vaccinated) and as the sihooi a;i is naiutaiy mott vital and inimune to sniallpox and all (>thei (li-f'ii.is, it j...: ii ipo.-".-!:!!!- il:.-it the health of the State can be affected "vitally" CI- hcrioiisly as n.iirds smiillpox. one way <ii- tli>' other, wliether the cl'ildKn of .'.chool age jiM \a(( mated or not!
Th"se fa( Is ;ue ihei-efoit. absolute proof of the entire folly of all conpul- sory vaccination oi school children and of the absurd theories of vaccinators in trying to inipiove the health of ?uch children, against a rare dls«'ase to which ih<y ;;rt least subject and whith in any case is one of our most Insigni- flcar:t causes of death, by delibctaily iiilniinv: all these <hlldi-fii with an artill- cial disease which now kills tiiasiy more of them than simillpox i"\cr does. This barbarous practiie .ci'if' on us by our medical societies, which profit extensively from it, is m.'i only a trnve medical malpractice bin liove, a nicdic-al .liiue on li.i (i oi'K- anil will hi
steals all our thunder, puts the whole rule Is the only universal creed.
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business in bef.er shape than we could and pays lis regular ratea for publish¬ ing .1!
Our friend, for any man that talks (hat way is tho friend of all good peo¬ ple, speaks of the comiiunily. He knows what tn;u term means. Per¬ haps, all of our readei s do. We go to the dictionary. "The community is Society's primaiy, organic cell. A col- ! lection of communes united under the rule of a sovereign power forms the Slate."
There you have it. Freeport is a cell of the great community called the State or Covi-rnment. IJnt even a cell has divisions and the mluule particles forming it must work in harmony in order lo build ui) and support the larg¬ er body.
We have yet to hear any person so rash or unreasonable as- to say that every nation now engaged in the Eur¬ opean war( is lully and wholly Justl¬ fled in making such warfare. Every single person luHy believes the result will be a work of desl.uction. All know that it wi:l take many years fo reconstruct, and there vill be losses that can never le replaced. And yet those nations ar" more fully ju^tifled in declaring thi.s unreasonable war than competing merchants in tb's vil¬ lage. Germany has no more cause for declaring w^r against France than one local newipaper agdinst another. All strife ard bitterness defeats Itself. Hate «¦« suicide These things enter into their victims, poison, kill and destroy be'S<U8e they are not en¬ tities, tbe natural, real and life giving cells. Love and helpful? aess are the nalne graces, tae real outltles. Jes\i» waa the Great Commoner Tbe solden
The Nassau Post thanks Mr. George MacDonald, Piesident, and in a wider, sweeter sense than mere j. business courtc ..>. H's company fur-
1 speed. Wise is that iii.'in who knows when to hasli'ii and when to delay. \ii(l a lii tic less spi'i 1 d. a lit llio less rush, iihcs US a peace and serenity, of
nishes liglH? ^'^jriiy sc. We shall use "i'"*'- " ciUmnes.s of spirit, a spiritual more of ir in the future. And he him- strength that can never be obtained self has furnished that better ,i^,,u I if''ontini.ally striMn. .„ avoid th.. few vv'h'ch'guideth be spirit that makes
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plain the path of duty, and both Kiver aud receiv-i^r.
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THE AWFUL NECESSITY
An ediloriai in the Hempstead Sen¬ tinel, referring to the accident at the grade crossing where four iiersons were killed, says:
'So many drivers must push their cr.rs U) almost the limit a good deal of i ^'''''<J*^^ procee,«ainL. th- 11,.. ^ that a few .seconds lost to ies- | ''""^'^ "ol"i»8 of na sen th" 'peed and listen means the loss in distance of many hundred feet."
If by "driers" the writer means tbe hir^l man at the wheel, then there is some scense in the quotation for it Is a fa' t that it the speed crazed occu- paal.-^ ot the car beside or behind the driver, that is actually responsible for the accidents caused by reckless driv¬ ing.
To the average automobile party, w'ly are the "few seconds lost in les¬ sening the speed," of such vital im¬ portance? Most of them are out joy riding. But few accidents occur where people are going to their places of bus- incFS. The particular party was re¬ turning from a pleasure trip. The daughters- of two of tbe passengers were preparing the dinner to welcome the home comers. Teh"few seconds lost" would have saved their lives.
Sometimes we gain a great aeai tjj yeilding a little. Sometimes the "few seconds lost" meana an actual advan-1 those desolate, grief atricken women
HARRASSING THE hED CROSS Kor day.s tfie Hed ( ioi^s S/iip, laden Willi nurses and supplies for .he woun¬ ded and suffering of any arm;-, has been held at ihe )>oi-i of ,\cw Voil., w: er quibbles con crniiiv, Mn- nationa!,i.\ of the crew.
