The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-30
DR.. D0GGE WON'T DO 1T.
More Reasons for Not Abolishing Nominal
Fee Plan Mt His Institution.

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Fee Plan Mt His Institution.
The Dogge Surgical and Medical In
stitute. at 80 N. Main street. Butte, was
established expressly to enable those
suffering from seated ills and ailments
to secure the most excellent and adj
mirable treatment now known at little
more expense Than that OF reading a
bright newspaper or having the gospel
preached unto them.
This beneficent provision Is founded
on the doctrine that Intervention for
those In great peril or in great suffer-
ing Is not a matter of option. of inclin-
alton. but an omnicotent moral law,
an inviolable rock-written command
ment that Is sternly obligatory on us
all. And for a persons life to be
threatened by a galloping disease Is the
same as for IL to be threatened by a
runaway horse or By a burning house.
To be mere idle bystanders and onlook-
ers is. In either case, as much a piece
of wrong-doing and OF law-breaking
as to cause the danger or to plot the
death. The feeling i'm the army is that
TO let sick soldiers die of neglect is
cold-blooded assassination committed
by cold-blooded abandonment-as dis
tinctly devlish an atrocity n as much
an outrage on the world as blowing up
he Maine or butchering children in a
school house.
SO that the formal request of Doctor
Dogge's professional friends that he
abolish his virtually free system out
Of regard for those claiming that IL Is
driving them u of practice Is only a
bold proposal that he do a faithless and
discriminating act as a matter of "po-
liteness." In all the professions there
Is danger OF sinking the high passion
of humanity i'm the low passion of avar-
ice. The fact Is that whether preach
ers. teachers, scientists and writers
have large incomes and live in palaces.
or have small incomes and live In cot
tages. Ii a trihing matter compared
with ideals of duty to the world.
So of the profession of medicine-it
Is either a lowly. mercenary calling
or IL IL the modest Red Cross calling
of saving life and relieving pain. IL
isn't important that individual physi-
clans should achieve either wealth or
glory. Palatial Offices are no more indis-
pensable han palatial side whiskers. A
doctor doesn't need to be swell or a
lion to enjoy notoriety. They don't
require newspaper mention any more
than they require perfumery. And
whether they live in aristocratic houses
and rid in aristocratic carriages and
wear aristocratic shoes and smoke aris-
tocratic cigars, or whether they live In
small houses and smoke clay pipes
~ Nfdi win po'io II "a
in one-horse carts is of little mo-
ment compared with Frightening their
lives with merciful labors for man.
And the Dogge Institute, having for
its cornerstone the bedrock truth, the
bedrock principle that refusal to save
life is as wicked as to take life. DIR.
Dogge feels that to now prove false to
that principle would be al act of shame
and crime beyond any common act OF
apostacy or reason. To repeat his iron
answer-the nominal assessment sys-
TEN of the Dogge Surgical and Medical
% N. MAR street, Butte. will
positively and most positively be nelth-
er suspended nor abolished! Blu on
the contrary. i'm addition to charging
only 81 per month for treating caN1rrh
and most of the ordinary discs. he
will. from November 1. furnish medi-
cines free for those diseases, thus guar
anteeing the a medicine prescribed
n in perfect. fresh condition.