The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-09

transmitting disease is done away
with is a bold one to make in race OF
facts accessible to all of US. l couia
quote columns of figures proving that
under the most favorable conditions,
and using the greatest precautions,
loathsome diseases and death some
times follow vaccination. And 1 could
get all these figures from sources
which favor vaccination. And as for
the Senate's favorite healthy calf
how can a calf or anything else be
healthy when its system is poisoned
with the germs of a filthy disease?
1--WE must not forget what terrible
scouree smallpox was in Hawaii in the
wear 1852. 1t behooves us,
therefore. to be more vigilant than
ever. to prevent this dread disease from
spreading in Hawaii.
A good way to show that the lesson
is remembered will be to keep Homo
lulu clean, and refuse TO permit the
disease breeding shacks of Chinatown
to be rebuilt. Vaccination itself is bad
enough-but where the law attempts
to compel a healthy person 70 fill his
system with the germs of one of the
fl thiest diseases, it is doing something
contrary to the constitution of our
glorious republic. The law has been
declared unconstitutional in many
places-in the States of New York and
Illinois, only a few months ago. Sew
eral European countries have abolished
their compulsory vaccination laws.
Vaccination was compulsory in Eng
land until 1898, when, after u commits
sion of inquiry which lasted seven
years, and at which some of the fore
most scientific and medical men tes-
titled that vaccination neither mitigat-
ed nor prevented smallpox, and that
vaccination helped spread disease, the
law relating to the general population,
was repealed
People who believe in vaccination
should be vaccinated, by all means,
but they have no right to insist that
those who regard it as a gravely dan
gerous operation should have it forced
upon them. If their vaccination in
sures their safety, why should they
worry so about others? 1t all comes of
the egotistical feeling that we are ca
pable of thinking for ourselves and
also for others.
Kings have, by virtue of their SUI
preme powers, attempted to force even
religious opinions upon others, and hu-
man beings have suffered death at the
stake rather than accepu-or seem to
accept-Something they could not be-
lieve. And so parents have suffered
Imprisonment rather than allow their
children to be poisoned by vaccine
thority (entirely aside from the testi-
mony of scientists ana medical men
who do not believe in vaccination) for
their determined stand. Know We not
that ye are the temple of God, and
that the spirit of God dwelleth in you?
If any man defile the temple of God,
him shall God destroy, for the temple
of God is holy, which temple ye are
l Corinthians, 3:16. The Senators
would do we'll to read that word given
us by the Most High before voting to
retain an obnoxious law at direct
variance with it.
Persons who believe in vaccination
are advised to look carefully into the
subject; read articles on Vaccination"
and Smallpox" in the encyclopedias
Britannica and International John
sons, etc. These books all favor vac
cination, but do not go far enough to
state that scientific and medical men
agree" on the subject, or that 'all
danger of transmitting disease is done
away with.
Lillian SHREWSBURY MESICK