The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-09-08
VACCINATION.
The Old Mans Hobby Ex-
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BuUetin of August 10Th, headed IAN
Old Mans Hobby" wish to inform
your readers that petitions for the re-
peal of the compulsory vaccination law
are not TO be circulated as there stated,
and in the Tertile MdniyacturcrS Labor
Weekly. Such an undertaking was at
one time contemplated, but was consid-
cred impracticable and wrong In princi-
pie. There were two or three hundred
names obtained, for experiment. In
Providence and Woons0cket, 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 NJ. Newton,
Esq, Of Woonsocket publisher), who
city. The only petition that will be
circulated is the one usually presented
to the Legislature with q new bill, and
will be presented only to limited num-
ber Of citizens who understand tno SUBJ
iect OF vaccination.
Evidently it 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 of any man or class of men. or
even their constituents. The common
sense OF the latter would be safe guide,
II they would be governed by it.
At the last session of the Assembly,
two weeks before the bill was defeated
in the Senate, IL 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 no back
tracks, and If the Rhode Island Medical
Society imagines that compulsory vac
cinatiOn has long to live I'm Rhode
Island. they will find themselves greatly
mistaken. They will find that Ii 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 TO appreciate the
joke 90 He seems TO have left that for
the old man to do, which he will now
undertake. Definition OF rirus. by
it (virus) Is understood principle un-
known in its nature and inappreciable
by the senses, which is the agent for
the transmission Of Infectious diseases.
syphilitic viruses. Virus differs from
venom in the latter being secretion
natural TO certain animals, whilst the
former is always the result Of a morbid
process, a morbid poison" In Rhode
Island vaccination consists In 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 it is understood by the people
that 1t is pure matter from cows l9 In
other states and countries the poisonous
matter is taken from diseased persons,
cattle, horses, donkeys, goats, sheep
swine, and buffaloes. It's nature dlicdys
being the same, q morbid poison, and
disease.
Vaccinction is putting 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 a deadly poison, a
frightful disease, put directly into their
pure blood.
The vaccinators say that perfectly
healthy child is great danger TO the
community, that 1t Is like magazine OF
powder or dynamite In the school.
which is liable, at any time, to explode
and send them all to the pest-honse.
Whose hobbies are these? The old
mans Oh no, not quite They be.
long to the medical fraternity, backed
by the Legislature which they have
heretofore largely controlled.
Dear reader. beg you to lay Oft your
medical eyeglasses for n 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 can tell ighdt What mistakes
God must have made In creating these
child is q danger to the community,
they say. Allow me to repeat II. 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 (?) Tho
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 delusiop, and
take prompt measures to free the af-
ficted people from the internal prac-
tice.
The old man knows. and can prove to
any one, beyond dispute, that vaccina-
tiUn was an astounding fraud from its
very beginning; thatit does not prevent
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 il the great
es, curse that ever afflicted mankind /;
that it is real crime for parents to al
low their children to be thus poisoned (;
that every one that vaccinates commits
q crime; that parents have no moral or
legal right to permit IL; that vaccination
is the very essence Of Jootishness; that
the vaccination law Of Rhode Island is
unconstitutional, and that the State is
committing wholesale manslaughter in
obliging its children to he thus out
rageously treated. and in justice ought
to pay all the damages C0
| 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 mvsbers OF the Gen.
eral Assembly, referred TO In the Bulle-
tin article. were opposed to vaccination
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