The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-30

larger fields be opened to our COM
placent gaze. You have penetrated the
places where the germs of disease are
hidden. We are quite certain that you
should be required to destroy the
. origin of disease and ultimately usher
In the dawn, when the only escape
from the world will be through
passageway marked "Old age-exit-" If
! this has the appearance of exacting too
| much, or if business considerations
present obstacles to it's accomplish
ment, L think we ought perhaps to re-
duce our claims, or at least give our
doctors time to find other employment.
In the meantime, those of us who are
conservative must be allowed to hope
that the further investigation will con-
tlnue to point the way to the proven
ton of disease. For this investigation
we must still rely upon the efforts of
those who have already done SO much
in that direction, encouraged and slim
ulated by such effective organizations
as the Academy of Medicine. We are
sure that this work, having arrested
the attention of the worlds brother
hood of medical science, will not be
neglected; nor need we fear that Amer
lca's contribution to splendid results
will be deficient.
In some instances, however, investi-
cation has performed it's part and only
necessary to supply needed remedies.
In such cases, of course, you are alb
solved from all responsibility in your
professional character by exhibiting
dangers and warnings against them.
Thus certain diseases which you deem
contagious yet remain imperfectly iso-
lated. You have demonstrated the peril
to health of unwholesome water and
noxious surroundings; and yet much
remains to be done by way of protect
ing our people against these dangers.
You have established a code of ethics
which condemns charlatanism in all it's
forms; and yet ignorant pretenderS
roam over the land, offering to perform
miracles, or are located in our towns
and cities, preying upon the weakness
of the sick and afflicted, while men and
women are allowed to die. without med
ical attendance, deluded with the hope
that faith will save. them in their
extremity. Within the limits of your
professional power and influence, you
seek to restrain any approach to Grim.
NAL malpractice; yet newspapers dis
gustingly, though covertly, advertise
the way to such crimes and Startle
their readers with sensational tales of
death and misery to which they are
directly accessories
1 need not suggest that such evils
are allowed to exist by reason of the
insufficiency of our laws, or a laXity
in their execution. I have intimated
that for this condition you are not
responsible in a professional sense;
but are you sure that as citizens you
are doing all in your power to remedy
the situation?
We cannot but think that the dis
coveries are improvements in the medi-
cal practice which we now enjoy are
dearly bought if the members of the
1lrnfnScinn in THAR rd march
have left behind them their sense of
civic obligation and their interest in
the general public welfare. We can
ont accuse you of utter neglect of
your duty to the country; and yet we
cannot keep out of mind the suspicion
that if your professional work in ex-
posing evils were more thoroughly
supplemented by labor in the field OF
citizenship, these evils would be more
speedily corrected.
If laws are needed to abolish abuses
which your professional Investigations
have unearthed, your fraternity should
not be strangers to the the agencies
which make the laws. If enactments
already in force are neglected, or badly
executed, you should not forget that
it is your privilege and duty to insist
upon their vigorous and honest en-
forcement. Let me, also, remind you of
the application to your case of the
truth embodied in the homely injunc-
ton: IF you want job well done do
il yourself" If members of your pro-
fession were oftener found in your ma
tional and state legislative assemblies,
ready to advocate the reformatOry
measure, you have demonstrated to be
necessary and TO defend your brother
hood against flippant and sneering
charges of impracticabi lity, the pros
pect of your bestowai upon your fellow
Of rim Of
fessional labor would be brighter and
nearer.
While thus suggesting the need of
your influence in legislative circles for
the accomplishment of reforms re-
lated TO your profession. you will, I
hope, permit me, in conclusion, to en-
join upon you the duty of an active and
general interest and participation in
public affairs for the promotion of your
country's good in all its phases. Our
government was founded on the faith
and anticipation that those who loved
it most and were best able to hold it
steady would be at its helm. Without
this, it will surely go astray. Never did
patient need your medical treatment
more than the body polite needs the
watchful care OF your patriotic and
disinterested citizenship.
No object of personal ambition and
no activity of professional life should
be permitted to withhold from our gov
eminent the 1.-THE of devotion and
service due from its thoughtful. intelli-
gent and educated citizens. The re-
ward of a willing recognition of our
obligation to watch and protect our
free institutions. and preserve them
from weakness and decay, will surely
come when a just government. sup
ported by the patriotism of a loving
people, shall bestow with equal hand
upon us and all our countrymen the
blessings of national peace, content
ment and happiness.
After the exercises Mr.. Cleveland
went to Mr.. Bryant's house, where he
will pass the night. He will return to
Washington tomorrow.
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