Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-12
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Bondurant, June 1l-"l'll bet any
man $500 that we have not case Of
smallpox in Ames, and have not had "a
cease for the past year That's what the
man sitting In the dark on the Maxwell
hotel porch remarked. No takers. And
+ il the money had been put UP who
would have settled it, The state board
of he;.lth says they did have case CT
smallpox and this man says they never
lhad case. Which is the better au-
thority??
Down in Baxter there We're plenty of
men who claimed there was no smallpox
there. But the writer saw a young man
Who has just recovered from some skin
disease. and his face is a proof of the
fact that these anti-smallpox experts
We're either mistaken or he has had a
disease that marks people the same as
smallpox.
In Jefferson the writer talked With q
young man who had a skin disease that
many claimed was not smallpox. Ask
him If he had smallpox? Some of the
experts in Jefferson, ou,sidesof the doe
tors and state board of health, changed
their minds after one man died Of
smallpox. or yaws, or Cuban itch. or
chicken poN, or skin disease
500
Henry Russell of Toledo was taken
sick and treated for pneumonia. Some
time after a case of smallpox developed
in man named Harrigan. DR. Ken
nedS of the state board of health pro-
nounced Hairigan's case that OF SMALL
poN. then visited Russell and decided
that he also had smallpox. Russell was
sick5and quarantined several weeks, but
there was no itching sensation, nor any
pock marks. After Russell got well he
was Naccinated by Dr. Thompson, of
,Tama, this in the presence of two other
physicians, and it took All this is
given as related by Mr.. Russell, the
writer having no knowledge of the facts,
but is here given for the benefit of the
|anti-smallpox believers.
The writer had chat with young
doctor the other day on this subject
What he said is worth printing: II
never have been called upon to treat a
case of smallpox Hope never shall
have one. If a case comes in my prao-
tice that is suspicious shall send for
the state board of health, and their de-
cision will ne final With me. They have
been called upon daily for months to
decide these cases. Why shouldn't they
know more about it than do? II a
doctor from India was in town and said
we had a case of bubonic plague here.
and was a reputable physician, should
think he knew more about it than / do,
altho have read as much about 1t as
I any doctor.
Last season the writer talked with a
doctor in Marshalltown who claimed
positively there was no epidemic of
typhoid fever. Those who read the re
port of the analysis of the drinking
water think he was mistaken. One
blessed thing about this controversy is
| that the old saw is not true III the Iowa
CASES of small poX. yaws. Cuban itch
| 5or chicken pox. now so epidemic. When
the doctors disagree the patients lido
not) die"
Some of us in the smoking car had to
| listen. He was evidently from ST Louis
| Here is a verbatim report of his re-
marks. The reader can fill in the blanks
according to his profane education.
! 1T makes me -- - tired. You run
up against some merchant who has
made $4,000 and he is too --
proud to speak to you. Chicago's -
of town that way. Some fool in
lcharge Of department. is go stuck
4 up, he Won't look at a good man for the
house. But ] was in ST. Louis last week
and my boss is the -est, incest man
I YOU ever saw. asked me out to his house
---- OF a nice home, more - - sei.-
wants, and the --est lot all kinds OF
4 liquors and cigars. No ---- foolish
mess with him. If his daughter
| WASH t d 1880 of a nice girl. That's Just
! the difference between a rich man in
\ st. Louis and Chicago. Ones a - foo
Land the other Is the incest ma \
\ on earth. And some Of US in the cal
wondered where he got his ideas of the
rich merchants of Iowa and Chicago
We We're sure he was telling the truth
in so far, none OF them,had ever invited
him home. to see :" a 49, -- nice
/ daughter"
Only few men in town or country
know anything about politics. Compar.
latively few care anything about poll
tics. excepting Of course during the lat.
/ ter part Of October and first part Of
November This explains why thoss
who do interest themselves have the
states all fixed ready for the voter t
DEPOSIT ballot in accordance. So tina,
now on the coming fight on nomination
of STATE officers. only a few understand
4 the situation. But there Is genera
4 feeling that certain leaders OF the re.
publican party are fixing up states al.
4 together too freely. Some good republi,
cans after the late senatorial fight. ser.
Iiously objected to the idea Of having Il
|mentioned that there were two wings
to the republican party in Iowa. Blu
now one hears in different towns mucl
talk Of the activity, (pernicious activit,
expresses i), of the so-called leaders
In naming candidates weeks before 9
convention. There never was time
in the history OF Iowa. when there wa,
q better feeling between the railroad
and the people than now. hut this happ,