The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-22
HANDS OFF, PLEASE
SPIRITUALISTS AGAINST THE MED
IOAL DOCTORS NOW.

They Insist Thst the Consultation Gives
Them the Right to Employ Healers If
They Want to-The Doctors Think Diff
ferent and Have Proposed q Law to
That Enect-The spiritualists Propose
to Fight 1t, and Thus the Doctors and
SpirituaIists Will Have a Lively Scrap
This Fall-what They Say.
The doctors and the spiritualists are
in a scrap.
The doctors, forgetting that they are
the recruiting agents Of the spirit world.
met in Topeka last week and took some
steps looking to the passage of ieg:sla-
ton next winter to wipe out the business
of divine healing. The doctors believe
that all such men as Schlatter and
Schrader are frauds; that they are inca
pable of healing and hence should be
driven out of the state. The fact OF
the matter is. the divine healer is be-
and something must be done with him.
1t so happened that when the doctors
met at Topeka and passed resolutions
lists and iberalists were in session at
Winfield and read it The action of the
doctors made them hot and they i'm
mediately passed the following resolu-
tons and sent them to the Bagle with a
request that they be published. The
resolutions are as follows:
Whereas. The Kansas State Medical
association proposes to introduce a medi
cal bill in the next legislature and by
resolutions passed at their meeting last
May in Topeka pledged it's members to
vote for no candidate who would not
pledge himself to support bill and to
work to defeat all who opposed IT.
Whereas, Such medical bill If passed
will subject to fine, Imprisonment or
both, all healers who are not gradu-
ates of chartered colleges and who hold
license from the state board of health.
Therefore, be it
Resolved, That we Spiritualists and
Liberals of Kansas, in this Winfield
campmeeting assembled, do hereby pro-
test against all such legislation as an in
fringement Upon our rights.
First, Upon our personal liberty. We
as citizens of sound mind and electors
who are not willing to surrender our
right to employ whomsoever we will as
under the constitution this is as much
our right and duty as to choose our
spiritual adviser or a workmen in any
department of life. Legislation that
interfereS with that right is tyranny.
Second, This proposed legislation is
an infringement of our religious liberty
for to US healing is as much a religious
service as song and prayer. Any medi-
cal legislation that prevents our heal
ing to interfere with the first principle
of liberty, the liberty to worship God
In our own way.
Therefore, we demand for the Chris
tan and mental scientist, the medium
and clairvoyant, the magnetic and 9TH
er healers the same privileges members
Of the medical profession enjoy. Sue
cess is the only diploma the people de-
mand. A free field is the only protection
they need. The best will survive. All
should be alike subject 10 the law of
malpractice, all restricted from inter
fering with the rights OF others and all
alike protector by law in their labor.
Therefore, we call upon all who be-
lieve in personal and religious liberty
to join with us, and as far as possible
oppose the election Of any person to the
next legislature who will vote for any
bill adverse to us.
Resolved, That copy Of these resolu-
tons be furnished the papers with the
request to the press of the state to copy
tsId to champion our -ause
Miss Ma Id K'inger is TIE secretary OF
the ASSOCIATION. She be;'eres s1at the
peope iava a right TO employ any kind
of a doctor They please ani d -es not
think the state has any right to inter-
fere.