It is dirt'icult to I iia^i'i.!' a more llif lied Cross .0. ality, color, creed or ractes. It o:i'y heeds the call Ol the sufl'erini.'. The tiiiinod mirres. wearing their aacred ciiit liiii, go fear- le.ijlv on in the penorn iiiue of tlicii duly. Th" lior*'o;^ of th" batttle tiuld dc rot deter tli.-ni. The si-.-ht of the v*oun'"d causes no li.\s''iia .•iiiioii.;.', tlu'-.e liain"d women iiiir.ses. They bfo:-e accustomed to these si.tihts it is tue. but fney do no! become cal- lo\:rt Id them as the sold'ers do.
'•he nations a-: wat I'uis' be blinded indec!.' '.o delay this ship on her er¬ rand of mercy when Ihi^re is such dire need of all that the Red Cross can per¬ form. And this society makes an ap¬ peal to our own citizens that we can¬ not well Ignore. While striving to be strictly neutral in all ways, this soci¬ ety gives about the only means to of¬ fer comfort and aid to the suffers ac¬ ross the =ca.
And ;a^ heart of everyone mart no out to those wounded, dying men, to
Let all contribute to this good cause and demand iluit the sum and pro ceeds of the contributions .uo to alle¬ viate the '.uffering as the donor in-
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AGAIN THE GRADE CROSSING .\ (lisiialcli from Oc-ean ''ity, .N'ew .Jersey, gives a bi'iel' ;ic-roi;nt Iieaple beiii;; l::lle(l at .i rain ; liini;. It i.' aliiiosl an <--.,:iel n of an ;ic( idem editorially notieed in THE PO.ST of one week ayo. The tel ei;rapli dispatch says:
"The autoliiobile was seen |,;,. ;ing tliroughf Palermo early today, fin th<- outskiits of the town witnesses of thc accident said the speed was increased to nearly forty miles an hour. The railroad crossin.u is screened by brush and trees and the auioiiiobile ap proached w iilir)iii decreasing its speed. .\s il ad valued toward the crossing a freight engine was also approjic hing. The aulomcjbilc hit li.e em^iii. lead on aud was hurled down ihc embank¬ ment, killing four of the occupants." It is base flattery, if not an abso¬ lute untruth to call such an occurance an "accident." Again the dictionary: "An event that takes place without cines foresight or expectations; a sud¬ den, unexpected event."
Would not the most ordinary fore¬ sight have avoided this? ('ould .such an event be unexpected, all things con¬ sidered? If the paople in tbe auto¬ mobile had planned it all out for days In advance, could they have been more successful if suicide and self destruc¬ tion had been their purpose aud mo¬ tive? A new name is needed for sucb 'events." "Accident" is an untruth and th« word baa b««D worn to a tr&ttle
it is, 1 be- soon rcdipiiizcd as such by our .luties. Coiiils and I.e;.;islatures,aiul will be Moliibited by I'ciml Law just as surely as Sniallpn. Iiiocula'ion and Arm-to-Artn N'accination have been pro¬ hibited. .Mid I now want in n;y that 1 regard il as a discredit to our Great Dejiaitiifnt o! i.diic aiiei.. wlnl is perhaps the highest oUlces in onr State (lovernnieni. <>n which wc -pciid the greatest amount of our public treasure, which is Iilil ll by learned and abie iiicn at th.e liead of our I'ublii L'ducatlonal .S.vstc!:]- a (ijprirdit. I I'l',•:!. tl-.;ii iluse learned men should be so easily misleil by the most slmi!:il!il inircr.l f;ilsel;c;ods ancl lallai ies on the subject of \ai-i-inaijon when a liiile independent study and investlKaiion down to basic fact., would show them tli-^ danreroUE folly and Ftupid falsehood of most of thc'.-e liiliaciL-s now maiiii.iiii.'d by a powcMul self-interested profession which pro.'ii.s greaily from thc.se medical practice.^ and al the same linie so fully coiitii.l.s all 111,1 jiiachmeiy ol \ii,-(l i^tatisiii.s ;iii(l il cm easily deny and con- c'-al I olli tlie public I.M- ull till- t).-ul or latal elicit;; ul lliis jiractlse that may oc-i .1! from liiiK to liiue.
1 111. refore now propose to give public- notii e lo tlie.se medical .societies and lo tlu Health Comml;,sioners of tliis ('ii\ and .--laie that in due time I will avail my.:.'li of my ri.glit. a.s a votev and laximyei In ihis ("Ity and .Siaie, and Of the powers pO'-" '.sec! by i iiizons under llio law, lo force tiieni to submit the death ceriiticatPs on file in c-criiiin cases to full iniblic scrutiny, whereby it will be show.i to tli(> iieoi lc l:ow many children and adults are killed every year di- rec-Mv and iitilKciiy ly \a( ciiiaiion, wliidi ilicy are sirhing so hard to uii- nece^.-arily force iiiKin e\cry c liikl a:id adult in this City and Stale while they coiiliiiiK 111 asseit lliat il is |,e:|,ei]>- .-,.le and liariiiless and is the only nil iu;s Kiiiiwii to pieMiii snialli'dx epidi inic--. Whereas, the easily deirion- sl'aied tail is Hal ^;c,id t-aritaiioii and stiick isolation, with or without limiied or Miiuiitary vac:cinatiijii is ;i!l iliai is iiec-essary to iirc\ciit am e|iii!e'ait-s, and tl.at ^-incial luiced and wiili spread vaccinaiion to ,r,reail;. men ase ilisi.ises ::iul dealli and whiili ¦ ouii iiiust be prevented by penal l;iw.
