The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-09

provide for the admission of only thost
to practice, who have natural gifts fol
the calling, and education and training
necessary thereto, but it should be based
also somewhat upon moral worth and
the ability to do conscientious work. IL
any individuals are to be given monopoly,
of the practice of medicine. they should
give to the State. in return Therefore
such valuable service as would be in
some measure an equivalent for this
monopoly. They should be required
to give public lectures, free of charge5
at stated intervals, on the subjects
OF sanitary science, hygienic, and
physiological laws, and should thus be
required TO aid in acquainting the peo-
pie. not only with the laws governing
our being, but with their abuses which
now decimate the human race. They
should especially be required to help
educate the people as to the curse of
sensualitv in its various phases. 1
would suggest that this law contain a
provision that no doctor should prescribe
alcohol for any person under forty years
of age without the consent of the father
or mother, if the father and mother be
living, and the consent of the husband
or wife, if married. Multitudes of peo-
pie, especially young men, are becoming
drunkards through the prescription of
alcohol by their physicians. If the per-
son desiring such a prescription, does
not get it of one physician, he goes to
another. The fact is, the doctors are
very much like the politicians do not
mean you gentlemen-I address you as
statesmen-but the politician is supposed
to give his constituents what they want.
Many mother and many young wife
curses the day when the doctor first
prescribed whisky or beer for the son or
the husband. If there is any way by
which the public good can be served
by lessening the dispensation of DEATH
dealing drugs by doctors and pat
ent medicine vendors, without iufring-
ing upon individual rights, I certainly
would put no argument or suggestion
in the way. In the evolution of society
We are struggling towards something
higher and better. but in this matter
groping as we are for more light, we
need to study the ground carefully be-
fore we attempt to move forward, re-
Numbering that it is
''Out of the twilight of the Past
We move to dlviuer light:
For nothing that is wrong can last.
Nothing's immortal but the right"
If the good old rule, "When you don't
know what to do, do nothing" is appli-
cable at this time; it would be safe
one To follow. Intolerance, selfshness,
greed and human blindness sometimes
prevail in controlling the actions of
good men. Our fathers loved liberty,
but they believed that certain men and
women were guilty of the sickness and
sometimes the death of their fellow citi-
| zens and they hung these supposed
guilty ones for witches. Others were
banished from the colony of Massachu-
sets because of their belief in the pure,
kind doctrines of the Quakers. In the
accelerating progress of human events,
and in our increasing appreciation and
better understanding of many truths,
and especially of those spiritual truths
which the light of to-day is making pos
sible and the clearer light of to- morrow
shall make more easily possible, we
should be careful that we do not now,
in this progressive state of Kansas, and
at the close of the grand and notable
nineteenth century, place any law upon
our statute books which you gentlemen
who may live to be returned as legisla-
tors to this capitol ten years from now,
would look back upon with feelings OF re-
vulsion and regret kindred to those with
which we now look back upon the action
of our fathers two centuries ago when
! they hung the witches and banished
the Quakers.
1ngIeside Lady 3IinstreIs