The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-04-18
FAITH-CURED WIVES
Exhibited in Trenton as
Beneficiaries Of Faith
Curist Methods.
SENATOR VOORHEES, JUDGED THEM
We're Present to Protest Against
An Amendment to the Medi-
cal Laws.
SENATOR VOORHEES, JUDGED THEM
snccia1 to the Jerseu citu Ne,ps.

TRENTON, April Is, 1s94.-Senator Foster
NJ. VOORHEES, of Union, who has the reputa-
ton of being one of the most genial inc
even tempered men who ever sat in the New
Jersey Legislature, had the experience OF
his political life yesterday afternoon. Some
time G he introduced an amendment to
the State Medical law, which placed ialth
curists. mind healers and other quacks OF o
similar nature within the provisions OF the
bills and made them liable to its severe
penalties. He had just finished listening TO
a long, wearisome discussion as to whether
stone or gravel roads were the best Tor
Burlington county, when Assem0lyman
Exton asked him to slip into one OF the com
mittee rooms, he wanted the senator 70
meet some of his constituents. Mr.. voorhees,
good-naturedly acquiesced, and was much
taken back when Mr.. Exton led hlm
to a party of long-hair men n slokiy
visaged women who gathered around MIN
and began to talk at once. Mr.. voorhees,
succeeded in q~uieting them sufficiently TO
learn from them that they had come to pro-
test against his amendment TO the medicai
law. The Senator from Union secured Sena-
tor Ketcham, chairman of the Committee on
Miscellaneous Business, to which the matter
had been referred, but Mr.. ketcham DIS
creetly withdrew to a corner and Lett ME-.
voorhees, TO Tue I6uueI nlcl TX VI JIG eAS-Si
CATION. Joseph Page, q wild looking citizen
of Trenton, made the first argument. he
produced his wife, a frail, sickly looking
woman, as exhibit one on the part OF the
protestants. He said that his wife was &C
tually dead at one time. and that a falth cur
ist had brough her to life. She was not en-
tirely cured yet, but was still undergoing
treatment, and if this bill should pass That
treatment would have to cease. his wife
would die again, and no faith curlst would
be permitted to bring her to life.
BROTHER PAGE wEEPED.
ssAnd if you pass this bill Senator. ex-
claimed Brother Page, as he threw his arms
about Mrs. Pages neck and convulslvely
pressed her wan cheek two or three times,
Hand my dear wife dies l shall sue you for
heavy damages"
swell / won't pay more than one eighty
first part of your verdict" said the Sena-
tor, las I am only one of the eighty-one who
will vote upon this BILL
Mr.. Page then extolled the beauties of the
faith cure, and said that 1t was only invoked
when every other doctor had given the pa
tient up
process was by which the Faith Curists eff
fected their cures, but Mr.. Page and the
others present refused to say.
The Senator from Union raised another
storm by saying that when aperson got into
the condition mentioned by Mr.. Page when
IQeY Q69U6Q q I6lD1 CuEiot pu0y OuSnp W Q4C.
This was quieted down, and then Exhibit
Q was produced. This was a fat, fair and
forty woman named Mrs. Sands, who had
been cured of an abscess on the head by the
faith curists. Senator VOORHEES, disguised
her by saying that those assesses OFTEN
went away Of themselves, and that may
have been the process in her case. Exhibit
No. 8 was q pretty young woman, not over
eighteen wears, who had suffered untold
egony from chronic headaches until one of
the faith cure doctors had laid his hands
upon her head. She was SO pretty that the
Senator had not the heart to question her
sincerity.
his WIFE RAD RHEUMATISM.
A tall, lank, long haired individual, who
was spoken of as DR.. C. E. Nfblett, told a
narrowing tale of his wifeis rheumatism.
She had what he called nervous rheumatism
and he had to carry her about the house.
But after a short course OF treatment under
a faith curist she was able to walk all around
without any assistance. This led Mr.. Voor-
hees to tell the story of the woman who was
bedridden with rheumatism for many years,
until her family, discovering that her all
ment was in her mind, cried, Fire" one
day. The old lady jumped from her bed
and ran with the other people, Her disease,
Mr.. VOORHEES, said, was a species of hysteTia.
"Do you mean to say thai we are suffering
from hysteriaP cried all the women in a
chorus.
Mr.. VOORHEES, gave them to understand
that he did. Then a young man named
Barckalo, a nephew of the celebrated Cul
Barckalo, told how he had been cured. Senar
tor Voorhees, finally told the delegation that
he had made up his mind on the bill.
"You have a brother who is a physician,
haven't you2" asked one Of the sisters. Mr..
VOORHEES, replied that he had, whereupon
the good sister ~insinuatingly said it was
plain to see where he stood. The Senator
told the women that their only hope lay in
the Governor, who was one of the best
natured men in the State and advised them
to go and see him. The delegation then
Withdrew to seek the Chief Executive.
bob ELLIOTTS GAS BILL.
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