.\s lo llie reee;:i lAperiiiK e o|- i )ie lowii Of Niagara I-'alls, on whii-h nniny fallai-ies Paic Im i ii ii'ie:ed t..\ vacc linitors, it may be proper to now say a few wdi-d'. Tliis sai: c- lnaltli lii pai iinerit Bulletin strives to show taht the cause of the sn allpox i pidi inic tpeii was due- to lack of vaccination and ils dis- appcanince to the hm- i.i \ .-m elnaiion. Tliesc tallacics 1 will not deal with just now e:.ri |,i ic) J,Iilil mil .¦¦i;ii,e I Dili pa lisoiis' wliicli will speak for llieiii- selves, and to say Unit tin i.eople uf Nitigara I-'alls, after their recent ex- perieni e are more- tlian c\ii (onvlm-e ul the foll.\. barbariiy, futility and fatality of all co!iijiii!^i,i,\ v k linaiion and are ,:.;iiiiily deiernitiied to Inne no more of it.
First Comparison In .N';.:;;nra Falls in one year there occiir»-d by natural sniallpox OM I Un cum s of f:i-l<ness and only one death, in a population of about 40,00(1. I'd (ontia, ty artifical sniallpox, or vaccination, there w-i^re aboul l'I,(i|i(; ca.ses of sickiie:;s, dellbcj-;! tel\ intlic-teil, v, iili ihree cleati nre til" name: of the \.i\»\ viciiii's of vaeeinaiions' llemanl .\Ioian, ployee; AHks Hall, .-cliciol l.'acher; John i,i-oj>;c Clnimbers, special oflicet.
Second Com.n.^rison The Hcalili .\esvs liiillctin slates Iriiiinphantly on pa,;e .',11, as an iilb ; eii p'.inl dl \ a'l in.'illon aiid ilaii;.!-; of nun \ aiciinil ion thai 'An ciiiilemic n: .\t u ^ c i k City of the .-anie scMiity a.s that wlij(-h prevailed in Niaiiaia I'all.- '.'. milil iiiran over 65,000 eases of smallpox." .\ow, percontia. ihe I'. .-¦' l.altleslnp oino, v.illi ils ilionniKlily Mtccinaled anil re vaccinated ciew of SOn tn'sons, had in Dec-ember. l!li:{, quite a Utile epi deinic of snialliui.x. in wl,ich tin re \.ire 2!l cases and .". deatliH, whicli is a case-rale of about :!o per ihoinand and a dealli laie ol aboul *; per thousand. This would mean in the- G nJllions in the city of .New York, If struck by an epidemic equal to Ihat in the well wic:( inaled balllesliip, thai Ihere would be aboiit ino.OOO ea.s-es o;' ."-iiiallpox and "0,000 deaths! -How c'o you like this coinpari:;(-i;. which i.': so Ilea, liy a»;ainst vaccination as lo make tiie argument from .\iai;(iia I'alls simply liciiculoiis? And don't you lliink thai "honors are easy" when we conn- to 'onipaie tin- case of the iH)orl\ \ acciniiied town with the weil vaccinated ship?
In closin;; 1 must now a>;iiin c-nifiln: i/i ttie point iliai in all iliai we say w make no objection to voluntary vatcln.'ilion for any one who freely wishes it or really believes it <:e<etsary or useful, as we contend for full medical freedom lor al', just as we now enjoy full religious freedom. Whal we are warriii^' ag.iinst is sinlply all compulsory medicine and all niodlcai and statis¬ tical falsehood-! and concealnn nts, on whicfi this dant'eroiis me'dlcat bar¬ barism is based.
(HAS. M. HKitilNS, Treai,ucur_AntT^Vafcination League of America. 271 Nint'ii .St.. l)rookl>n, .V Y., .Seplemlyl''r 4th, 1;H4. .Main Oflice of The League-M20 ChfstnSM St., Philadelphia, Pa. .John Pltcairn, President. I'oiie-r F. Cope, Se'retary.
Note In a lew (l;i.\s another article will apjiear, giving advice to parents, te^acl.e r^ ami i cliool officers as to the- scope of the present vac.-einaiion law, and showing how this law- can be legally suspended by the local truKtecs or school board In any town or district, this Du ing In cnrwer to many lequests from all over the State.
Following this anil lo of advice will appear extracts from many touching letferr fron parents of school children In different parts cf the State, sJiovln..' how llitlc children have been killed, crippled and injured by Hit taibarism of coinpulsoiy disease forced on our schools by thc taine men who profit by it and te.'U us It is perfectly safe and barr leiiB, which letters wiU be »ure to open tbe eyes of many p*ople on ibis iubj«ct. C. M. H.
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