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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-11
BAD LOGIC KILLED,


That doctors differ IS an adage that
has become automatic But some
doctors do not allow unprofessional per-
sons to differ with them, and become so
angry and dogmatic as to be on the
verge Of dementla In such condition
their powers OF ratiocination are not in
creased. II we may not safely discuss
a matter OF medicine we may perhaps
touch on a question of reasoning with
out mourning medical anathemas
The "News" has refrained from dis
cussins the merits or dement's Of vac
clnation. IL has advised against the
disposition TO override roughshod the
VIII of the people as expressed by the
last Legislature. II has protested
against the efforts to make compulsory
an operation, the effects OF which are
doubtful. and on which medical author
ity Is divided, II has advised those who
believe in vaccination to consult trusted
and responsible physicians rather than
avail themselves OF a cheap, wholesale
business for which nobody Is respon-
sible.
And on account Of this some MEM
bers Of the medical fraternity are up in
arms. What is their pleasure? Is the
voice OF the Legislature not to be
heard? Are both the legislative and the
executive powers to be vested in
board Of health2 Is II wrong to advise
people to consult responsible physi-
clans?
The News" Is perfectly willing to
concede the overwhelming intellectual
superiority Of It's medical critics, but
their logic is bad. 1t may need vac
cinatlon. They argue that because
deaths from SMALLPOX have been fewer
since the Introduction Of vaccination In
some countries therefore vaccination
is preventive Of that disease Now
II they Will turn 10 any handbook OF
logic, they Will find that among the
fallacles OF reasoning is one which ar
CUES that one thing Is the cause
OF another, simply because they are CO.
existent, or because one preoedes the
other II would, for instance, be a fall
lacy 20 argue that because there was
a thunderstorm at the time Of a con-
Migration therefore the lightning had
set the house aname. But IL is an
equally great fallacy TO argue that be.
cause the death rate has fallen Off since
the discovery" OF vaccination, there
fore vaccination Is the cause of this de-
cline. Non seQuitur, Have improved
sanitary conditions In other respects
nothing to do with the improved condl-
tIonsg
II Is well known that black death be-
fore the potatoes were transplanted TO
Europe played terrible havoc In various
European countries, including Sweden.
II is also fact that the death rate Of
that terrible disease has not been so
great In later centuries as It was in the
fourteenth for instance. Must we then
conclude that the lowering OF the death
rate is due TO the Introduction Of the
tuber as food? What an absurdityl
Certainly, but It is not greater than the
absurdity Of the logic that would rest
COMPULSORY vaccination on tables
comparing the modern death rate to that
OF century ago, without regard to i'm
proved hygienic conditions
The News only demands fair play.
A cause that needs misstatements and
hating logic for its advancement can
not command general respect.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-11

Here Is a comment Of the Denver
Field and Farm which fits some places
nearer here than the Colorado capital:
1T is enough to bring on an attack of
chilblains to read Of some little town
back in Illinois or some other state
having large manufacturing interests
while big town like Denver has no
such industries at all. Still we CLEAN
happiness by constantly paying homage
TO the east and freight assessments TO
the railroads. We are great Holsters,
We are"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-11
TIE DOCTORS DICTUM.


If We desired 10 give place 60 all the
communication that come to US against
the action OF the medical and educa-
tional boards of this city, and letters en-
dorslng the attitude Of the Deseret
News. We could MI this paper every
day for some time with such articles
and correspondence. II is impossible
for us TO do this and publish che cur
rent news. We devote so much OF our
columns today TO this question pro and
con, because it is the great topic Of the
times In this region. We would like our
readers 10 study carefully the report Of
the committee Of Che medical society IN
another part OF this paper then we
ask them TO notice particularly a few
points that are Important
In the first place the report offers
"as an Introductory" an article by DIR.
Ernest Hart; but we fan TO find any in
dication as TO whore Il begins ana where
1t ends No one can tell from reading
IT, what Is said by Dr.. Hart and what
by the committee. II the latter had not
stated that DR.. Harts article was "in-
troductory" We might have concluded
that the whole report was made
up from Its text As IT is the public is
left In The dark on that point. 1t Is
stated that efficient vaccination in In
fancy affords an almost absolute i'm
muniiy from smallpox up to about ten
years OF age, and after that date the
Operation must be efficiently repeated
That absolute Immunity" Is contra
dicied by the experience OF thousands
Of people during smallpox epidemics,
Advocates OF vaccination themselves
furnish indsputable evidence TO the
contrary We have before us a report
OF the health officer at Clayton. New
Mexico which was published In the
New England Medical Monthly. It
speaks of cases Of confluent smallpox.
some OF which proved fatal under his
own practice the patients having
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-11
poN,T BECOME EXCITED.

