Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-01
IS IT MURDER ?
The Intelligencer Makes Sensational
Charges-The Accused Deny the Charge.
Furnish Evidence of Innocence.


Charges-The Accused Deny the Charge.
Furnish Evidence of Innocence.
To the Editor of the Register.
Sir:-Would you like to be classed as
a murderer" We think not. and we
believe the reading public will pardon
US for going into print to defend our
selves against a cowardly attack in a
newspaper of this city in the first
column of its editorials, in which,
among other things, it says: 1.-THE muir
der laws should be made to cover these
practices, for murder is the only word
that will cover the effects" The
wheeling Daily Intelligencer" of Sat
urday, September Goth, 1899, has a. long
editorial assailing Christian Scientists
and osteopathists, and the above is one
sentence of the editorial Can you i'm
aglne a charge more terrible than
MURDER AS for the Christian Scien-
fists, we have nothing to say, for our
science has nothing to do with that
practice. We want to defend osteop-
athy against the charges made by a
paper edited by man who knows moth
Ing of the question he is discussing
When we located in the city about eight
months ago we did not have big glar-
ing advertisements in the papers, but
began in away becoming the science
we represent, simply treating those
who came, just as any doctor Of medi-
cine would do according to the ethics
of medical doctors. We gave no medi-
cines, and our patients knew it. Our
results have built up a good practice,
and to-day we can furnish names of
scores of the very best people in
Wheeling, and also Of people in Penn
sylvania and Ohio, who will be glad
to tell the misguided editor that his
TRADE is an outrage upon a science
that has relieved them of their suffer-
ings-not by numbering them, but by
numbering the diseases they had.
We don OF take the editor to be an
ignoramus on all subjects, and will
take it for granted that he knows that
included in the United States are Yer
mont, Missouri, North Dakota, Michi-
gan, Iowa, South Dakota, Illinois and
Tennessee. These States have each
passed special law providing for the
legal practice of osteopathy. Are the
legislators and Governors of these
States 'murderers?" Will the editor of
the Intelligencer CD call these men
"murderers? Had he wanted to act
fair and intelligently he would have
come to "a point on Main street." where
"a sign over a doorway boldly an
nounces that within are two of these
practitioners and he would have
found us (not two women" as he says,
but two mem, ready to furnish him
copies of these laws and an abundance
of other evidence equally as conclusive.
If he is uncertain as to whether or not
these legislators and Governors are
"murderers, we could furnish him
name sof many people in and near
Wheeling that, if approached in the
manner he touched the subject in his
paper, he would soon conclude they had
not been murdered. The fact that so
many States have special laws permit
ting and regulating the practice OF
osteopathy, when the science has been
taught and practiced but few years,
is sufficient TO show that the science is
not "murderous" The laws of the
States recognizing osteopathy require
course Of four terms of five months
each in a recognized school OF osteop-
athy or an examination before the
State Board of Health, which is usual
~ composed of doctors OF medicine ex-
clusively. The State Boar dof Health
of Illinois recently issued certificates.
upon examination), to many osteopa-
thists to practice osteopathy. Would
the State Board of Health Of Illinois is
sue licenses to osteopathists to go out
and commit MURDER The Intelligent
Ger should BE- intelligent.
G. G. CHAPPELL, D. o.,
Assistant Manager Tri-State IRfrmary
re 0efoo-xa<1r