The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-04
They Ware Caught.

How Senator Cook shut off the medi-
cine bill in the senate; 1t had passed the
house. Saturday afternoon when the
house of representatives was in a con-
fused state, the doctors were trying to
get in their best work, and they sue
ceeded as far as the house was concerned.
as the medical bill which had been voted
down several times this session was again
brought up and had went as far as the
third reading before some of the mem
bers noticed what was up When Repre-
sentative Campbell of Stafford noticed
what was going on he Immediately made
a strong fight against the bill, but it had
gone TO far. and as the confusion was
great the bill passed the house.
1t was then sent to the senate for
passage and the same kind of trickery
was to be played there. A prominent
doctor of this city succeeded IN getting
Senator Cook out in the hallway and was
discussing with him the way the bill was
going to be changed, so that it would be
as he wished it. While Senator Cook
was out in the hallway talking to the
doctor, the bill which had just passed
the house was advanced on the senate
calendar When he returned he noticed
the fraud which hs i been perpetrated on
him, and therefore he made d motion
that it be strickened from the calendar,
which was done He claimed that he
had been decoyed out of the room es-
peciaIly SO that the bill could be ad-
vanced.
This bill was especially prepared and
| aimed at the W. W. Gavitt's Medical
company of this city. This company has
over five hundred agents in the state of
| Kansas, principally widows and old SOL
| diers, who are selling their medicine
known as Our Native Herbs. The doc
| Ixy rod for
| time over the fact that these herbs have
| been curing all their cases that they
have been living off of for years, and so
| desperate had their case become that
| they tried to sneak bill through both
houses on Saturday. If their business
| had been honorable they would have
] taken honorable means to secure the pas
sage of their bill.
! They were SO anxious to shut off the
| widows and old soldiers who are trying
to make a living by selling the herbs as
they have been meeting with great sue
cess all over the state, curing diseases
with one dollars worth of medicine that
the doctors could not cure at all, that
they held state convention of doctors
in Topeka last summer to devise ways
and means to shut off the sale of this
wonderful compound They did not
think that it would be necessary or the
money would have been forthcoming, as
one doctor in Topeka was overheard to
say that he could raise $4,000 in Tope-
ka alone in one hours time if necessa-
ry to secure the passage of this
bill Why are they SO desperate in re-
gard to this particular medicine? Is it
because it is not good? No! 1t is be-
cause it is too good to suit them. The
mortality by'disease in Topeka was re-
duced 80 per cent in two years by these
native herbs, and the doctors say that it
has to be stopped. The lower house ap-
peared to be willing to restore the death
rate but the senate objected.
Why should the doctors be protected?
1t is the people who need protection. We
sight one instance here in Shawnee
county at Silver Lake Mrs. A L. Ems
minger came to the city and was
examined by prominent sur
geon a few months ago, and after
examining her for a bad case OF
stomach trouble, he recommended she
have surgical operation performed
which he would perform at the exc eed
ingly small sum of $3.50. She decided
not to 60 to that expense. While in his
office she asked about the advisability o.
using these herbs for her complaint Ht
told her that it would certainly kill hel
if she used them. She did not take hi:
advice. She procured a box of this com
pound and used it. She now reports
that she is we'll and in better health thar
she has been for years. And still the
doctors wants to be protected in suci
robbery. Is is right?
HARRY E GAvIrE