Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-02-06


homo ,paths receive the other two mp.
poiutmenis, DO you not SEQ st glance
that they would be utterly powerless
and would amount to mere fgutc.heads
and unable 10 help themselves, and 20
far M any possible good they m gbt he
able TO do. either school might as well
be without a representative upon the
| board.
Now these are only = portion OF the
cloven footed defoImities Of this bill,
aud there are one or two others r.
which | wish 10 call your attention.
One objection l. that none but physi-
clans holding Diplomas from chartered
medical colleges In good and regular
standing-snd. mind you, quote vcr-
batim from section OF this blil--arc 10
be admitted for examination, aDd when
an eclectic or n hompopath presents
himself this sweeping majority has
! only 10 inform him that the college
from which be holds u diploma " not
considered regulor and he cant have u
license.
How kind 1t IA OF this board 10 only
fleece each physician ami surgeon IN
this whole Territory out Of the small
sum Of $500 aud then further TO
be 50 very generous NJ to hand
all the money collected Ia fees
and fines land by this you
will readily infer That they intend to
make some one smoke, and Of course
this would be the hated lrTcgularsl,
over 10 the treasury Of the Tefrlior,.
Now IN not this real kiBd2 And diI
you notice still farther, after handing
this vast revenue over with one maud,
how nicely they Immediately follo~
with the other baud ami extract $500
annually with which 10 pay the score.
tary AMI only s. day and travelling
expenses with which to pay each mem-
Der OF this boardg BY this nice little
arrangement In case Of any deficiency,
which II not likely to occur undcr'thls
exorbitant system Of fees, the Terri.
tory Will have 10 foot the bill, and
make up the deficiency.
Why should every physician and
surgeon In this whole Territory be
commanded TO throw up his hanis and
stand and deliver s25 for the support
Of any medical board, no matter what
Its composition, let II be regular or ir.
REGULAR Why not tax nll the min.
lsters or all the lawyers In this Terri.
tory. rnd, for Instance, give sweeping
majority 10 the Methodisls, or to the
jews, or to the MOrmons, or 10 III.
Catholics, or Presbyterians; anu how
much Of show for Justice do you sup.
pose either sect would have who dii
not hold a controlling majority upon
the board? GA, no, gentlemen, this
viii not DO! All fair-mlndcd, liberty
loving people would say at once this l.
class legislation Of the worst type. |
war not against the regulars OF eclec.
tics or homeJpaths, but ask that they
all shall have equal rights before the
law. And thus the rights Of the people
will DO kept sacred; no one sec, or
school will be liglslated In 10 the detri.
ment Of these who are legislatcd out.
Before closing, allow me to pay
tribute Of respect Ia all liberal minded,
neutrality-suspicious., nomatt,r Vi what
school. And here allow me to do the
regular school the Justice To say that
they have many good, great snd grand
men Ia their ranks, aud | am not ~
preJudiced ana narrow in my views ~
not 10 recognize worth wherever
found. And there are many within the
ranks of this school who are too honor.
ablei 10 ask any class legislation, and
would be TO proud 10 accept IL; yet this
does not preclude the fact that they
constantly have such men In their
ranks who do ask such thugs ~ In the
present Instance.
Why Is II that the legislative hall OF
every state and Territory In the whole
United States IN annually and con-
stantly being besieged by thi. same
regular school for class legislation of
which the foregoing bills only a sam.
pie? And II Is always under the SAINT
pretext, that Of "wseiing out the ignor.
ant quacks aud protecting the rights Of
the dcar people" Does II not fore.
shadow an acknowledgment that they
the regulhrs-are afraid to cross
swords with those OF other schools by
a clinical test at the bedside2 "NNhy,1
they say, these irrcgulars are 80 very
Irregular that they Ia some way irreg-
ulariy succeed In curing all their
patients, aud our best patients arc fast
leaving Us anu something must be
done; we will give them a bad nam,;
call them quacks, anu make regular
faces nj th0m, aud II this
will not do, we will bolster
up our cause by having ourselves
logislated in and them out" And thi.
IL the way 1t goes, year after year, con-
staniiy knocking Mt the doors OF all
the legislative halls in the United
States, asking that they-the regulars
be recognized as the only medical |
school.
Who ever heard OF the eclectic or
hommopath school asking any such un-
fair or class legislation la their favor? |
No one. They are willing to rest their
case with the people, and allow tn.
only competent ludges-to |
decide the merit Of each ut the bed.
side.
Finally, we appeal to the manhood,
honor, Justice and iHtegrlty Of every |
member OF the assembly OF Utah, anu |
Df every iair-Ininded, thinking citizen
10 see IL II that the fair escutcheon of |
our noble Territory Is never stained by |
such bill as the one undeI
consideration 10 disgrace It's statutes.
+. N. iImlG, Md.