The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-02-09
DOCKING THE DOCTORS.
The Paper Read by Mr.. Will Hill Before
The Farmers Alliance.

The following paper was so horribly
mutilated in recent publication in an
other paper that we have been asked to
give it correct pnblicity.-ED
Mr.. Editor, since you too, like
your contemporaries, keep butch
er shop where young aspirants are
slaughtered to satiate the inordi-
nate appetite of brokendo poll
ticians and men of decaying reputa-
tions, l feel constrained to furnish
you little food for these human
vultures. Though l have been
completely chewed up and spit out,
nevertheless, sir, if you will sprinkle
a little salt and pepper upon me
with other condiments | will make
rather savory meal yet. These
men have forgotten their true mis-
sion as allotted to them by heaven;
departing from their legitimate
sphere they content themselves with
a temporary and Insignificant note
riety, and devote the balance OF
their lives and talents to traducing
the character of younger men for
fear perhaps that they will transcend
their abilities and win laurels of
their own. l am forced to believe
that there is five times as much
envy, malice and jealousy in the
human heart as brains in the head.
Men have ceased to be progression
lists and innovators and have be-
come cannibals whose appetites are
so awfully voraclous that they not
only devour mans public acts and
attempts, but, sir, they step behind
the screen and swallow his private
charaeter-guts, feathers and all.
1t reminds me very much of my
bird dog. You may feed him more
than he will eat (which he will do
till his sides are fit to burst) and
then, sir, he will sit and guard the
balance, not even allowing chick
en- to peck at his sumptuous meal.
He has become such a monomaniac
upon the subject that he will snap
and growl when there isn't anything
to snap at. Such is the character
of our would be critics. Begging
you, sir, to publish my late address
correctly and in it's originality, l
will stop this CHATTER by referring
| my critics to the preface of Ceramics
in his second Don Quirote, adding
that they are my sentiments too:
THE ADDRESS.
: Brother President and Members of
the Alliance:-.I desire to make a
motion, but before proceeding to
make the motion l wish to make a
few preliminary remarks. l recog-
nize the fact that we have not met to
!, win individual noteriety, nor for the
3 purpose of self-aggrandizement,
nor, sir, have we met to satiate the
! thirst of a selfish, sordid, sinister
= Il and mercenary ambition, but we
e have met to devise means to better
e and ameliorate the condition of suf-
8 fering and common humanity. And
|, in attempting to better the condi-
0 ton OF the masses we may conflict
e with the interests of few individ-
: uals. But, sir, if those individuals
= have the true interest of the com
b monwealth at heart, and if they
have true christian magnanimity
e of soul, combined with courage OF
= conviction, they will yield without a
murmur. A man worthy of his coun-
e try and his God, and who possesses
:. one particle of philanthropy in his
b nature would make any sacrifice to
It mitigate the sorrows and distresses
it of fallen, degraded and depressed
; creature.
el True patriotism consists in sacri-
g icing all to a sense of duty, and a
a true aud noble man worthy of the
!. Hottest sentiments that prompt the
s human mind to action would yield
It all, even giving his life for the
l. cause of justice and honest convic
, ton. A man whose soul and ma
ture is so selfish and sofd,d as to
e trample under foot the rights and
d privileges of another, thus blasting
If the hope of a once aspiring mine
e and entailing upon posterity the
II endless sorrows and distresses con-
,e sequent upon life of poverty and
W want; a man who would avail him
j. self of existing circumstances, thus
t. pandaring to his own individual in
: terest when robbing his fellow
II creatures of the common necessgries
Y of life, booming them to an exis
d tence Of degradation, misery anc
n distress, is unworthy the blessings
# of a Just God and should be Gas
: into the burning and seething caul
dron of an endless hell. The pre-
e cepts of that grand and arch ole
d hypocrit, Chesterfield, who was the
o. pride of the fashionable in his day
and the god at whose shrine dudes
and sycophants worship at the pres
If emit time, would teach you that self
n sacrifice and self-denia! gre thu
3 component parts of which gentle
o mans escutcheon of character i:
.e made. The mandates of HEAVIER
II proclaim them as the essentia
a qualities of true christian. There
Ie fore it behooyes us as desiring to b.
u gentlemen and christians worthy o
n divine favor by Almighty God tina
e we yield al. individual interests aut
e consideration and work hand il
e hand to elevate all mankind to .
o common level and equilibrium. Ii
3. the language of our constitution W.
Il were all created equal and why, sirs
9 thia inequality existing between
IF our brother and fellowman? Why
n sirs, this social, moral, intellectual
d and financial hiatus now existing
D. between man and man who worship
.r the same God and recognize tn,
W same being as the maker Of then
TT alp Sirs, it's the unequal distribu
k ton of justice as melted out to US b,
Q. existing laws and circumstances.
% feel and know that shall meet will
bitter opposition, but, sirs, l feel i
to be my duty, and when impellet
re by a sense of duty would not yielt
n not even to death. The motion il
d this:
: Moved, that we discard the pres
u ent system of medicine as nov
IL practiced as destructive of univer
V. sal good, redcunding alone to th,
: individual interest of the practi
1t toner, which is lin direct conflic
n and antagonistlc to the principles
y of the institution to which we be
q long. We recognize equal rights te
n all, which is not dispensed under the
r: present system. Recognizing the
"a doctor as the servant of the people
we believe the just right belongs tt