The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-08-17


would become Of the M. DIS il they
had to pay the penalty of graveyard sub
jects under their treatment? There
would not be doctor to- day outside of
the penitentiary or away from the gal
lows, and J am not Dragging on Chris
tian Scientists, nor have | any DISPOSE
ton to abuse them, for my father told
me never to hit cripple nor hurt fool.
1t IL not right, gentlemen, for pro-
fession to gather round a Governor and
have that profession regale him with
kilograms from all over the State, and
thereby cause Governor to veto bill
without hearing from the other side,
when he had promised to give such q
hearing. Gentlemen, it takes more grit
than the average Governor has got to Of.
fend a profession so large and influential
as the M. DIS.
| have never had an Osteopath to
practice on me. | still stick to the Nj.
DIS. had one at my house to-day to
see sicx child. will send for them
and risk their diagnosis and take their
medicine, and yet in the professional
conduct what they d EN- unprofessional
l have got a contempt for | can't ex-
press. l spoke those sentiments the
other day to minister of the gospel who
for several years practiced medicine and
he says: "Jones, you have got the thing
down right" A refoI med drunkard
can tell what whisky will do, reformed
gambler can give US the best views of the
ruin of that life, and why can't an ex-
doctor throw some light on the profes.
sion to which he once belonged? Some
will say that my letter is contradictory,
that | say some of the profession of
the M. d.. IS are broad, intelligent men,
and yet in their profession they are mar
row and bigoted and dogmatic. | re-
iterate it. Some of the most intelligent,
cultured preachers in America are lit
tie, narrow minded, contracted sec
tarians, who are utterly and absolutely
distasteful to all intelligent people who
listen to their TRADES on other creeds
and Christians A man may be broad
one way and tremendously narrow 10 the
other, and reaffiam that the doctors
are bringing up the rear of the pro.
cession, unless, perchance, we preachers
are.
When we take the science of electric
ity, which is but in Its infancy, when
the Atlantic cable owners came to Edi
son and said, "Mr. Edison, unless you
can help US we are bankrupted; the
cable keeps breaking and it cost 50
much to find the break that we are
bankrupted unless you can help US"
He replied, "Gentlemen, when the cable
breaks again let me know" Mr.. Edison
walked into his laboratory and in forty
eight hours he had invented the electric
meter. A few days later the owners of
the cable wired him that the cable was
broken. Mr.. Edison went to the banks
of Newfoundland, put the meter to the
cable and said to the repair ship, at is
broken out just two thousand miles from
here. Go to certain latitude and
on ,itude and you will find the break. :"
Now, if Edison, with science in its
infancy can tell on few days notice
where the cable is broken two thousand
miles from him at the bottom of the
ocean, now look at the doctors. They
will get fellow right down on bed or
a table before them, and he isn't six feet
lond, and they can't tell what is the
matter with him to save their lives.
Gentlemen, if you will handle your
patients with more skill the public will
have more respect for your intolerance
of one another.
With the wish for peaceful and pros
porous New Year for the NJ. DIS and
for better memory for our governor,
| am, Respectfully,
SAM JONES, in Atlanta Journal.