The question was raised by the New
York Sun, short time ago, whether
the American people were not affected
by wave OF hysterla. We were re-
minded this morning Of that query, by
the attitude Of some members OF the
Medical society of this city who seem
to be In state OF agitation that throws
them off their mental balance. The Des-
eret News has questioned the right of
the board OF education and also OF the
board OF health to force Upon the UNI
willing portion OF the public something
that the Legislature Of the State reject
ed and refused 10 enact. The News
has also given place TO communications
from gentlemen who are opposed 10 the
system OF vaccination now in vogue
This is the sum and substance Of our
offending.
But there are some members Of the
medical faculty who cannot dstin-
guish between the statements OF cor
respondents over their own signatures,
and the editorial utterances Of the pa
per in which they are published, We
will not accuse them Of ignorance" nor
apply TO them the sweet names with
which they have saluted the editor OF
this journal. We are simply sorry that
they do not know any better. We think
they should guard themselves against
that hystera that the sun speaks Of,
and not give way 10 the parOXysms
which some Of them have exhibited.
At the meeting Of the Medical So
ciety held on Wednesday evening, the
Deseret News came in for large share
OF professional attention, and those
persons who took It for granted that
this paper would not publish report Of
the conclusions arrived at by that So
ciety, INDUCED in some further halluei-
nations concerning the attitude and ut
torances Of the News" We publish
the report gratuitously. as We would
have printed such arguments as might
have been furnished from their side OF
the question which is now momentous
In this state. II Is evident that their
reading OF the Dcseret News has not
been any more careful than their
researches on the vaccination question.
II they had studied the matter without
bias they would probably not be so
dogmatic in their declarations, nor so
incorporate in their attacks upon those
who have the hardihood to differ with
them.
The question that concerns the public
now IL not the personal reputation nor
the medical status OF those doctors
who oppose vaccination but the force
and correctness OF their statements Of
fact and the deductions from their ar
guments. These have not been met by
the high and mighty men who assume
TO have acquired all the knowledge and
wisdom in relation to this subject, and
who can only reply by branding their
opponents as "agitators." ignorant"
and "dlsreputable"
The Deseret News has abstained from
oiterlng arguments on the main ques-
ton Of the virtue or otherwise OF the
present alleged preventive OF smallpox.
In the course Of long experience and
considerable research on this question.
We have been able to obtain consider
able Information on the subject, but
have left TO Others the task Of present
ing statements and reasonings in op-
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-11

Gen. Roberts and Gen. Kitchener are
in South Africa, but 1t will be some
time before they can dispose Of their
forces to suit new plan Of campaign.
In the meantime, II they abandon the
intended advance through Natal, Lady
smith will be without hope-an unlikely
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-11

I'VE do not want the editor Of the
News killed physically So says
the great genius that desired
the aforesaid editor "muzzzled or
killed" Thanks. 1t is gratifying to
know that this editor is to be let live
physically" As to the muzzling part
no explanation is given. But We are
grateful even for this small favor. We
breathe again,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-11

The law making silver dollars full
legal tender is TO be tested, the claim
being that previous law made the
gold dollar the standard OF value. The
resulting decision is clearly foreseen;
whatever may be the purpose of the
older statute. the same law-making
power had the ability to modify It by
the later enactment. The Michigan test
case will not oyerturn the financial
c.,ota,n
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-11

enemies of Great Britain. To win Is
TO maintain the superiority 90 dearly
established; 70 lose would be TO have
to defend that superiority against
mighty rivals. Hence the anxiety the
excitement, the agitation which are
hardly warranted by any Of the Afri-
can war events so far.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-11

Accounts come from British sources
Of quarrels between Transyaal and Free
state Beers. But there is also division
IN the British camp. as is revealed by
the letters OF soldiers now coming to
light
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-11

A few days ago the London papers
asserted that Gen. Methuen was in
poor health, Now he is recalled, with
the statement that his mind is unbal-
anced. II is also stated today by the
London papers that Gen. Butler is in
poor health. What next?
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-11

1t is asserted In New York that John
Jacob Astor.has more than doubled his
ground rent to the ruin Of lease. hold
ers who own the buildings. It's all
right so long as j. J. gets the money.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-11

The nation that tries TO maintain
peace and liberty Ia the Philippines
nowadays without exercising SOW
ereisnty there would be likely to set
itself an impossible task.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-11

The claim OF temporal control made
for the Catholics in the Philippines. by
Archbishop Nozaleda, even in a limited
way, is not likely to amount 10 more
than claim.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-11

The beef market is said to be dull
now; but the figures are at such an al
titude as 70 make steaks luxury
alongside Of mutton chops and stewed
chicken.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-11

Admiral Dewey may have the privl-
lege of going to sea If he wishes to.
The probability is that he is safely
landed for the rest OF his natural life.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-11

ADMIRAL Dewey has been presented
with q loving cup, the glft Of Amerl.
can Children. He can have the salts.
faction OF knowing that the children
honor him for his achievements with.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-11

