The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-09-10
VACCINATION.
The Old Mans Hobby Ex-
planned.
MIR, EDITOR:

are not TO be- circulated as there stated,
and in the fertile MdnufdcturerS Labor
Weekly. Such an undertaking was at
one time contemplated, but was consid-
cred impracticable aud wrong In princi-
pie. There were two or three hundred
names obtained. for experiment, In
Providence and Woonsocket, which in-
dicated that ninety per cent. OF the
voters would Sign such petition. Any
one wishing for more particulars in the
matter can consult Charles M. Newton,
Esq, of Woonsocket publisher). who
kindly circulated the petition in that
city. The only petition that will be
circulated Is the one usually presented
to the Legislature with new blu, and
viii be presented only 10 a lim.ted num-
ber OF citizens who understand ti,o SUBJ
iect OF vaccination.
Evidently IL is the Imperative duty of
every member of the General Assembly
To investigate the subject Of compulsory
vaccination. and then act impartially
according TO the evidence, without the
least regard TO the mere opinions or
prestige ot any man or class of men, or
even their constituents. The common
sense OF the latter would be a safe guide,
If they would be governed by IL.
AT the last session of the Assembly,
two weeks before the bill was defeated
In the Senate, it would have passed by
a large majority. just how that was
brought about Is reserved for a later
communication, in which the voters and
people Of the State will be fully In
formed. This subject will take nc back
tracks. and II the Rhode Island Medical
Society imagines that compulsory vac
cinatl0n has long To live in Rhode
Island, they will find themselves greatly
mistaken. They will find that it was
poor policy for them TO oppose the re-
peal at the very first. The influence Of
the stale jokes in some newspapers, by
those who are not informed upon the
subject Is about played out.
i am obliged to your reporter for
keeping the subject before the people;
but why did he not explain more fully
what the 'Old Mans Hobby" was? IL
was very important that the public
should have understood clearly what il
was, To enable them 10 appreciate the
joke (D He seems TO have left that for
the old man TO do. which he will now
undertake. Definition Of rirus. "By
II (yirus) Is understood a principle un-
known in its nature and inappreciable
by the senses, which is the agent for
the transmission of infectious diseases.
Thus we speak of the variolic and
syphilitic viruses. Virus differs from
venom in the latter being a secretion
natural to certain animals, whilst the
former Is always the result of morbid
process, a morbid poison" In Rhode
Island vaccination consists i'm putting
directly into the pure blood of healthy
children and others, morbid poisons
from sores on diseased persons; human
lied virus being exclusively used in this
state; but 1t is understood by the people
that IT - pure 8satte,, fFeHN COWS t?} In
other states and countries the poisonous
matter Is taken from diseased persons.
cattle, horses, donkeys, goats, sheep.
swine, and buffaloes. It's nature dl,rdys
being the same, a morbid poison, and
disease.
Vaccination is puttinga deadly poison
into the pure blood of healthy child or
person. The doctors and State do not
allow little healthy children to attend
the public schools without having their
bodies marred and deadly poison, a
frightful disease, put directly into ther
pure blood.
The vaccinators say that perfectly
healthy child is q great danger to the
community, that Ii Is like a magazine Of
powder or dynamite In the school,
which Is liable, at any time, to explode
and send them all to the pest-house.
Whose hobbies are these? The old
mans? Oh no. not quite They be-
long to the medical fraternity, backed
ny tllt 1FElShluIt WIlilll Luty UdNC
heretofore largely controlled.
Dear reader, beg you to lay off your
medical eyeglasses for moment and
look at this fetch in broad daylight;
and don't forget that vaccination Is put
ting into the healthy body of person
a deadly poison, a morbid disease.
No one call tell ,ohdt. What mistakes
God must have made I'm creating these
little innocent children (O A healthy
oh IL 10. l,A sftg
they say. Allow me to repeat IL. A
healthy, innocent, sweet little child,
danger to the community! (No child
can be healthy having the vaccine dis
ease) Vaccination causes the most hor-
rible diseases and deaths known on
earth, and it must be repeated often
that they may not cause those terrible
disasters in the school room (?) The
old man respectfully urges our State
Government, members of the General
Assembly, city and town officers, min
listers, judges, lawyers, our professors of
learning, and every citizen of the State,
to investigate this terrible delusion, and
take prompt measures 10 free the af-
flicted people from the internal prac-
tice.
The old man knows. and can prove to
any one, beyond dispute, that yaccina-
Ton was an aStOundlng fraud from 1tS
WHY b'Silllbib Aiidtib uVtS Iob IItf'Ht
smallpox In any case; that the vacci-
mated are more susceptible to that dis
ease than the unvaccinated. and that il
causes most direful diseases. and num-
erpus deaths; he considers 1t the great
est curse that ever afflicted mankind |;
that it is a real crime Tor parents to al
low their children TO be thus poisoned; /;
that every one that vaccinates commits
n crime; that parents have no moral or
legal right to permit IL; that vaccination
Is the very essence Of .JoOiishness, +, that
the vaccination law Of Rhode Island Is
unconstitutional, and that the state is
committing wholesale manslau2hter in
obliging its children 10 be thus out
rageously treated. and in justice ought
10 pay all the damages (p)
j hope ] have made plain what the
"Old Mans Hobby" is. and am quite
sure that ninety per cent. OF the voters
OF the State believe as he does.
The honorable members Of the Gen.
eral Assembly, referred TO In the Bullc-
ttn article. were opposed to vaccination
long before they saw the old man.
SAMUEL DARLING,
al Wesleyan avenue.