The testimony in the Montana bribery
case causes one to wonder where such
revelations as those being made win
strike the morals Of the national Sen.
ate
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-11

The Franco-American reciprocity
treaty seems to be doomed TO failure.
The French do not like 1t, and Ameri-
cans are displeased with II.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-11

Lady Butler gets a telegram every day
from her husband The British pub
lie is getting Jealous for a division Of
attention by the general.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-11

The English temper is being badly
tried nowadays; and the English tenn
per is not greatly forbearing at the
heat
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-11

A caricature Of spanking is held by
the French courts not TO be indecent
Certainly not--in France.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-11

The sympathetic influence in a money
market is sort OF cold-steel affair
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-11

out thought of finding flaws in his
plans
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-11-13

down through department after de.
partment and becomes part of a
dusty pile of official documents which
are enthusiastically turned over to
the chief clerk of some department
and distributed among the overwork-
ed clerks. In the fullness of time,
while the clock either refuses to run
at all or runs on any old time, re-
port comes back to Detroit, is re-
ceived by the custodian, and goes
down the line whence it came. Fin
ally, the janitor sends for jeweler.
In the case of two clocks in Judge
Swans office some months ago and
the process of official digestion of
request for a fifty-cent repair job
two months passed before the govern
ment order finally reached the clock
maker. Three weeks ago clock in
the office of District Attorney Gordon
stopped because one of the weights
went wrong. 1t will cost twenty-five
cents to fix the broken string, but no
one dares touch it. Meanwhile, Off
cial paper and time are being wasted
in the routine of consideration of so
has no timepiece.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-11-13
THE REPUBLICAN PROGRAM

Democrats are pledged to an eight.
hour law and republicans intend to
force them to pass it. There is not a
democrat attorney in the state who
will claim that a special eight-hour
law Is worth the paper it is written
upon, yet they keep on deceiving.
They really don't want to pass a law
OF the kind knowing now worthless
1t will be when tested in the courts.
and that when it is pronounced un-
constitutional cry of rage will 20
up from the men they have deceived,
but they will be forced to pass it..
Republicans will work for a genuine
eight-hour law. Mark the prediction.
Every democrat will vote against it.
-Missoulaian.
The most obtrusive feature of the
above is the confession that the re-
publicans will work for an eight-hour
law, not because they believe in it.,
but because they hope to put the dem
ocrats in the position of having prom
ised something they are not willing
to give. The republicans will work
for genuine" eight-hour law with
confessedly no hope of success, but
merely to obtain a supposed partisan
advantage.
However, the eight-hour law shib-
boleth was perhaps the strongest card
OF the Clark-Heinze forces in the late
election, and if the republican men,
bers of the legislature can force the
other fellows into showing that the
cry was but a means whereby to fool
the labor vote into the "vindication"
ranks they will have rendered the
labor vote" a distinct service.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-11-13

The Indiana supreme court has de.
cided that hereafter all the records in
divorce cases must be kept from the
public. The decision is based on
moral grounds and presumably the
court carefully weighed the arguments
pro and con before giving it's decision.
There is much to be said on both
sides. There can be no question
but that the publication of the pruri.
ent detail of sensational divorce case
has an unwholesome effect upon so.
ciety at large. But there can be no
question, either. that publicity is a
most effective check upon the divorce
evil. There are undoubtedly many
married couples deferred from seek
ing divorces on what subsequently an.
pear to be frivolous grounds, by the
dread of publicity. 1t may seriously
be questioned if the acton of the In.
diana court will not work more harm
by removing the most effective factor
In restraint uf the divorce evil
than it will work good by keeping Sc
cret the evidence in divorce cases.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-11-13
"Hooray."

l have listened to the speeches,
AS a voter ought to do;
l took my daily paper
And read it through and through.
l settled my opinions
In calm and cautious way,
And now there's nothing needed
Except to say "hooray."
l have stood before the speakers
With transparencies in hand;
have warbled with the glee club
l have marched behind the band.
l have tried to save my country
When it's footsteps seemed to- stray
And nothing now is wanted
Save one remark-"hooray."
shall not bawl it rudely
And wake the echoes deep;
I'll breathe it low and tender
Ere l sink away to sleep,
Like benson I'll speak it
At the closing of the day;
l will Danish all my trouble
With one last, farewell "hooray.'
Washington, D. c., Star.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-11-13
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1900.
MARCUS DAILY IS DEAD.

Marcus DAILY passed away at ten
minutes to o'clock Monday morning.
To thousands this news, although not
unexpected, will come as the greatest
personal bereavement.
His death at this time is particular
ly sad, because those who knew and
loved the grand, kindly soul, will real
lie that ingratitude, that quality in
human nature which he seemed fated
to find in many whom he had be-
friended, was to pursue him to his
death. Alas, the pity of it.
That he could not have been spared
to enjoy few years we'll deserved
rest is matter of unusual regret.
That his marvellous ability is lost to
Montana is a calamity which will be-
come more apparent as the years roll
by. Others may take up his work.
but Montana has lost her greatest cit
izen, the workingman his best friend.
There are men who will testify that
grander man never lived than Mar.
Gus DAILY, and they would have been
proud to serve him even had his sta
ton in life been only equal to thei:
own. To them, he could do no
wrong. Perhaps to a greater extent
than any other man of the times ne
went personally into the home af-
fairs of the thousands working for
the company of which he was the
head. To an impromptu toast, "A
good boss" he replied: The homes
dotted over Montana, the children 20.
ing to school will speak louder for
me than anything could say to you
in answer"
What more was there need to say?
What nObler monument can man have
than the blessings of those he has aid
ed In the battle of life. Marcus Dalv's
wonderful achievements in the world
OF industry will long live but his
memory will be the longer blessed be.
cause, having power, he used it for
the betterment and the happiness of
his fellowmen.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-11-13
From the New York World:
LANDING IN CHINA.
Not an Animal or Wagon Lost-In
terestinu Letter.

Quartermaster General Ludingtor
has received copy of a letter from
Captain Frank De Witt Ramsey Of
the 9th Infantry, who was quarter
master of that regiment, and acting
quartermaster Of the troops on the
expedition from Manila to China. This
letter was addressed to Col. Miller
chief quartermaster of the Philippines
1t was dated Pekin, August 25, and
says:
I'VE arrived in the bay on the eve.
ming of July 6. On the 10th | had
everything, both from the Logan and
Port Albert, at Tien Tsin used large
lighters directly to Tien Tsin, EXCEPT
in one emergency, when l unloaded
some wagons and ambulances in small
boats at Tong Ku, and marched Their,
overland. Admiral Remey strongly CD.
posed the possibility of unloading wa
CONS in navy boats, but my experience
around the Philippines soon con-
WINGED him.
Our transportation was an object
of great interest, and the general
opinion was that we could not use it
in the campaign. But the critics
were wrong, for it came through Pc
kin without the loss of an animal or
wagon. The only transportation
on shore when we started was mine,
and in conjunction with our river
boats we are now supplying with
it the 9th and 14th infantry, a regi-
ment of marines and a squadron of
the 9Th cavalry. The same with all
other stores. clothing and riding ami.
mails. 1t was mighty we'll brought
goodly supply. for it had to do with
all. With my usual good luck
was appointed chief commissary, and
as Byron and Wood had to stay be-
hind | was also the chief quartermas.
ter during the advance. The troops
carried but one days rations, but did
not lose a meal. Our train started
hours after the Japanese and Russian
trains, but invariably caught up with
them before the end or the march.
Pack trains in this country arc
very expensive, the trains of fifty
mules and fifteen riding animals, with
its fifteen employees, carrying exactly
what l carried on two wagons, and
on arrival here being completely play
ed out, while our wagons turned about
and went back to Tong Ku for more
rations. have had opportunity to
study the transportation of the yari-
GUS armies. and think our wagons arc
superior to anything else, but there
would be an improvement by supple
menting them with some of the Jap
carts and Russian cook carts.
The Japs excel in every branch.
Everybody comedies it. In discipline,
means of supply, medical attendance.
everything. They have not only won
the admiration but the affection of
our officers and men, and little Jan
private dropping into our camp is
SHOWN the consideration due a major
general"
Capt. Ramsey also has something to
say regarding the difficulties that
might have been expected in supply.
ing large number of troops at Pc
kin, all of which has been obviated by
the withdrawal Of most of the Amer
lean forces.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-11-13

The rumor that the United States
is negotiating for the purchase OF
the Danish West Indies is again cur.
rent. The persistence with which it
appears gives ground for the belief
that if such negotiations are not un.
der way they have at least been the
subject of serious consideration both
at Copenhagen and Washington. The
Danish West Indies, which include the
islands Of Santa Cruz, St. Thomas and
St. John, are in themselves of but lit
tie value, having a total area of 1873
square miles and a population of
about $4,000. But their position in re-
latiOn to the adjacent islands and the
Caribbean sea making them of pecu.
liar value in the control of sea power.
Captain Mahan even before the war
with Spain pointed out the pre-emin-
ent advantage involved in the posses
sion of St. Thomas as one of two stra.
tegic points representing efficiently
and better than any other positions
the control of two principal passages
into the Caribbean sea from the At
lantic." The island is on the Ane-
gada passage, now much used and
on the direct highway from Europe
to the Central American isthmus. II
the authorities at Washington are &C
tually considering the purchase of
these islands, it is doubtless with the
view of obtaining the advantages
which a coaling station ana harbOr
there would afford.